Neil Fairhead

CEO, It’s On Sale

inConnect

Two-and-a-half weeks of EOFY trading and one of the country’s biggest electronics chains has just been told to hand $250,000 back. JB Hi-Fi will refund roughly 200 customers after the consumer watchdog raised concerns its “was” prices on 17 products were not what they were claimed to be. The timing is awkward, the lesson is useful, and Dyson is meanwhile running its sharpest sale of the year. Here is how to keep your June dollars honest.

JB Hi-Fi Refunding $250,000 Over “Was/Now” Pricing

The ACCC confirmed on Thursday that JB Hi-Fi has started refunding more than $250,000 to about 200 customers after raising concerns that its “was/now” pricing on 17 products misled shoppers. According to Anna Macdonald at Lawyerly, the investigation covered the retailer’s online pricing between March and September 2025. The watchdog said the advertised “was” prices were either never charged, charged only briefly, or charged so long before the promotion that they no longer reflected the recent selling price.

Yahoo Finance Australia, citing the same ACCC statement, reports that the products in question span phone cases, charging cables, power banks, a portable heater, two laptops, a gaming monitor and a Meta Quest 3S VR headset. The watchdog accepted that the misleading prices were “primarily the result of system errors or human mistakes” (its words), some of which JB Hi-Fi had already corrected before the investigation began. The retailer’s full coverage on the consumer regulator’s site appears on the ACCC advertising and promotions page.

If you bought any of the affected products in 2025, you do not need to lift a finger. JB Hi-Fi is contacting eligible customers directly and processing refunds automatically where it can. The full eleven-item product and dates list (compiled from the ACCC statement) is posted in detail on OzBargain’s community thread, and it covers Cygnett charging gear, Dimplex heater, EFM cases, HP and Lenovo laptops, an LG UltraGear gaming monitor, the Meta Quest 3S, and a pair of Otterbox iPhone cases.

How To Spot A Fake “Was” Price This EOFY

This is a fortnight when “was/now” tags are everywhere. Use a quick three-step check before you click buy. First, search the exact product name in Google Shopping and the manufacturer’s own site: if no retailer ever sold it at the “was” price, the saving is a fiction. Second, drop the product link into a price-history tracker (a few free Chrome add-ons read Amazon and big-box AU sites) and look at the 90-day chart, not just yesterday. Third, when a “was” price is from more than six months ago, treat it as a list price, not a recent selling price: the law expects the “was” to reflect what the product genuinely traded at recently, not the highest sticker ever printed.

The JB Hi-Fi case is the third Australian retail giant in eight months to settle “was/now” or comparative-pricing concerns. Coles is still in front of the Federal Court over its “Down Down” campaign, and Woolworths copped a related accounting earlier in the year. CHOICE flagged a fresh example this week from a different category: it called out Appliances Online’s “36% off” Bosch 9kg heat pump dryer as not a genuine discount once the long-term selling price was checked. The full CHOICE write-up appears in its best-and-worst EOFY 2026 round-up.

Dyson’s EOFY Cuts Run To 1 July

The counterweight to careful shopping is knowing where the real discounts live. Dyson’s 2026 EOFY sale runs from 4 June to 1 July, with up to 50 per cent off and savings as deep as $651 on the flagship vacuum. Brittany Davies at 7News first pulled out the headline picks: the Gen5detect Absolute drops from $1,549 to $898, the V16 Piston Animal with Floor Dok lands at $1,049 (was $1,399), and the V15 Detect Absolute with Dok goes from $1,299 to $899.

The beauty range is the other half of the sale. The Airwrap i.d. multi-styler falls from $849 to $597, the Airstrait straightener-and-dryer from $749 to $495, and the Supersonic Nural hair dryer from $749 to $497. Sophie Bird at Tom’s Guide notes that the V16 Piston now stacks with a SAVEPISTON checkout code for the full $350 off, and confirms the sale ends 1 July (so the deepest cuts are this week and next, not late June). For the full discounted line-up and stock check, TechRadar Australia keeps a live deal list.

