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Coles misled customers with ‘Down Down’ discounts, judge finds
A judge has found Coles engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct when advertising products with a 'Down Down' discount, in a win for the consumer regulator and a class action.
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Vicinity Centres pays $400M for Eastern Creek Quarter
Vicinity Centres will pay $400 million to acquire the Eastern Creek Quarter retail precinct in Western Sydney from Frasers Property. 
Ex-Mastercard sales manager says he lied to finance team on 7-Eleven deal
A former Mastercard business development director has admitted at trial to lying to the payments giant's finance department about the risk of 7-Eleven routing transactions to EFTPOS to seal a deal.
Mastercard’s competition lawyers advised rewording deal, court told
Trial in a case alleging Mastercard misused its market power by striking deals with retailers to defend revenues against EFTPOS routing has heard external competition lawyers suggested removing the word 'routing' from its contract with Woolworths.
Mastercard risked $45M hit from RBA routing initiative, court hears
Mastercard risked losing half its revenue from retail interchange fees as a result of the Reserve Bank's least-cost routing initiative, and struck deals with top retailers to defend its core business, a court was told Wednesday.
Woolworths faced loss of status with Mastercard if it used EFTPOS, trial told
A trial judge has heard that Mastercard's top Australian executives discussed stripping Woolworths of strategic merchant status if the supermarket giant routed customer transactions through the cheaper EFTPOS network.
ASIC launches probe into insider trading of Accent Group shares
ASIC has opened an insider trading investigation into the trading of retailer Accent Group's shares, asking the company to preserve communications by its CEO Daniel Agostinelli.
‘None of it strikes me as nefarious’: Judge puts ACCC’s Woolworths case to the test
A judge has again voiced doubts about the ACCC's misleading conduct case over Woolworths' 'Prices Dropped' campaign, probing counsel for the regulator at length on Thursday about how the claims stack up.
Workers in Sunday pay rates class actions face unjust enrichment claims
Coles, Woolworths, McDonald's and Hungry Jack's have denied underpaying employees in class actions over Sunday pay entitlements in South Australia, saying that if workers were underpaid, they can set off any amounts owed against mistaken overpayments.
Mastercard used low rates as bargaining chip with Coles, trial hears
Mastercard's APAC head was "perfectly comfortable" with the threat of removal of discounted interchange rates to cut a deal with Coles to route transactions through its payment network, a court has heard.