At last a responsible supermarket?


Sometimes life can be a bit confusing can’t it? I’m reading Shopped by Joanna Blythman which is a pretty damning utterly damning report on the damage the control of supermarkets is having on our nations health, economy and culture. M and S are included in the firing line. Then blow me down if I don’t go and read about M and S becoming carbon-neutral and along the way the worlds biggest retailer of fair trade clothing. For a BBC assessment of the announcement read this.

Having wondered out loud where to go next in my ethical lifestyle journey and then evaluating some of the habits have, I began to think changing the way I shop might be it (and it might) but this news might just also make me change where I shop.


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2 responses

  1. Ross Thomas avatar
    Ross Thomas

    If M&S were still in Canada I’d buy as much from them as possible. At the end of the day corporations have no “duty” to act responsibly: they merely respond to our demands. The onus is on us.

  2. Ross. You assume that corporations are neutral and have no obligation other than to their customers. Can this really be true?

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