Watchdog asleep on supermarket abuses, says SPAR GLOBAL grocery supplier SPAR has complained the competition watchdog is slow to act, "if act at all," over market abuses involving small business in the supermarket sector. The comments are set to reignite a debate that Australian Competition & Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims sought to settle last week when he defended his organisation and said he was uncomfortable with the market power of supermarket duopoly Coles and Woolworths.