By John McCarthy

UK retailer Asda faced accusations of interfering with the Scottish referendum from social media users on Thursday after its CEO and president Andy Clarke declared that supermarkets would incur significant costs setting up new Scottish operations.

The supermarket’s head, on Thursday pitched into the debate, less than a week from its conclusion, announcing that the price of goods in an independent Scotland would rise.

The comments also contradicted a previous Herald column, published in December last year, in which he claimed Scottish prices would drop if an independent Scottish government revoked the levy tax – saving the supermarket, and allegedly consumers, £2bn Read full story ›

Source: The Drum