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New study finds Woolworths prices are higher compared to a year ago
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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3/27/2025
A new report has found the average grocery basket at Woolworths is costing shoppers more than it did a year ago.
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Over the past year Consumer Advocacy Group Choice have travelled across the country visiting
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104 Australian supermarkets where they've been recording the average price of grocery
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items.
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Now they were targeting specifically 14 common items that usually are on everybody's shopping
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list and that includes beef mince, milk, carrots and apples.
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And what they found was that Coles and Aldi over the course of a year had significantly
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declined in the average basket of shopping items in that price and that was both with
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and without specials.
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However Woolworths over the course of the year with that same basket of grocery items
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had increased by more than 3.7% and that was with specials as well.
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So just to put this into perspective that difference works out to be about $1.70 per
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weekly shop.
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Over the course of a year that weekly shop would cost Aussie consumers about $90 but
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it is worth noting that most people when they go for their average shop do spend and
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buy a lot more than just 14 common grocery items.
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Now this all comes a week after the ACCC has released its report and its findings which
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found that supermarket giants had limited incentive to compete on prices.
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So today Choice has again called on the Federal Government to implement one of those 20 recommendations
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from the ACCC to sort of increase their price transparency among those supermarket prices
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and that is something that while it is deeply concerning has certainly been a blow to many
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Australians across the country who continue to feel that cost of living bite.
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