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How will the new recycling scheme involving Woolworths, Coles and Aldi work? And what are some upsides for shoppers if we had more plastic-free food to choose from?
Most emissions can be avoided if trolleys are kept in circulation.
Selling products without packaging can lead to anti-environmental outcomes. It can also pose risks to hygiene and health.
Local food networks have an important role to play in the promised national food security strategy, which must resist the influence of corporate interests
Shipments of Chinese goods to the US are declining fast, this may affect stocks in grocery stores soon.
Are supermarkets charging too much? This ‘three-limb test’ can help policymakers unpack the problem.
Neither course of action was recommended by the ACCC’s final report from its year-long inquiry into the supermarket sector.
With tariff threats looming over the grocery aisle, perhaps its time to rethink how Canadian supermarkets do business.
As the campaign officially begins both leaders run into problems selling their policies.
The long-awaited, 441-page final report also doesn’t recommend new divestiture powers or breaking up the supermarkets.
Despite the hopes pinned on international supermarket brands, the answer to New Zealand’s supermarket woes lies with breaking up the companies that are already here.
People in countries with the most chain grocery stores per person buy more unhealthy food and are more likely to be obese.
In some countries, consumers can sue private companies for anti-competitive behaviour. But it’s harder to do in Australia.
By simplifying its range, Coles is moving a step closer to Aldi’s strategy.
Many of us prefer to avoid climate-affected produce altogether. But marketing messages that highlight its ‘resilience’ can encourage consumers to consider it, even when empathy towards farmers is low.
Turning two big supermarket companies into one even larger one could have harmed consumers and workers, the government said during its successful litigation.
New Zealanders have less choice over their grocery shop than consumers in most developed countries. Breaking up the existing supermarket conglomerates would be a next logical step.
A push to overhaul laws to stamp out land banking is part of a Government bid to crack down on anti-competitive and unconscionable conduct by supermarkets.
The competition watchdog reported hearing ‘concerning’ reports from suppliers about being paid prices below the cost of production but having ‘little choice but to agree to highly unfavourable terms’.
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Dean, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor of Marketing, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Economics, Monash University
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Professor in Sustainable Production and Consumption, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Public Health, Deakin University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Emeritus Professor of Marketing, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University
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Associate Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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PhD, Political Economy, Macquarie University
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Retail Academic Researcher, Business School, University of Sydney
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PhD Candidate, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, RMIT University
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Professor of Accounting, University of Portsmouth
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Associate Professor, Supply Chain Analytics, University of Bradford