{"id":927959,"date":"2026-10-14T15:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/927959\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:14:09","slug":"accc-has-huge-pipeline-of-cartel-cases-pursues-supermarket-gouging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/927959\/","title":{"rendered":"ACCC has \u2018huge pipeline\u2019 of cartel cases, pursues supermarket gouging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The competition regulator is sitting on a \u201chuge pipeline\u201d of cartel conduct cases and is preparing to launch its first investigations into possible price-gouging by Coles and Woolworths, says chairwoman Gina Cass-Gottlieb.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission launched court actions against Australia\u2019s biggest egg supplier, Sunny Queen, and 11 other producers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/retail\/accc-sues-egg-producers-over-alleged-price-fixing-cartel-20261013-p6154l\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">alleging they coordinated in the production and supply of eggs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The competition regulator is sitting on a \u201chuge pipeline\u201d of cartel conduct cases and is preparing to launch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-927959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}