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Fri 11 Nov 2009Retailers not assisting with food cost site
PLANS TO provide consumers with regularly updated online comparisons of supermarket prices have had to be abandoned after the National Consumer Agency failed to secure the co-operation of the main retailers.
The NCA had planned to replace its regular survey of grocery prices with an online system relying on food price data provided by the main multiples. Such a system would allow shoppers to obtain the best value by comparing prices across thousands of products in different supermarkets.
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