ACCC counsel assisting Naomi Sharp,SC,had plenty of questions in the supermarket inquiry hearings,but supermarket executives skirted around the answers at times.
Supermarkets are charging shoppers more for loose produce than the same items covered in plastic.
Aldi is Australia’s cheapest supermarket,and while it would like to put all its prices online,old website infrastructure is holding it back.
As travellers increasingly look for good deals and value holidays,the launch comes at a perfect time – but it pays to compare with other travel platforms.
Shaping everything from meal choices to eco-conscious shopping trends,Aldi has evolved from shopper dockets and rewards to become a cultural institution at a time when our two majors are sinking.
Great planning means looking at infrastructure needs well into the future and that’s what the supermarkets are doing by buying up future sites,something governments are not good at doing – future hospitals,schools,and transport corridors left out of the equation.
No matter what you do to encourage Australian shoppers to fill their trolleys with cheap groceries,we keep going back to the same supermarket duopoly.
Woolworths,Coles,Aldi and Metcash chief executives will be summoned to front ACCC inquiry hearings due to begin in November.
I cannot feel sorry for Chirayu Shah and his poor,hard-done-by sons. He and others like him who are rich enough to put their spare cash into investment properties have been enjoying massive tax concessions for years.
Consumers don’t like to be exploited,treated like fools,taken for a ride or hit when they’re down.
Woolworths wants to sell beef that hasn’t been produced on farms that take part in “deforestation” – but no one can agree on the definition.