The emergence of
a supermarket duopoly in the 1970s which now controls 70 - 80 % of the Australian retail food market, so that many producers are locked into a «price - taker» relationship
Not exact matches
and published on 14.07.14, the article put responsiblity partly
in the saucepan of celebrity chefs and their TV shows as well as
in the aisles of our
supermarket duopoly.
The Economist Intelligence Unit's senior economist, John Ferguson, quoted
in the article, said we need more competition
in the
supermarket industry rather than continued domination by the
duopoly.
Germany's Kaufland will find it harder to inflict more damage on the locals
in supermarket retailing after compatriot Aldi upset the Coles and Woolworths
duopoly.
Family farmers, small and especially innovative food distributors and the nation's eaters are best served not by the quasi-monopoly of a grocery market controlled by the
supermarket duopoly and its unscrupulous fellow travellers that engage
in the alleged slave - like farm labour practices, but by a freed market.
And as Tammi writes, Australia's
supermarket duopoly is implicated as guilty parties
in this unAustralian exploitation of labour.
The Executive Summary of that August 2012 report claims that the
duopoly, through tactics such as «price discrimination, shopper docket schemes, store saturation and over-sized store strategies [building huge
supermarkets in small local markets
in order to drive out existing competition and prevent new market entrants]», is «crowding out all competition [and] rapidly reducing the choices
in shopping format, brands, locally - derived products and service levels».
But with the seemingly relentless growth of Aldi (it now has more than 400 stores and a little over 13 % share
in the grocery market, up about 3 % from when we last reported on
supermarket prices
in 2015) there's a lot resting on the
duopoly getting their pricing strategy right.
Throw
in the vagaries of a
supermarket duopoly and a raft of other issues faced most starkly by regional Australia and it's little surprise that SPC, which suffered a loss of $ 25m this year, is so candid about its desire for government assistance.
«With one of the most concentrated food retail sectors
in the world dominated by the
supermarket duopoly, the barriers to making it easy to buy local food
in Australia are significant.
As well as the horde of other issues for urban food systems, Australia has one of the most concentrated food retail sectors
in the world dominated by the
supermarket duopoly, significant health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and a serious and growing issue of food waste.