#woolworths — Public Fediverse posts
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How neoclassical economists claim competition works:
"We at Woolworths need to innovate by reducing our prices and improving the quality of our products and service to win customers from our competitor, Coles. If we don't, all our customers will go to them instead of us, and we'll go broke!"
What actually happens in Australia:
"Hey look, Coles is getting away with a new way of screwing over its customers/suppliers/workers. We need to roll out that form of enshittification across our stores too. Most of our customers have no other convenient choice except for them and us, and because the same bullshit happens at both chains, the only thing that'll happen if they switch is they'll lose their rewards points!"
#australia #auspol #Coles #Woolworths #Colesworths #capitalism #business -
Coles put commercial interests above its customers – and was caught red-handed https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/14/coles-supermarket-down-misleading-commercial-interests-above-customers #Supermarkets #ConsumerAffairs #Business #Business #Coles #Woolworths #AustraliaNews
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Well knock me down down with a misleading discount label.
I truely believed the supermarket duopoly was going to get away with this pricing deception.
#accc #coles #woolworths #federalcourt #supermarket #supermarketduopoly #consumerlaw #deception
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Greenwashing, now available in your local grocery store..
"More than 27,000 packaged foods sold at Coles, Woolworths, Aldi, IGA and Harris Farm supermarkets in Sydney were assessed by researchers from the George Institute for Global Health.
Nearly four in 10 products carried some sort of sustainability claim, the study in Public Health Nutrition found.
Associate Prof Alexandra Jones, the institute’s program lead for food governance, said the majority of claims were self-declared by the manufacturer, without independent verification.
“Consumers are increasingly trying to make food choices that are good for the planet, and manufacturers know it. What we’re finding is that the labels designed to guide those choices are largely unregulated and that creates real risks of greenwashing.”
Out of 69 different environmental claims identified by the researchers, “natural” and “vegan” appeared most often. Some, like “sustainable” or “natural”, were so broad as to be almost meaningless, she said.
“There’s no legal meaning of ‘natural’, but we know that people associate it with being better for you, or being better for the environment,” she said. “But many things are natural that are not good in a health context. Sugar is natural – that doesn’t mean it’s good for you.”"
#Greenwashing #Corruption #DirtyTactics #News #Australia #Coles #Woolworths #Aldi #IGA #Food #Groceries #Activism
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Greenwashing, now available in your local grocery store..
"More than 27,000 packaged foods sold at Coles, Woolworths, Aldi, IGA and Harris Farm supermarkets in Sydney were assessed by researchers from the George Institute for Global Health.
Nearly four in 10 products carried some sort of sustainability claim, the study in Public Health Nutrition found.
Associate Prof Alexandra Jones, the institute’s program lead for food governance, said the majority of claims were self-declared by the manufacturer, without independent verification.
“Consumers are increasingly trying to make food choices that are good for the planet, and manufacturers know it. What we’re finding is that the labels designed to guide those choices are largely unregulated and that creates real risks of greenwashing.”
Out of 69 different environmental claims identified by the researchers, “natural” and “vegan” appeared most often. Some, like “sustainable” or “natural”, were so broad as to be almost meaningless, she said.
“There’s no legal meaning of ‘natural’, but we know that people associate it with being better for you, or being better for the environment,” she said. “But many things are natural that are not good in a health context. Sugar is natural – that doesn’t mean it’s good for you.”"
#Greenwashing #Corruption #DirtyTactics #News #Australia #Coles #Woolworths #Aldi #IGA #Food #Groceries #Activism
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Greenwashing, now available in your local grocery store..
"More than 27,000 packaged foods sold at Coles, Woolworths, Aldi, IGA and Harris Farm supermarkets in Sydney were assessed by researchers from the George Institute for Global Health.
Nearly four in 10 products carried some sort of sustainability claim, the study in Public Health Nutrition found.
Associate Prof Alexandra Jones, the institute’s program lead for food governance, said the majority of claims were self-declared by the manufacturer, without independent verification.
“Consumers are increasingly trying to make food choices that are good for the planet, and manufacturers know it. What we’re finding is that the labels designed to guide those choices are largely unregulated and that creates real risks of greenwashing.”
Out of 69 different environmental claims identified by the researchers, “natural” and “vegan” appeared most often. Some, like “sustainable” or “natural”, were so broad as to be almost meaningless, she said.
“There’s no legal meaning of ‘natural’, but we know that people associate it with being better for you, or being better for the environment,” she said. “But many things are natural that are not good in a health context. Sugar is natural – that doesn’t mean it’s good for you.”"
#Greenwashing #Corruption #DirtyTactics #News #Australia #Coles #Woolworths #Aldi #IGA #Food #Groceries #Activism
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Greenwashing, now available in your local grocery store..
"More than 27,000 packaged foods sold at Coles, Woolworths, Aldi, IGA and Harris Farm supermarkets in Sydney were assessed by researchers from the George Institute for Global Health.
Nearly four in 10 products carried some sort of sustainability claim, the study in Public Health Nutrition found.
Associate Prof Alexandra Jones, the institute’s program lead for food governance, said the majority of claims were self-declared by the manufacturer, without independent verification.
“Consumers are increasingly trying to make food choices that are good for the planet, and manufacturers know it. What we’re finding is that the labels designed to guide those choices are largely unregulated and that creates real risks of greenwashing.”
Out of 69 different environmental claims identified by the researchers, “natural” and “vegan” appeared most often. Some, like “sustainable” or “natural”, were so broad as to be almost meaningless, she said.
