Supermarket price gouging will be banned from July. Will consumers actually end up better off?
- Written by Sanjoy Paul, Associate Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
This week, the federal government announced a ban on supermarket price gouging, aiming to get “a fairer go for families in their weekly shop”.
From July 1 2026, the new supermarket regulations will ban very large retailers (those with revenue of more than A$30 billion per year) from charging prices that are:
excessive when compared to...
