hours available to smaller stores in South Australia. These stores still stock a wide variety of consumer goods with a focus on organic, vegetarian and vegan food.

Fruit sheds 
Drake's fruit shed opened first in Queensland at Caboolture and Parkinson. South Australia's first fruit shed was set up in the Drake's  Foodland at Seaford in Adelaide's south in October 2018. These supermarkets sell fresh produce of lesser quality at reduced prices.

New concept store 
In 2018, Drakes opened a new concept store at Wayville in South Australia. The store has a completely new layout including popcorn machine, orange juice machine, kombucha taps and hot food available from the service deli.

Other operations 
Drakes Supermarkets operates its own meat centres, at Parkinson in Queensland and Beverley in South Australia. It suppliesSenate committee hears industry plea to go slow

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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — A group of Republican lawmakers on Tuesday introduced a package of bills to overhaul the troubled government-seized housing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, including a measure to force the administration to more quickly raise the fee the two firms charge for guaranteeing mortgage securities they sell to investors.

In addition, the group of lawmakers, all members of the House Financial Services Committee, introduced a bill that would limit the pay packages of executives and employees at the two firms, one that would eliminate their affordable housing goals and a provision to expedite an existing White House plan to reduce the size of their trillion-dollar-plus portfolio of mortgages.

The two companies became saddled with toxic