Do supermarkets offer British farmers a fair deal?
Supermarkets have been growing at an astonishing rate since the first ones appeared in the early 1950s. At that time supermarkets had only 20 percent of the grocery market, while small shops and traditional Co-ops had 80 percent between them. By the 1990s, this situation had been more or less reversed, with supermarkets eating up almost 80 percent of the grocery market. (more…)
