SUPERMARKET PRICING

That this House congratulates the Guardian newspaper's Datablog report into supermarket prices, which found that two-thirds of pre-Christmas price cuts at Asda and Tesco were only one penny; notes with concern that more than half of all price rises during the same period were greater than 10 pence; believes that consumers were given a false impression about price cuts by television advertising at the time; deplores the behaviour of retailers who seek to manipulate prices in this cynical way; and calls on the Government to consider introducing legislation to oblige large retailers to publish weekly price lists of all their stock in a standard, machine readable, open digital format.