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Eli GreenblatSenior Business Reporter

Eli Greenblat is a senior business reporter at The Australian and leads coverage for the paper on the retail and beverages industries as well as covering issues related to supermarket regulation and competition, consumer behaviour, shopping, online retail and food and grocery suppliers. He has previously written for The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Financial Review.

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Trading DayTrading Day

The indicator board at the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) is seen in Sydney, Tuesday, December 18, 2018. (AAP Image/Erik Anderson) NO ARCHIVING

ASX down on Covid hits, as Forrest set for huge payout

Stocks lose further ground as Covid fears fuel border closure worries, while Andrew Forrest could be in for a bumper $3.8bn payday.

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COVID rulesBusiness

SATURDAY DAILY TELEGRAPH - Pictured is an empty toilet paper shelf at Woolworths Narrabeen today as people start to panic buy due to the COVID cluster on the Northern Beaches. Picture: Tim Hunter.

Woolies limits toilet paper sales in Sydney

Woolworths is reintroducing buying limits at around 200 of its supermarkets in the Greater Sydney area to prevent panic buying.

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RetailRetail

Ikea to open in the Sydney Business Park at Marsden Park.

Mystery expenses keep Ikea out of profit

Ikea booked a record $1.5bn COVID-fuelled sales bonanza in Australia this year, but it’s also failed to make a profit for the fourth year running.

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ExclusiveRetail

21/8/20: Wooloworths CEO Brad Banducci at their Sydney offices with a delivery truck for the retailer's full year results. John Feder/The Australian.

Concerns raised over Woolies taking stake in PFD

Letter to suppliers sent to ‘alert them to the potential competition implications’ of allowing Woolworths to take a stake in PFD.

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Trading DayTrading Day

Digital market boards at the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) in Sydney in Sydney, Thursday, April 30, 2020. Investors are smiling in early trade on the Australian share market, which is being pushed along by energy, materials and IT stocks. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

ASX steadies after Covid hit, AGL cuts profit forecast

Stocks steadied at the close amid the fallout from Sydney’s Covid outbreak; AGL slashed its profit outlook and the US reached a virus relief deal.

David Rogers

RetailRetail

City Chic has opened a new-look store at Grand Central.

City Chic Collective expands into UK

Evans is part of Phillip Green’s collapsed Arcadia Group in Britain and gives City Chic a foothold in Europe.

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RetailRetail

Queensland-based activewear company Lorna Jane has come under fire for claiming their new range of LJ Shield tops and pants can protect wearers from viruses.The country's top medics have hit out at the dangerous claims made in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and it has been reported that the TGA is looking into the matter. Lorna Jane website has now removed the word virus and says the gear protects simply against bacteria. - photo Supplied Lorna Jane

Clothing ads wear thin with watchdog

Lycra empire Lorna Jane and its founder will face new court action over allegations ‘antibacterial’ activewear claimed to stop COVID-19 wasn’t even tested.

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TECHNOLOGYTechnology