16 Aug 2007


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Competition Commission "cheap booze" figures are wrong, says Tesco

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Figures contained in a Competition Commission Report that claimed to show supermarkets sold £112.7m worth of alcohol at below cost price during last year's football World Cup are completely wrong, Tesco said today.

The supermarket giant was fingered as the biggest culprit, with the commission's figures saying it sold more than £90m-worth of booze at below cost price during the five-week period.

But a Tesco spokesman said the commission had mistakenly taken figures for Tesco covering an 18-month period, rather than for the five weeks of the World Cup.

This means that the overall figure is vastly over-inflated.

Pub opereators were outraged when they came across the sums in the Competition Commission report, labelling supermarkets as "grossly irresponsible" and accusing them of fuelling binge drinking.

Tesco says it has contacted the commission about providing the correct figures.

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