Tescopoly [Elektronisk resurs] : How One Shop Came Out on Top and Why it Matters.

• Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Maps; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Every Little Helps; 1 Identity Theft; 2 Welcome to the Dead Zone: The Rise of the Giant Retailers; 3 Any Shop You Like, As Long As It's Tesco: How One Store Came Out on Top; 4 Land, Money, Goods - and How to Get Them; 5 Parasitic Retail: Why Too Many Chain Stores Kill Communities; 6 A Global Plan: Why Scale Matters; 7 Profiting from Poverty: Shelves Full of Global Plunder; 8 How Much is Enough?; 9 Win Back Where You Live; 10 Freshening the Dragon's Breath: Corporate Responsibility and the Role of Regulators. 
• 11 The Birth of Something BetterUseful contacts and further information; Notes; Index;. 

• You can shop anywhere you like -- as long as it's Tesco The inexorable rise of supermarkets is big news but have we really taken on board what this means for our daily lives, and those of our children? In this searing analysis Andrew Simms, director of the acclaimed think-and-do-tank the New Economics Foundation and the person responsible for introducing 'Clone Towns' into our vernacular, tackles a subject none of us can afford to ignore. The book shows how the supermarkets -- and Tesco in particular -- have brought: " Banality -- homogenized high streets full of clone stores " Ghost towns 

Ämnesord

Supermarkets -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain. 

Supermarkets -- Social aspects -- Great Britain. 

Tesco (Firm). 

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

HF5469.23.G72 S56 2012 (LCC)

381.45641300941 (DDC)

Qim (kssb/8 (machine generated))