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Suppliers of food and other products have been complaining for years about their treatment at the hands of Woolworths, Coles and Australia’s other big supermarket chains, although rarely to the supermarkets themselves – perhaps, as suggested in a recent Four Corners program, because they feared retribution.

The maximum penalty may amount to 10% of a year’s financial turnover, which for Coles and Woolworths could be billions in fines.

Government to adopt recommendations of conduct review in full amid consumer and supplier complaints about soaring profits

Supermarkets guilty of anti-competitive behaviour towards suppliers will face large penalties under a mandatory Food and Grocery Code of Conduct the Albanese government will implement.