Sainsbury's propaganda machine has scored another hit in the feature on Ken Bodfish (The Argus, January 2).

In it, he says if Sainsbury's builds a new supermarket on the Brighton station site he hopes it is as sustainable as possible, "like the new store at Greenwich".

The Greenwich superstore has a massive car park that encourages car use and one-stop shopping, with the inevitable disastrous effects on small local businesses.

In common with all supermarkets, it promotes a diet of refined foods, high in fats and sugars and grown with the aid of noxious chemicals.

Supermarkets dictate what domestic growers have to produce to stay in business and bind them with contracts that make Shylock look like a charity worker.

They import foods produced on poverty wages from all over the world to satisfy the fads of well-off shoppers at home.

Sure, the store collects water from the roof and flushes it down the toilets - nothing wrong with that.

It also has a couple of windmill generators, which sounds good until you realise they are used only to light the shop signs.

If this has any effect on the environment at all, it is to add to light pollution. It also sells outrageously priced organic products.

That these cynical and insignificant nods towards environmental concern should become a benchmark for sustainable retail development is not just laughable, it is downright dangerous.

The politicians should check their facts before regurgitating this misinformation and The Argus would do well to stop reporting it.

-Richard Paul-Jones, Coleman Street, Brighton