Retail business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) have been hot topics on the retail agenda in recent years. As retailers have extended their reach, leveraging production, manufacturing and supply chains resources from a growing list of developed and developing countries, there has been extensive recent media coverage of retail with an increasingly ethical and CSR focus, for example in relation to the detrimental environmental effects of palm oil production, concerns about live animal transportation, the use of illegally logged timbers in furniture production, depleted fishing stocks, overseas working conditions and domestic supplier / retailer relations.
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