Name and Link	Type of Resource	Description
Wal-Mart Watch Link to Website	Web Site links to resourses	"WAL-MART WATCH is a campaign working to make Wal-Mart a better employer, neighbor and corporate citizen. Use this site to learn more about our campaign, explore the issues or read why Wal-Mart needs to change."
Petra Kjell, The Retail Giants Global Expansion and Local Concerns. The New Economics Foundation Article available here	Paper on specific issue	--
Monbiot, George. The New Friends of the Earth? Guardian 23rd January 2007 Available online here	Article on specific issue	“The superstores are suddenly competing to be green. Can we trust them?”
Blythman, Joanna. Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets. Link to bookseller	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 GBP1 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. Joanna Blythman is Britain's leading investigative food journalist and an influential commentator on the British food chain."
Fishman, Charles. The "Wal-Mart" Effect: How an Out-of-town Superstore Became a Superpower. Link to bookseller	Book.	"Charles Fishman takes us into the heart of the biggest company on earth, ever, to show how the ‘Wal-Mart effect’ shapes lives everywhere, whether for cleaners in America, bicycle-makers in China or salmon farmers in Chile. Now Wal-Mart’s influence is so great it can determine everything from working practices to market forces themselves, Fishman asks: how did a shop manage to do all this? And what will the ultimate cost of low prices be?"
Simms, Andrew. Tescopoly: How One Shop Came Out on Top and Why It Matters. Constable: 2007 Link to bookseller	Book.	"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? The book shows how the supermarkets - and Tesco in particular - have brought: Banality - homogenized high streets full of clone stores; Ghost towns - superstores have drained the life from our town centres and communities; a Supermarket State - this new commercial nanny state that knows more about you than you think; profits from poverty - shelves full of global plunder, produced for a pittance; and global food domination - as the superstores expand overseas. "
Bevan, Judi Trolley Wars: The Battle of the Supermarkets Profile Books Ltd; 2006 Link to bookseller	Book.	"Recent times have seen ferocious battles for supremacy among the supermarket chains in Britain. US giant WalMart took over ASDA, and northern upstart Morrisons acquired Safeway. Meanwhile Tesco has gone from strength to strength while Sainsbury's has slid further and further down the greasy pole. ‘Trolley Wars’ tells not only the gripping business story behind these changes but also the social changes that have accompanied and underpinned it. It reveals the truth behind supermarkets' relationships with their suppliers and customers, and the ruthless world behind the checkout. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Judi Bevan is a freelance business journalist, who has worked extensively for The Sunday Times and Telegraph. She is the author of the much-acclaimed, bestselling 'The Rise and Fall of Marks and Spencer', which won the WHSmith Business Book Award in 2002. "
Huber, Nick. OFT raids supermarkets in new price-fixing inquiry. Guardian Monday April 28 2008 Available online here	Newspaper article on specific issue	April 2008- “Britain's biggest supermarkets are being investigated in another alleged price-fixing scam after the Office of Fair Trading swooped on the headquarters of retailers including Tesco and Asda........”
Clone Town Britain: The loss of local identity on the nation's high streets By Molly Conisbee, Petra Kjell, Julian Oram, Jessica Bridges Palmer, Andrew Simms and John Taylor. Publisher: New Economics Foundation Available online here	Report by NEF	This report launches a national survey to find out why the places that we live and shop seem to be turning into clone towns”
Trading places: the local economic impact of street produce and farmer's markets. By John Taylor, Matina Madrick and Sam Collin Publisher: London Development Agency, London Food and the Mayor of London Available online here	Report by NEF for the London Development Agency.	new research from nef for the London Development Agency reveals that London's street and farmers markets are a powerful local economic force driving London's local economies, providing affordable healthy food and play a key part in the fight back against clone town Britain. It finds that the street markets surveyed offer significantly cheaper fresh produce than supermarkets - on average one third the price of that in local supermarkets. The research also found that farmers' markets are broadly price competitive with supermarkets even before the quality of the produce and its provenance is taken into account.”