Inquiry into supermarkets says make voluntary code of conduct mandatory but don’t bring in divestiture power
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The food and grocery code of conduct should be made mandatory to help rectify the heavy imbalance between suppliers and supermarkets, an inquiry by former Labor minister Craig Emerson has recommended.
Emerson says in his interim report, released Monday, that the mandatory code should apply to all supermarkets with annual revenues of more than...
