SOC 2080 Chapter : SOC 2080 Course Reader #5.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2080
• Professor: Anthony Winson

Document Summary

Products that go through very little levels of transformation such as fluid milk, eggs, and flour and tomato paste have thin profit margins. Some are sold below cost as loss leaders to attract customers to the store. In canada, the snack food industry has grown more than the entire food industry as a whole. Corporate concentration occurs w/pseudo foods b/c only a small group of companies control the whole sector. Spatial colonization occurs b/c these products are places at eye level for customers [physical availability] Low profit items [i. e. milk] are placed at the back of the stores so ppl are forced to go through the entire building] Products they want ppl to purchase are placed at eye level, or they have special display"s for them. Things that can go wrong w/gene engineering: code scramblers. Can rearrange the rna code in many ways creating different proteins: hitchhikers.