On avoiding supermarkets...

Steel_2

Anyone in Northampton or Cambridge looking for co-operative to buy wholefoods/ fairtrade goods etc should have a look at the Daily Bread Co-operative. I only found out about them the other day and have yet to check them out, but its website looks good. It also has a delivery scheme.

http://www.dailybread.co.uk

thriftlady_2

I'd love to know more about world food shops, I've never heard of them, can someone enlighten me ?

Also I'm interested in buying from a co-op like Suma or Infinity. Can I do this on my own or do I have to club together with other people ? Any advice/experiences would be appreciated

starkj

Tesco = Evil

"Having travelled to many countries to meet farmers it was very clear that supermarkets treated all farmers equally - unfortunately that is equally badly and it was the name of Tesco which came up time and time again. If we are to have a future as farmers and sustainable agriculture then we need to control supermarket power."

Michael Hart, chairman of Small and Family Farms Alliance

"I get 378 Rand [£32.50] pay every two weeks. I can't afford school fees for my daughter or go to school functions or buy school uniforms"
- Tawana Fraser, who works as a 'permanent casual' labourer on a pear farm that supplies Tesco (ActionAid)

"Farming is on its knees and food processors are issuing repeated profit warnings as they struggle to meet the demands of the Tesco monopoly"
- Brian Revell, Transport & General Workers Union national organiser for food and agriculture.

Titnore Woods

The involvement of Tesco in the whole building 875 new houses in a greenfield site ignoring the thousands of local empty houses needing-renovation scheme is, of course, well known but further evidence of their leading role has come to light. The eviction is apparently to be handled by the same two firms used by Tesco in its eviction of the Shepton Mallet anti-Tesco protest site, and camp residents were suprised to find that their legal eviction papers turned up in special plastic bags marked ‘Tesco’! Well every little hurts...

Poor cash-strapped family grocers Tesco are facing a wave of protests after trying to squeeze more work out of their staff. In 2004 Tesco scraped a mere £1.6bn in profits - just £4.4m a day. One in every eight pounds spent in Britain’s shops is spent in one of their charming village stores, but they want the other seven. (See SchNEWS 493 for plenty more about Tesco). Clearly they need more money, so they are on a productivity-raising drive. The all-consuming out-of-town amoeba has demanded higher and higher work rates from staff, and especially casuals, in exchange for the same pay. And they can do that, they think, because “they’re only temps - if we break one we can just get another.”

At a distribution warehouse in Greenhill, Dublin, the number of (heavy) boxes (of crap) that staff were ordered to move went from 750 up to 800, 900 and then a back-aching 1,000 a day. If casual agency staff fail to meet the bosses’ skyrocketing expectations, they can be sacked.






http://www.tescopoly.org

http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news493.htm