Grocery giants conveniently slash prices, but will a Senate Inquiry go far enough?

At Coles in Cessnock last week, entire sections were showing slashed prices.

There's nothing quite like the threat of an impending Senate inquiry to roll out the yellow sale tickets at Coles, is there?

A few shoppers online have been pointing out the convenient timing of swathes of grocery shelves showing slashed prices in recent weeks as the supermarket giants make a show of defending last year's billion-dollar profits raked in at the height of a cost-of-living crisis.