A customer has blasted Australian fashion brand Kookai for an employee’s ‘shameful attitude’ after she asked if she could get a dress she liked in a larger size. Adelle Petropoulos, from Melbourne, detailed her disappointing shopping experience after deciding to go into the clothing store ‘on a whim’ to try on some ‘cute’ outfits. WATCH …
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A shopper has taken aim at Kmart for its vigilance in checking receipts of customers leaving the store after using self-service checkouts. The woman took issue with the retailer placing an employee at the exit to check receipts for customers who used the self-checkouts. She claimed on her last visit that she had “jumped the …
Inflation and rising interest rates will make it difficult for some people to pay off debt, and a group of Aussies will soon be down $1,300 a month, the Reserve Bank of Australia has conceded. In releasing its half-yearly financial stability review on Friday, the RBA said there was a small group of borrowers who …
Australians already feel the bowser pinch are prepared to experience further financial hardship after an unexpected event overall decision. The OPEC-plus alliance – the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries – is a conglomerate of oil-producing countries informally led by Saudi Arabia and Russia that decides how much crude oil to sell on the world …
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A Brisbane-based company that has invented a smartphone app it claims can diagnose COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses by listening to someone cough has been bought by Pfizer for nearly $180 million. ResApp Health Limited uses diagnostic technology developed by Associate Professor Udantha Abeyratne and his research team at the University of Queensland (UQ) to …
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Queensland construction costs have seen the biggest quarterly rise nationally, according to a new report. Key points: Industry experts say labor shortages and construction overhead are adding pressure on construction costs Rising costs lead to continued delays in completion times and a blow to builders’ owning costs CoreLogic Research Director Tim Lawless Says COVID-19 and …
Industry whispers indicate that a new compact pickup is being developed by Toyota, and it could adopt a name that hasn’t been used in decades. 0 See 16 pictures The Toyota Stout was one of the first Japanese utility vehicles to prove itself as a reliable and capable workhorse on Australian farms throughout the 1960s …
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The automotive industry calls it a “special part baccalaureate”, but Volkswagen more elegantly describes Tiguan Allspace Adventure as “a local solution to a global problem”. A global shortage of microchips has stifled Volkswagen’s supply in Australia. Sales of the Tiguan, the brand’s most popular car, have fallen to just 32 vehicles per month this year …
A liquidator is investigating the collapse of a family building business after company funds were used to buy a number of residential properties in which family members held interests, while the owners claim that they ended up with incomplete and defective houses. That’s according to a liquidator’s report filed with the Australian Securities and Investments …
The monthly US jobs report, released at 11:30 p.m. AEDT on Friday, is expected to show employers added 250,000 jobs last month, based on economists’ median estimate. The unemployment rate is expected to hold steady at 3.7%, just above a five-decade low. Wall Street is watching jobs data very closely as the Fed remains determined …
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