30.11.04

1. The Company 2. Products and projects 3. Who, where, how much? 4. Influence / Lobbying 5. Corporate Crimes 6. Conclusion

ASDA/WAL-MART
A Corporate Profile

By Corporate Watch UK
Completed November 2004

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Further Information and Resources

Anti-Wal-Mart websites with the opinions of some employees and some good links:

www.sprawl-busters.com

www.walmartwatch.com

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4933/walmart.html

http://www.bit-net.com/~dka/Resources/Best%20Links.html;

http://www.bit-net.com/~dka/Resources/links2.html

htttp://www.maquilasolidarity.org/campaigns/wal-mart.index.htm

Sites for current and former employees trying to assert their rights

www.walmartversuswomen.com

www.walmartclass.com

www.walmartswaronworkers.com/index.php a campaign site

www.walmartsucks.org

http://www.members.aol.com/walmopboy/abuse/

Related campaigns

www.nosweat.org.uk anti-sweatshop campaigns

http://www.bananalink.org.uk/ loads of info about the banana trade

http://www.ossoryroad.ownsthis.com/website/campaign/ quite an inspiring local campaign against a new London Asda store.

Corporate Watch, 'What's Wrong With Supermarkets?'

See also Corporate Watch news archives and other profiles especially Tesco.

www.farmersforaction.org

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming
http://www.sustainweb.org

National Association of Farmers' Markets
www.farmersmarkets.net

Federation of Small Business
http://www.fsb.org.uk

Retail sector analysis

http://www.kamcity.com/Library/retail.htm

http://www.kamcity.com/walmasda

http://grocertoday.co.uk

http://just-food.com

Unions

United Food and Commercial Workers' Union (US)
http://www.ufcw.org

http://www.union-network.org
- A global network of unions

the National Labor Committee (US)
http://www.nlcnet.org

Others

http://www.opensecrets.org/
The web page which shows USA lobbying groups and businesses' activities in Federal Government.

How Wal-Mart is destroying America, Bill Quinn, 1998, Berkeley, California. A book documenting Wal-Mart s 90 s activities in the USA

No Logo, Naomi Klein

Not on the Label, Felicity Lawrence 2004

Shopped:The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets, Joanna Blythman 2004

News articles

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1179164,00.html
This article doesn't mention Asda specifically, but is useful to read and offers a good insight into the employment culture supermarkets encourage. Most of these workers aren't employed directly by the supermarkets, but hired out to factories for packaging or processing by agencies, thus conveniently taking the responsibility for their welfare away from supermarkets.

http://www.just-food.com/features_detail.asp?art=877 an article about out of town shopping centres

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1318918,00.html article about protests against WalMart in Chicago

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/super_markets_corporate_bullies.pdf more general information on supermarkets.

The Ecologist in September 2004 has a special report on supermarkets www.theecologist.org

George Monbiot s web page including articles about supermarkets
http://www.monbiot.com

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