Supermarkets in France to sell fuel at cost, advance food price talks to lower costs
- French government pressured major supermarkets to sell fuel at cost price to help consumers.
- Supermarket chains Carrefour, E.Leclerc, and Systeme U agreed to sell discounted fuel.
- Government proposed law to move annual price negotiations between retailers and producers to mid-January.
- Earlier deadline aims to achieve greater reductions in food prices sooner in the new year.
- Leclerc states distributors can negotiate additional price decreases with manufacturers despite requests for increases.
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