{"id":888076,"date":"2026-09-11T11:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T11:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888076\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T11:36:14","slug":"taylor-road-iga-nedlands-family-run-grocer-calls-out-woolworths-after-workers-scope-out-their-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888076\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Road IGA Nedlands: Family-run grocer calls out Woolworths after workers scope out their store"},"content":{"rendered":"

A family-run grocer in Perth<\/a>\u2019s western suburbs has called out Woolworths after footage emerged of its staff scoping out the store.<\/p>\n

The vision shows at least a dozen people wearing Woolworths-branded uniforms inspecting the shop at the Taylor Road IGA<\/a> in Nedlands early last week.<\/p>\n

\"Footage<\/p>\n

Footage shows at least a dozen people wearing Woolworths branded uniforms inspecting the shop at the Taylor Road IGA in Nedlands early last week.\u00a09News<\/p>\n

\u201cWandered around the shop, taking photos, writing things down and commenting that they were going to do better than us,\u201d owner James Kelly said.<\/p>\n

Retail analyst Barry Urquhart said the incident could be \u201cbrand damage personified\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was intimidating, inappropriate, and I think in the court of public opinion, a lot of consumers will respond very positively to IGA, not to Woolworths,\u201d Urquhart said.<\/p>\n

A Woolworths<\/a> spokesperson told 9News it would review the visit to IGA.<\/p>\n

\"IGA<\/p>\n

Taylor Road IGA owner James Kelly.\u00a09News<\/p>\n

\u201cWe value the role local businesses play in the community,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMarket research is common in retail, but we always expect our team to be respectful.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are reviewing this visit with team members.\u201d<\/p>\n

The supermarket<\/a> giant is currently building a new store about 1.5 kilometres up the road. It is due to open later this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll survive, but it\u2019s that small guy we worry about,\u201d Kelly said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBe it the strawberry guy or the country guy that fuels up the truck as he comes through, they\u2019re just chipping away.\u201d<\/p>\n

The IGA owner has lodged a complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family-run grocer in Perth\u2019s western suburbs has called out Woolworths after footage emerged of its staff scoping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-888076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888076","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=888076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}