Fines of $10 million will force supermarkets to think carefully before exploiting suppliers, but more could have been done
- Written by Allan Fels, Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
Suppliers of food and other products have been complaining for years about their treatment at the hands of Woolworths, Coles and Australia’s other big supermarket chains, although rarely to the supermarkets themselves – perhaps, as suggested in a recent Four Corners program, because they feared retribution.
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