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digging for Tesco's green label credentials.
Byline: Mark Chillingworth
digging for
Tesco's green
label credentials
With great power comes great responsibility, and Tesco is the most powerful supermarket retailer in the UK. It holds a 31.2% share of the national grocery bill, and is increasingly a global power in the retail sector.
The responsibility that comes with that power became apparent earlier this year when Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy announced plans to carbon-label all the products on Tesco's shelves.
"The idea is that you can compare the carbon footprint of a product as you would compare nutrition or price," Sir Terry explained -- see the ...
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