Coles faced forfeiting low fees to Woolworths under Mastercard’s ‘nuclear option’


Mastercard considered threatening Coles with losing its discounted interchange fees to rival Woolworths if the supermarket chain re-routed customer debit and credit transactions away from the payments giant, a trial judge has heard in the ACCC’s misuse of market power case.
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