Tescopoly
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Tescopoly is a campaign run by United Kingdom
anti-poverty and environmental campaign groups, aimed at highlighting environmental and social impacts attributed to British supermarket chains. The campaign uses the slogan "every little hurts", a play on the slogan used by Tesco, "every little helps".
Tescopoly's main manifesto
includes:
The organizations responsible for the campaign are the New Economics Foundation
, Banana Link, The Small and Family Farms Alliance, Friends of the Earth
, the GMB
trade union
, NGH
, Women Working Worldwide
and War on Want
.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
anti-poverty and environmental campaign groups, aimed at highlighting environmental and social impacts attributed to British supermarket chains. The campaign uses the slogan "every little hurts", a play on the slogan used by Tesco, "every little helps".
Tescopoly's main manifesto
Manifesto
A manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions, often political in nature. Manifestos relating to religious belief are generally referred to as creeds. Manifestos may also be life stance-related.-Etymology:...
includes:
- introduction of a legally binding code of practice to ensure that all suppliers, throughout the supply chain at home and overseas, are treated fairly.
- setting up of an independent watchdog to ensure the grocery market is operating in the interests of consumers, farmers and small retailers.
- campaign for a block on any new take-overs by Tesco or other major supermarkets.
- more support for local shops from local authorities and government.
- set in place measures to hold supermarkets accountable for internationally-recognized workers' rights throughout their supply chains.
The organizations responsible for the campaign are the New Economics Foundation
New Economics Foundation
The New Economics Foundation is a British think-tank.NEF was founded in 1986 by the leaders of The Other Economic Summit with the aim of working for a "new model of wealth creation, based on equality, diversity and economic stability"....
, Banana Link, The Small and Family Farms Alliance, Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth International is an international network of environmental organizations in 76 countries.FOEI is assisted by a small secretariat which provides support for the network and its agreed major campaigns...
, the GMB
GMB Union
The GMB is a general trade union in the United Kingdom, and has more than 600,000 members. Its members are drawn from many sectors, with particular strength amongst manual workers in local government and the health service...
trade union
Trade union
A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...
, NGH
Northern General Hospital
The Northern General Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Sheffield, England. It hosts most major departments, including a busy Accident and Emergency for adults...
, Women Working Worldwide
Women Working Worldwide
Women Working Worldwide is an organisation, based in Manchester UK, working with an international network of women workers. They focus on supporting the rights of women working in international production chains which supply the UK and other European countries with consumer goods such as food and...
and War on Want
War on Want
War on Want is an anti-poverty charity based in London, England. It seeks to highlight the needs of poverty-stricken areas around the world and lobbies governments and international agencies to tackle problems as well as raising public awareness of the concerns of developing nations while...
.
See also
- Criticism of TescoCriticism of TescoThis article concerns criticism of Tesco, a supermarket chain in the United Kingdom. Criticism has been directed at Tesco from various groups, both national organisations and individuals. One of the biggest criticisms it faces is the perceived threat it poses to small businesses due to the monopoly...
- Ward v Tesco Stores LtdWard v Tesco Stores LtdWard v Tesco Stores Ltd [1976] 1 WLR 810, is an English tort law case concerning the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur . It deals with the law of negligence and it set an important precedent in so called "trip and slip" cases which are a common occurrence...
- Tesco Supermarkets Ltd v NattrassTesco Supermarkets Ltd v NattrassTesco Supermarkets v. Nattrass [1972] AC 153 is a leading decision of the House of Lords on the "directing mind" theory of corporate liability....
- Kayser Bondor v Tesco Stores
- TescoTescoTesco plc is a global grocery and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Cheshunt, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest retailer in the world measured by revenues and the second-largest measured by profits...
- The UK's Competition CommissionCompetition CommissionThe Competition Commission is a non-departmental public body responsible for investigating mergers, markets and other enquiries related to regulated industries under competition law in the United Kingdom...
- Tesco TownTesco TownTesco Town is British slang for an area where there is a dominant supermarket arguably stifling other competitors in the area.The term Tesco Town comes from the name of the retailer Tesco, but is used to describe any area dominated by one particular retailer....