{"id":78064,"date":"2026-02-18T20:30:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/consumer-watchdog-concerned-by-rise-of-per-item-prices-at-australian-supermarkets\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:00:41","slug":"consumer-watchdog-concerned-by-rise-of-per-item-prices-at-australian-supermarkets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/consumer-watchdog-concerned-by-rise-of-per-item-prices-at-australian-supermarkets\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer watchdog concerned by rise of per-item prices at Australian supermarkets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/25a6b759f2988262def2ad9936adcfc22b5109c5\/508_0_4222_3378\/master\/4222.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=ab58a53db1884ad2ff7fa6d6c07f6f23\" alt=\"Consumer watchdog concerned by rise of per-item prices at Australian supermarkets\" 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\">Consumer watchdog concerned by rise of per-item prices at Australian supermarkets<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Gina Cass-Gottlieb says one of the regulator\u2019s main priorities is to ensure price claims are \u2018clear and truthful\u2019Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe head of Australia\u2019s consumer regulator says she is concerned by the growing practice of major supermarkets charging customers for fresh produce by item, rather than by weight, leaving some shoppers confused and short changed.Guardian Australia has recently reported several examples of price discrepancies by supermarkets charging fruit and vegetables per item. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/feb\/18\/consumer-watchdog-concerned-by-rise-of-per-item-prices-at-australian-supermarkets\" 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 Consumer watchdog concerned by rise of per-item prices at Australian supermarkets Gina Cass-Gottlieb says one of the regulator\u2019s main priorities is to ensure price claims are \u2018clear and truthful\u2019Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe head of Australia\u2019s consumer regulator says she is concerned by the growing practice of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":78065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78064","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\/78064","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=78064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}