Supermarkets and Grocery Retailers

Unions say the supermarket giant was warned of the consequences of a battle with its warehouse workers and that "now is the time" to improve their conditions.

In its final sitting week, the federal government introduced a bill to strengthen the grocery code of conduct for supermarkets and their suppliers.

Woolworths and Coles are emphasising the threat of Aldi — is it really a competitive force to be reckoned with? A supermarket inquiry will determine just that, among other competition concerns.

The two biggest supermarkets in Australia, Woolworths and Coles, have spent the week facing the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

Hundreds of Woolworths staff have walked off the job indefinitely at distribution centres in Victoria and New South Wales, demanding better pay and working conditions. 

The supermarket giant told Australia's competition watchdog its competition went far beyond Coles, Aldi, and Costco, and that it was spending millions on its online offerings to prepare with Amazon as an emerging competitor.

An audit shows supermarket customers are charged less for plastic-wrapped produce more than 70 per cent of the time, and conservationists say it's hurting the environment.

"Colesworth", a portmanteau referring to the perceived duopoly of supermarket retailers Coles and Woolworths, is the Australian National Dictionary Centre's Word of the Year for 2024.

Woolworths's bosses will face the ACCC's inquiry into supermarket pricing today, as the consumer watchdog continues to prosecute its case that the corporate giant and its competitor Coles have been dudding their customers on discounts.

What used to be a cheaper protein is getting dearer, but the pork industry says the price rise on bacon is on imported product and is actually helping Australian farmers compete.

The way big stores deal with farmers and how they make money from fresh food specials have been a focus in the first two weeks of the ACCC's supermarket inquiry.

A South Australian council is upset because it says Woolworths and Coles are making grocery deliveries to a town where larger stores are not allowed to open on Sundays.

Woolworths says it wants to roll out its smart shopping trolleys to more stores to help people budget their shops better. Smart carts overseas have helped increase the average customer spend by 6 per cent.

A special shipment is set to arrive in the islands this month, after the collapse of the Cocos Co-Op — owner of the West Island supermarket  — left residents with dwindling supplies.

Federal Member for Solomon Luke Gosling says a meeting this month with Aldi will reveal why it has been reluctant to open stores in the territory.

A CHOICE investigation across four remote First Nations communities has found grocery items cost more than double capital city prices, with calls for the federal government to introduce price monitoring tools and price caps on essentials. 

The ABC analysed the online prices of nearly 44,000 products at Coles and Woolworths, revealing a sales technique used on thousands of items.

A rent hike at Melbourne's biggest wholesale market could leave farmers who do not want to deal with Australia's big two supermarkets with nowhere to sell their produce.

Complex state planning laws and allegations that Woolworths and Coles are hoarding blocks of land to keep competitors out are facing further scrutiny from the ACCC as it investigates the country's concentrated supermarket sector.

Paniora Nukunuku was confused when he walked into his local Woolworths and saw a new red label with the words "low prices" on his regular can of corned beef — the price hadn't gone down, it had increased.