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  1. AI chatbots like Buddy at Bunnings years from becoming norm for shoppers

    AI chatbots are already in use by Australia’s biggest retailers, from Buddy at Bunnings to Olive at Woolworths.…
    #NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AU #Australia #compeition #homebrand #privatelabel #Retail #Retailindustry #Supermarkets #Technology
    newsbeep.com/au/881396/

  2. AI chatbots like Buddy at Bunnings years from becoming norm
    By Ahmed Yussuf

    Some of Australia's largest retailers are investing in autonomous AI agents shopping for customers. But experts say the technology is expensive and years from being mainstream.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-06/ai-

    #RetailIndustry #Supermarkets #AI #CostofLiving #AhmedYussuf

  3. AI chatbots like Buddy at Bunnings years from becoming norm
    By Ahmed Yussuf

    Some of Australia's largest retailers are investing in autonomous AI agents shopping for customers. But experts say the technology is expensive and years from being mainstream.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-06/ai-

    #RetailIndustry #Supermarkets #AI #CostofLiving #AhmedYussuf

  4. AI chatbots like Buddy at Bunnings years from becoming norm
    By Ahmed Yussuf

    Some of Australia's largest retailers are investing in autonomous AI agents shopping for customers. But experts say the technology is expensive and years from being mainstream.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-06/ai-

    #RetailIndustry #Supermarkets #AI #CostofLiving #AhmedYussuf

  5. AI chatbots like Buddy at Bunnings years from becoming norm
    By Ahmed Yussuf

    Some of Australia's largest retailers are investing in autonomous AI agents shopping for customers. But experts say the technology is expensive and years from being mainstream.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-06/ai-

    #RetailIndustry #Supermarkets #AI #CostofLiving #AhmedYussuf

  6. AI chatbots like Buddy at Bunnings years from becoming norm
    By Ahmed Yussuf

    Some of Australia's largest retailers are investing in autonomous AI agents shopping for customers. But experts say the technology is expensive and years from being mainstream.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-06/ai-

    #RetailIndustry #Supermarkets #AI #CostofLiving #AhmedYussuf

  7. 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

  8. “Coles and Woolworths have conducted tests of #FacialRecognition #technology, but it is unclear if either supermarket will be implementing it in stores.

    It comes after the #AustraliaFinancialReview reported both Coles and Woolworths had trialled the technology as part of an ongoing effort to combat retail crime.”

    s/retail/corporate crime

    If cameras were in the #BoardRoom and key executive offices #CorporateCrime in the two #SuperMarkets would be reduced (Staff underpayments, price collusion with suppliers, brand replacement) 🤪🤣☺️

    #Coles / #Woolworths / #AI / #profiling <abc.net.au/news/2026-08-17/col>

  9. 1 July changes: minimum wage rises, Centrelink indexation, payday super, parental leave and everything else coming for the 2026–27 financial year
    By Ima Caldwell

    New financial year will also see a tax cut, more anti-price-gouging measures and SMS sender ID changes designed to protect against scam texts

    theguardian.com/business/2026/

    #Australianeconomy #Superannuation #Wagesgrowth #Tax #Supermarkets #Nationaldisabilityinsurancescheme #Welfare #MedicareAustralia #Energy #Housing #Australianews #ImaCaldwell

  10. How UK’s supermarket fridge crisis will cost you money as heatwave sparks chaos

    EXCLUSIVE: Supermarket fridges struggling in the heat could be an early warning of a much bigger problem, with…
    #NewsBeep #News #UnitedKingdom #CareHomes #ClimateChange #Energybills #GB #GreatBritain #Heatwave #Nursinghomes #schools #Supermarkets #UK
    newsbeep.com/uk/660812/

  11. From a small Guardian update this morning:

    "A highly anticipated federal court battle between the competition regulator and supermarket giant Coles begins today, testing allegations the retailer offered “illusory” discounts on hundreds of everyday products.

    The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is seeking large penalties and community service orders against Coles, which, along with Woolworths, controls two-thirds of the Australian grocery market.

    A similar case against Woolworths is expected to be heard at a later date.

    The 10-day hearing in Melbourne will scrutinise pricing practices involving hundreds of products, from instant coffee to chocolate biscuits, over an extended period.

    The regulator alleges that Coles temporarily inflated prices before marking the items as discounted under promotions like “Down Down,” in a practice known as “was/is” pricing.

    Coles is defending the claims, arguing pricing was a response to increased costs from suppliers.

    The case starts during a period of reigniting inflation, with groceries and other household costs rising strongly again."

    #Coles #Shopping #News #Consumers #ACCC #PriceFixing #Corruption #Law #Supermarkets #Australia

  12. Digesting Food Studies—Episode 114: Flexitarianism
    rss.com/podcasts/digesting-foo

    Are you a carnivore? A vegan? A frugivore? Or do you fall in between categories of eater, identifying more as a flexitarian? As we learn from this episode’s guest author, Kelsey Speakman, flexitarianism is a complex space of food making, ethical and multispecies relationships, and marketing rhetoric.

