The nation’s competition tsar has highlighted shortcomings with the proposed grocery industry code intended to limit unfair practices and establish clear conduct guidelines in the sector.
The competition watchdog has initiated proceedings against supermarket giant Woolworths, alleging it mislead customers over the safety of a range of products including chairs, matches and deep fryers.
Celebrity chef Maggie Beer’s company – Maggie Beer Products Pty Ltd – has been reprimanded by the consumer watchdog for falsely representing a number of gourmet products as having been manufactured in South Australia, when they were in fact made in Queensland.
Woolworths thought they would try their hand at something others had never been brazen enough to try; installing a ‘voluntary levy’ on fruit and veg growers to pay for their costly marketing blitz.
Woolworths’ use of a “voluntary levy” to help fund its marketing campaign featuring celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has been labeled as “very unusual” by a leading competition lawyer.
Supermarket giant Woolworths has been caught out engaging in anti-competitive behaviour in a new ruling that has given the green light to the bundling of fuel “shopper docket” discounts. The Federal Court today found that Woolworths had breached a court enforceable undertaking made with the competition watchdog last December to cap fuel discounts linked to […]
A group of seven dairy farmers in northern New South Wales supplying milk to Woolworths believe the deal they struck today has secured their future.
Dick Smith has spoken out on the negative impact ALDI and Costco are having on Australian producers, saying blame shouldn’t be directed at Coles and Woolworths for the supermarket price wars.
As Woolworths and Coles get set for yet another price war, Food Connect and CERES Fair Food have joined forces to call on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to end the supermarket duopoly and urge consumers to support smaller, local businesses.
Woolworths has announced plans to put its iconic electronics brand up for sale, with the chain’s namesake and founder Dick Smith saying he’ll be angered if the chain’s sold into foreign hands, but can’t see a likely alternative.
