A report into soaring grocery prices, rising energy bills and steep airfares will be released on Wednesday (7 February) amid expectations its findings and recommendations will cause a headache for some of the country’s biggest and most powerful companies.
It comes amid a cost of living crisis that has intensified an already-growing distrust of supermarkets, airlines and energy companies.
My prediction:
A few board members will fall on their swords and be jettisoned, conveniently carrying all the responsibility for all those abhorrent actions.
Once free of that moral burden and with the slate wiped clean, the companies will then appoint the necessary replacements, who will stand up in front of the media and say that they are “moving in new directions”, with “significant change to the status quo”.
Then a few months of not much in particular will pass before they can get back to the dirty business of making the most amount of money with the least amount of service.