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Bezig met laden... Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets (2004)door Joanna Blythman
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Originally published in around 2004/2005, in some respects developments in British supermarkets haven't quite gone the way anticipated in this book, with the largest supermarket chains busily abandoning their plans for new out-of-town hypermarkets all over the country, but on the other hand the changes in relative growth of different supermarket chains in the UK over the past years don't really imply that less money over all is being spent in supermarkets. I have mixed feelings about supermarkets, but I suppose I'm of the generation who has never really done anything else, and I'm much more comfortable with the idea of a supermarket computer system being familiar with my shopping patterns than the local independent shop staff recognising me and noting the contents of my shopping basket. So all in all, this was a book to make me think but doesn't neatly fit into what I think is a desirable state of affairs. But I suppose it has now given me a push to try to spread out my spending outside of the largest supermarkets, at least a little. It may be because I try to stay up to date with consumer matters, but to me Shopped seems like old news. Yes, it's 4 years old, but the path it's travelled has been travelled well by other works before and since. I admit it covered areas that were new to me, but they were few and far between. I hadn't realised that producers were expected to fund offers on their products - I thought that supermarkets put on offers when they had too much of a bad thing. I knew the supermarkets put a lot of pressure on their producers, but didn't realise so much of it was financial. If you're suprised by the news that people dislike supermarkets for numerous reasons, this would be a good introduction. Otherwise, it's a bit past it's read-by date. 'Shopped' takes the reader on a lively, thought-provoking and incredibly interesting journey through the world of the modern British supermarket, revealing every secret trick and behind-the-scenes truths that they really wouldn't want the public to think about. From screwed-over suppliers to exhausted assistants, corner-cutting to own-label quality, obsessive perfection to global domination; it's all here in candid detail. I worked as a shop assistant for one of the 'Big Four' and within a couple of months of employment, I could see the truth in some of the topics covered in Blythman's book. This book has affected me a lot. After reading this book, why would I want to shop somewhere that has colour charts to determine whether a tomato is good enough to sell? Where checkout girls have to put up their hands to go to the loo like naughty school children? Where staff have no idea what their products are or what to do with them? That shamelessly hire and fire suppliers with no thought as to their livelihoods and the amount of work that goes into large-scale production for supermarkets? Read this book and be inspired. Vote with your feet and refuse to conform to the supermarket-driven one-stop-shop ideal where everything you need in your life comes from them in a neat once-a-week consumer package. This book is a sharp and well-written call to arms, and should be compulsory reading for everyone from teenagers to grandmothers. An interesting look at the practices of the supermarkets in Britain, and you can see the echoes of these practices in Ireland. Looking at how some of their practices aren't giving us better produce but a homogenity that may look better but often doesn't taste better. She echoes my own concerns about people complaining that small shops are dying who do their regular shopping in big stores. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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 operate 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. need to survive, the wholesalers who have been eliminated from the supply chain, 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 reach for that supermarket trolley quite so enthusiastically ever again. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Without reiterating previous reviewers I would just say that if you were pondering over investments, don't hesitate any longer - buy global retailers' shares. Chances are few and little that anyone in the coming years might oppose their expansionist growth, resulting in rising share prices.