Woolworths’ mince sales tell us households are bleeding. The RBA has little choice but to inflict more pain next week with a rate rise - will that really be it?
Meatball Monday. Taco Tuesday. Spag bol on Saturday – and Sunday, too.
Welcome to the reality of Australian life, where Woolworths chief executive Amanda Bardwell says four years of cost-of-living pressures have resulted in a boom in sales of beef mince, the basic building block of countless cheap family dinners.
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