TESCOPOLY: HOW ONE SHOP CAME OUT ON TOP AND WHY IT MATTERS
Book ID/图书代码： 03275009B33734
English Summary/英文概要： You can shop anywhere you like - as long as it’s Tesco. The inexorable rise of supermarkets is big news but have we really taken on board what this means for our daily lives, and those of our children? In this searing analysis Andrew Simms, director of the acclaimed think-and-do-tank the New Economics Foundation and the person responsible for introducing ’Clone Towns’ into our vernacular, tackles a subject none of us can afford to ignore. The book shows how the supermarkets - and Tesco in particular - have brought: Banality - homogenized high streets full of clone stores; Ghost towns - superstores have drained the life from our town centres and communities; A Supermarket State - this new commercial nanny state that knows more about you than you think; Profits from poverty - shelves full of global plunder, produced for a pittance; and, Global food domination - as the superstores expand overseas. But there’s change afoot, with evidence of the tide turning and consumer campaigns gaining ground. Simms ends with suggestions for change and corporate reformation to safeguard our communities and environment - all over the world. This book has been written and published independently from the Tescopoly Alliance and is not endorsed by them.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 是的，只要有Tesco(特易购)在，我们就不愁买不到东西。关于连锁超市Tesco的兴起，固然令人欣喜，但我们是否真正意识到，这给我们、乃至我们后代的生活，究竟带来了怎样的影响和改变？作为著名新经济基金会(New Economics Foundation)的监管，并创造出新名词’克隆城镇’，作者Andrew Simms 将在本书中探讨这个我们所无法忽略的问题。以零售业巨头Tesco为例，超市的兴起究竟产生了怎样的社会效应：
单调性 -- 你将会看到，大街小巷上布满了一成不变的超市店铺；空城化 -- 昔日繁华的城镇市集，已变得销声匿迹；一个超市国家 -- 新型商业模式下所诞生出的保姆式国家；覆盖了低收入消费群体-- 通过零售的途径，将来自全球的商品布满货柜；全球食品业的垄断 -- 新的门店不断进军海外市场.
与此同时，随着市场格局的转变及消费者意识的增强，一场社会变革正在悄然进行之中。Simms 还在尾声处阐述了如下观点，基于生活社区及居住环境的考虑，企业转型及市场变革势在必行。(WHL)
Awards/获奖情况： ’Creative and compelling’---The Guardian ("一本独具匠心、引人入胜的好书."---卫报(The Guardian))
’This book should be essential reading’---Robert Watson, Head of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
’A compelling argument...find out you really owes what to whom’---Tony Juniper, Friends of the Earth."
’Simms shows the creeping, invading unsustainable world of the supershop, its tentacles strangling the life out of our communities. Read it.’ ---John Bird, founder of the Big Issue and local-shop loyalty scheme the Wedge Card
’What should be done about Tesco? Many critics want the place banned and hemmed in by regulation ... But ultimately the real trick is not to ban such places, but to create different desires in consumers, to reach a situation where people are sufficiently sensitised to the drawbacks of Tesco or Macdonald’s that they won’t want to shop there.’ ---Alain de Botton
About the Author/作者介绍： Andrew Simms is Policy Director of nef (the new economics foundation), an award-winning UK think-and-do tank. For several years he worked for international development charities and was one of the original campaigners for the Jubilee 2000 Coalition debt relief movement. In a series of groundbreaking reports on ‘Ghost Town Britain’ and ‘Clone Town Britain’, Andrew led a re-examination of the fate of the UK’s local economies that both defined these phenomena, coining new terms, and changed the debate on the impact of mass retailing.
He is the author of Ecological Debt: The Health of the Planet and the Wealth of Nations, and sits on the board of Greenpeace UK. His other publications include numerous reports on climate change, globalization and localization, international development issues, debt, corporate accountability, GM food and tackling hunger. He lives in London with his wife, daughter and bicycle.
作者Andrew Simms, 新经济基金会政策监管，知名策略分析师，英国绿色和平委员会成员。多年来效力于国际慈善发展协会。曾先后发表了一系列轰动性的报告，涉及到’Ghost Town Britain’和’Clone Town Britain’等议题，同时还著有 "Ecological Debt: The Health of the Planet and the Wealth of Nations" 一书；他的作品涵盖了世界发展的方方面面。Andrew Simms 现与家人居住于伦敦。
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