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Retailers are pulling back from self-checkout after years of theft, errors, and questionable time savings (www.techspot.com)
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[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Our left wing party just announced a policy for govt owned grocers like mamdani has implemented

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.