Love this! This is the kind of model I would love to see integrated into the plan to tackle the Supermarket Duopoly in Australia. TACKLING THE SUPERMARKET DUOPOLY The Greens’ plan will stop the supermarket duopoly from squeezing farmers and small business. WHAT DO YOU NEED TO KNOW? The Greens will place a temporary ban on expansion by Coles and Woolworths while the ACCC carries out an ex-post assessment into their decisions relating to the grocery market. We’ll stop the supermarket duopoly from purchasing agricultural land to ensure they aren’t able to completely control the whole supply chain. We’ll strengthen competition law to ensure companies are unable to abuse their market power, including giving the ACCC broad divestiture powers. We’ll extend the Australian Consumer Law framework dealing with unfair contract terms to business to business agreements involving small business and farmers. Finally, we’ll increase the resources and effectiveness of Australia’s competition watchdog the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
Posted on: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 01:40:44 +0000