The Latest Breaking News from Woolworths

Panel’s appointment comes as Woolworths reports rise in net annual earnings to $1.6bn, a day after Coles posts $1.1bn profit

Are supermarket profits helping fuel inflation? It’s a non-issue for Woolworths shareholders — their dividends soared much faster than CPI.

The government, business and much of the public vastly underestimated the Matildas and the popularity of women’s soccer.

Cold Girl Summer of 2023 is coming to an end and we are left with nowhere to fart around, as Kurt Vonnegut would say

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

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…

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

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

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

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.

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