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Increasing social exclusion A report by think tank Demos notes that "the food retailing system caters better for the time poor, cash rich than the time poor, cash poor", and goes on to say that "when food retailing left the high street the poorest found themselves without adequate local food shops. Now that some local shops have returned, they are set up to cater for a very different segment of society"8. Out of town supermarkets can normally only be reached by car, and the new metro supermarkets in town centres are aimed at commuters and richer single person households, not those on a low income. And are supermarkets really so cheap? The Competition Commission found that supermarkets were putting prices up in areas where there was no strong competition9. Supermarkets have also been in trouble with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) on numerous occasions for misleading advertisements10, and in October 2001 the Observer revealed that Tesco had raised the price of goods just......

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