Between the lines: Supermarket price wars - consumer benefit or promotional prestidigitation?

This article focuses on supermarkets' self-styled price wars, which, according to the author is a peculiarly British phenomenon.

Between The Lines

Supermarket price wars consumer benefit or promotional prestidigitation?

by Provocateur

 

Try this. Type the first three words of the above headline into any internet search engine. Of the first twenty search results fifteen relate solely to the UK. I used Google; other search engines will probably return a similar result.

So?

So it is a clear indication that these self-styled price wars are a peculiarly British phenomenon, little favoured in the US or continental Europe where few retailers enjoy such laissez-faire regulatory control as the UK's major supermarket chains between them controlling 88%...

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