Financial Times, May 24 2007. Article by Elizabeth Rigby

The voluntary code regulating supplier and supermarket relations is not effective, the Competition Commission said yesterday, raising speculation that it might introduce stricter guidelines as part of its probe into the £120bn-a-year supermarket sector.

In a working paper [1]published yesterday, the Competition Commission said that many of the issues it raised in its first inquiry into supermarkets in 2000 were still evident seven years later.

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