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The cost of eating

How the big two supermarkets are contributing to Australia’s cost of living crisis with high food prices and profits

21 June 2024

  • David and Jessica and a trolley full of groceries by a meat vendor in the Queen Victoria Market

    Making ends meat: Australians can save up to $20 a kg by changing where they shop

    Guardian Australia visited a range of stores and found red meat and fish can still be affordable during the cost-of-living crisis

14 June 2024

  • Grant Miles at the Cheaper Buy Miles store in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick

    Cheap, cheerful and booming: the Australian stores selling food at huge discounts

    Customers at shops like Cheaper Buy Miles and Beyond Best Before can find food items nearing their best-before date at a fraction of supermarket prices

1 March 2024

  • Cost of living and the increase in shoppers at Flemington Market. Shoppers for a Co Op Delphine Quack and Veronique Morgan Smith grabbing produce at the markets. Homebush West, Sydney, Australia. 24th February 2024

    At Sydney’s fruit and veg market, buying in bulk costs barely 30% of supermarket prices

    Consumers who get up early and get organised can buy a box of produce for $20 that would have cost $66 at Woolworths

1 August 2023

  • Shrinkflation is a strategy by food manufacturers to decrease the size of their products but not the price tag

    The curse of shrinkflation: how food is being sneakily downsized – but prices aren’t

    Shrinking jars of jam, smaller chocolate bars and cut-size snacks … why won’t brands stop decreasing the size of their products?

30 July 2023

  • Josh Brooks-Duncan, co-founder of imperfect box delivery company Farmers Pick, carries a box ready for delivery to a customer in Brunswick, Melbourne.

    ‘It’s not even ugly’: the Australian businesses rescuing ‘imperfect’ fruit and veg

    Produce rejected by major retailers is increasingly being added to cut-price subscription boxes. Now supermarkets want a bite of the market

29 July 2023

  • Depending on your location and your existing grocery habits, shopping without Woolworths, pictured, or Coles can either be a breeze, or an enormous inconvenience

    Dodging the duopoly: can three shoppers avoid Coles and Woolworths for a week?

    A regional family, an urban family and a single man in the suburbs spend a week abstaining from Australia’s big two supermarkets, with widely divergent results

28 July 2023

  • A drawing of a basket of groceries

    Around the world in seven carts: how people shop for groceries internationally

    Wealthy nations have been hit by inflation but the way this has changed grocery shopping culture – and governments’ responses – vary

27 July 2023

  • Composite image of apple core and groceries in box

    Crunch time: food co-ops feeling the squeeze as Australian supermarkets fatten profits

  • Food prices in Australia’s uncompetitive supermarket sector are increasing by an annual rate of about 8%.

    How supermarkets are profiting from Australia’s cost-of-living crisis

26 July 2023

  • Supermarket signs

    Australian food giants making more profit from grocery sales than overseas peers

    Exclusive: Coles and Woolworths have consistently expanded their profit margins in a cost-of-living crisis, outstripping their UK counterparts

  • Are supermarkets deliberately raising prices in a cost-of-living crisis? – video

    Antoun Issa looks at the reasons why Coles and Woolworths are increasing profit margins and if the government can do anything about it
  • An illustration for the Cost of Living series showing a painting of a number of fruits and vegetables against an orange background

    Revealed: major Australian supermarkets almost never the cheapest place for your fresh produce

    Exclusive: Guardian survey shows fruit and vegetables at independent and Asian grocers are routinely cheaper than Woolworths and Coles

24 July 2023

  • A supermarket trolly.

    Tell us: have you noticed ‘shrinkflation’ in Australian supermarkets?

    We are asking readers to share examples of products that have been suddenly downsized
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