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About this book
An elegant demolition of the supermarket miracle, this book charts the impact that supermarkets have had on every aspect of our lives and culture.
Did you know…
- Almost 50% of supermarket fruit and vegetables contain pesticide residues?
- UK supermarkets make 40p on every £1 spent on bananas while plantations workers are paid just 1p?
- Supermarkets instill a climate of fear amongst their suppliers?
- Every time a supermarket opens the local community loses on average 276 jobs?
In the 1970s, British supermarkets had only 10% of the UK's grocery spend. Now they swallow up 80%, influencing how we shop, what we eat, how we spend our leisure time, how much rubbish we generate, even the very look of our physical environment.
Award-winning food writer Joanna Blythman investigates the enormous impact that these big box retailers are having on our lives. She meets the farmers who are selling food to supermarkets for less than they need to survive and the wholesalers who have been eliminated from the supply chain; she travels to suburban retail parks to meet the teenagers and part-timers who stack our shelves and reveals the hoops third world suppliers must jump through to earn supermarket contracts.
This thought-provoking, witty and sometimes chilling voyage of discovery is sure to make you think twice before you enthusiastically reach for that supermarket trolley again.
Contains new material on the 'Tesocisation' of Britain.
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Index
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advertising 98–9, 130, 171, 232–3, 258, 315–16, 320–2, 323–4, 329
Ahold 237, 238, 242, 245
Aktiv Markt 315
Albert Heijn 245
Aldi: cash demands on suppliers 154–6, 158, 164
prices 19, 259, 320
Ali, Richard 49, 259
alienation 41–2, 78
Alldays 21
Allerton 327
Allied Bakeries 105
All Party Parliamentary Small Shops Group 325
architecture 234, 311
aroma management 80, 101, 112, 317
Asda Wal-Mart 30
advertising 258
Asda Days 120
Asda FM 249, 254
cash demands on suppliers 154–67
charitable initiatives 254
children’s ranges 65, 67
clothing range 305
code of practice 195
community initiatives 28–9, 252–3
corporate culture 120–21, 252
customer profile 257
customer targeting 255–6
Extra Special range 55, 61
farming initiatives 338–40
financial products 308
food safety 280–83
greeters 252–3
health initiatives 59, 65
local sourcing 287, 290, 292, 337–8
market share 193, 322
meat 92
non-food retailing 303, 305–8
own-brands 272
prices 19, 258, 259, 262, 297
produce section 73, 79, 268
product recalls 280–81, 282
and Race to the Top 296–7
ready meals 59
singles nights 250
specialist counters 71
staff training and culture 117–24, 129
store expansions 30–31
Supercentres 28
suppliers 59, 142, 268, 336, 337–40
wages 119
Wal-Mart take-over 244, 297
waste xvii
Atkin, Tim 145, 152
auctions, online 209, 238, 275
awards 288, 294
bakers: independent 12, 19, 269–70
industrial 105
instore 80, 101–104, 270, 313
Banana Link 265, 269
Banham, Sir John 209
Barker Review 328
Barnes, Julian 94
BBC 45; Food and Farming Awards 288, 327
Good Food magazine 224
Beddall, Clive 194
Belmont Mini Market, Chalk Farm 3–4
better-than-the rest ranges 54–6, 61, 83–4
Betts, Clive 31
BHS 307
Big Food Group 22, 252
biodiversity xvi, 226, 231, 295
Birds Eye Walls 43
Black, William 85, 90
Blacker, Terence 12, 41, 253
Bletchley 28
books 267–8, 306
Bookseller 267, 306
Booths 19, 144
cash demands on suppliers 154–9, 162, 164–7
local sourcing 288
supplier questionnaire responses 336, 356–8
Boots 308
Bourne, Lincolnshire 14
brands: and category manageme...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Supermarket Starters
- Supermarket Space
- Supermarket Food
- Supermarket Workers
- Supermarket Suppliers
- Supermarket World
- Supermarket Culture
- Supermarket Future
- Supermarket Solutions
- Supermarket Responses
- Index
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Notes
- Praise
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
- About the Publisher