Abusive and thuggish customers and patrons could be banned from workplaces or even jailed under changes proposed by WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam to be taken to next year’s State Election.
Joe Spagnolo
Coles has unveiled a significant change to its Vintage Cellars and First Choice Liquor Market stores in a bid to close the gap between its bigger rival Endeavour.
Cheyanne Enciso
An Australian graphic designer was left stunned when she discovered an online shopping giant was selling items eerily similar to her own.
Clareese Packer
A popular cafe chain has announced a major change favoured by customers that will also provide a “safer environment for our staff”.
Supermarket giant Woolworths has agreed to sell its remaining shares in liquor group Endeavour to gobble up the rest of food services company PFD Food Services.
Australians could be in for a spate of lower quality meat cuts on supermarket shelves after one state was hit with a dry, cold winter, with crops suffering as a result.
Dogs — and other pets — may well be man’s best friend but they’re now the next big customers for Australia’s biggest retailers, who are muscling in on a multi-billion dollar market.
Adrian Lowe
Shareholders in Coles and Woolworths are licking their lips, but the public is still stretching every dollar further at the checkout.
Blair Jackson
The Aussie share market finished the week, and the reporting month of August, in the green as it marked the third straight week of gains.
Aisling Brennan
Harvey Norman chair Gerry Harvey expects more businesses to go bust in the next 12 months as they face higher expenses like wages and power bills.
Trying to make money from delivering letters in 2024 is a tough slog, as Australia Post’s financial results show.
Retailers are worried they face a tough Christmas trading period, as Australians continue to resist spending up during a cost-of-living crisis.
Joanne Williamson
A man has been caught using a bizarre technique to shoplift hundreds of dollars worth of groceries from his local supermarket.
Cettire has warned of softer trading conditions and released preliminary full-year results that are in the process of being reviewed amid an overhaul of how the online luxury retailer recognises revenue.
The Australian share market fell again on Thursday, after a poor start thanks to Wall St, as several big name companies report results.
Despite the cost-of-living crunch, buyers flocked to Kmart and Bunnings to pick up bargains, leading to a strong profit for parent company Wesfarmers.
Chief executive Rob Scott says Bunnings’ profit margins haven’t changed in a decade and believes some critics are taking financial results out of context.
Sean Smith and Simone Grogan
An inflation-fueled sales slump hit the toy industry in the first half of 2024, but one company is gaining market share brick by brick.
CNBC
Plenty of Australians still regularly use cash, but it keeps getting harder for those like this man who was amazed to be charged for paying his Telstra bill.
Woolworths Group has announced a dire $108m net profit, a 93 per cent drop on last year.
Outgoing Woolworths boss Brad Banducci expects shoppers will remain cautious for the next 12 months amid a tight economy.
A Coles chief executive says shoppers are researching where and how to get the best value for money as the squeeze on family finances drives more and more people to try to save money.
Supermarket boss Leah Weckert expects consumer demand for cooking at home to continue, boosting its strong start to the new financial year as a long-awaited set of automated order centres start work.
Fast-fashion jewellery chain Lovisa had a successful financial year but is taking a hit on the share market after failing to deliver on its 2023 ambitions
Sophia McCaughan
