Preparing your task on Fair Trade

Your final task : act out a conversation between a Fair Trade activist and a supermarket manager. The Fair Trade activist wants to convince the manager to promote Fair Trade products in his supermarkets but the manager is reluctant ( réticent) to do so.

In order to prepare your arguments for the promotion of Fair Trade products, you may want to visit the following websites :

- the Fair Trade International website.

- http://www.fairtradeusa.org/

- http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/

- You will also find arguments about the consumers power here

Now, here are some action tips ;-) : http://www.fairtradeyoursupermarket.org/how-to-fair-trade-your-supermarket/ and

http://www.fairtradeyoursupermarket.org/talk-to-your-store-manager-in-person/

For arguments against the promotion of Fair Trade products, read this . you can also watch again the video on "the myth of ethical shopping"

You'll also need to brainstorm on the possible financial reasons why managers wouldn't want to promote Fair Trade products.