Woolworths
Want a slice of GST with your tiramisu? Businesses press for simpler tax
While big businesses are pressing the federal government for lower taxes, they also want an answer – do I pay GST on my chocolate-flavoured yoghurt?
- Shane Wright
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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
- Opinion
- Retail
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
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
- Opinion
- Supermarkets
Your next shop will be a lot cheaper as big supermarkets go to war
Customers will be hoping a battle ensues that produces bigger and broader discounts, not just a contest for collectible toys.
- Elizabeth Knight
- Opinion
- Retail
Kmart is beating up Big W and giving Woolies a major headache
Big W, owned by Woolworths, is losing a lot of money as its range of toys, beauty products and homewares fails to click with shoppers.
- Elizabeth Knight
- Updated
- Supermarkets
Woolworths sales fall behind Coles as price battle rages
Australia’s two biggest supermarkets are in a battle to lower prices in the cost-of-living crisis and win back the trust and dollars of customers.
- Jessica Yun
Elsternwick erupts: NIMBYs v YIMBYs as VCAT bypass fuels local fury
Woolworths has sought to overturn a VCAT judgment and applied to Victoria’s planning minister to approve a 148-apartment housing proposal in Elsternwick.
- Adam Carey
There’s no proof big supermarkets are price gouging, but Labor will ban it anyway
Labor would target supermarkets price gouging customers but has stopped short of Peter Dutton’s populist plan to give regulators power to break up big chains.
- Millie Muroi and James Massola
Checkout pain: Australia’s supermarkets among most profitable in the world
Shoppers’ complaints that they are being burnt at the nation’s checkouts has been vindicated by a damning report by the consumer watchdog.
- Shane Wright, Jessica Yun and Millie Muroi
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