00:01For the last 30 years, Coffs Coast farmer Amrit Singh has sold his bananas to Coles through
00:07a wholesaler, an agreement worth hundreds of thousands of dollars each year.
00:13That was until the supermarket announced it would stop buying them, a decision the small
00:18scale farmer is unable to fight.
00:21When we've got middle man or wholesalers involved, yeah, there's really no power for us.
00:28Coles' main rival Woolworths will also stop selling Tasmanian beef from early next year.
00:35Suppliers were told the move is due to rising shipping and production costs.
00:39Over the last 10 to 15 years, what we've seen is that reduction of in-store processing back
00:46to centralised processing where we see less trade butchers in stores.
00:52He says supermarkets are also releasing more own brand product.
00:56Coles brought 1,600 new own brand products last financial year and Woolworths introduced
01:02more than 400, as well as reformulating another 680.
01:06There is a risk that probably smaller bespoke brands that might be important in a particular
01:13town or particular area might disappear.
01:16Richard Beauville used to work for Woolworths as a distribution manager.
01:20He says there are upsides to centralisation.
01:24Tasmania has been the beneficiary of a lot of the aggregation that they've made, particularly
01:30with fruit and vegetables.
01:32Six months or more of all their berries come out of Tasmania.
01:36In a statement, Coles says it's invested significantly in consolidating parts of its distribution network,
01:42while Woolworths says it's expanding its supply chain.
01:45Thank you for raising it, it will be available to us.
01:45So stay tuned to 45-year-olds, not only ask whether it is long past kids in Australia
01:48and certainly going in theirportingphabet or sources, we will shout them to see in Australia
01:48So fly away from the Royal Arts that are too silly.
01:48You
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