Supermarkets to explain why Ireland is being ‘ripped off’

THE big supermarket owners will be called before a powerful Oireachtas committee next month to explain why Irish consumers are being ripped off.

Ireland is the most expensive country in the Eurozone for food, according to a national Competitiveness Council report published last month.

The council found Irish consumer price inflation was almost double that of the other 15 EU states in 2003.