Bill Shorten's "shopper's hack" for affordable booze
Bill Shorten has shared his top money-saving tip ahead of Saturday’s federal election.
The Labor leader revealed his personal trick to score affordable alcohol in an interview with KIIS FM Melbourne on Thursday morning.
Asked whether he had been to Dan Murphy’s to stock up on booze for the election night parties, Shorten said he plays the discount liquor chain off against rival retailer First Choice.
“This is a little, if you like, a shopper’s hack and potentially a very useful thing,” he said.
He said he capitalises on the stores’ price-matching policies as they pay dividends.
First Choice’s Price Beat policy and Dan Murphy’s Lower Liquor Price Guarantee both offer to match advertised competitor instore pricing within a 10 kilometre radius of a given store, provided that the advertisement is current and that the items are identical and in stock.
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Later on, the same day, Shorten made his final major speech of the five-week election campaign at the site of Gough Whitlam's 1972 “It’s Time” address in Blacktown. He declared that climate change action and wages would be high on his government’s agenda.
“I promise, we will send a message to the world, when it comes to climate change, Australia is back in the fight,” he said.
“We will take this emergency seriously and we will not just leave it to other countries or to the next generation.”