[meric]

Seriously, drive 100km to the next town to buy fruit when you have a reasonably priced fruit shop next door? :)

I'm from Australia, similar i suppose. Monopolies are generally bad, but as I said before, monopolies that result because a firm is super efficient and keeps prices low, and remains that way because it is afraid of potential competitors, well that monopoly is hard-earned. Although these so called monopolies are generally small. (being the only firm in a niche market).