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‘I’m broken-hearted’: customers mourn the end of Wilko

As the chain enters administration, its customers praise its convenience, prices and range of products – despite recent supply issues

The Guardian - UK

Wilko is the latest shop to be edged out by competition but it doesn't have to mean the end for the budget retailer

By selling pick ‘n’ mix, stationery, garden tools and bird boxes, Wilko has spent the last 90 years transforming from a one-store business into one of the UK’s major budget retail players. It now has around 400 stores, but it has also become the latest high street shop to face…

The Conversation

What went wrong at Wilko?

Analysts partly blame too many large stores selling low-profit goods on dearer high street locations

The Guardian - UK

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Wilko’s demise proves it’s tough at the bottom

City Comment: No brand, however charming and loved, is guaranteed eternal life

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - AU

David Van back in a hot seat

David Van, the Liberal senator booted from the party over allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards women, will cause a seat shuffle if and when he returns to Parliament, and two mentions of Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews were cut from his state’s anti-corruption body’s latest report.

Crikey

Which MPs have shares in our price-gouging supermarket duopoly?

Surging profits at Coles and Woolworths is bad news for everyone, except shareholders, of course. Here’s a list of happy faces in Parliament.

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Coles, Woolworths top of the food chain

Coles and Woolworths are making a much larger profit than UK supermarkets during Australia’s cost-of-living crisis, and Woodside Energy has threatened to sue two individual climate activists after its headquarters in Perth was stink-bombed.

Crikey

Morning Mail: supermarkets’ ‘cosy’ duopoly, Kevin Spacey cleared, Sinéad O’Connor dies

Exclusive shows Coles and Woolworths have fattened profits compared with UK peers, music world mourns Irish singer, and Kevin Spacey cleared

The Guardian - AU

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

The Guardian - AU

'Ultra-convenient' groceries come at a cost

Countdown's new business Milkrun sells groceries at a considerable premium

Newsroom.co.nz

Why the 2036 phaseout of cage eggs has Australia’s industry in a flap

Banning battery eggs in 13 years is far too soon, say farmers. Animal welfare advocates say it’s long overdue

The Guardian - AU

AFP suspends use of controversial surveillance tech found in Woolworths, Bunnings

The halt comes after a Crikey investigation revealed more than 100 police staff used Auror without considering privacy and security effects.

Crikey

Qantas and Virgin duopoly dwarfs the Australian banking and supermarket industries, airport peak body says

Australian Airports Association tells parliamentary inquiry market dominance has allowed the two airlines to jack up profit margins

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Blackpool illuminated: resetting the jewel in Britain’s seaside crown

After years of decline, Blackpool is undergoing a renaissance and is becoming a precious heritage destination

The Canberra Times

'You could hear the sheep bleating': memories of the Marketplace Gungahlin, 25 years on

Were you at the opening day of the Marketplace Gungahlin?

Newsroom.co.nz

Uphill battle for new Grocery Commissioner

Supermarkets form strong geographic monopolies that make competition difficult

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Tearless Onions Are Coming To Aus, Which Is Great For Folks Who Can’t Make Soup Without Sobbing

I'm not crying ... and neither are you!

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Liverpool Echo

Liverpool man cutting keys on the markets for almost 60 years

Frank welcomed many customers through the generations

AAP

Tasmania's AFL chair focused despite stadium debate

Ongoing debate and political upheaval around Tasmania's entry to the AFL won't distract the new club's inaugural chair Grant O'Brien.

Liverpool Echo

Things you could do in the 1990s you can't anymore

The decade will feel like only yesterday for many

Glasgow Live

20 things you could do in 1970s Glasgow that you can't do now

Glasgow was a very different city in the 1970s, with loads of things you could do back then that you most definitely can't do today. This list is sure to bring back some memories from yesteryear.

Newcastle Herald

Take a look inside 'town centre' plans as supermarket giant signs on

Woolworths is making its way to Cooranbong.

AAP

Woolworths worker dies after pallet stack collapses

A worker has died a day after he and two others were injured when a stack of pallets collapsed at Woolworths distribution centre in Sydney's west.

The Canberra Times

Stolen ACT baby formula's links to illicit drug trade, lucrative Chinese market

Over 11,000 tins of baby formula were stolen in the ACT in 12 months.

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