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Article: Delay hits OFT supermarkets inquiry

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February 1, 1999
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THE OFFICE of Fair Trading is struggling to meet its self-imposed deadline for the publication of its investigation into supermarket profits after it was forced to bring in property consultants to help decide property and other asset values.

It hired one group of consultants just before Christmas. But they backed out after deciding they wanted the firm's name not to be disclosed in the report as the OFT had planned. Officials were forced to hire a second firm, wasting two weeks' work and pushing the report publication close to the February deadline. The OFT is due to meet the big four supermarket groups in the next two weeks as its

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