Dean Waddell
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45 appearances
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 5d ago
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We've been regulated for five years.
We're one of the most regulated industries in the world.
So anything that applies more, I don't think there's anything more.
people need to understand or will need to understand about our business.
Yeah, so obviously the divestment is making us into a smaller co-op, separating our member stores into smaller businesses creates a lot more inefficient business which drives higher costs of doing business which ultimately gets passed on to the consumer
Yeah, the million dollars a day and all the reporting, Mike, is based on assumptions and theory.
So it's like any analysis they're using, they have to guess the future and guess what it might look like.
So yeah, look, there's a lot of debate around the report and even the million dollars a day was based on an assumption that a group of people thought was
our profitability should be, and that is debatable as well.
Look, the market's competitive.
We compete.
I think one of the mostly misunderstood things about our sector is we own our stores individually.
In my town, we have three pack and saves, six Woolworths, five New Worlds, multiple Asian retailers.
So we get out of bed every day to compete hard on price.
So we're not gouging.
We can't gouge price anywhere because if there's any excess margin, someone will be offering it back to customers and cutting our lunch.
So
We compete hard every day.
Well, the world has faced huge input costs around food.
Every country is dealing with the cost of living crisis.
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