The bean-to-bar chocolate movement, typified by Melbourne chocolatiers like Monsieur Truffe, Cocoa Rhapsody, Ratio and Atypic, champions great chocolate made from scratch and underpinned by a connection with growers who are paid fair prices for cacao.

It goes to reason that if the principal purpose of our two dominant grocery retailers is protecting their market share then should we ever be surprised when workers, suppliers and customers are thrown under the bus?