Cost-of-living crisis

Metcash Sees Profit Boost and Shift to Independent Stores Pre-Christmas

In the period leading up to Christmas, food and grocery prices have shown signs of stabilisation, with customers increasingly filling their carts with items from independent stores like IGA and Foodland. This trend was highlighted by Doug Jones, CEO of Metcash, a company overseeing supermarket, food, liquor, and hardware supply. Jones noted that Metcash’s independent […]

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CHOICE Awards Coles and Woolworths with Shonky Honors

Consumer advocacy group CHOICE has publicly criticised Coles and Woolworths, two major supermarket chains, for taking advantage of the current cost-of-living crisis. This rebuke was made as part of CHOICE’s 18th annual Shonky Awards, which aim to highlight the most subpar products and services identified by the organisation over the past year. The recipients of

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Activists Use Mock Tags to Highlight Cost-of-Living Crisis

A mischief-maker has been altering promotional labels in two leading supermarkets to express discontent over the rising living costs. This action follows the announcement of Coles and Woolworths generating a staggering $1.1bn and $1.6bn in profits, respectively last financial year. These altered tags, which look like discount price labels, have been appearing in both supermarket

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Supermarket Home brand products flourish amid cost-of-living crisis

The landscape of supermarket-owned brands in Australia has undergone a significant transformation in recent years. Once known for basic, budget products, these brands have now adopted a more premium, sophisticated look that often goes unnoticed as being owned by the supermarket. This transformation has occurred as a result of steady investment by major grocery giants,

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