Woolworths
- Opinion
- Supermarkets
Waiting for the other shoe to drop: Woolies and Coles will lose even if profits rise
Any hint that supermarket prices have gone up faster than the prices they paid to their suppliers will be seized upon as a treacherous betrayal of customers.
- Elizabeth Knight
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Woolworths to slash jobs, product ranges in $400m cost-saving drive
The nation’s biggest supermarket chain has suffered a $190 million earnings slump in the latest half after a two-week strike stripped shelves late last year.
- Jessica Yun
- Opinion
- Supermarkets
Why 2500 products will be disappearing from Coles’ shelves
The Himalayan Rock variety may survive the great Coles salt cull of 2025. But there are 13 salt categories on offer and the lion’s share will be removed, as will, for example, some shampoos.
- Elizabeth Knight
- Opinion
- Australia Day
How Trump’s win has fired up Dutton’s culture war, starting with Australia Day
Donald Trump’s re-election has been called a “vibe shift”. Peter Dutton prefers to think of it as a “near revolution”.
- Jacqueline Maley
Woolworths reverses decision on celebrating Australia Day
Woolworths said it had listened to community feedback and “recognised” its customers and employees wanted the supermarket chain to celebrate January 26.
- Sumeyya Ilanbey
Who’s being naughty, not nice? Supermarkets tread carefully this Christmas
The 2024 Christmas advertisements are out, and Australia’s supermarkets are trying to win over hearts and wallets after a torrid year.
- Hannah Hammoud
What it’s like to deliver for Amazon two weeks before Christmas
Brooke is part of a growing army of people who deliver packages for the American giant, which is now estimated to be Australia’s second-biggest online retailer.
- Madeleine Heffernan
- Updated
- Industrial relations
Woolworths strikes deal with union to end warehouse industrial dispute
The United Workers Union declared victory and said they had secured a clause stopping workers being disciplined for failing to meet monitored pick rates.
- Lachlan Abbott and Adam Carey
Picket line blocks bus from Woolworths’ warehouse despite Fair Work ruling
A coach with a group of people in hi-vis vests turned away from the supermarket’s Dandenong South distribution centre on Saturday morning after being blocked by protesters.
- Adam Carey, Sarah Danckert and Lachlan Abbott
- Updated
- Industrial relations
Striking Woolies workers ordered to stop blocking access to warehouses
Woolworths can get some workers back into its distribution centres after a Fair Work Commission ruling, but it will take time to refill shelves stripped bare during the two-week strike.
- Sarah Danckert
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