Here’s the twist in the tale on why you are paying too much for vegetables

This week, four of the country’s largest vegetable suppliers, this week, the price fixing allegedly, in the settlement of the supermarkets in the shelves of vegetables sitting on the shelves of vegetables are making a hole.

The observer translated the script, the scenario of a supplier-Karnabahar cartel or celery fraudsters-translated the script, claiming that he might be responsible for some prices in the corridors of the product.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACC) claims that these large suppliers are aimed at correcting price or supply conditions in dealing with ALDI, which can lead to higher shelf prices.

The price in the spotlight contains hard vegetables, broccoli, cauliflower, calf lettuce, cucumber, brussels sprouts or pumpkin for six years. If the ACCC’s legal action succeeds, it will be a disturbing fact for the preliminary message of politicians who stop the pre-selection message.

The final report of the ACC’s own investigation in March could not find any evidence that the Australian supermarkets had a price game. However, he was worried that the Australian market was intensified (no surprise) and more importantly, many suppliers were exploited by the supermarket giants.

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To be sure, thousands of small farmers who supply fruits and vegetables to the retail market do this legally and in an asymmetric negotiation position with large supermarkets. However, without dealing with the nuances of other problems in the supply chain, it has been an appropriate narrative to place the crime for the cost of food and food only to the tours of supermarkets.

Excellence Fresh Australia, the country’s second largest fresh vegetable supplier; Hydro produces Australia, a fresh production wholesaler and more breeder in NSW; Victoria -based wholesaler velia fresh product and Velisha national farms; and Victoria -based M. Fragapane & Sons, which was traded under the name of Fragapane Farms, were named in the ACCC’s court action.

Among them, most suppliers operate in the Australian province, and if the ACCC’s allegations continue in the federal court, they are potentially fined millions of dollars.