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Consumer group CHOICE have launched a campaign urging consumers to be ‘unit pricing champions’ by crowdsourcing examples of bad unit pricing. What is unit pricing? Unit pricing can be a useful tool to save you money. But it isn’t perfect. Supermarkets try to make it difficult for us, they use small text, don’t display information correctly…
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Consumer group CHOICE is calling for unit pricing to be improved following an investigation that found people can save up to $1600 a year by using unit pricing to compare the cost of loose and pre-packed food. “Unit pricing is an important tool which helps shoppers compare and cut back on their grocery spend but the system…
Read More CHOICE says shoppers can save by comparing unit prices
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Consumers want improvements to online grocery selling sites Online food and grocery sellers in Australia should make it much easier for shoppers to compare the value of items on their websites, says CFA member Queensland Consumers Association. QCA spokesperson, Ian Jarratt, says online grocery sellers can best do this by providing the unit price (price…
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John Furbank, the Chair of the ISO/PC 294 recently attended the 3rd meeting on unit pricing. He reports to us below. The 3rd meeting of ISO PC294 Guidance on unit pricing was held at the headquarters of Shufuren (association of consumer groups) Tokyo, Japan in December 2016. Standards Australia is the Secretariat for ISO PC…
Read More John Furbank reports: 3rd meeting of ISO PC249 Guidance on unit pricing
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In an increasingly price-conscious world, being able to compare prices of equivalent products in order to make an informed choice is a consumer right. But with the explosion of pre-packaged goods in different types of packaging and product sizes that has hit our shop shelves, making that choice is no easy task. To get around…
Read More ISO talks with John Furbank: The price is right
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The Queensland Consumers Association (QCA) and other consumer groups1 want all parties contesting the forthcoming federal election to do much more to help consumers experiencing cost of living pressures. QCA spokesperson, Ian Jarratt, says being able to easily and quickly get better value at the supermarket would help consumers to “ease the squeeze” on living…
Read More Consumers call for political parties to help ease the squeeze on living standards
In a price-conscious world, being able to compare prices quickly and effectively is a growing consumer demand. A new standard in development on unit pricing will help. Consumers are increasingly using price as a factor when making purchase decisions1. But with an explosion in product choices – a survey of an Australian supermarket, for example, showed it…
Read More Comparing prices to get easier with new standard in development
Ian Jarratt in Store
Ian Jarratt, an Executive member from the Consumers Federation of Australia, is the leading voice on the ISO Project Committee, who are creating a standard on Unit Pricing. Today, he sits with us to explain the importance of comparing prices for consumers. The unit price…
Read More The price choice: Consumers want comparative pricing, The ISO Project Committee aims to deliver just that
Australia lags behind Sweden and US to standardise unit pricing legibility
Read More Consumers group responds to international developments on confusing and opaque grocery pricing
Like “made in” claims, unit pricing ensures happy consumers and healthy markets
Read More Lessons from the country of origin labelling furore: Display consumer info prominently and we all win
In one example, shoppers save 183% by using unit prices
Read More CHOICE celebrates five years of simpler grocery pricing
Improved unit pricing could benefit shoppers by hundreds of millions of dollars a year
Read More Queensland consumers issue call for supermarkets to “clean-up” grocery pricing