The Confidence Picture Behind The Sales

The reason these deals matter more than usual this year is the household budget. The Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment index fell 2.9 per cent in early June, sliding back toward the low end of the range it has bumped along in for the past three years. Westpac’s head of Australian macro-forecasting, Matthew Hassan, told AAP that “cost-of-living issues came back with a vengeance in June” (his words). The same week, NAB joined CBA and ANZ in calling the cash rate to hold at 4.35 per cent for the rest of 2026, with Westpac the last big bank still pencilling in another hike.

Consumer inflation expectations also stayed elevated at 5.5 per cent in June, per the latest AMP weekly market update. Translation for shoppers: there is no quick relief coming from rates, the price you see today is roughly the price you have to plan around. That makes the “was/now” check above more than a curiosity, it is the difference between a real saving and a story.

Five Aussie Stores, Five Categories

Five stores. Five categories. The deepest headline discounts surfaced from a sweep of every retailer on It’s On Sale, audited at dawn.

1Today’s Top
DiscountHallensteinsMen's WearUp to 50% off Hallensteins’ sale: tees, hoodies, denim and chinos from the Australasian menswear chain, shipped from its Auckland-Sydney network with free returns on AU orders over $80.50%OFF2HealthylifeHealth ProductsUp to 50% off Healthylife’s sale: vitamins, supplements, beauty and home essentials from the Woolworths-owned Australian health retailer, with Everyday Rewards and same-state shipping.50%OFF3HouseHomewaresUp to 50% off House’s sale: kitchen, cookware, dining and storage from the Australian-owned homewares chain trading since 1986, with Click & Collect from 80+ AU stores.50%OFF4KoalaBedsUp to 50% off Koala’s clearance: mattresses, bed frames, sofas and sofa beds from the Sydney-founded sleep brand, with 120-night trial and 10-year mattress warranty.50%OFF5Lounge LoversFurnitureUp to 50% off Lounge Lovers’ sale: sofas, beds, dining and rugs from the Australian-owned furniture house, with white-glove delivery available across all metro and most regional areas.50%OFF

% discounts shown are indicative across each store’s sale range. Individual product savings vary.

Our Take

This week tells two stories at once. A 49-year-old Australian specialty retailer is winding up because suppliers and lenders ran out of patience, while a Friday afternoon ACCC announcement reminds us that even the biggest chains can drift into pricing that is not what shoppers think it is. Both are symptoms of the same retail moment: thinner margins, busier marketing, and shoppers carrying the weight of figuring out which “discount” is real.

That is the gap It’s On Sale was built for. We currently aggregate 35,000 Australian stores and 45,000 live products in one place, all locally owned and locally fulfilled (so the warranty, returns and consumer-law protections actually mean something). Our AI search reads the way real shoppers ask questions, the Today’s Sales page surfaces every store currently running a promotion, and we never carry Temu, Shein, AliExpress or any offshore marketplace dressed up as a local store. It is free, it is Australian, and it is built to keep your June dollars honest. Browse Today’s Sales before the 30 June EOFY clock runs out.

It’s On Sale Australia’s home for genuine retail deals. Browse today’s featured stores at itsonsale.com.au.

Neil Fairhead

CEO, It’s On Sale

inConnect

Forty-nine years on the floor, and then a Tuesday afternoon staff meeting. Barbeques Galore is winding up from 16 June, 62 company-owned stores will shut, and 500 staff are losing their jobs. While one of the country’s best-known specialty retailers turns out the lights, Bing Lee, JB Hi-Fi and The Good Guys are slugging it out for EOFY 2026 wallet share with the deepest washing-machine and TV cuts of the year. The collapse and the war are the same story told from opposite ends of the high street. Here is what shoppers need to do this week.

