Big chain supermarkets

[roKWiz]

From reading other threads here, it got me thinking how in the past companies like Coles and Woolworth used to sell name brand goods which were usually "made in Australia" and buying imported food was considered something of a luxury.

Then came the discounted own brands like No frill, Cole own brand and Woolies Home brand.
At the time the whole exercise was to bring us cheap affordable locally sourced foods or so we all thought. Looking back now in the grand scheme of this I can see they set themselves up to control the food industry, gradually swapping country of manufacturer to offshore.
As the no name brands flourished the prices steadily climbed, all at the same time the supermarkets were replacing the name brands with their own varieties.
These days most of the supermarket chains have their own high priced products taking most of the space and deleting the competition.

So here we are now in 2023 with less choice of food we can buy, less choice of where it is sourced and what's left of the local manufacturing/processing industry trying to negotiate and compete on a fair selling point.

Next time you venture down the isles of the big 2 have a good look at where this stuff comes from and who's name is on the label.

Thoughts....??