Digging deeper, a few more which look as though they could be relevant:-

Gloucester Journal Saturday 24 September 1910

At a meeting of the Westbury Board of Guardians on Tues 20th a tender was accepted for cake 2¼d., flour 28s., bread 4¾d. from J. KEAR and Son Cinderford.

Gloucester Journal Saturday 12 October 1915

Coleford

At a special court at Coleford on Saturday a well-known tradesman of Cinderford, named Frederick GARDNER, of the firm of GARDNER and WHITTLE, Grocers, was brought up in custody charged with assaulting Emily Mabel MAYNARD, a married woman of The Pludds, Lydbrook…………….. (magistrates could not agree and prisoner was released).

Gloucester Journal Saturday 20 September 1919

ALLEGED PROFITEERING
-Nearly 150 charges at Littledean

......Against a defendant named WHITTLE, carrying on business as general grocer in Market Street, Cinderford, there were four charges – two of selling salmon at 2s 4d tin and two of selling cocoa at 10½ per ¼lb……….

……WHITTLE, who pleaded not guilty, said he had only just returned from the army and he had not had time to ascertain the facts as to prices. The Court registered a conviction, but under the circumstances no fine was imposed.