Choice finds basket of nine items cost $99.38 on average at four remote community stores in Western Australia and the Northern Territory
People living in remote Indigenous communities are paying more than double the capital city prices for everyday groceries including flour, tasty cheese, apples and milk, new research has found.
Choice made the recommendation in its submission to the ACCC’s ongoing inquiry into Australia’s supermarket sector. “Availability of food in the first place is also a big issue faced by people living in remote communities,” he said. “At one store visited by our mystery shopper there was no bread to be found, and our shopper had to make do with frozen hotdog buns.”
Financial counsellor and Boandik woman Bettina Cooper said live price monitoring was a good idea but the government needed to cap the prices of essential items if it was “serious about closing the gap”.
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