    Kelsey’s article on the subject, “Beef, Beans, or Byproducts? Following Flexitarianism’s Finances,” comes from Vol. 11, No. 4 of Canadian Food Studies (doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i). And sandwiching this meat-alternatives theme are Alexia Moyer on a powerful kitchen implement, and Milka Milicevic on the power of true alternatives in eating.

    #DigestingFoodStudies
    #FoodPodcast
    #Flexitarianism
    #FoodAlternatives
    #Eating
    #Supermarkets
    #KitchenMallet
    #Meat
    #Vegetarianism
    #GeorgeBrownPolytechnic
    #GBPolytech
    #GBCollege
    #HonoursBachelorOfFoodStudies
    #TheSpaceMerchants
    #FrederikPohl
    #CyrilKornbluth
    #FoodStudies
    #Academia

    photos: Alexia Moyer

  13. Digesting Food Studies—Episode 114: Flexitarianism
    rss.com/podcasts/digesting-foo

    Are you a carnivore? A vegan? A frugivore? Or do you fall in between categories of eater, identifying more as a flexitarian? As we learn from this episode’s guest author, Kelsey Speakman, flexitarianism is a complex space of food making, ethical and multispecies relationships, and marketing rhetoric.

    Kelsey’s article on the subject, “Beef, Beans, or Byproducts? Following Flexitarianism’s Finances,” comes from Vol. 11, No. 4 of Canadian Food Studies (doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i). And sandwiching this meat-alternatives theme are Alexia Moyer on a powerful kitchen implement, and Milka Milicevic on the power of true alternatives in eating.

    #DigestingFoodStudies
    #FoodPodcast
    #Flexitarianism
    #FoodAlternatives
    #Eating
    #Supermarkets
    #KitchenMallet
    #Meat
    #Vegetarianism
    #GeorgeBrownPolytechnic
    #GBPolytech
    #GBCollege
    #HonoursBachelorOfFoodStudies
    #TheSpaceMerchants
    #FrederikPohl
    #CyrilKornbluth
    #FoodStudies
    #Academia

    photos: Alexia Moyer

  14. #US-UK #trade deal may open door to food made with slave labour

    #UK Govt facing pressure to strengthen anti-slavery laws amid concerns its #TradeDeal with US could see #food produced by forced labour enter UK market

    Lack of transparency in #US supply chain & poor enforcement of anti-slavery law in UK, raise fears #meat produced using forced labour could enter #British #supermarkets – as was recently found to happened with #China-produced tomatoes

    thenational.scot/news/25256308

    #Slavery #SlaveLabour

  15. Capos always keen to “reduce the cost of labour”
    (Note: #Carrefour Group sponsor of 2024 Paris Olympics has an annual turnover of more than €94 billion. Carrefour facilities and stores in #SaudiArabia are operated by #UAE based #MajidAlFuttaim via a franchise agreement with Carrefour Group, headquartered in France.)

    amnesty.org/en/latest/news/202

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafala_s

    #Capitalism #exploitation #forcedlabor #Kafala #supermarkets #workingpoor #FIFA #wagetheft

  16. Filing: #Kroger paid #CEO $19M in 2022, typical worker almost $29K

    by Alexander Coolidge Cincinnati Enquirer
    May 12, 2023

    "Kroger CEO #RodneyMcMullen got a 5.7% pay raise in 2022 as his compensation package climbed $1 million to $19 million, according to a corporate filing Friday morning with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

    "The head of the nation's largest supermarket retailer was paid $18 million in the previous year, according to the Associated Press' methodology for executive compensation that excludes pension value changes.

    "The typical worker got an $1,800 pay raise, climbing 7% in 2022 to $28,644. The ratio of McMullen's pay to the median Kroger worker – as required to be reported by the government – was 671 to 1, a decline from the ratio of 679 to 1 in the previous year.

    "Kroger earned a $2.2 billion #profit on sales of $148 billion last year. In 2022, Kroger contended with higher costs as inflation soared. Overall inflation eased in 2022, climbing 6.4% - slower than 7.2% a year earlier. But the cost of food purchased at #supermarkets and #supercenters rose at a faster rate: 11.8% - the worst calendar year increase since 1978, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

    "Also last year, the grocer proposed acquiring rival #Albertsons in a $25 billion takeover bid that regulators at the Federal Trade Commission are mulling whether to approve or fight.

    "In addition to Kroger stores, the Cincinnati-based grocer operates several regional supermarket chains in 35 states, including #FredMeyer, #HarrisTeeter, #Ralphs, #Marianos, #Frys, Smith's, #KingSoopers, #QFC and others. The company has nearly 2,800 stores and employs 430,000 workers."

    cincinnati.com/story/money/202

    #CorporatePriceGouging #Inflation #CEOPay #ObsceneProfits #FoodInsecurity #PeopleAndPlanetOverProfits #PriceGouging