Woolworths and Coles Class Action Lawsuit - Potential up to $200 - $1,300 Back (Register Your Interest)

Fat Horny Ghost on 15/11/2024 - 03:33
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Looks like a class action lawsuit against Coles and Woolworths could see everyday shoppers win hundreds of dollars each.

While the potential payout will be different for every shopper, Gerard Malouf & Partners has now revealed it could be anywhere from $200 to over $1,300.

"Consumers have paid more for products than they would have if the pricing had been accurately represented, resulting in potential financial losses," it said.

Time to claim back your financial losses

Eligibility

How to join the latest class action and will I be eligible?

Gerard Malouf & Partners said there is a time frame for when the alleged deceptive behaviour from Coles and Woolworths was operating.

You may be eligible to join the class action and claim compensation if:

  • You shopped at Coles in Australia, in-store or online, between February 2022 and May 2023 and purchased products marked as “Priced Dropped” or “Down Down”.

  • You shopped at Woolworths in Australia, in-store or online, between February 2022 and May 2023 and purchased products marked as “Priced Dropped”.

You need to register your interest.

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Comments

  • AussieDaddy on 15/11/2024 - 03:46
    +14

    How could one remember if they purchased products marked as "price dropped" or "down down" more than a year and half, or two years ago? Would they ask for receipts as proof for such purchases? Or scanning Flybuys/Everyday Rewards cards would suffice?

    • Originality on 15/11/2024 - 04:15
      +2

      I sure hope that flybuys/everyday rewards actually have the info required.
      Because everyday rewards only keeps logs for 6 months and woolworths keeps them for 14 months.

      • AussieDaddy on 15/11/2024 - 04:32
        +3

        My other concern is the amount of personal data this law firm will collect just by filling out those online forms. Even if this class action works, I doubt everyone who makes a claim will get a payout, as I doubt the Coleworths duopoly will fold that easy without fighting back.

        • Suricate on 15/11/2024 - 06:43
          +2

          And they sell the personal data they collected?

      • freefall101 on 15/11/2024 - 11:29
        +1

        It's why the lawyers are asking for it, they will be able to tell Woolworths to give them all the data as part of discovery. They'll just give Woolworths the name and card number and let Woolworths do the work (because I guarantee Woolworths has more than 14 months data)

      • Chandler on 15/11/2024 - 17:59

        Yes, they only track the purchases of their club members… hahahahaha.

        I hope you never use the same card more than once, anywhere…

        • Originality on 15/11/2024 - 18:16

          what?

          • Chandler on 16/11/2024 - 21:32

            @Originality: Stores can (and likely do) track purchases by the card used. Why wait for someone to sign up for Everyday Rewards / Flybuys / etc? If they constantly use the same card, you can track their purchases and once they do sign up to the membership start hitting them with relevant advertising, discounts, etc. Hell, likely before then since you can probably narrow them down by tracking nearby bluetooth MAC addresses…

            Was made readily apparent to me the second time I requested an email receipt at a Square terminal and didn't need to enter my email address - Square associated the email address with the card number, so since I used the same card, it defaulted to the same email address (albeit obfuscated on the display i.e. cha……@ozb……)

    • DoctorArd on 15/11/2024 - 08:37
      +1

      A world class Ozbargainer would track such information in an itemized spreadsheet!

  • Lucille Bluth on 15/11/2024 - 04:15
    +9

    This isn't really a bargain. There is no guarantee they will be successful in the class action.

    • Originality on 15/11/2024 - 04:15
      +3

      Yeah, more of a forum post kinda thing.

        • Suricate on 15/11/2024 - 06:50

          Why are you promoting ALDI here?

        • DoctorArd on 15/11/2024 - 08:38
          +1

          I did a decent shop at Aldi this week and was pleasantly reminded of how almost everything I buy is cheaper there. I think I was put off earlier in the year when I shopped in the afternoon for a specific recipe and more than half the items were out of stock.

    • nightelves on 15/11/2024 - 05:36
      +6

      Don’t worry Mike Ross and Harvey Specter is on the case.

      • cryptowiz on 15/11/2024 - 05:51
        +3

        Not Rachel Zane?

        • U30004 on 15/11/2024 - 06:18
          +2

          You mean her royal highness

      • original15 on 15/11/2024 - 07:07
        +3

        Please keep Luis away from this

        • quick-dry on 17/11/2024 - 20:48

          you don't want Coles and Woolies to get Litt up in the court room?

