19 Aug 2025

Supermarket basics cost increase putting squeeze on budgets

From Morning Report, 8:23 am on 19 August 2025

If you've popped to the shops recently for a bottle of milk and a loaf of bread, chances are you paid a lot more for these basics than you might have even a year ago. Money correspondent Susan Edmunds spoke to Corin Dann.

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