26Nov/02Off
Like Some Chocolate?
I saw an item about this on BBC News 24 at some obscure hour of the night, but Charles has pointed me in the direction of the online story. The UK's Co-Operative chain of supermarkets has announced that they're going to shift all of their own brand chocolate over to production from Fair Trade-produced cocoa. At a stroke, this will double the amount of Fair Trade chocolate sold in the UK, but will still only represent a fraction of the overall market. The rest of the industry, needless to say, seems rather reluctant to follow their lead.
November 26th, 2002 - 20:56
I’m not so sure about others not following their lead. The Co-op has just brought a chain of high street 24/7′s which has worried Tesco’s enough to do the same.
Although I’d rather shop at Sainsbury’s than Tesco I noticed Tesco have increased the amount of shelf space available to Fairtrade produce in my local store. I buy a lot of it so I find I do less shopping at Sainsury’s now.
Now all I need is for Thorntons to start using Fairtrade Chocolate.
November 26th, 2002 - 21:05
Oh and BTW. Don’t forget November 30th is Buy Nothing Day – http://www.buynothingday.co.uk
Buy Nothing Day Canada/USA is November 29th – http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd/
November 27th, 2002 - 00:35
Superb news.
November 27th, 2002 - 08:16
Actually, it’s true of my local Tesco, too. Though I do think that the idea of sourcing their own brand product in this way is what is of greatest significance.
And thanks for the reminder about Friday.