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Indecent duopoly risks unleashing grapes of wrath

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19.05.2024

One morning this week, a Brisbane woman took her young granddaughter to Woolworths.

Just inside the door, the woman handed the toddler one of the free bananas Woolworths trumps as part of its in-house marketing campaign.

And as she filled her trolley, her granddaughter helped herself to some of the soon-to-be-purchases – two strawberries, and a big handful of blueberries.

At the checkout, her granddaughter requested a grape.

“I gave her one, reminding her to chew it,’’ she told her local Facebook community hours later.

After the grapes were weighed, the attendant told her that the grapes were “not part of the free fruit’’, and she was now unable to weigh the single grape her granddaughter had just consumed.

“I apologised and handed over approximately $105 for my purchases,’’ she said. “It was only after I got home that I realised I had been accused of........

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