When supermarket giants control the food supply chain, shopping around won't save you. This episode, we go beyond standard supermarket bashing to look at the real culprit: a government that refuses to utilise countervailing power, and wants you to believe that more supermarket competition is the answer. Tune in to discover the public option future that could actually fix your grocery bill.

Shownotes

Supermarkets (articles)

Mayor Mamdani Announces La Marqueta as First Site Identified for City’s Public Grocery Stores, April 14, 2026 (press release)

In the Loop: Revolutionizing Public Finance, hosted by Scott Ferguson, Tyler Suksawat, and Will Beaman (podcast by Money On The Left)

Public Money. Public Good. PMPG (events)

Supermarkets Inquiry | Final Report, by the ACCC, 2025
 

Where your spend at Coles and Woolworths is really going, Mar 20, 2024 (article)
John Kehoe, Economics editor 
The Australian Financial Review

Local Food Connections (3CR): Katy Swain and Jessie Winter on the power of supermarkets over producers and suppliers of food (episode)

And in case you are wondering about nationalised pubs...
They nationalised a pub by Chris Spargo (video)

And just for laughs...
Discounts all round
@ChrisKohlerNews
 

Theme Music

Pleading Ignorance, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck.

Additional Audio

Too Many Things, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck.

In Full: ACCC speaks after Coles found to have misled customers 
ABC News (Australia), May 14, 2026

Going Down (Live In Concert) by G3