Monday night's Panorama titled "The Truth About Supermarket Price Wars" was akin to a tour-de-force of every practice developed by the supermarkets in which it was difficult not to conclude that there is no other credo for them except "never deal the punter an honest hand" or "never make a savings offer that we cannot claw back twice over".

Tow-fers that were not. three-fer-twos that were more expensive than three items, price establishing (a practice that says an item formerly sold at say £1.50 was sold at a Scottish airport our Outer Hebridean store at £3 for twenty eight days) and when the supermarket dropped the price back to £2.50 the punter was getting a "great" offer and not to mention the ever-present "Manager's Specials" from the JS ********** family

Great and informative BBC broadcasting:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01...rice_Wars/

Its not just the supply chain that gets turned over by the predatory supermarket chains.