UK relaxes trading rules so food stores can work together

Competition regulations put on hold so shops can share depots, vans and stock dataCoronavirus – latest updatesAll our coronavirus coverageThe government is relaxing competition regulations to allow retailers to work together more closely to help feed the UK during the coronavirus outbreak.Supermarkets will be allowed to cooperate to keep shops open, to share distribution depots and delivery vans and to share data with each other on stock levels under the temporary waiver approved on Thursd