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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.