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This has bewildered traders from more than 30,000 businesses who have come to the annual fair to show off their goods in several exhibition halls the size of 200 football pitches.

The activity implied that treasuries may have lost their glow, or that the stock market collapse had produced untenable losses among Wall Street traders.

New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a similar stance, urging transparency for traders in Congress who may have made a handsome sum on advance knowledge.

But a source within one of the quick commerce companies told the BBC the discounting was done by traders on the platform and not by them.

BBC Breakfast contacted around 200 UK businesses and charities in March, across different industries, from sole traders to large companies to get a sense of the impact of the increase in employer National Insurance Contributions.