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Every little hurts - supermarket power in Britain

Richard Griffin explores the power of the supermarkets and finds a rapacious monster at our doors

Sittingbourne in Kent is not famous for much. It does though claim to have the longest High Street in Britain. If you had walked along it forty years ago you would have passed four fish mongers, seven butchers including a specialist pork one, no less than nine green grocers, four bakers and not a single supermarket (the first one arrived in the mid 1970s).

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