I can't eat a web site, Mr. Rudd

Last night on the evening news I heard that the Rudd Government was to set up a web site as its answer to rising grocery prices.
"Grocery Choice" it's going to call it and this site will give us all a snapshot of the monthly cost of an average basket of groceries across 61 regions.
Fat lot of good that will do us on the Northern Rivers.
Where I live there is only one, that's right one, retail grocery store and it can charge what it likes and serve up whatever dubious quality of goods it likes.
The idea of encouraging competition and instituting unit pricing is a real laugh - since the beginning of the year this Coles store has offered at premium prices rotten potatoes, peanuts in the shell infested with insects, packaged tomatoes with splitting skins and mould, spoiled apples and cheese well beyond its shelf life.
"Grocery Choice"? Silly, silly, silly.
I can't see how Labor's Chris Bowen kept a straight face when he fronted the cameras over this one.

North Coast Pensioner