How much do you want a new cheap supermarket?

Thursday 2nd March 2006, 12:00AM GMT.

SHOPKEEPERS and shoppers are being asked whether cheaper supermarket prices are worth the damage they could do to small local businesses.

Along with other interested parties, they are being invited to send their views on a new Tesco-type superstore and other retail issues to the Economic Development Minister, Senator Philip Ozouf.

He has called for a ‘full and frank debate’ on the controversial subject of a new supermarket as part of a comprehensive consultation exercise already under way about the retail sector.


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