FOLLOWING CONCERNS raised by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), Coles has cancelled a new 40 cent discount petrol offer it had planned to launch today.

Similar to campaigns run by Coles and Woolworths/Safeway in July, the discounts on offer would have varied from 10 cents for a $100 spend at Coles supermarkets, up to [...]

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AUSTRALIA’S CONSUMER WATCHDOG, the ACCC, has ruled that the heavy discounts on petrol recently offered by Coles and Woolworths weren’t anti-competitive, and that neither company breached the Trade Practices Act.

Last week both supermarket retailers offered up to 40 cents per litre off fuel purchased at affiliated petrol stations to customers who spent up to - [...]

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ACCC CHAIRMAN Graeme Samuel has missed the point in the matter of the recent price war between Coles and Woolworths, according to the Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce (VACC).

Coles and Woolworths/Safeway this week announced huge petrol discounts of up to 40 cents a litre for customers spending between $100 and $300 in stores - a [...]

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