Cut-price fresh food ban ‘should be upheld’

THE ban preventing supermarkets and independent stores from selling cut-price fresh produce should be upheld, a report urged yesterday.

With Irish consumers paying between 5%-15% more for their groceries, an Oireachtas committee recommended the order barring below cost sales should be maintained.

The Joint Committee on Enterprise and Small Business said it was the cost of running a business which needed to be addressed.