Coles Supermarkets

Two thirds of those people who admitted that they caused a prang said that a distraction of some sort played a role.

Were most of these people in the Coles car park in Marnika?

More than

likely.

Yeah.

But more like I work at Coles and so I see it all.

So when they don't go to self-serve, they come to me.

Yeah.

happy.

Adrian Portelli, though, for example, he worked packing shelves at Coles and stuff.

He was not born into money.

How did he make all these billions? That LMCT Plus.

That means in order to get more money.

Now, as shareholders, we have shares in Woolworths and Coles and all sorts of companies, but They don't really care about productivity growth.

All they want is more people at the turnstiles.

So business loves more population.

I had this really good email from Rhiannon, and I have to say, despite this maybe being something that people go, oh, we see from time to time or it's not new, this really makes me angry.

And it's about packaged fruit at our major supermarkets, Coles and Woolworths.

The email from Rhiannon reads as follows.

James, you were talking last week about Australia looking to import bananas from the Philippines.

Did you know that a lot of Woolworths and Coles-branded packaged fruits... are not actually local produce.

Many of them are listed as made or products of overseas nations, including China.

They're either made in China or they're a product of China.

We have the greatest farming industry in the world, and the big guys are flogging Chinese fruit for $2 a can.

in some places because of foodstuffs.

And I think it was Big Fresh that they were impacting, which would have been Coles Progressives.

And so that's when the Commerce Commission did step in.

And that's when they did start getting some heat.

And so they, you know, you wouldn't have, so that's what keeps us through Camero.

But actually separate.

Better not be getting your re-ups from the Coles guys.

It would be cheaper for a new entry supermarket to get the Bolivian Yaya variety than the 2.25 litre one bottle.

So I get that from my dad.

But my grounding with Coles, so I started on their management program when I was 19 and I stayed with Coles for nine years and learnt so much.

I remember being told that It doesn't matter what you sell, whether it's apples or clothes or anything, the fundamentals of business is the same.

So I've always taken that with me.

And when I was doing all the training for that, I met my business partner and we actually met through the accounting side of the course.

And we both kind of loved it and went, you know, this is kind of more me.

Because I did love that part of it when I was with Coles.

And then I started on that journey, the small business journey, the accounting journey.

It's one of those cheeky little things.

You go to Coles or Woolies or something, and it's not amongst the main

popcorn.

Yeah.