Rejected petition Stop price increases on food and medicines during the outbreak of Covid-19

The government body should be responsible for monitoring business competition and preventing anti-competitive activities, the Competition and Markets Authority, needs to prevent retailers against taking advange of the coronavirus outbreak.

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So that the government can consider taking direct action to regulate prices.

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Since you started this petition, the CMA has made a statement about sales and pricing practices during the Coronavirus outbreak, you can read this here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/covid-19-sales-and-pricing-practices-during-coronavirus-outbreak

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

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Date submitted 16 March 2020
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