Warehouse worker unions are opposing a push by Woolworths for sector-wide changes that would ensure staff at new online fulfilment centres are paid like supermarket workers. Woolworths has applied to vary the retail award so that it covers staff at its e-stores and online fulfilment centres and has declared it has the backing of Coles […]
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has written to pet goods suppliers and other industry players, to investigate how Woolworths’ planned move in the sector could impact competition. The ACCC sent letters to industry players this week, asking them about competition for pet products and services and how speciality pet chains like Petspiration’s PETstock may
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Farmers are being offered record prices for their milk but Coles is taking a longer-term view to shore up supply and help steady the cost at the checkout. Coles has offered dairy farmers steep price increases under longer-term contracts in an effort to shore up the supply of its private label milk and keep sticker
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The Woolies’ CEO has told news.com.au the days of rocketing supermarket prices may be over – but there’s a caveat with his bold prediction. The boss of Australia’s largest supermarket chain has some good news for cash stressed shoppers – rocketing food inflation may finally come down to earth. But there’s a catch: Woolworths chief
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Woolworths has reportedly decided to axe a major feature of its supermarkets, meaning around 500 workers could soon be out of the job. Close to 500 Woolworths employees could soon be left jobless after the supermarket chain reportedly decided to shut down one of its major features. Woolworths has decided to close 250 of its
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Coles debuts Next Gen store in Victoria – with dozens of customers asking when a version will be in their local neighbourhood. A next generation Coles has led to supermarket shoppers demanding similar stores come to their area. Coles Southland, based in Cheltenham, Victoria is a next generation store that opened in November 2022. However,
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Two teen girls have been charged and will appear in children’s court on Wednesday. A supermarket manager was allegedly pepper sprayed in the face while trying to stop teen shoplifters raiding their store. Two girls, aged 13 and 14 respectively, have been charged with aggravated armed robbery over the alleged incident at Ashfield IGA on
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Supermarket giant Coles’ two-item buying limit on frozen potato products is yet to have an end date as Australia’s spud shortage takes a toll on the nation’s pubs and food retailers. Coles had introduced a temporary limit on frozen chips before Christmas, with a spokesperson saying last week this would continue as poor weather across
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A distressed mum has revealed how a foul scammer posed as her daughter, pretending she was stuck at Woolworths with no money. A distressed Australian mum has warned others after being sent a convincing text message from a scammer posing as her child. The fraudster pretended to be the woman’s child stuck at Woolworths with
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Read the brutal note IGA boss wrote to customers after his bitter feud with milk supplier left the shop without any Dare Iced Coffee – as he reveals the reason why their relationship soured Mysterious note was plastered to a fridge at Norris Park IGA in Albury, NSW It claimed the absence of Dare Iced
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Coles has extended a popular policy aimed at helping customers reduce pain at the checkout as inflation soars. Coles is extending its price freeze program, in a win for Aussie shoppers staring down the barrel of soaring inflation and interest rate hikes. The supermarket, along with its main rival Woolworths both implemented price freezes on
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Workers have used powers in the federal government’s new industrial relations laws to bring supermarket giant Coles to the bargaining table almost three years after their last pay deal lapsed. Retail unions wrote to Coles in December requesting wage negotiations following the passage last month of the Secure Jobs, Better Pay laws, which unilaterally empower workers
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Despite advances in technology and infrastructure, transport supply chains have begun to face new challenges in getting groceries to consumers. KEY POINTS: Flooding in Western Australia is expected to keep roads closed in parts of the Kimberley for almost another week. A road transport industry head says interruptions to freight operations due to extreme weather
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