Psst! You wanna black market pie? Good price?

We're used to the idea of ruthless businessmen trying to corner the market in some desirable commodity with a view to hoiking up the price and making themselves a fortune.  When you hear of such stories you tend to think in terms of gold, diamonds, oil and the like.  But pork pies??  And yet the Competition and Markets Authority which keeps an eye on such things has expressed concern at the purchase of Kerry Foods by Pork Farm, suggesting that it will put too much of the manufacture of pork pies, sausage rolls, scotch eggs and the like in the hands of one company with a reduction in competition and choice and possibly an increase in price.  So beware the pork pie monopoly!