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Tess Ikonomou and Andrew Brown

PM warns of 'heavy fines' for supermarket price gouging

Anthony Albanese has hoisted supermarket price gouging onto the election campaign agenda. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Price gouging at the checkout could be made illegal by the end of the year as Anthony Albanese says major supermarkets are "taking the piss".

Labor has promised to make excessive supermarket pricing illegal, to fix what it has labelled a gap in the nation's competition and consumer protection framework.

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