She explained that 25% of Booth’s food products are now locally supplied and that they are at the vanguard among supermarkets in supporting local suppliers. Catherine lives in London, after moving from America and from that perspective I can fully understand why she is so impressed with what Booths offers. But Booths is a supermarket who can only survive by competing with Tesco’s and Morrisons which means that the great bulk of what they sell is junk which does not, by any stretch of the imagination meet the Slow Food criteria of Good, Clean and Fair. And in Cumbria, unlike in London or America, there are still lots and lots of independent butchers, greengrocers, bakers, farm shops and farmer’s markets which undoubtedly do supply food which is wholly Good Clean and Fair. Which is why, to all those independent traders, the news of the tie-in with Booths must have come as a slap in the face.
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