The “big stick” legislation would allow the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to seek court orders that would force companies like Coles and Woolworths – who currently control 74 per cent share of the national grocery market – to sell supermarkets on a geographic basis, chains such as Big W or Dan Murphy’s or home brand product lines, to competitors.
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