Independent convenience store retailers are calling for a temporary ban on acquisitions by major supermarket chains of convenience stores.

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MPs representing small shop owners are to meet consumer minister Gerry Sutcliffe tomorrow to ask for a 12-month ban while the Office of Fair Trading investigates, reported The Sunday Mirror.


In the last two years supermarket retailers such as Tesco, Sainsbury’s and the Co-op have acquired more than 2,000 convenience stores.


“In some rural areas independent traders are the backbone of the local community. We have to try and have some foresight about where this trend may lead,” Labour MP Jim Dowd, head of the all-party Small Shops Group, was quoted by the newspaper as saying.

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