{"id":191360,"date":"2025-09-01T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/191360\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:52:10","slug":"government-seeks-public-submissions-on-unit-pricing-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/191360\/","title":{"rendered":"Government seeks public submissions on unit pricing review\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Submissions to the review of unit pricing regulations in supermarkets have been opened by the Australian Government Treasury as part of a broader consultation program. <\/p>\n<p>The review aims to enhance the Unit Pricing Code, making price comparisons easier and more transparent for consumers. It addresses ongoing concerns about inconsistent or misleading unit pricing practices, while also creating a fairer and more transparent supermarket pricing system.<\/p>\n<p>Consumer group Choice has also encouraged shoppers and industry stakeholders to participate, highlighting the importance of unit pricing as a tool to help people save money on groceries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s crucial that this consultation leads to stronger rules and penalties to crack down on supermarkets doing the wrong thing and undermining the consumer\u2019s ability to choose the best value product,\u201d said Andy Kelly, Choice\u2019s deputy director of campaigns and communications.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The consultation also seeks feedback on how to tackle <a href=\"https:\/\/insidefmcg.com.au\/2024\/10\/03\/shrinkflation-trend-forces-law-change-on-unit-pricing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shrinkflation<\/a>, when product sizes shrink but prices stay the same or increase, to protect consumers from paying more for less.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo make shrinkflation more transparent, and help people avoid spending extra unknowingly, clear labels on shelves should alert customers to when a product has shrunk, but the price has remained the same or increased,\u201d Kelly added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChoice supports strong penalties for dodgy unit pricing to help the ACCC clamp down on supermarkets doing the wrong thing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The public consultation is now open, and interested parties can submit their feedback through the Treasury\u2019s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Submissions to the review of unit pricing regulations in supermarkets have been opened by the Australian Government Treasury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":191361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[50492,64,13990,79,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-191360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-australian-government","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-choice","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115128903046199905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}