Further reading

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Corporate Watch - What's Wrong with Supermarkets?

George Monbiot - Articles on Supermarkets

Tescopoly - Every Little Hurts

NewRules.org - The Hometown Advantage

New Economics Foundation - Clone Towns and Ghost Towns

All-Party Parliamentary Small Shops Group - High Street Britain - 2015 (opens as a PDF)

Department for Communities and Local Government - Impact of Large Foodstores on Market Towns

But don't just READ them:

It's time to STOP the damage.

Cymuned is a housing and communities pressure group which also supports the Welsh language.

We are calling on your Council to refuse planning permission to grocery and retail developments that are not owned by someone who lives in your county.

It's time to ditch the idea that 'pile them high and sell them cheap' is more important than decent quality jobs for local people.

It's time to call a halt to putting the superstore's hunger for money ahead of the needs of local people.

It's time to stop our towns and villages being bled dry.