ABSTRACT
The previous parts of the book have documented the emergence over the last two decades of corporate retailers, who have come to dominate food provision in the UK, and at the same time have developed a new embedded relationship with the national state. In this part, we now turn our attention to the local articulation of these developments, exploring the manner in which food provision within individual retail outlets is regulated by public and private interests, and the consequent relationship between retailers and the local state.
