Essays on Shopping Page 15

1) Anita Roddick created the body shop in 1976 with the objective of opening an environmentally conscious cosmetic store. Today, the Body Shop (BS) has grown from being a single “hippie” store in England to a multinational company with over 2265 stores in 50 countries enjoying sales of ? 820,000 in 2006/2007 period. (mintel 2006)…

For my Extended Essay, I decided to look into the competition between the three major supermarkets in my local country, and whether they collude or non, motivating my research inquiry: To what extent do the larger supermarkets in my local country collude with each other? By analyzing informations collected on pricing from the three supermarkets,…