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Robert Carling

Maths show supermarkets not to blame for cost-of-living crisis

The ferocity of the political campaign against Coles and Woolworths tells us more about politics than about alleged “price gouging” by the big two.

Supermarkets have clearly become the poster children for alleged “price gouging” behaviour in the cost-of-living saga.

Not all supermarkets, but specifically Woolworths and Coles, while their smaller competitors happily fly under the radar.

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Robert Carling is a Senior fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies, and a former IMF and federal and state Treasury economist.

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