Comment on After months of reviews, the government has made its first move on the big supermarkets

Fluid@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• MHLoppy@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Supermarkets that fail to meet these requirements would open themselves to fines worth three times any benefit they derived from their misconduct.

  Alternatively, the fine could be up to $10 million, or 10 per cent of the supermarket's annual turnover if the benefit can't be determined.

  Those fines would need to be approved by a court, but consumer watchdog the ACCC could also issue up-front infringement notices worth up to $187,800 if they believe there has been a breach.

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  • Fluid@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And zero consequences for their egregious past behaviour…

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    • Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The consequences will that their record profits since COVID-19 will dry up and they will need to figure out other ways of cutting expenses.

      They will crash like they did in the 1980s and rationalise their business model by selling off their smaller branches. IGA will suddenly have a lot more members, Foodworks will be much bigger and Tuckerbag may even make a comeback.

      The problem is that they have overcapitalised. Near us, we have two very large Woolworths within walking distance from each other. Two suburbs over, it is the same with two very large Coles’s.

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