Leaked emails reveal how Coles and Woolworths increase prices to boost profits, despite claims of keeping grocery bills down.
Emails show how Coles increases the prices you pay for products in return for one-off payments from its suppliers. Another insider has detailed how Woolworths seeks rebates from its suppliers when hiking prices — increasing its margins as customers pay more. Leaked emails show Coles has been profiting from higher prices at the check-out, despite repeated assurances from the supermarket giant that it is doing everything in its power to keep grocery bills down.
The emails reveal for the first time the tactics Coles has employed with a supplier seeking a price increase and how it has taken advantage of inflation. It's not alone. An industry insider has told Four Corners that Woolworths has used similar tactics to increase its profits over the last 18 months. Australia has a highly concentrated supermarket sector where Coles and Woolworths control 65 per cent of the grocery market."I would probably say that if you did five shops in Woolworths and five shops in Coles … you'd be a few cents difference maybe depending on the specials," Julian Hilliard sai
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