Farmers markets are where I prefer to shop; there's a few I frequent which provide much better quality than I can find in the supermarkets and while it's more costly I'll pay for better quality. I can't always get exactly what I need though, so am forced to shop at supermarkets.
A couple kilometres from where I live is an award winning (family owned) legit-as-fuck gourmet supermarket; that sounds expensive and it is, but the quality is amazing. Having said that, I split my supermarket shopping between there and one of the two national major supermarket chains...which isn't so amazing.
The national chain represent themselves as being all about their customer and local suppliers however that's a lie proven over and over again through their treatment of suppliers plus their misleading and false representations when it comes to pricing...which the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) don't take kindly to.
Recently the supermarket were called out, after a lengthy investigation, for misrepresentation and false and misleading practices - both against the law under the Trade Practices Act (TPA) - and it's going to cost them.
They have a marketing concept called "everyday low prices" where popular products are reduced to "low" prices permanently. That sounds fucken amazing right?
Here's the thing...what they were actually doing was/is inflating the product's original price it, let's say by 30%, and leaving it at that increased price for a month or so before reducing it from that increased price down by only 10% then putting it on their "every day low prices" list. So, the "every day low price" is actually a price that's 20% more than the original price, so not fucken low at all.
They got caught out on 266 products and the ACCC are now taking them to court and, unsurprisingly, the other national supermarket chain was caught out doing the same thing on 245 products...those fucking pair of thunder cunts!
Taken from the ACCC website
The supermarkets I mention here have 1,140 and 840 stores respectively and most of the population shop there from week to week in some capacity...that's a lot of revenue they're pulling in with their misleading thunder-cunt behaviours.
People go through life largely oblivious to so many of the little ways in which governments or corporations fuck them over and for every one that gets caught ten get away with it I suppose. It sucks really, but unfortunately that's the way it is...the little people (that's you and me) get fucked over. The sad part of that is that the people fucking us over are just other people acting for the corporations and governments. Human beings are fucked up huh?
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