"Supermarkets make billions of pounds of profit.  Here people can’t survive, they can’t feed themselves." - Wendy Pekeur, leader of South African trade union and ActionAid partner Sikhula Sonke.

Every week 32 million of us shop in British supermarkets. But as supermarkets continue to push for lower prices and higher profits – who is paying the cost?

Rarely is it supermarkets. Instead all too often it is passed down the supply chain to the workers at the bottom. They end up poorly paid and easily exploited.

Action for a supermarket watchdog

ActionAid has been campaigning since 2005 to make UK supermarkets play fair overseas.

We’ve had an amazing response to the campaign from over 42,000 of you taking action.  All three of the main political parties committed to the issue in their manifestos and Albert Owen MP’s Grocery Market Ombudsman Bill passed uncontested through to Committee Stage in the last sitting of parliament before the election.

We now have a lot of work to do to make sure that the new government’s commitment to a watchdog doesn’t drop off the agenda. Find out more