“There’s no legal meaning of ‘natural’, but we know that people associate it with being better for you, or being better for the environment,” she said. “But many things are natural that are not good in a health context. Sugar is natural – that doesn’t mean it’s good for you.”"
#Greenwashing #Corruption #DirtyTactics #News #Australia #Coles #Woolworths #Aldi #IGA #Food #Groceries #Activism
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Greenwashing, now available in your local grocery store..
"More than 27,000 packaged foods sold at Coles, Woolworths, Aldi, IGA and Harris Farm supermarkets in Sydney were assessed by researchers from the George Institute for Global Health.
Nearly four in 10 products carried some sort of sustainability claim, the study in Public Health Nutrition found.
Associate Prof Alexandra Jones, the institute’s program lead for food governance, said the majority of claims were self-declared by the manufacturer, without independent verification.
“Consumers are increasingly trying to make food choices that are good for the planet, and manufacturers know it. What we’re finding is that the labels designed to guide those choices are largely unregulated and that creates real risks of greenwashing.”
Out of 69 different environmental claims identified by the researchers, “natural” and “vegan” appeared most often. Some, like “sustainable” or “natural”, were so broad as to be almost meaningless, she said.
“There’s no legal meaning of ‘natural’, but we know that people associate it with being better for you, or being better for the environment,” she said. “But many things are natural that are not good in a health context. Sugar is natural – that doesn’t mean it’s good for you.”"
#Greenwashing #Corruption #DirtyTactics #News #Australia #Coles #Woolworths #Aldi #IGA #Food #Groceries #Activism
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Abusive customers to be banned from South Australian stores under new laws https://www.byteseu.com/1997572/ #Abuse #assault #Australia #bigw #hospitality #JoshPeak #KyamMaher #PeterHurley #police #Pubs #retail #SDA #violence #Woolworths #WorkersUnion
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ACCC is taking Woolworths to court over its "Prices Dropped" promotions.
The watchdog alleges the supermarket used fake discounts on over 260 items — briefly jacking up the "was" price before "dropping" it to something that was often still higher than the old regular price.
Woolworths denies misleading shoppers.
Classic supermarket pricing games?#Woolworths #Aldi #ACCC #GroceryPrices #CostOfLiving #SupermarketWars
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The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:
#wine
#lions
#rugby
#woolworths
#conadin
#hyperhidrosis
#rollonghana
#bible
#jesuschrist
#emmausBased on recent posts made by non-automated accounts. Posts with more boosts, favourites, and replies are weighted higher.
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The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:
#wine
#lions
#rugby
#woolworths
#conadin
#hyperhidrosis
#rollonghana
#bible
#jesuschrist
#emmausBased on recent posts made by non-automated accounts. Posts with more boosts, favourites, and replies are weighted higher.
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#ACCC accuses #Woolworths of #misleading #pricing practices as next federal court case kicks off.
The consumer watchdog claims Woolworths prevented shoppers from making informed choices about essential purchases between September 2021 & May 2023.
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More complaints arise about Woolworths’ use of AI personality analysis in job interviews
Steve Holt, 51, has tried to get…
#NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #about #AI #Analysis #applicants #arise #ArtificialIntelligence #assumptions #AU #Australia #being #come #complaints #Experiences #forward #have #in #Interviews #job #judged #laughable #made #more #of #personality #rejected #ridiculous #seemingly #Technology #that #their #them #Use #with #Woolworths
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/569255/ -
More complaints arise about Woolworths’ use of AI personality analysis in job interviews
Steve Holt, 51, has tried to get…
#NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #about #AI #Analysis #applicants #arise #ArtificialIntelligence #assumptions #AU #Australia #being #come #complaints #Experiences #forward #have #in #Interviews #job #judged #laughable #made #more #of #personality #rejected #ridiculous #seemingly #Technology #that #their #them #Use #with #Woolworths
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/569255/ -
“A #Woolworths spokesperson said in a statement to the #BBC that the responses about birthdays had been written by a #human.”
#AI / #ArtificialIntelligence / #ZeroHourWork / #WhiteCollar <https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7jeyeyd18o>
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My local IGA is closing down and turning into a Spudshed. Determined to keep shopping here til the bitter end whenever that is, and it's soon, judging from the emptiness.
Running out of options to avoid Colesworth. Just symbolically got the last pack of toilet paper.
#SundayShopping #IGA #Spudshed #Coles #Woolworths #Colesworth
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United Workers #Union members at #Woolworths Warehouse sites handling liquor in Victoria, NSW and Queensland are on indefinite #strike
We hear from a #CFMEU organiser who was at the site of a death of a member at a Victorian Wind Farm recently.
We go to the #healthworkers rally for #Nurses and #Midwives that stopped #Sydney CBD on November 13th.Wherever you are, whatever you do there is a union for you !
https://www.3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episode/uwu-warehouse-strikes-cfmeu-death-nsw-nurses-out-respect -
Thanks Sarah Missen
Industrial disputes & news - 20 November 2024
#Woolworths; #StVincent's Private; #Canberra buses; Churches of Christ; #MetroTasmania; Victoria Police; #Penthouse #Sydney; #WesternPower; AFP; #BananaShire Council; Sydney Trains; #Graincorp & ASChttps://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-20-november?
#labormovement #Organize #solidarity
#strikes #unions #AMWU #CFMEU #ETU -
"#MellowVans are South African-developed and -manufactured road-legal three-wheel electric delivery vehicles that provide low-cost and emission-free last-mile transport for e-commerce distribution.
The vehicles, manufactured at MellowVans’ #Stellenbosch factory using 70% local content, are popular among South African brands who deploy them as part of their delivery fleet, including #Takealot, #Spar, #Woolworths and #DHL."