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A couple of week ago our competition regulator – the ACCC – expressed some serious competition concerns with Woolworths’ proposed takeover of Danks - the wholesaler to over 1500 independent hardware retailers.
Although the ACCC views are “preliminary,” the competition concerns it expressed should be sufficient to stop the Woolworths takeover of Danks under Australia’s anti-merger laws.
Clearly, the ACCC needs to stop watching and move quickly to protect competition in hardware sector. Indeed, the ACCC can, and should stop, the Woolworths takeover of Danks.
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Of all the silly moments in his career, Sylvester Stallone’s turn in Demolition Man as a good-cop-turned-bad who is incarcerated, cryogenically frozen and then thawed out to fight his nemesis, serial killer Wesley Snipes, must rank as the high point of Sly’s cinematic stupidity.
There is however one accidentally prescient moment in the movie - in the futuristic dystopia of Los Angeles, a war within capitalism has left Taco Bell as the last corporation standing.
Substitute the word Woolworths for Taco Bell and you could film Demolition Man II in Australia. On current projections, by 2015 Woolies will have bought the NRL and AFL, the excellent Lebanese food chain Brothers Kebabs and the popular rock bands Powderfinger and The Veronicas.
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Venise Alstergren says:
Speak for yourself David. To me any kind of supermarket is a living hell. The only ones I find at all tolerable are in South America. You can get made up sandwiches and a good display of wines and you don’t get rude women barging into you with their baby… Read more »
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Jake the Muss says:
Wow David, some excellent posts of late. My only problem is that you pick on Demolition Man. That movie is probably one of Sly’s greatest films, and with libertarian leanings. That dystopian future doesn’t seem so far away now, what with smoking bans, attacks on junk food, etc. ‘salt is… Read more »
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