Editing Tesco (section)

===Price-fixing===
In 2007, Tesco was placed under investigation by the UK [[Office of Fair Trading]] (OFT) for acting as part of a [[cartel]] of five supermarkets (Safeway, Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, and Sainsburys) and a number of dairy companies to fix the price of milk, butter, and cheese. In December 2007, Asda, Sainsbury's, and the former Safeway admitted that they acted covertly against the interests of consumers while publicly claiming that they were supporting 5,000 farmers recovering from the [[foot-and-mouth]] crisis. They were fined a total of £116&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/aug/10/tesco-attacks-oft-price-fixing-fine|title=Tesco threatens legal action over OFT dairy price-fixing fine|date=10 August 2011|work=The Guardian|access-date=27 March 2012|location=London|archive-date=23 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923155033/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/aug/10/tesco-attacks-oft-price-fixing-fine|url-status=live}}</ref>