Cut the Cost of Food ; Impose Price Controls On Essentials, Say Watchdogs [Eire Region]
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SUPERMARKETS are continuing to raise the prices of groceries even though inflation is at rock bottom and unemployment is on the rise.
Consumer watchdogs warned last night that the Government will now have to intervene because retailers are refusing to voluntarily reduce prices at a time when the cost of living overall is falling.See the full content of this document
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Cut the Cost of Food ; Impose Price Controls On Essentials, Say Watchdogs [Eire Region]
The Consumers' Association of Ireland claimed that the Government now has to intervene and introduce price controls. The only other option - which the organisation encourages - is for Irish consumers to boycott the major supermarkets en masse.
The Irish Daily Mail's exhaustively researched and highly respected Cost of Living Index found that the price of a basket ...See the full content of this document