{"id":763699,"date":"2026-06-27T12:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763699\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T12:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:42:20","slug":"anti-price-gouging-laws-world-first-laws-set-to-protect-aussie-customers-at-the-supermarket-checkout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763699\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-price-gouging laws: World-first laws set to protect Aussie customers at the supermarket checkout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australians will soon have another cost-of-living measure on their side when supermarket price gouging becomes illegal on July 1.<\/p>\n

Under the world-first anti-price-gouging law, supermarkets found to be charging outside what\u2019s deemed a \u201creasonable margin\u201d could face fines of up to $10 million.<\/p>\n

\"Supermarket<\/p>\n

Australians will soon have another cost-of-living measure on their side when supermarket price gouging becomes illegal on July 1.\u00a09News<\/p>\n

Coles and Woolworths are the only two supermarkets impacted by these new laws, as they are the only ones that qualify as \u201cvery large retailers\u201d with more than $30 billion revenue.<\/p>\n

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has committed to conducting \u201cregular compliance checks\u201d to make sure Coles and Woolies aren\u2019t ripping customers off.<\/p>\n

But the laws don\u2019t put a figure on what constitutes an excessively priced grocery product.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is all about protecting consumers at the checkout,\u201d Assistant Competition Minister Andrew Leigh said.<\/p>\n

\"coles<\/p>\n

Coles and Woolworths are the only grocery retailers subject to the new law against supermarket price-gouging.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

\u201cWe deliberately haven\u2019t put numbers around this. To do that would risk the system being gained and a worse deal for consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both supermarket Goliaths deny engaging in price-gouging behaviour in the past and UNSW consumer law expert Ray Steinwell says proving price gouging has occurred could be difficult.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be a little bit difficult for the ACCC to enforce and I think it will be challenging also for Coles and Woolworths,\u201d Steinwell said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWould you look at what the price is by a competitor? Would you look at what the price is for a substitutable product?\u201d<\/p>\n

With Australians struggling with increasing financial pressures, the supermarket checkout has been carved out as a crucial battleground.<\/p>\n

\"Woman<\/p>\n

The supermarket checkout is becoming a political battleground as the cost-of-living increases pressures on Aussie families.\u00a09News<\/p>\n

While the price gouging legislation appears to show the Albanese Government acting on cost-of-living issues, the Liberals don\u2019t agree.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re establishing their own line of attack, especially in the face of the rise of One Nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason Australians are paying higher prices in their red basket or trolley is because the government keeps stoking inflation,\u201d Shadow Treasurer Tim Wilson claimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur focus in the lead up to the next election is going to make sure that we\u2019re a united team that can go on and prosecute the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not going to come down to one person, it\u2019s going to come down to all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australians will soon have another cost-of-living measure on their side when supermarket price gouging becomes illegal on July…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-763699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}