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This form can be used by large grocery retailers to notify the Competition and Markets Authority about store acquisitions.
CMA review indicates that some independent and smaller grocery retailers are failing to display clear and accurate prices.
The Groceries Code Adjudicator is responsible for regulating the relationships between the UK’s largest grocery retailers and their direct suppliers by encouraging, monitoring and enforcing compliance with the Groceries Supply Code of Practice. GCA works with the Department for Business...
Poster to help independent retailers understand what they need to do to comply with consumer law.
This order requires the UK's large grocery retailers to follow the Groceries Supply Code of Practice.
Open letter to grocery retailers on the use of unit pricing
What the government is doing to support native livestock breeds in the UK.
Find out when you need to charge VAT and at what rate if you supply food and drink for the purposes of catering or as a takeaway.
Update: The 2024 GCA annual survey has now closed.
How designated retailers are expected to fairly manage their relationships with suppliers.
This order limits large grocery retailers’ ability to prevent land being used by their competitors for grocery retailing in the future.
An update on the CMA's work looking at competition in food and other groceries, in the context of high price inflation.
A findings report on the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) review of price marking practices by different types of grocery retailers.
Find out which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes.
The CMA has opened a project to consider the use of unit pricing in the groceries sector.
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