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Consumers make sense of shopping as inflation bites into dollars

A consumer making a purchase with a credit card (Getty) Credit: AGF/AGF/Universal Images Group via G
New data from the Treasury indicates that wages for Australians have increased over the last year, but that this increase has been overshadowed by cost-of-living pressures. To cope with these increases, consumers have been changing their shopping habits.
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