Myer board in Lew’s crosshairs
Solomon Lew could be back in control of Myer by June, following 16 years in the wilderness.
Coles
Penalty-rate victory for workers
Coles night shift and weekend workers are about to get significant increases in penalty rates.
Users find cashless card loophole
Some cashless debit card recipients have found a way to buy alcohol and tobacco.
Coles deal alters face of super
Some 300,000-plus retail employees are set to gain what union power has blocked for decades: a choice of super funds.
How shelf stacker downed Coles
Incredible as it may seem, Penny Vickers’ victory over Coles is dismantling industrial structures … and it could cost the ALP.
Stacker takes Coles down, down
Coles workers are expected to get higher wages after a night-shift worker settled her underpayment case against the supermarket.
Coles feels the pinch of price war
The supermarkets chain has reported one of its slowest rates of sales growth in a decade.
Make ALP pay for union collusion
Wage theft is funding Labor thanks to its affiliates’ dirty deals with big corporations.
Sally predicts athletics rebirth
Athletics in Australia has secured a big sponsorship deal with Coles.
Members’ fees go to retailers
Labor’s biggest union affiliate has been paying 10 per cent of union members’ dues in commissions to Coles and Woolworths.
Ex-Target boss sells home
Former Target boss Stuart Machin has sold his turn of the century St Kilda West home for $4.2 million.
Pay shake-up looms for retailers
Retailers are set to follow Coles as enterprise bargaining becomes too hard and there’s a return to award wages.
The big problem with Big W
Sidetracked by the Masters debacle, Woolworths allowed Kmart to dominate Big W. It’s now a life or death problem.
Wesfarmers posts $2.87bn profit
Wesfarmers shares inched higher after Bunnings helped offset an earnings dive at Coles to push it to a $2.87bn profit.
Living costs ‘crippling families’
Families are forgoing fresh food as rising energy bills and stagnant wages sap their buying power, says Coles boss.
Coles ‘failed to check’ pay offer
Coles did not conduct modelling on whether its 2014 deal with unions could pass the ‘better off overall’ test.
Environment’s future in the bag?
Shoppers at Woolworths and Coles will be forking out at least 15 cents per plastic bag when buying groceries next year.
Woolies, Coles ditch plastic bags
If you want a plastic bag while shopping at Australia’s dominant supermarket chains, you’ll soon have to fork out 15 cents.
$6 wine steals the show
Another cheap wine from Coles has stormed past powerhouse brands to win a treasured ‘double gold’ at a prestigious show.
Metcash joins British invasion
The nation’s $90bn supermarket wars have a fresh combatant in the form of new Metcash chief executive Jeff Adams.
Woolworths’ fast turnaround
A surprisingly rapid improvement by Woolworths now has rival Coles under pressure, a new supplier survey suggests.
Senate inquiry into pay deals
Senior execs from Coles, Woolworths under pressure to front inquiry into pay deals with the shop assistants union.
When wage deal is false bargain
The Coles case offers a salutary lesson on the perils of enterprise bargaining.
Coles pays up for ‘Down Down’
Coles has as much as tripled its investment in lowering grocery prices this year as it slugs it out with rival Woolworths.
It’s a mad mix
More than 60 years of immersion in politics has led me to the sad view that most politicians are nuts.
Coles warns suppliers over greed
Coles has warned grocery manufacturers that it will not “simply wave through” supplier cost increases.
Women who take the big risk
Hugely successful female entrepreneurs are still rare bears in this country.
Aldi scarier than Amazon
Online giant Amazon hogs the headlines but the German supermarket chain Aldi is drawing the Australian customers.
‘Aldi will always win on price’
Aldi boss Tom Daunt is determined to never let supermarket rivals Woolworths and Coles beat the retailer on price.
Qantas shares low-flying fruit?
Macquarie says the airline’s cash generation is “under appreciated”, the stock well placed to play sector catch up.
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