Madam, - The UK Competition Commission concludes that below-cost selling is "against the public interest", in paragraph 2.390 of its 500-page report on supermarkets (www.competition-commission.org.uk), published in 2000.
Our own Competition Authority is quoted in your edition of August 8th as saying that the ban on below-cost selling is "against the consumer's interest".
They can't both be right. Surely we should give more weight to the evidence from the UK, where below-cost selling is allowed and practised. - Yours, etc,
DAVID CAMPBELL, Springhill Park, Killiney, Co Dublin.