
27 Oct PRICE WARS; CLIMBING THE NATURE LADDER
PRICE WARS
Coles and Woolworths were in the Federal Court this week beginning their fight against the ACCC’s claims they’d deceived shoppers about hundreds of grocery price discounts.
Lawyers for the supermarket giants insisted the case against them is misconceived and denied they’d tricked customers, arguing that their suppliers had insisted on their products being sold for higher prices due to the inflationary pressures they were under.
Meanwhile, politicians in the US are alarmed about the use of digital price tags in some supermarkets, including Walmart, amid fears they could open the door to dynamic pricing which would allow stores to quickly raise rises on various products at certain times.
CLIMBING THE NATURE LADDER
Nature is growing on the corporate agenda. The Financial Times this week highlighted the emerging concept of “nature positive”, which aims to stop and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030, and its increasing number of mentions in company press releases and materials.
Companies are increasingly engaging in biodiversity measures and events, with recent trends showing around 1,000 businesses attending the COP15 summit in Montreal in 2022.
However, are businesses truly measuring biodiversity, or will “nature positive” become the new form of “greenwashing”? Professor Martine Maron from the University of Queensland emphasises the “urgent need” for guidance around some of these company claims.
INBOX OVERLOAD: TIME TO CUT DOWN
Australia’s email habits are impacting more than just inboxes, the Sydney Morning Herald reports, with research revealing we are sending more than 8 billion emails every day.
Beyond reducing productivity, these unnecessary emails carry a hidden cost: energy consumption. Each standard email generates around 4g of carbon, meaning inbox clutter is also contributing to climate change. Author Tim Duggan suggests using CC sparingly, replying to ‘all’ with caution, and keeping messages concise as key strategies to reduce the impact our emails are having.
So, perhaps it’s time to rethink emailing habits, cut back on pointless emails, and give both our sanity and the planet a break!
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