Avoiding major supermarkets
In Australia – food retail is monopolised by Coles, Woolworths and Aldi. The competitive advantage maintained by food retail giants allows them to dictate pricing to farmers – reducing their profits and diverting money from small businesses. Major supermarkets also sell large amounts of imported foods, factory-farmed meats, as well as non-organic, intensively farmed monocrop produce – which have severe impacts on animal welfare, ecosystems, soil quality and carbon emissions. When purchasing your food, buying from major supermarkets should be considered a last resort.
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Woolworths and Coles: Supermarkets to Superpowers?
The Beast File looks at Australia's Big Two supermarket chains. Woolworths & Coles are a $100 billion a year duopoly with a retail market share unmatched in the developed world. And they have their fingers in a lot of other pies too.
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Jordan Pearce is taking on the Supermarket Oligopoly for the good of the farmers.
Australia is the land of the Oligopoly, we have 4 major banks, two major telcos, Two major News holding companies and two major supermarkets. The problem with Oligopolies is that they tend to unconsciously collude and ultimately squeeze their suppliers through their dominate market control. This is a huge problem for Australian Farmers, and consumers have very little power to effect change.
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