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It was the ending of the net book agreement that put the final nail in the coffin for Wardleworths. If you look back at the arguments that the Supermarkets were putting forward at the time and compare their claims then, with the current stock of books in Asda you will see that all they wanted was to cream off the best sellers (most profit) and put an end to the competition by making trading conditions so cut-throat that Wardleworths could not compete. This is a strategy that Asda have pursued for the last twenty years and is the main reason that so many independent retailers have gone to the wall.