Supermarkets...price gouging or good business?
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Show Notes
It’s the BBQ stopper of our time - how much things cost at the supermarket. Throw in six enquiries, headlines on competition, the cost of living, and a CEO's interview walkout, and it's a prime topic for this week's News Club
Club picks:
This graph on the market share of different supermarkets in Australia.
The Four Corners episode on the tactics supermarkets are using to keep prices high and competition out.
This editorial in the Financial Review says the price gouging claims levelled against the Coles and Woolworths are a bit of a beat-up. Instead, they say it has more to do with the pressure the Albanese Government is facing on the cost of living.
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