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Wed 07 Jul 2009Call for ombudsman in grocery 'wild west'
IRELAND NEEDS a retail ombudsman and code of practice because the grocery sector is “bedevilled with intimidation”, Minister of State for Agriculture Trevor Sargent has insisted in the Dáil.
He was responding to warnings by Andrew Doyle (FG, Wicklow) that there is “no sheriff” to monitor retailers, the “wild west” of the food sector.
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