{"id":2857,"date":"2026-08-03T03:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:33:10","slug":"healeys-profiteering-warning-on-food-and-fuel-risks-row-with-retailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=2857","title":{"rendered":"Healey\u2019s profiteering warning on food and fuel risks row with retailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor says the government wants to prevent shoppers being \u2018taken for a ride\u2019 at the pump or till <\/p>\n<p>The chancellor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/john-healey\">John Healey<\/a>, has said the government is standing by to prevent the public from \u201cbeing taken for a ride at the pump or the till\u201d as the Iran war continues to hit prices.<\/p>\n<p>While he said there had been \u201cno significant evidence of so-called price gouging\u201d during the crisis, he used a weekend column to tell the big retailers that ministers were \u201cwatching closely\u201d for any signs of profiteering.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/aug\/02\/john-healey-profiteering-warning-retailers-backlash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/aug\/02\/john-healey-profiteering-warning-retailers-backlash' target='_blank'>Read the original article on www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor says the government wants to prevent shoppers being \u2018taken for a ride\u2019 at the pump or till The chancellor, John Healey, has said the government is standing by to prevent the public from \u201cbeing taken for a ride at the pump or the till\u201d as the Iran war continues to hit prices. While he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}