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		<title>Frustration not fear keep farmers mum on retail wars</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/07/frustration-not-fear-keep-farmers-mum-on-retail-wars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber Jamieson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ACCC has offered protection to whistleblower farmers and grocery supplies if they report price gouging by supermarkets. But for those on the land it's still easier said than done.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>The 2011 Crikeys: who went boom and bust in business</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/22/the-2011-crikeys-who-went-boom-and-bust-in-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/22/the-2011-crikeys-who-went-boom-and-bust-in-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After another year of remarkable volatility caused by the unpredictable news flow coming out of the European debt crisis, Australian investors have every reason to be sitting on their hands. So who did capitalise?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stacking the shelves: the home brand backlash, from pollies to rivals</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/30/stacking-the-shelves-the-home-brand-backlash-from-pollies-to-competitors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/30/stacking-the-shelves-the-home-brand-backlash-from-pollies-to-competitors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Cowie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Xenophon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[price war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stacking the shelves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supermarkets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woolworths]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the pricing war between Coles and Woolworths heats up, there are concerns the push toward home brand products could see consumers left with less choice in their trolley. In part two of an ongoing series, <em>Crikey</em> examines the rise of generics -- and market power.]]></description>
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		<title>Tight arses unite for a merry homebrand Christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/money/your-home-brand-christmas/story-e6frezc0-1225812233470</link>
		<comments>http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/money/your-home-brand-christmas/story-e6frezc0-1225812233470#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grocery prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homebrand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supermarkets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woolworths]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=107244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Branded grocery item prices are soaring while homebrand versions are dropping in price. Start buying no name to reign those greedy big brands in, says the government. But should we blame brands or the supermarkets?]]></description>
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		<title>Reality check: you can afford locally-grown fresh food</title>
		<link>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/reality-check-in-aisle-nine-20091029-hnkf.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/reality-check-in-aisle-nine-20091029-hnkf.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ethical eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthy eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthy food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supermarkets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stop blaming the supermarket ogliopoly for buying packaged, processed food from big corporations, says <b>Phillip O'Neal</b>: most Australians <em>can</em> afford and access fresh, locally-produced fare -- they're just too lazy.]]></description>
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		<title>Why the supermarket express lane isn&#8217;t always the fastest</title>
		<link>http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=4646</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=4646#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food & Travel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[creative mathematics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graph pr0n]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mathematics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shopping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[statistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supermarkets]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=87082</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's called "express", everyone in it has eight items or fewer, yet every other line is powering ahead of you. Why? <b>Dan Meyer</b> explains, using the power of maths.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Australia embraces the Woolworths economy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/28/australia-embraces-the-woolworths-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/28/australia-embraces-the-woolworths-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BIG W]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supermarkets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woolworths]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The supermarket business is at the heart of the Woolies cash machine, and big growth in the sector is tightening the group's grip on Australian retailing. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Petrol pricing move likely to backfire on the major retailers</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/15/petrol-pricing-move-likely-to-backfire-on-the-major-retailers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/15/petrol-pricing-move-likely-to-backfire-on-the-major-retailers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coles Myer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer loyalty programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discount petrol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supermarkets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst shopper docket schemes at Coles and Woolworths have been considered pro-competitive up to now, the ACCC are now looking a bit more closely.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Woolworths: in ur fridge, tracking ur foodz</title>
		<link>http://business.smh.com.au/business/they-know-where-you-live-where-you-shop-and-what-is-inside-your-fridge-20090603-bvrb.html</link>
		<comments>http://business.smh.com.au/business/they-know-where-you-live-where-you-shop-and-what-is-inside-your-fridge-20090603-bvrb.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ad Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer loyalty programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supermarkets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woolworths]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Supermarkets are using customer loyalty cards to keep track of what you are -- and aren't -- buying from the store and where you're getting petrol.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Recession retail: it&#8217;s all in the aisles</title>
		<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/195663</link>
		<comments>http://www.newsweek.com/id/195663#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 09:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supermarkets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wal Mart]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=56435</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How Wal-Mart monitors consumers' spending -- and how they're trying to save -- one trolley at a time. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Supermarket centre aisle back in fashion</title>
		<link>http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/agency/e3ia74d58b9ff5575d7bf0c333c40214475</link>
		<comments>http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/agency/e3ia74d58b9ff5575d7bf0c333c40214475#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 07:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ad Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supermarkets]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=56097</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of Big Food's marketing focus has been on the outer aisles while the centre store -- the middle aisles that hold everything from kidney beans to marshmallows -- got little attention. That is, until the GFC. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Government&#8217;s grocery response passes the stuntwatch test</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/06/governments-grocery-response-passes-the-stuntwatch-test/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/06/governments-grocery-response-passes-the-stuntwatch-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supermarket retailers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supermarkets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Never mind what <i>The Australian</i> and the other palls of Big Retail say, there is merit in the Government's response to the ACCC's grocery reoport, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>The spin starts here: Woolies fronts the ACCC</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/20/the-spin-starts-here-woolies-fronts-the-accc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/20/the-spin-starts-here-woolies-fronts-the-accc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supermarkets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woolworths]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was never going to be easy for Woolies boss Michael Luscombe, writes <b>Trevor Cook</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Briefly Business: Retail price raids in Britiain and Stokes flashes the Monet</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/29/briefly-business-retail-price-raids-in-britiain-and-stokes-flashes-the-monet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/29/briefly-business-retail-price-raids-in-britiain-and-stokes-flashes-the-monet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kerry Stokes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[price fixing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supermarkets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren Buffett]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[British competition watchdog probes retail price fixing ... Buffett warns US recession will be tougher than expected ... Kerry Stokes flashes the Monet.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Woolies widening the gap on Coles</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/24/woolies-widening-the-gap-on-coles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/24/woolies-widening-the-gap-on-coles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supermarkets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wesfarmer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woolworths]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Any turnaround of Coles will be at a huge expense, writes former Coles executive <b>Laurie Giuseppini</b>.]]></description>
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