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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Jonathan Barrett

Drip pricing, excuse-flation and rockets and feathers: the strategies supermarkets and other businesses use to make you pay more

Groceries at the checkout at a supermarket in Melbourne, Australia
An inquiry into price-gouging found some pricing practices used by Australian businesses would not work in more competitive markets. Photograph: Ellen Smith/The Guardian

A relentless period of price increases has left many Australians irritable, especially when they see the impressive profits recorded by some of the same companies that charge inflated prices.

The ACTU inquiry into price-gouging referenced several pricing practices major businesses use to extract extra dollars from consumers, using methods that would not work in more competitive markets.

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