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The Daily Mail in the United Kingdom is reporting that "Tesco misleadingly claimed to have more than halved the number of plastic bags it hands out to shoppers.  The supermarket said last month that its customers were 'using more than 50 per cent fewer carrier bags than they did before'.  Its statement came on the same day that supermarkets collectively announced they had managed to reduce the number of bags given to shoppers by 48 per cent. 

However, Tesco was yesterday forced to admit that its figures were calculated in a different way to the official statistics.  Rather than reflecting the actual reduction in bags used, its figure had been adjusted to take into account the growth in the number of customers and stores."

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1204278/Tesco-accused-spinning-p...