Competition watchdog is wrong to let supermarkets off the hook

The CMA's lamentable report on pricing has rightly been met with hoots of derision So the supermarkets have won. Which? may try to put a gloss on the story, but the Competition and Markets Authority has largely dismissed the evidence of dodgy deals and bogus pricing, saying it is "not occurring in large numbers across the whole sector" and that retailers are generally taking compliance seriously. But it was never the case that supermarkets were breaking the law. Deals and promotions can be, and ...