![]() ![]() ![]() Now only five suppliers supply what the supermarkets believe looks good on the shelves. Thirty years ago the 75-strong Thames Valley Vegetable Growers Association supplied every kind of produce. Normal planning rules don’t apply to supermarkets, and long-term environmental problems or the potentially devastating impact on town centre traders are generally ignored.īlythman’s main gripe is food. Local authorities have been all too willing to agree to supermarket demands for ever bigger stores, because supermarkets offer sweeteners like housing or play parks, not to mention more jobs. Supermarkets now have enormous power – over local councils, suppliers, workers, even governments. The main contention of the book Shopped, by Joanna Blythman, is that this is a bad thing. Its chief executive, the £3 million-a-year Terry Leahy, says “that leaves 87.5 per cent to go after”. Tesco, the biggest supermarket chain, controls 12.5% of all UK retailing. And it’s not just grocery shopping they’re after.ĪSDA is the biggest clothes retailer, through its George label, in the country. Now about 80% of it is done at the four main supermarket chains of Tesco, Sainsbury, ASDA and Morrisons. In the 1960s, about 80% of UK grocery and meat shopping was done at local grocery shops and butchers. Liam Conway reviews Shopped by Joanna Blythman ![]()
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