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We have two chains which form an oligopoly in the grocery market here. Coles and Woolworths (Colesworth). Like tesco or something. Better presented than Aldi.
So, like everywhere else I guess. 1-3 chains taking over everything.
When I was young we had a Mon&pop near our house. Now it’s like 3-5 supermarket brands, of which most are from the same group and only virtually competing.
Yes, we recently had a formal govt enquiry into the lack of competition. Not very effective.
Until a few years ago there was an independent supermarket just down the road. They did very well, but sold to a foreign group that owned a few dozen stores and they just didn’t understand the market here - it collapsed within months.
Our left wing party just announced a policy for govt owned grocers like mamdani has implemented. However, they have no chance of applying any pressure to govt to implement that.
Grocieres…from Woolworth? Funny. Here (Germany) it’s just a horribly shitty dollar-store without any food.
The Australian Woolworth is a totally unrelated company.
In Germany the Woolworth GmbH was originally founded by the American Woolworth, but then sold off. The American one essentially died later.
I had no idea. Although I fondly remember it being cool and then suddenly becoming absolute dogshit.
Thanks for educating me.
I also remember my mom driving over the boarder to shop there when I was a child, so that checks out for me
At least you have the good kind of Woolworth it seems 😁
We have two chains which form an oligopoly in the grocery market here. Coles and Woolworths (Colesworth). Like tesco or something. Better presented than Aldi.
So, like everywhere else I guess. 1-3 chains taking over everything. When I was young we had a Mon&pop near our house. Now it’s like 3-5 supermarket brands, of which most are from the same group and only virtually competing.
Yes, we recently had a formal govt enquiry into the lack of competition. Not very effective.
Until a few years ago there was an independent supermarket just down the road. They did very well, but sold to a foreign group that owned a few dozen stores and they just didn’t understand the market here - it collapsed within months.
Our left wing party just announced a policy for govt owned grocers like mamdani has implemented. However, they have no chance of applying any pressure to govt to implement that.
Sounds like a great solution to being overrun by de-facto-monopolies. But I know nothing about Australia’s politics to make an educated comment.
Here it seems like a faint smell of diversity, but often 3 chains are owned by the same group. But at least there still is some competition.