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Canada’s grocery business is controlled by large players and needs government assistance to encourage new entrants to bring down prices, a report from Canada’s Competition Bureau says.
Canada’s grocery business is controlled by large players and needs government assistance to encourage new entrants to bring down prices, a report from Canada’s Competition Bureau says.
US telecoms went through something similar with the breakup of the Bell company. Many of the resulting “Baby Bells” reassembled themselves like the T-1000 into a handful of colossal telecom companies, and most of those companies don’t compete in each other’s territories, forming regional monopolies. All kinds of illegal, of course, but the government has yet to take any further action.