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The hidden side of the supermarket giants’ quest for profits is an increasingly elaborate system for monitoring and managing shoppers and workers.
Suppliers and customers are squeezed harder in Australia than in other countries because Coles and Woolworths control 65% of the market.
Australia’s Soft Plastics Taskforce has been under pressure to fill the vacuum left by the demise of REDcycle. But this time the small trial announced for Melbourne has the potential to succeed.
Coles plans to ‘optimise its workforce’ with big data and AI tools from a controversial tech company.
Supermarket pricing is a big story but let’s forget the media coverage, the politician sound bytes and the corporate PR for a moment. What are ordinary Australians saying about supermarket pricing?
Pressure for greater transparency by food producers and retailers about costs is increasing as rising grocery prices hit the hip pocket.
Why wait until a Senate inquiry to explain how supermarkets come up with the prices in their stores? There’s an opportunity now for the big supermarkets to be more transparent on pricing.
Australia’s largest private-sector employers are steadily integrating gig workers into their operations.
The ‘last kilometre’ between the supermarket and your home remains the most costly and complicated leg of the grocery supply chain.
As Coles and Woolworth turn to UberEats and DoorDash for fast deliveries, supermarket workers feel ‘the gig economy is getting closer’.
In 2020 and 2021 empty supermarket shelves were due to spikes in demand. Now it’s a supply-side issue. The solutions, though, are substantially the same.
Since opening its first Australian stores on January 25 2001, Aldi has profoundly influenced the supermarket landscape.
Yes, there will be temporary meat shortages in Victoria, but not for long.
What motivates people to panic buy and stockpile goods like toilet paper? The COVID-19 pandemic has given us the chance to find out.
Woolworths’ A$780 millon investment in new automated distribution centres is a sign of how much COVID-19 has changed the way we shop. It points what’s to come in the retail sector.
To curb opportunistic shoplifting, supermarkets want you to know you are being watched. But they’re also hoping for self-reflection.
We surveyed over 100 Coles, Woolworths, Aldi and independent stores around Australia and found supermarkets are promoting unhealthy food much more often, and more prominently, than healthier products.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is lightening up on its normal competition rules and allowing competitors to cooperate.
Research suggests harsher civil or criminal penalties will not automatically lead to greater compliance by employers with workplace laws.
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