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  1. Electronic shelf labels likely to cost jobs and drive up grocery prices, US report warns
    By Michael Sainato

    AFL-CIO calls for ban on such labels to protect consumers and workers from surveillance pricing and job cuts

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s

    #USunions #Business #Technology #Retailindustry #USnews #Worldnews #USeconomy #Economics #TheGuardian #MichaelSainato

  2. Small businesses fighting to stay open amid 'insidious cost creep'
    By Liz Rymill and Becc Bird

    Small business owners hit with rising costs will no longer be able to add surcharges on card payments from October 1. One operator in regional South Australia has described it as an "insidious cost creep".

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/ris

    #SmallBusinesses #RetailIndustry #CostofLiving #RegionalCommunities #RuralandRemoteCommunities #BusinessandIndustryRegulation #Businesses #ReserveBankOfAustralia #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #LizRymill #BeccBird

  3. Small businesses fighting to stay open amid 'insidious cost creep'
    By Liz Rymill and Becc Bird

    Small business owners hit with rising costs will no longer be able to add surcharges on card payments from October 1. One operator in regional South Australia has described it as an "insidious cost creep".

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/ris

    #SmallBusinesses #RetailIndustry #CostofLiving #RegionalCommunities #RuralandRemoteCommunities #BusinessandIndustryRegulation #Businesses #ReserveBankOfAustralia #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #LizRymill #BeccBird

  4. Small businesses fighting to stay open amid 'insidious cost creep'
    By Liz Rymill and Becc Bird

    Small business owners hit with rising costs will no longer be able to add surcharges on card payments from October 1. One operator in regional South Australia has described it as an "insidious cost creep".

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/ris

    #SmallBusinesses #RetailIndustry #CostofLiving #RegionalCommunities #RuralandRemoteCommunities #BusinessandIndustryRegulation #Businesses #ReserveBankOfAustralia #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #LizRymill #BeccBird

  5. Small businesses fighting to stay open amid 'insidious cost creep'
    By Liz Rymill and Becc Bird

    Small business owners hit with rising costs will no longer be able to add surcharges on card payments from October 1. One operator in regional South Australia has described it as an "insidious cost creep".

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/ris

    #SmallBusinesses #RetailIndustry #CostofLiving #RegionalCommunities #RuralandRemoteCommunities #BusinessandIndustryRegulation #Businesses #ReserveBankOfAustralia #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #LizRymill #BeccBird

  6. Small businesses fighting to stay open amid 'insidious cost creep'
    By Liz Rymill and Becc Bird

    Small business owners hit with rising costs will no longer be able to add surcharges on card payments from October 1. One operator in regional South Australia has described it as an "insidious cost creep".

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/ris

    #SmallBusinesses #RetailIndustry #CostofLiving #RegionalCommunities #RuralandRemoteCommunities #BusinessandIndustryRegulation #Businesses #ReserveBankOfAustralia #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #LizRymill #BeccBird

  7. Kardashian curves: M&S launches £28 bodysuit with exaggerated hip padding
    By Chloe Mac Donnell

    The ‘hip boost’ aims to create hourglass silhouette, much like Kim Kardashian’s shapewear brand’s padded shorts

    theguardian.com/fashion/2026/s

    #Fashion #MarksSpencer #KimKardashian #Retailindustry #Business #UKnews #Bodyimage #TheGuardian #ChloeMacDonnell

  8. Woolworths’ Ooshies craze causes Coles sales slump with parents shopping at rival supermarket to collect toys
    By Luca Ittimani

    Coles full-year results show that despite gaining market share over past 12 months, sales fell over four weeks of ‘competitor’s collectables campaign’

    theguardian.com/business/2026/

    #Coles #Woolworths #Supermarkets #Business #Retailindustry #Australianews #TheGuardian #LucaIttimani

  9. A job that changed me: I worked for an infamous clothing brand – but it was one of the most positive workplaces of my life
    By Wendy Syfret

    Despite its global reputation, my time there felt less sexy party, more wholesome summer camp. Then one day my boss told me a hard truth

    theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2

    #Australianlifestyle #Retailindustry #Lifeandstyle #Fashion #TheGuardian #WendySyfret

  10. Exclusive CCTV captures the violence facing Coles workers
    By Alysia Thomas-Sam

    Exclusive video obtained by 7.30 highlights shocking scenes of aggressive behaviour towards retail workers, including a customer armed with a hammer and a security guard being thrown into a check-out machine.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-24/cct

    #RetailIndustry #Police #CrimePrevention #AlysiaThomasSam

  11. Alarm raised over ‘privacy dilemma’ of facial recognition technology at Coles and Woolworths
    By Catie McLeod Consumer affairs reporter

    Supermarkets say they are exploring ways to keep people safe, but experts claim the tech is ‘normalising surveillance’

    theguardian.com/business/2026/

    #Supermarkets #Australianews #Technology #Facialrecognition #Coles #Woolworths #Business #Retailindustry #TheGuardian #CatieMcLeodConsumeraffairsreporter

  12. Shoplifting crime wave?! Putting facial recognition technology everywhere will fix it | First Dog on the Moon
    By First Dog on the Moon

    Supermarkets Coles and Woolworths promise not to abuse this technology even though facial recognition algorithms have known biases

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #Coles #Woolworths #Retailindustry #Supermarkets #Costoflivingcrisis #TheGuardian #FirstDogontheMoon

  13. The battle over peat: why do some gardeners still insist on using it?
    By Rachel Dixon

    Peat bogs are essential to the environment, holding twice as much carbon as all the world’s forests. But in the UK, 80% are damaged, most of what is extracted is used in horticulture – and some campaigners fear the problem is getting worse

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #Environment #Plants #Greenhousegasemissions #Climatecrisis #Food #Farming #Supermarkets #Retailindustry #Vegetables #Fruit #Gardens #Lifeandstyle #Wetlands #Soil #Compost #Environmentalactivism #TheGuardian #RachelDixon