Choice?
Convenience?
and Good value?

Supermarkets wield immense power over the way we grow, buy and eat our food. They are shaping our environment, our health and the way we interact socially. This guide lifts the lid on the true costs of the supermarket economy: hidden costs for consumers, farmers, small manufacturers, the environment, local communities and taxpayers.
Yes we deserve affordable food, but we also deserve healthy food, healthy communities, thriving small businesses, a healthy countryside and a fair wage for producers.

Introduction
This guide was first compiled in 1998 to offer help, contacts and details of useful publications to people fighting supermarket developments. It was widely welcomed by campaigners. With the continuing expansion of supermarkets and the arrival of Wal-Mart in the UK, we felt it needed updating.

The new guide includes a brief overview of supermarket expansion policies and of the planning regulations that apply to them, details of useful contacts and resources and a directory of local groups campaigning against supermarket developments.

The directory is not definitive but gives details of a selection of past, present, successful and not so successful local campaigns. All the contacts listed are happy to share experiences and discuss tactics/strategies with other local groups campaigning against supermarkets.