Sentence examples for below-cost selling from inspiring English sources

The Home Office defended the proposals as a "starting point" for the government's plans to deal with below-cost selling.

England has introduced a minimum price of duty plus VAT, which health campaigners have described as a weaker measure, but which the coalition government said was designed to prevent below-cost selling.

The British Beer and Pub Association added that while the ban "will stamp out the worst cases of below-cost selling", "it will not have a significant impact on low-priced alcohol in supermarkets".

Ministers insist below-cost selling is a real issue, with six out of seven major supermarkets found to be selling alcohol at up to 12% below cost in a 2008 Competition Commission study.

Problems have included price controls, which prevent below-cost selling, rigid labour laws and tough zoning regulations, which make it extremely difficult to build big stores.Wal-Mart also faced well-established rivals in Germany, like Metro, and hard discounters such as Aldi and Lidl, already comfortable with razor-thin profit margins.

The book offers some tips on how regulators could curb the worst excesses of the supermarkets, from requiring supermarkets to sell off part of their businesses, to prohibiting further expansion by merging or buying other stores, and banning below-cost selling, which puts other shops out of business.

23 This study has several strengths in relation to our own previously published work, which addresses minimum unit pricing but not a ban on below cost selling.

Overall, just 0.7% of alcohol units are estimated to be sold below the ban on below cost selling duty plus VAT threshold.

For example, 10 years after policy implementation, the ban on below cost selling showed a saving of just 14 deaths and around 500 admissions to hospital per annum, which compared with an estimated 624 deaths and 23 700 admissions prevented by a 45p minimum unit price around a 40 to 50 times greater effect than a ban on below cost selling.

8 9 We have extended the categories of alcoholic beverages to separate out cider, which has a different duty regimen, and this was an important development to allow more robust analysis of a ban on below cost selling.

In contrast, a 45p minimum unit price was estimated to reduce harmful drinkers' consumption by 137 units per year; an approximately 45 times greater effect than a ban on below cost selling.