How to beat grocery stores at their own game
Supermarkets are designed to make you spend money, but if you focus you can beat them.
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'Significant increase': 5000 crimes at New World, Pak’nSave and Four Square in three months
There were 60 assaults during the three-month period and 26 cases of harassment.
Woolworths honours cancelled points after competition mistake
Angela London was among 79,000 people to receive a winning email by mistake.
Let the music play: The top 10 Kiwi tunes you’re hearing at the supermarket
What are we hearing, why and does it even matter?
Melanie Bracewell's egg-cellent joke draws Woolworths' attention
Woolworths responded after the comedian slammed their less-than-impressive egg reviews.
'Couldn't believe it': Kiwi shoppers left 'deflated' by supermarket prize error
"We celebrated our $30 windfall for a few hours yesterday then were very deflated."
‘It’s a big problem’: Demand grows for food support
The New Zealand Food Network has revealed a 42 per cent increase in demand.
Food awards fight: How did 3000 medals end up in our groceries?
Pies, cheese, sausages, etc. The big business behind all those tiny award stickers.
Chicken rip-off, London sword attack and debt repayments | Focus Morning Bulletin May 1, 2024
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More customers claim supermarkets overcharged them for underweight chicken
Customers find packets are underweight by as much as 75g.
‘Free-from’ foods could be doing you more harm than good
Unless you have an allergy, 'free-from' foods probably not the best option, say experts.
New report ‘revelation’ about fast growth of climate demands on NZ traders
Exporters may be directly or indirectly affected via supply chain demands.
Gisborne cockroach and corpse loving ‘coffin fly’ identified in Whangārei man’s supermarket cheese
MPI is still investigating a pensioner's 1kg block of cheese.
The city opening NZ's biggest independent supermarket
The Hamilton West space has been vacant since Countdown moved out eight months ago.
Customer exposes free-range chicken's inflated price after New World store weighs packaging
New World admits it has been charging customers for packaging and liquid.
Woolworths rolls out body cameras for staff as assaults rise
The rollout is part of Woolworths’ three year, $45 million programme to add more security.
Local Waipu shop's award-winning cheeses answer to new EU regulations
Origin Northland in Waipu sells food products with the lowest possible food miles.
Fresh new look for Hāwera supermarket
When will other Taranaki and Whanganui Countdowns follow suit?
Editorial: Inflation is not done yet, but there is some cause for hope
OPINION: Non-tradable inflation still worries economists.
AI mistaking Māori woman as thief no surprise to experts
The woman was shopping at a Rotorua New World when she was asked to leave the store.
Jail threat, apologies as Aussie supermarket chiefs front up to Senate inquiry
A parliamentary hearing on prices at the checkout got fiery.
MPI take cockroach contaminated cheese from shopper
MPI officers have taken away a cockroach-infested block of cheese from a shopper.
Snap, crackle, shock! Large dead mouse spotted amongst cereal at Auckland supermarket
One customer who saw the rodent 'looked like she was going to be sick'.
Supermarkets tight-lipped on plans in Napier and Havelock North
The Woolworths chain is not revealing its 'store network strategy'.
Grocery commissioner on his fight to increase supermarket competition
Grocery dysfunction: Watchdog Pierre van Heerden admits he, too, stockpiles cheese.
Facial recognition: Mum's 'horrible' mistaken identity ordeal at New World
The supermarket says it was a 'genuine case of human error'.
'Disgusting': Customer spots sign splattered with bird poo hanging over food
Birds and rats have plagued supermarkets nationwide in the past two months.
'Disastrous': Rotorua supermarket to close
'There is a real sense of loss from these workers.'
Man's bug horror find in late night snack
Whangārei man finds cockroach in a block of Woolworth's supermarket brand cheese.
Supermarket thief says she's shared stolen items with others who were 'equally as desperate'
Ebony Rapana says she was desperate, living in emergency housing and 'just did it'.
Supermarkets remove Lotto counters as in-store sales drop
The drop in in-store sales and staff needed for Lotto counters has had an effect.
Toxin fears spark recall of salted peanuts, nut mixes
Several batches of nuts pulled from shelves, consumers warned.
Watchdog outlines case against proposed supermarket merger
Commerce Commission outlines objections to Foodstuffs merger, final decision to come.
Wānaka supermarkets deliberately breach Easter trading rules
Area exemptions were generally given in tourist areas such as Taupō or Queenstown.