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A plan for a new Woolworths in the heart of a Blue Mountains town has divided the community.

Woolworths has waited five years to build this supermarket. Its plans have divided a community

Locals in a Blue Mountains town have taken sides on a proposed new supermarket – now they are waiting for the verdict.

  • Ellie Busby

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Aldi’s most highly coveted items won’t be found on DoorDash.

In stores only: The high-demand Aldi items you can’t buy on DoorDash

Australians can finally order Aldi groceries online – but most will still have to wait a few months, and not every item is on the app.

  • Jessica Yun
Will the trolleys be the future of shopping?

I was all for smart trolleys at the supermarket – until they made me feel dumb

The trolley’s digital dashboard is urging me to spend another $20 to unlock a deal. Are these smart trolleys really going to save us money?

  • Claire Heaney
Big business wants provisions for workers to get time off instead of overtime pay.

We like to hate big businesses but they get one thing right

A 4.30am text from an airline is no fun way to be woken up. But it got me thinking.

  • Millie Muroi
Sign of the times: The Leo’s sign in Princess Street, Kew.

Beloved gourmet supermarkets in Kew and Heidelberg to close

“It’s just very sad,” said one shopper in response to the news.

  • Carolyn Webb and Simon Johanson

Aldi drops its own price bomb in supermarkets’ targeted price attacks

Supermarkets want to help customers ease cost of living stress, but selective price cuts have more to do with luring large-trolley shoppers.

  • Elizabeth Knight
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This break-up was a decade in the making, writes James Massola.

Sussan Ley was compared with the Liz Truss lettuce, but it’s David Littleproud who’s reduced to clear

Whether the federal opposition is a restumped Coalition, a reimagined Liberal Party or some new configuration, it won’t have much time to get its house in order.

  • The Age's View
The basic costs of eating and learning for Victorians are now rising faster than those for cigarettes and alcohol, which have jumped by 19 per cent.

Cost of food, education and power is spiralling in Victoria. This graph proves it

The daily cost of eating is now rising faster than the cost of cigarettes and alcohol.

  • Grant McArthur
The old Purdy’s Furniture building in Briar Hill, north-east Melbourne, where Exclusive Brethren plan to build a supermarket, Campus&Co, for their own flock.

Exclusive Brethren plans new members-only supermarket in Melbourne’s north-east

An application to Banyule City Council reveals the controversial church’s plan to turn an old furniture showroom into a private grocer.

  • Lachlan Abbott
Jackie and Brendan Schroeder, owners of the Sims IGA in West Footscray.

A beloved grocery has sold fruit and veg for nearly 100 years. Now Woolies has come knocking

An “absolute institution” could prove no match for the supermarket giant planning to set up shop next door.

  • Sophie Aubrey

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