UK Retailers and Global Responsibility

The social responsibility of the business community has been widely discussed in the past few years. In retailing terms, it is often defined in terms of a need to behave ethically and to discharge a sectoral responsibility to provide society with the retail facilities it needs. This article argues that retailers could and should consider their responsibilities on a global scale and that their unique relationship with the consumer places them in a position where a major impact could be made on some of the important global issues facing us as we enter the 1990s.