Consumers make sense of shopping as inflation bites into dollars

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.

A consumer making a purchase with a credit card (Getty) Credit: AGF/AGF/Universal Images Group via G

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