Barbeques Galore Closes The Lid

Barbeques Galore will begin winding up its 62 company-owned stores from 16 June 2026 after a $5 million rescue plan from primary lender Gordon Brothers collapsed at the final hurdle. The 49-year-old Australian retailer, founded by Max Mason in Sydney in 1977, first entered voluntary administration in February after its key lender pulled a crucial revolving credit facility, leaving the business with $49 million in debts. According to Daniel Ziffer at ABC News, court filings showed $33.2 million owed to unsecured creditors, $15.2 million to secured creditors, and $3.9 million in unpaid staff entitlements.

The deed of company arrangement received overwhelming support from creditors on 22 May, but as Tamera Francis at Inside Retail Australia first confirmed this week, the parties could not finalise commercial trading terms with key suppliers (the H&H group, makers of the Ziegler & Brown Ziggy range, is cited in trade reporting). Without those terms, Gordon Brothers withdrew. Receivers Quentin Olde, Luke Pittorino and Liam Healey of Ankura have taken control alongside administrators Grant Thornton. Newly-appointed CEO David White had called the February administration “necessary” at the time; this week’s announcement closes the chapter.

The geographic hit is national. According to reporting from 7News, the closures break down as 33 stores in NSW, 19 in Victoria, 18 in Queensland, 14 in WA, 5 in SA, 3 in Tasmania, 2 in the ACT and 1 in the NT. The 27 franchise stores are unaffected for now and will keep trading independently. The Perth angle was sharpest: Troy de Ruyter at PerthNow confirmed all 14 WA stores will close, and a follow-up ABC report spotlit the franchise families now staring down an uncertain summer trading season.

What Barbeques Galore Customers Should Do This Week

If you hold a Barbeques Galore gift card, the deadline is firm: 30 June 2026. There is a sting in the terms, however. Gift cards will only be honoured if you spend twice the card value in cash on top. A $50 card requires a $150 total purchase to redeem. After 30 June it is unclear whether any stores will continue to accept them. The practical move is to use the card this week, before stock is picked over and the cash-multiplier rule eats further into the saving.

If you have an outstanding online order, contact the Barbeques Galore customer-service line or Grant Thornton (the appointed administrators) and keep every receipt, tracking number and email. Customer-facing operations will continue during the sell-through period, but the timeline is short. If you have a warranty claim on a BBQ, heater or outdoor furniture, those claims now sit inside the administration process and the outcome will depend on the receivers’ final structure. Photograph your serial plate, your proof of purchase and the fault, and lodge the claim in writing this week.

For your next BBQ, the specialty market does not end with this collapse. Weber’s authorised dealer network, BBQ Spit Rotisseries in Melbourne, and a long list of independent Australian outdoor-living specialists continue to trade. The big-box pivot is also live: Bunnings, Harvey Norman and The Good Guys all carry the major brands the chain stocked, with the manufacturer warranty intact regardless of whose checkout you go through.

The EOFY Appliance War Is The Other Half Of This Story

While specialty retail contracts, the big-box appliance giants are firing on all cylinders into 30 June. Macquarie’s consumer spending tracker for May, reported via ChannelNews this week, shows both JB Hi-Fi and Harvey Norman running stronger April and May 2026 momentum than the same months last year. The March-quarter comparable-sales prints back it: JB Hi-Fi Australia +2.6 per cent, JB Hi-Fi New Zealand +15.2 per cent, The Good Guys +2.5 per cent. The Good Guys posted A$1.58 billion in first-half sales, up 4.1 per cent.

The headline-grabbing cuts this week are coming from Bing Lee, which has slashed its full appliance range. The standout: the LG 14kg XL Series AI Front Loading Washing Machine at $999, down from $1,599 (a $600 saving). The Midea 14-Place Dishwasher has been knocked to $379. The Hitachi 374L Inox Top Mount Fridge is $100 off. The Sunbeam Alinea Digital DiamondForce 4L Air Fryer drops to $75, the lowest spotted this season. Dreame’s Z30 Cordless Stick Vacuum is nearly $500 off retail. Bing Lee is Australian-owned, NSW-based, and runs over 40 stores plus full national online delivery.

