Supermarkets ‘have power monopoly’

IRELAND East MEP Mairead McGuinness has challenged the European Commission to investigate the power of the retail sector, in particular its powerful grip on farmers and other food producers.

Ms McGuinness said there is a massive concentration of power in the hands of a few major supermarkets.

“European Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner Mariann Fisher Boel has said that in the fruit and vegetable sector supermarkets have a very strong armlock on producers.