date:Apr 10, 2013
ivision. Coles and Metcash both saw a retail margin of 3.6 per cent in their food and liquor divisions in 2010-11.
World food retail market
According to the report, the world retail market for food is increasingly dominated by large supermarket chains.
Based on financial information gathered from the annual reports of the worlds major supermarket chains, DAFF found that the major Australian-owned supermarket chains Woolworths, Coles and Metcash are about medium-sized in terms of retail sale