LG has followed with its EOFY home entertainment range, reported by Trevor Long at EFTM. The 77-inch OLED evo AI C6 4K Smart TV is $3,999 (was $5,499), a $1,500 cut. The 65-inch model is $2,999 (was $3,999). The 75-inch QNED80B is up to $700 off at JB Hi-Fi and Harvey Norman; the 85-inch is up to $1,000 off. The LG S95TR 9.1.5 surround soundbar with rear speakers is $999, a $700 saving. All run until 1 July.

One Choice warning is worth banking before you click buy. The consumer group’s best and worst EOFY 2026 deals roundup flags the Fisher & Paykel Series 5 7kg dryer as a recurring genuine best buy across the major appliance retailers. The same article calls out Appliances Online’s 36 per cent off Bosch 9kg heat pump dryer as not really a discount at all once you compare it to the typical street price over the last six months. EOFY headline tags do not always survive a price-history check.

One more EOFY hook worth knowing if you run a small business or work as a sole trader. The instant asset write-off currently lets you immediately deduct eligible assets under $20,000 per item in the year of purchase, for businesses with aggregated turnover below $10 million, according to the latest Reckon guidance. From 1 July 2026 the threshold drops back to $1,000 unless the government extends it. A new fridge for the workshop, a coffee machine for the office or a laptop for the kids’ tax-deductible tutoring all need to be operational by 30 June to claim on this year’s return.

Top 5 Deals of the Day

Today’s catch. Five Australian-owned or AU-stocked stores, five categories, all rotated fresh. Yesterday’s leaders are cooled down; the hunter never works the same patch two days running.

1Today’s Top
Discountrebel SportSport ClothingUp to 85% off rebel Sport’s clearance: footwear, apparel and equipment from Nike, adidas, ASICS, New Balance and Puma at Australia’s biggest sports retailer, with Click & Collect from 160+ AU stores.85%OFF2Kickpush SkateSkateboardingUp to 80% off Kickpush Skate’s sale: complete skateboards, decks, trucks, wheels and protection from Element, Santa Cruz and Bones at the family-run Sydney skate shop, with free AU shipping over $99.80%OFF3Baku SwimwearBeachwearUp to 70% off Baku Swimwear’s sale: one-pieces, bikinis, separates and resort wear from the Australian-designed swim label, shipped from its Sydney warehouse with free returns on first orders.70%OFF4ShowpoFashion AccessUp to 60% off Showpo’s sale: dresses, knits, denim and party wear from the Sydney-founded label that’s grown into a global Australian fashion brand, with free returns on AU orders over $50.60%OFF5Australian LeatherLeatherUp to 50% off Australian Leather’s sale: ugg-style sheepskin boots, slippers and accessories handmade in Thomastown, Victoria since 1989, with worldwide shipping and a sheepskin guarantee.50%OFF

% discounts shown are indicative across each store’s sale range. Individual product savings vary.

Our Take

Barbeques Galore’s collapse and the appliance giants’ EOFY firepower are two halves of the same picture. Offshore funnels and Chinese supplier pressure squeeze specialty retailers from one side, while the big-box chains lean on scale and rebate dollars to win the other. The shopper sitting in the middle of that fight needs a simpler way to know where the genuine Australian deals are, fast.

That is exactly what we built It’s On Sale for. Over 35,000 Australian stores, locally owned and locally fulfilled. More than 45,000 live products with current pricing. An AI-powered search that surfaces what is actually discounted today, not what was on sale a month ago. A daily Today’s Sales feed (the same pool this morning’s Top 5 came from) refreshed at dawn. And not a single overseas marketplace clouding the results. Free for shoppers, always. Browse Today’s Sales before EOFY 2026 closes on 30 June.

It’s On Sale Australia’s home for genuine retail deals. Browse today’s featured stores at itsonsale.com.au.

