Capping the price of weekly shop items.

[twinkletoesimnot]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y7qz806q3o

This is misguided at best or a disaster at worst.
Farmers will get paid even less and then lots will go out of business.
Paving the way for cheap, inferior imports.
Food security even more precarious.
Worrying times.
Yes, we are struggling but this won’t help in the long run.

It's voluntary @twinkletoesimnot supermarkets are not altruistic so will never implement.

So neither misguided nor disastrous because the government are pretending to give a damn and supermarkets will ignore, ergo, will have zero effect.

But the supermarkets might implement this or they probably already do. There is a pretty cheap version of the items mentioned (bread, milk and eggs) available in all supermarkets and the profit is probably pretty low and they could well be a loss leader to get people in to also buy more profitable items.

I'm talking about milk if you buy 4 or 6 pints, a sliced white loaf for £1 or less and 6 mixed free range eggs for about £1.50. Also the veg specials.

Smaller shops can't compete and the supermarkets will be hardcore with the suppliers, telling them 'we want to sell this for £1 so we will pay you X for it' leaving the supplier having try and supply it for that price.

Look at all the veg for pennies at Christmas. I saw a quote from a greengrocer who was obviously affected, saying something like he was being put out of businesses so people could save £3 on their Christmas veg.

Even if key items are very cheap, its only a minor contribution towards a household's CoL, so will barely be noticeable, but could have significant impact for suppliers so I agree with you on that point.