Retailers welcome ‘constructive’ meeting with government on war costs impact
After a clash last week over suggestions of potential war profiteering, a rescheduled meeting between grocers and chancellor Rachel Reeves was described as “constructive”.
Leading grocers and trade bodies met the chancellor yesterday to discuss the possible effects of conflict in the Middle East on prices, amid widespread fears that rising energy costs and other factors could feed through to higher food price inflation.
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