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Coles, Woolworths facing $780M underpayments bill after court ruling
Employment 2025-09-08 11:55 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Coles and Woolworths estimate they will need to remediate underpaid workers up to $780 million, following a complex judgment in two class actions and regulatory proceedings handed down last week.

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‘This should not be done again’: Judge slams complex Coles, Woolworths trial
Class Actions 2025-09-05 11:54 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has criticised the “unacceptably complex” trial of two regulatory cases and two underpayments class actions against Coles and Woolworths, delivering a ruling whose significance for the workers is not yet clear.

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Coles, Woolworths class actions ‘put to sleep’ until ACCC trial
Competition & Consumer Protection 2025-08-25 11:01 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge will hit pause on two class actions against Coles and Woolworths over allegedly illusory discounts after hearing a bid to bind group members to the findings in related proceedings by the ACCC. 

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Judge ‘troubled’ about binding Coles, Woolworths class actions to ACCC trial findings
Class Actions 2025-08-07 11:55 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge overseeing class actions against Coles and Woolworths over alleged illusory discounts has raised concerns about a bid to bind group members to findings in similar cases by the ACCC. 

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Law firm drops competing Coles, Woolworths class actions over discounts
Class Actions 2025-06-30 11:18 pm By Christine Caulfield

One of two law firms running competing class actions against Coles and Woolworths over alleged illusory discounts has bowed out, leaving its rival to pursue the cases for consumers.

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Coles sells Adelaide shopping centre for $75.2M
Real Estate 2025-05-07 11:57 pm By Andy Sidler

Adelaide real estate group Taplin has acquired the Kurralta Park Village shopping centre from Coles, with the supermarket giant reselling the site for a $1 million profit after just 2 years. 

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Coles leases new national headquarters in Melbourne CBD
Real Estate 2025-02-20 8:46 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Coles has moved its national headquarters to a high rise in Melbourne’s Docklands to attract a larger talent pool, delivering a boost to the CBD’s commercial office market.  Corrs Chambers Westgarth advised Coles on the lease of its new national commercial office headquarters and store support centre at 720 Bourke Street, Melbourne.  Coles will lease…

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Competing class actions filed against Coles, Woolworth over ‘illusory’ disounts
Class Actions 2025-02-12 11:21 pm By Christine Caulfield

A second law firm has lodged class actions against Coles and Woolworths on the back of the consumer regulator’s claims that the supermarket giants’ discount campaigns were misleading.

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Law firms to join forces in class actions against Coles, Woolworths
Competition & Consumer Protection 2024-12-11 11:05 am By Cindy Cameronne

Two law firms that were set to run competing class actions against Coles and Woolworths over alleged illusory discounts have reached an in-principle agreement to collaborate.

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Coles, Woolworths say price increases were genuine, and so were the discounts
Competition & Consumer Protection 2024-12-03 5:32 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Hitting back at the regulator’s claims of dodgy sales promotions, Coles and Woolworths say price increases were the result of real cost pressures, and subsequent discounts were not illusory.

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