{"id":76312,"date":"2026-02-17T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/coles-tells-court-its-down-down-promotions-were-fair-dinkum-discounts-and-did-not-mislead-shoppers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T07:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:00:11","slug":"coles-tells-court-its-down-down-promotions-were-fair-dinkum-discounts-and-did-not-mislead-shoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/coles-tells-court-its-down-down-promotions-were-fair-dinkum-discounts-and-did-not-mislead-shoppers\/","title":{"rendered":"Coles tells court its Down Down promotions were \u2018fair dinkum\u2019 discounts and did not mislead shoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/72400d73e3fd9284473f96a5096505f6a8d227b2\/671_0_6713_5373\/master\/6713.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=e903377276e4cbdae30b5c98fb33a8f4\" alt=\"Coles tells court its Down Down promotions were \u2018fair dinkum\u2019 discounts and did not mislead shoppers\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Coles tells court its Down Down promotions were \u2018fair dinkum\u2019 discounts and did not mislead shoppers<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Supermarket defends pricing practices after ACCC labels discounts \u2018utterly misleading\u2019 in federal court caseFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastColes has defended its promotional prices in a high-profile court case brought by the consumer watchdog, arguing that shoppers would understand the supermarket\u2019s well-known \u201cDown Down\u201d promotion to be \u201cfair dinkum\u201d.The federal court battle between the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and Coles began this week, testing allegations the supermarket breached the law by offering \u201cillusory\u201d discounts on many everyday products. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/feb\/17\/coles-discounts-accc-court-down-down-promotions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Coles tells court its Down Down promotions were \u2018fair dinkum\u2019 discounts and did not mislead shoppers Supermarket defends pricing practices after ACCC labels discounts \u2018utterly misleading\u2019 in federal court caseFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastColes has defended its promotional prices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":76313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}