Neil Fairhead

CEO, It’s On Sale

inConnect

Cheapest is not safest. The ACCC has just dragged Amazon into the Federal Court over kids’ backpacks that sat in its Australian warehouses without the warning labels mandatory product safety law requires. It is the first time the watchdog has taken an online marketplace to court for failing the rules that govern every other Australian retailer. Read it alongside this morning’s Westpac consumer sentiment print, which sank to 80.6, and a clearer picture emerges. Australian shoppers are tighter than they have been since April, the offshore funnel is under regulatory scrutiny, and EOFY 2026 has nineteen trading days to run. 35,000 Aussie stores. One search. That is the offer this week.

The ACCC Takes Amazon To Federal Court

On 29 May the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission filed Federal Court proceedings against Amazon Commercial Services Pty Ltd, the local Amazon entity, over Unicorn Toddler Backpacks listed on amazon.com.au through a third-party seller. The backpacks contained a detachable light-up unicorn plush toy powered by a button battery, and the ACCC alleges the products and their outer packaging carried none of the warnings the Consumer Goods (Products Containing Button/Coin Batteries) Information Standard 2020 makes mandatory. The case is filed as NSD905/2026 in the New South Wales Registry.

The numbers in the concise statement are small but the principle is enormous. The ACCC alleges 41 backpacks were sold to Australian consumers through the marketplace and 267 backpacks were held in Amazon’s Australian fulfilment centres as of 1 November 2022. Crucially, the watchdog argues that under section 136(3) of the Australian Consumer Law, mere possession or control of non-compliant goods (the receiving, storing, picking, packing and shipping that Amazon does for third-party sellers under Fulfilment by Amazon) is enough to put the marketplace itself on the hook. That neatly sidesteps the long-running argument over whether marketplaces are suppliers or just middlemen.

This is the first time the ACCC has taken an online marketplace to the Federal Court over a mandatory product safety standard. Catriona Lowe, ACCC Deputy Chair, framed the consumer stakes: “Button batteries pose a serious hazard for young children. If swallowed or inserted, they can cause severe internal burns and injury, and in some cases death.” On the marketplace question she added: “Many Australian consumers now shop on online marketplaces. That’s why it is important that consumers have confidence and trust in digital markets.” The ACCC is seeking declarations, penalties, costs and other orders, and David Braue at Information Age notes that unsafe products in digital markets sit explicitly inside the watchdog’s 2026/2027 enforcement priorities.

Why This Lands Differently For Shoppers

The case lands in a market where Choice already did the awkward homework. In late November the consumer group bought 24 button-battery products from Amazon, Shein, eBay, AliExpress and Kogan and 17 of the 24 failed the mandatory standards, the result reported across Information Age and now sitting alongside Choice’s “super complaint” to the ACCC, which the regulator must respond to within 90 days. The ACCC’s own 2023 surveillance pegged 34 per cent of products containing button batteries as missing mandatory warnings. Each one of those products quietly went out the door before anyone in fulfilment caught the gap.

For consumers the practical read is this. The big offshore marketplaces are now under simultaneous pressure from the regulator (Federal Court action plus takedown notices), a consumer advocacy group (Choice’s super complaint, which targets Amazon, eBay, Kogan and Fruugo by name), and the political class (multiple Senate references on online product safety in the last six weeks). None of that is a reason to panic about every Amazon order. It is a reason to know what protections sit behind whichever store you are buying from when the product is going to a child.

Australian-owned retailers carry the same mandatory standards by default and are routinely audited by state and territory consumer protection agencies. They also tend to ship from inside the country, which means returns are short, recall notices reach you, and customer-service answers a phone. That is not a marketing claim. That is the structural difference between buying from a marketplace and buying from a retailer.

Consumer Sentiment Sinks Again Ahead Of EOFY

The second number worth pinning to the fridge today is the June Westpac-Melbourne Institute Consumer Sentiment Index. Westpac IQ published the print at 80.6, a 2.9 per cent fall from May and back near the deep-pessimism territory the index has not climbed out of since the start of the year. Matthew Hassan, Westpac Senior Economist, summarised it directly: “Cost-of-living issues came back with a vengeance in June.” The two sub-indices that map most tightly to retail spending both fell harder than the headline. The “family finances vs a year ago” reading dropped 7.5 per cent to 67.3, and “family finances over the next 12 months” dropped 8.5 per cent to 85.1, both giving back almost all of the gains they posted in May.