  • Slo20 on 15/11/2024 - 04:32
    +2

    Not sure how a personal injury law firm is going to go here. Looks like the law firm are also opportunistic. https://www.afr.com/companies/professional-services/judge-ur…

    • Guybrush- Threepwood on 15/11/2024 - 04:44
      +3

      It also looks like they need some grammar lessons…

  • HsvPete on 15/11/2024 - 05:24
    +4

    So let’s say they win. Where is the money going to come from? The price of groceries will go up again to cover the loss. They aren’t going to put there prices down due to a lawsuit. In the long run no one wins but Cole’s and woollies.

    • Gervais fanboy on 15/11/2024 - 05:30
      +3

      The price of groceries will go up again

      Another lawsuit = endless loop.

    • joka on 15/11/2024 - 06:31
      +2

      Ah, one of the great mysteries of ozbargain; someone says something very logical and gets negged.

      • mapax on 15/11/2024 - 06:44

        Probably negged by the “i WaNt CoMpEnZaTiOn” types.

    • coffeeinmyveins on 15/11/2024 - 07:20
      +2

      Where is the money going to come from

      It's going to come from the billions they've already made in profit, and will in itself probably be written off over 20 years or something.

      So really, it's nothing. Until these "fines" start becoming huge percentages of their profits or limit their actual business, nothing will change.

      If you can make $10bn but pay $500m in a fine, why wouldn't you?

      • MrThing on 15/11/2024 - 08:33

        kinda why people who own companies and have road infringements just say it was an unknown at the company and pay the inflated fine fee and cop no points

      • joka on 15/11/2024 - 09:17

        If this becomes a regular occurrence it will get built into the pricing of their products which does get passed onto the consumer.

        • coffeeinmyveins on 15/11/2024 - 09:18

          Even more of a reason not to shop there?

          I haven't stepped foot in a colesworth in almost a year, and even then it was only because I had gift cards from CC churning.

    • Drakesy on 15/11/2024 - 14:20

      Lets be honest the law firm will take the majority and the actual people involved will get pennies in the dollar.

  • umoddbro on 15/11/2024 - 05:31
    +13

    The only winners out of class action lawsuits are the lawyers…

    • nightelves on 15/11/2024 - 05:38
      +1

      Time to start training for that bar exam I say.

  • Dollar General on 15/11/2024 - 05:41
    +12

    Great publicity stunt for this ambulance chasing law firm

    • coffeeinmyveins on 15/11/2024 - 07:20
      +1

      Even the guy looks like an ambulance chaser lol

  • dwarves on 15/11/2024 - 06:05
    +3

    Gerard Malouf & Partners are some of the shonkiest and most incompetent “lawyers” you could ever have the displeasure of encountering. Source: someone who dealt with them myriad times on myriad cases, ie me.

    • DoctorArd on 15/11/2024 - 08:39

      Tell us more!

      • dwarves on 15/11/2024 - 09:26
        +3

        They would make ridiculous claims, based on scant or zero evidence, then pursue them with some of the worst "lawyering" ever seen.

        Whenever we received a claim from GMP, we knew we were in for a wild ride.

        I just had a look at their site for the first time in forever. It saddens me to see that Vrege Kolokossian and Mario Piperides are still practicing. Those are names I remember very well indeed. One case that Kolokossian brought against us was so incompetently pursued that I lodged a complaint about him with the LSC, for signing a ‘reasonable grounds’ certificate (see s347 Legal Profession Act 2004 (NSW)) in circumstances where in my view he did not have reasonable grounds on which to do so. The entire case against us was premised on a claimed contractual relationship that simply didn't exist. A few minutes' investigation would have identified that. But Vrege sued us anyway. The whole thing was farcical.

  • navshaf on 15/11/2024 - 06:09
    +2

    This might be considered an opportunistic shakedown of a large company

    • MrThing on 15/11/2024 - 08:32
      +1

      ambo chaser lawyers (for the people) vs the best lawyers money can buy (the ones who will defend woolies and coles)

  • GregRust on 15/11/2024 - 06:28
    +6

    I’d prefer to be represented by Dennis Denuto.

    • HsvPete on 15/11/2024 - 11:05

      Hell even Saul Goodman is a better bet at this stage haha

  • admr on 15/11/2024 - 06:34

    Can I use cash rewards??

  • SBOB on 15/11/2024 - 06:42
    +1

    A "personal injury" law firm running a "consumer rights" class action.
    Lionel Hutz approves

    Not a deal, more a law firm money chasing opportunity, just this ones not behind an ambulance.
    Think I'll pass on contributing to their equity partners bottom line.

