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Which Aussie Supermarket Is The Cheapest? We Did A $20 Supermarket Challenge To Find Out

We want to know which Australian supermarket is the cheapest. So we took $20 to the shops and we couldn't believe the difference.

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Woolies Is Facing Heat On TikTok After Customers Noticed These Tiny Cameras On Its Shelves

The cameras have been installed to "improve product availability".

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Grocery reforms do nothing for cost of living, says early adopter Huckleberry

Organic grocer Huckleberry was first to sign up to a government-backed wholesale deal with the big supermarkets – but now says its expansion plans are cramped by economic and political uncertainty. Jonathan Milne reports.

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Redditors Are Touting How Much $ They’ve Diverted From Coles/Woolies & Where They Shop Instead

Folks on the internet are laying bare the number of dollars they're re-routing from kingpin supermarket chains Coles and Woolworths.

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Wilko: what insolvency really means for the budget retailer and why its competitors are surviving (for now)

All 400 of Wilko’s shops are now expected to close over the next month, leaving 12,500 people without jobs across the UK. The budget retailer’s administrator PwC announced the news after it struggled to secure a rescue deal for Wilko to continue operating.

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Coles Is Rolling Out Body Cams To Catch Shoplifters Instead Of Just, IDK, Lowering Prices?

Ah yes, a completely reasonable and not at all dystopian move from our favourite wage thieves.

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A rise in shoplifting has Australian supermarkets ramping up surveillance

The response to surging retail theft range from covert security to self-checkout cameras and biometric trackers, raising questions about privacy and ethics

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Bikie caught in undercover sting admits to ice deals worth $112,000

Messages sent on encryption service Signal reveal Dean Hyland facilitated deals on four separate occasions.

Newcastle Herald

Meet Hilco, the firm behind the scenes at Wilko failure and other high street collapses

Restructuring specialist made its name through dealings with some of best-known British retailers

The Guardian - UK

Instead of pursuing shoplifters, the big supermarkets should use their record profits to prevent food waste

It’s reprehensible during a cost-of-living crisis to dump binloads of groceries and enforce strict cosmetic standards on produce

The Guardian - AU

The Guide #102: What was your first single? Here’s what you told us

Last week we asked for the first record you bought – from Sarah Brightman to Elvis and Bart Simpson, it was a mix of the historic and the horrendous …

The Guardian - UK

Capturing the spirit of a Dickson treasure

Bradley's portrait will be displayed in the Dickson Library in September and October.

The Canberra Times

Morning Mail: warning over naturopaths, government dumps business revamp after $2bn blowout, fears for Hengjun

Health bodies say people are choosing naturopathy as a cheaper option over evidence-based care

The Guardian - AU

Woolworths’ free naturopath consultations raise concerns among peak health bodies

Exclusive: experts fear the cost-of-living crisis is forcing people to forgo evidence-based healthcare

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Newcastle Herald

Shovels in the ground for Chisholm Plaza by Christmas

'The people of Chisholm have been crying out for this.'

Newcastle Herald

Woolworths cuts bonuses for managers after two deaths

Contract cleaner Malerato Harrison died at the Jesmond store last year.

The Guardian - AU

Cost-of-living crisis: Albanese government launches taskforce to review competition in bid to ease pressures

Panel’s appointment comes as Woolworths reports rise in net annual earnings to $1.6bn, a day after Coles posts $1.1bn profit

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: what lies in the post-Wilko era?

Cold Girl Summer of 2023 is coming to an end and we are left with nowhere to fart around, as Kurt Vonnegut would say

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The Guardian - UK

‘I’m broken-hearted’: customers mourn the end of Wilko

As the chain enters administration, its customers praise its convenience, prices and range of products – despite recent supply issues

The Conversation

Wilko is the latest shop to be edged out by competition but it doesn't have to mean the end for the budget retailer

By selling pick ‘n’ mix, stationery, garden tools and bird boxes, Wilko has spent the last 90 years transforming from a one-store business into one of the UK’s major budget retail players. It now has around 400 stores, but it has also become the latest high street shop to face…

The Guardian - UK

What went wrong at Wilko?

Analysts partly blame too many large stores selling low-profit goods on dearer high street locations

Evening Standard

Wilko’s demise proves it’s tough at the bottom

City Comment: No brand, however charming and loved, is guaranteed eternal life

The Guardian - AU

Dodging the duopoly: can three shoppers avoid Coles and Woolworths for a week?

A regional family, an urban family and a single man in the suburbs spend a week abstaining from Australia’s big two supermarkets, with widely divergent results

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: supermarkets’ ‘cosy’ duopoly, Kevin Spacey cleared, Sinéad O’Connor dies

Exclusive shows Coles and Woolworths have fattened profits compared with UK peers, music world mourns Irish singer, and Kevin Spacey cleared

The Guardian - AU

Revealed: major Australian supermarkets almost never the cheapest place for your fresh produce

Exclusive: Guardian survey shows fruit and vegetables at independent and Asian grocers are routinely cheaper than Woolworths and Coles

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