Layer that on top of the RBA cash rate at 4.35 per cent following May’s hike, and the picture is a consumer wallet that is open for value but closed for impulse. Hassan summed up the mood: “Australian consumers are clearly bracing for more bad news on the financial front.” Retailers reading this morning’s tape will be pricing the back half of EOFY 2026 accordingly, and the deepest discount tags of the financial year traditionally arrive in the final fortnight. That fortnight starts on Monday.

Top 5 Deals of the Day

Today’s catch. Five Australian-owned or AU-stocked stores, five categories, all rotated fresh. Yesterday’s leaders are cooled down; the hunter never works the same patch two days running.

1Today’s Top
DiscountCostumeBoxCostumes & PartyUp to 75% off CostumeBox’s clearance: kids’ dress-up, adult party, school book-week and Halloween prep from the Australian-owned costume specialist, dispatched from its Melbourne warehouse.75%OFF2Graham'sJewelleryUp to 70% off Graham’s Jewellers’ sale: diamond rings, gold pendants, watches and gifts from the family-owned Australian jeweller trading since 1922, with showrooms across the country.70%OFF3GlassonsWomen's FashionUp to 63% off Glassons’ sale: denim, knits, dresses and basics from the Australasian-owned label with stores across the east coast and free AU shipping over $75.63%OFF4NovoShoesUp to 60% off Novo’s sale: heels, flats, boots, sandals and bags from the Australian-owned footwear chain with stores in every state and free Click & Collect.60%OFF5Original Mattress FactoryFurnitureUp to 60% off Original Mattress Factory’s Cloud-9 range: queen and king mattresses with free metro delivery, made by the Australian-owned manufacturer based in Sydney.60%OFF

% discounts shown are indicative across each store’s sale range. Individual product savings vary.

Other Deals Worth a Look

Two deeper headline numbers in the pool today did not make the Top 5 because the categories were already filled or because the store has been rotated out under our three-day cooldown rule, but they earn a look. Showpo is at 60 per cent off on dresses, knits and party wear from the Sydney-founded label. Strandbags is also at 60 per cent off on Samsonite, American Tourister and its own luggage and handbag lines, with free Click & Collect at any of its 230 Australian stores. Both Australian-owned, both locally fulfilled.

The Counter-Funnel

So here is the brief, plainly.

The offshore funnel is real. It is fast. It is one click away. And as of last week it is also a defendant in the Federal Court of Australia over the kind of safety warning that every other Australian retailer has been quietly printing on packaging for four years.

What the day’s tape does not show is the other map. The one with 35,000 Australian retailers on it. Stores that hire locally. Stores that stock locally. Stores whose customer-service team you can reach by phone on a Tuesday. They are not absent from the internet. They are scattered across it.

That is the problem It’s On Sale was built to solve. Not to compete with Amazon on velocity. Not to out-distribute Temu. To do the one thing the offshore funnel cannot do, which is surface every genuine Australian sale, from every Australian store, in one search, every day, before lunch.

35,000 Aussie Stores. One Search. That is the offer. That is the whole offer.

The ACCC case will play out over months. Consumer sentiment will move. The funnel will keep tilting. We will keep doing what we do, which is auditing the Australian retail pool at dawn, ranking the deepest live deals, publishing the brief by 9am, and keeping the door open to every Aussie store that wants to be found.

This is the counter-funnel. It is already built. It is already here. It’s On Sale.

It’s On Sale Australia’s home for genuine retail deals. Browse today’s featured stores at itsonsale.com.au.

Neil Fairhead

CEO, It’s On Sale

inConnect

Australian shoppers spent the last week being told they’re now deal hunters. This morning, three more numbers landed. Amazon, Temu and Shein are forecast to take 36 per cent of Australian e-commerce revenue in 2026. Amazon alone takes roughly one of every five dollars Australians spend online. And more than one in two Australians now say Amazon has raised their expectations of every other retailer. None of this is a complaint about offshore retail. It is a brief about a quiet asymmetry: the offshore funnel is fast, certain and one click away. The Australian funnel is great stores, scattered. 35,000 Aussie stores. One search. That is the point.

