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Article: Please explain this to me.(Sir Digby Jones on United Kingdom. Office of Fair Trading's two-market definition of the retail sector)

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September 24, 2005
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The Grocer News Team

Pressure was mounting this week on the OFF to change its approach to grocery retail as one of the most influential names in British industry threw his weight behind calls for the regulator to justify its much maligned two-market definition of the sector.

Sir Digby Jones, CBI director general, told the Nisa annual conference: "I can't see why the big retailers' involvement in your market is totally different to when they bang products out of a hypermarket.

"The OFT have got this completely round their necks. It either needs to be changed or someone needs to explain it in language I can understand."

Sir Digby said ...

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