[The report] examine[s] the individual supply chain links to trace the causes of labour exploitation and caporalato, or illegal gangmastering and at the same time study the environmental and social sustainability of a symbolic sector for the national economic system... Our survey has revealed an often dynamic but extremely fragmented situation, in which there is no overall supply-chain policy but instead individual actors who follow personal strategies [...] and in which a plethora of intermediaries with conflicting interests obstructs the correct functioning of the market... The report exposes the consolidated practice of on-line auctions, a method through which the LOD forces price squeezes on the industry, and consequently on the farmers, rendering the entire supply chain unsustainable... We asked for explanations from the main LOD groups (Conad, Esselunga, Sma, Carrefour, Crai, Gruppo Pam Panorama, Interdis, Lidl Italia, Coop Italia, Sisa, Auchan), but only Carrefour Italia and Coop Italia responded.