Australia’s largest supermarket chains, Coles, Woolworths, and Aldi, have announced a vaccine mandate for all employees, encompassing around 300,000 individuals. The three grocery chains made the announcement on the same day, Oct. 21, amid a flurry of vaccine mandates issued from Australian state governments in recent days. Brad Banducci, CEO of the Woolworths Group, who has been resistant to implementing mandates for customers, said management decided on the move for staff to provide the “safest possible work environment.” “We have 170,000 team members across our stores, distribution centres and support offices, and more than 1,200 retail stores,” he said in a press release. “With each store welcoming an average 20,000 customers a week, a single team member can come into contact with quite literally thousands of people in the course of a normal working week.” “After careful review of the best medical advice, we’ve made the decision to require all …