"Woollies Has Us by the Proverbials" Says Joyce | BTalk Australia

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  505Ash

  10/21/08 | Report as spam

  RE: "Woollies Has Us by the Proverbials" Says Joyce | BTalk Australia

  Blind Freddie can see the uncompetitive nature of the Australian retailing industry. Now Coles and Woolworths are adopting the Aldi model it is conceivable that in the near future consumers will have little choice in terms of product, lack of differentiation and once again the Australian manufacturing sector will be under threat from generic products sourced from who knows where. We have high grocery prices due to the retailing practices of the large few and clear profiteering. Pretty soon we will not be able to feed ourselves because food will be sourced almost exclusively from overseas. Government should break up Woolworths and Coles.

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  RajenK

  10/22/08 | Report as spam

  Big Business has us by th eproverbials in Australia

  Just like Qantas and Telstra and the oil companies have been doing all along, we are at the mercy of these big monoliths of inefficiency-okay not so inefficient is Qantas, but nevertheless it is a monopoly no matter how the ACCC try to cloud it-and all of them have exploited the Australian public for decades and will continue to do so until somebody realises this. Until then, here's hoping Virgin and Extel and iiNet stay strong. They are the only true competition here.