  • moar bargains on 15/11/2024 - 06:43
    +1

    While the potential payout will be different for every shopper, Gerard Malouf & Partners has now revealed it could be anywhere from $200 to over $1,300.

    … Before their legal fees which will be deducted from the total payout and could be anywhere from $150 to $1250 per person.

    • Suricate on 15/11/2024 - 06:47
      +1

      Any chance the legal fee would be higher than the payout?

      • moar bargains on 15/11/2024 - 07:19
        +1

        I doubt it, but not sure. I've not personally participated in many class actions, but my understanding reading about most of them in the news is that the potential payout is HUGELY overestimated (not surprisingly, to suck people in encourage them to join). People think they'll get thousands of dollars and get tens.

    • MrThing on 15/11/2024 - 08:31
      +1

      between $199 - $1299 per person you mean

      you'll have enough left over for a coffee at 7-11

  • jimbler on 15/11/2024 - 07:02
    +3

    In this thread we are sticking it to the man! I will be counting down the days until I receive my $10 compensation in September 2027.

  • FrugalDealSeeker on 15/11/2024 - 07:35
    +2

    how do we know it's not a scam to scrape personal information?

    • Fat Horny Ghost on 15/11/2024 - 08:43

      My guess is that it's to get some exposure

  • djones145 on 15/11/2024 - 07:45

    down down prices are down
    up up the ambo chasing lawyers are coming up
    right right they have our best interest at heart right
    left left exit here I come, left

  • MrThing on 15/11/2024 - 08:30

    this firm are a bunch of ambulance chasers

  • EightImmortals on 15/11/2024 - 08:39
    +1

    Judge: "I award eleventy billion dollars in compensation"
    Me: "Hey how come my grocery prices just went through the roof again"?

  • Seraphin7 on 15/11/2024 - 10:02

    While the potential payout will be different for every shopper, Gerard Malouf & Partners has now revealed it could be anywhere from $200 to over $1,300.

    Let's just consider the mathematics of that statement … do they really think any penalty/settlement is going to go into the billions of dollars?

    The biggest winner of anything that might come of this are lawyers who'll ride a wave a mainstream media outrage, take 30% of any settlement, while punters might be left with a loaf of bread and a week old lettuce to show for it.

    • techno2000 on 15/11/2024 - 10:28

      Thats not the point.These big companies should not be allowed to get away with such digusting behaviour. And they only understand the language of money. Hit them with billion dollar fines.

      In fact,As I have said before………

      There should be mandatory Jail terms for the CEO and Board of Directors if found guilty.

      Also should be slapped with $100 million+ fines which should only be recovered from the personal estates of the CEO and Board of directors.

    • Fat Horny Ghost on 15/11/2024 - 10:39

      You need to register to get any back. The more people that register, the more bargaining power and leverage they have to get a better offer in an out of court settlement (which seems to be happening quite often).

      • Seraphin7 on 15/11/2024 - 11:38

        That sounds like little more than a shake down. Class action lawyers whip up a frenzy of activity and claim a "massive win" (ahem, for them) in getting $100m out of Woolworths.

        They take their usual 30% fee, noting that the financial backing for their work comes from multi-national class action investors who are looking for their pay day, and there's $70m left to divvy up to the "one million customers who've joined our class action".

        Who are the winners here? The punters who get $7 … or the lawyers and investors who share the $30m?

        • Fat Horny Ghost on 15/11/2024 - 12:19
          -1

          Legalised extortion 😂

          But this second lawsuit is most just recovering funds from the original ACCC proceedings which only issues regulatory penalties.

  • GordonD on 15/11/2024 - 14:33

    I was in a winning class action suit recently. Groundwater contamination with PFAS from the firefighting training at the various air bases around Australia.

    The government settled without it going to court for around $137 million.

    The lawyers got about $5 million of that, if I remember correctly. That was charge for services rendered, win or lose.

    The financiers of the class action got close to $50 million. They invested the cost of running the case, like recruiting the 5000+ participants, getting the evidence, and paying the lawyers, and stood to lose the lot if the case lost, and get $50 million of the amount awarded if it won. Its an investment business.

    We shared the remaining $82 million.

    Of course when the government settles, its not the government that pays, its taxpayers. That was $137 million less in government benefits, or higher taxes, or more debt. I didn't really like the whole idea, but I had to choose to be in either the 5000 who got a payment, or the rest who paid for it. I chose to be in the winners.

    And for Woolworths and Coles it'll be customers who pay in higher prices. You lose again.

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