Cheaper Groceries
Everyone should be able to afford healthy food, without the profit-driven price tag.
Grocery prices are out of control.
Since 2019, they've risen by 31%. As you pay more at the checkout, Coles and Woolworths make huge profits. This year, they pocketed a record $2.23 billion in just six months.
Coles and Woolworths don't just rip you off, they rip off Aussie farmers too.
The Greens will take 30% off your grocery bill, by introducing publicly-owned supermarkets.
A basket of essential items, like milk, bread, eggs, meat, fruit and veggies, will be 30% cheaper at our public stores. In our nation-first trial, we’ll open 10 public stores across metro Melbourne and regional Victoria.
Our plan
- Publicly-owned local supermarkets.
- Essentials like milk, bread, fruit & veggies 30% cheaper.
- Giving Aussie farmers a fair deal.
- Caps on supermarket price-gouging.
Explore our plan for Cheaper Groceries
- Publicly-owned local supermarkets
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The Greens will open 10 publicly-owned local supermarkets, stocking everything you’d expect from Coles and Woolworths.
Essentials like bread, milk, eggs, meat, fruit, veg and nappies will be priced 30% cheaper compared to the major supermarkets.
This would cut your grocery bills and save Victorian households an average of $82.20 on essentials each week, or $4274.40 a year.
We’ll also back Aussie suppliers by stocking 100% locally-sourced food and drink, and seasonal produce.
We’ll invest $350m over the next four years as an initial investment in this nation-first trial, starting with five supermarkets in metropolitan Melbourne and five in the regions. That’s less than Labor has spent on luxury upgrades for the Grand Prix.
And, we’ll pay for it by taxing big banks and the gambling industry.
- Giving Aussie farmers a fair deal
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The Greens will back Aussie farmers by stocking quality local produce at publicly-owned supermarkets, and giving farmers fair pay for their product.
We’ll also end Coles and Woolworths’ predatory tactics that force farmers to accept lower prices for their goods, such as cancelling or re-negotiating contracts with farmers after produce has been picked.
We’ll do this by empowering the Essential Services Commission to set minimum farm-gate prices on essentials.
- Caps on supermarket price-gouging
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Australia’s surging food prices have been driven by predatory price gouging by Coles and Woolworths.
We’ll supercharge the Essential Services Commission to put an end to price-gouging on everyday basics across the supermarket sector.
Under our plan, the ESC would set maximum prices for key essential grocery items, which would be updated and reviewed monthly.
Those prices would be set through ongoing engagement with agricultural and food experts, economists, and the community to ensure that pricing and what the ESC deems essential is responsive to community needs and external factors, such as disruptions to supply chains.