Big supermarket revamp lays groundwork for postcode price wars

The Australian-owned Woolworths grocery chain is getting ready to compete head-to-head with locally-owned New World and Pak’nSave supermarkets – good news for some communities, but bad for others.
The giveaway to the company’s big strategic change was a small box that appeared at the top of its online shopping homepage this week, quietly but firmly asking that customers select their local store “as prices and range may vary by location”.