UK: OFT closes probe into supermarket "price fixing"
By: just-food.com | 18 November 2010
The UK's Office of Fair Trading has dropped its investigation into allegations of price fixing between the country's biggest supermarket chains and consumer goods firms.
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The UK's Office of Fair Trading has dropped its investigation into allegations of price fixing between the country's biggest supermarket chains and consumer goods firms.
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