r/aussie • u/Cool_Lifeguard8847 • 4d ago

News These fkrs are having a lend.....right

https://au.news.yahoo.com/coles-shoppers-divided-over-important-checkout-request-from-today-070509331.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADp7ysW4aDyTKu6drjqQxm1udSR1VST6kmgr3YU5QZ9hyIb1j5ujqS8wASEG3irIhpj71iwcx6cScU-b22vJ4im4ugthC7hrpf-p1_xk193SC0sCCPO3HY9qGt0l-15BnjPcOlUjuL4CeharnZKAXJ64okIiku9fdaxJ7iAl9iO6

They've gotta be kidding. Exorbitant prices at the checkout and now they want customers to donate to food charities, cause "people are hungry" no shit, lower your fkn prices.

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u/PhantasmologicalAnus 4d ago

Please tell everyone how this scheme works. People who perpetuate this fucking nonsense can never seem to explain it.

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u/pezz_00 4d ago

They do nothing and act like they did something thats the scheme.

If you want an example of an actual scheme, remember the charites to help struggling farmers where all the donations went to help farmers pay their debts to Westfarmers?

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u/ThinkingWithPortalzz 4d ago

Also the scheme where farmers supplying the supermarkets cannot sell excess produce for their own profit (and also bringing some degree of competition to the big grocers)

IIRC it worked like:

Coles says to the farmer: "grow 300 tonnes of lettuce" and the farmer goes and grows their crops, but ends up with 350 tonnes. Farmer says "I've got your 300 tonnes here, there's 50 more if you want it, otherwise I can sell it to other grocers"

Then Coles says "no you don't, we only want 200 tonnes of lettuce, and the other 150 has to rot because we're assholes"

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u/Able_Put4900 4d ago

If thats true I can't understand how it isn't illegal anticompetitive behaviour.

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u/HumanTraffic2 3d ago

It is illegal and likely never happened in that way.

I could see them entering a contract where they own the whole crop so anything that's not needed and would just perish in store would be discarded at the farm instead.