Harris Farm Markets

• Risk across the industry, not a finding about this company: fresh and own-brand food relies on Australian farms and meatworks where labour hire firms have underpaid migrant workers, and on imported ingredients such as tomato paste, palm oil and seafood linked to forced labour.
• Modern slavery statement
• Being made in Australia doesn't count towards a living wage or audit here: Australian farm and meat work, where a NSW parliamentary inquiry, the Fair Work Ombudsman and the supermarkets' own audits have found labour hire firms underpaying migrant workers. It would need to publish its suppliers or have them independently audited. Source
• Uses tomato paste and canned tomatoes in only a few products and doesn't show where they come from. That doesn't count against it for Good, but the "Open supply chain" star needs all of them traced, certified or upcycled.
• Relies on fresh and own-brand food from farms and meatworks where labour hire firms have underpaid migrant workers, paid them in cash and charged them for crowded housing, often out of sight of supermarket audits. It hasn't shown any checks on the farms, meatworks and labour hire firms behind its fresh and own-brand food, so it's graded Lacks transparency until it does.

Research notes Harris Farm says 87% of its products come from within Australia, including about 97% of its fruit and vegetables and all its fresh meat, from more than 1,000 suppliers, but it names no suppliers and no countries for the 13% imported. It surveyed suppliers covering 70% of spend on modern slavery and plans to have all vendors agree to a new Responsible Sourcing Policy in FY26, but it reports no independent audits of the farms or labour hire firms behind its produce, though it rates seasonal and migrant farm labour as high risk. Its 3,251 staff are paid above award rates, it says, while 34 contractors provide cleaning, trolley collection and security and Uber delivers online orders.