A rising number of Australians are spending up to one-quarter of their income on groceries and people are skipping meals to feed their children, the consumer watchdog has been told.
More than 13,000 Australians made submissions to the ACCC’s supermarkets inquiry into pricing practices, including many who detailed how they had to change their shopping habits to cope with the rising cost of groceries and broader cost of living pressures.
Australians are spending more on groceries amid the cost-of-living crisis and are having to make sacrifices, the watchdog says. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Geraghty ACCC deputy chair Mick Keogh said the responses so far had made it clear consumers “consider the price of groceries to be a major factor in the cost-of-living crisis”.
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