The Funnel Is Tilting Offshore

The headline number landed yesterday and it is the single cleanest read of where Australian e-commerce sits in mid-2026. Amazon, Temu and Shein are forecast to take a combined 36 per cent of every dollar spent online in this country in 2026, with Amazon alone accounting for roughly one in every five. The figure comes from Shippit’s 2026 State of Shipping report, written up across the wires this week by Michael West Media via AAP and republished by PerthNow. The same Shippit data shows 82.8 per cent of Australian retailers are now worried about competing with offshore marketplaces, up from 54 per cent in 2024 (see Shippit’s own commentary in Delivered, 1 June). That is a 29-point swing in 18 months. It is not a soft trend. It is the dominant story of the year for Australian retail.

The pressure cuts both ways. Shippit also pegs the average delivery cost in Australia at $11.30 per parcel, up roughly 9 per cent from $10.39 a year earlier, with more than 71 per cent of carriers citing fuel volatility as their number-one operational challenge and more than two in five having implemented a fuel surcharge. Aussie retailers are paying more to fulfil the same parcel that Amazon’s fulfilment network ships at scale. None of that is the retailers’ fault. It is the structure of the market.

Shippit co-CEO Rob Hango-Zada, speaking to AAP, framed the policy stakes plainly: “Protecting Australian retail and encouraging greater competition is super important, not just for the consumer, but also for the national economy.” The data is doing the rest of the talking.

The Asymmetry: Speed, Certainty, Expectation

The offshore funnel does not just compete on price. It competes on the boring stuff that quietly defines whether a sale converts. Shippit’s report shows Australian retailers are now advertising a 5.2-day delivery promise against an actual transit average of 2.2 days. That gap, where retailers under-promise to protect against the rare failure, is exactly what the offshore players exploit on the listing page. Hango-Zada called it out directly: “Retailers are essentially under-promising so they can over-deliver, but it has a massive impact on conversions.”

The expectation side is starker still. More than one in two Australians now say Amazon has raised their expectations of every other retailer they shop with. Cross-reference that with the Australia Post 2026 eCommerce Report, which puts Amazon AU inside 60 per cent of Australian households and Temu’s reach at 47 per cent. The funnel is not theoretical. It is sitting on more than half the country’s phones, and it has trained an entire shopping reflex.

What To Watch This Morning

Two macro reads land before lunch and both will inflect how retailers price the rest of EOFY. The Westpac Consumer Sentiment Index for June printed at 80.6, down 2.9 per cent on the month, sitting deep in the pessimist territory it has held since April. NAB Business Confidence releases at 11:30am AEST and the prior month’s NAB read showed retail price growth easing back to 1.5 per cent quarterly, the softest in two years. Wesfarmers hosts its strategy briefing in Sydney today. Click Frenzy fires from 7pm AEST 18 June. EOFY closes 30 June. The last fortnight of the financial year is where the deepest discount tags traditionally land across whitegoods, tech and furniture, and the deferral data from yesterday’s brief tells you exactly which categories are about to move.

Top 5 Deals of the Day

Today’s catch. Five Australian-owned or AU-stocked stores, five categories, all rotated fresh. Yesterday’s leaders are cooled down; the hunter never works the same patch two days running.

1Today’s Top
DiscountPrincess PollyWomen's FashionUp to 80% off Princess Polly’s sale: dresses, denim, knits and going-out edits from the Australian-born, AU-owned label that ships from local warehouses across the country.80%OFF2DecjubaWomen's FashionUp to 79% off Decjuba’s full sale: tailored separates, knits, leather and seasonal occasion wear from the Australian-owned national chain with stores in every state.79%OFF3BettsShoesUp to 70% off Betts’ womens sale: heels, flats, boots and sandals across the Australian-owned footwear house that has been shoeing the country since 1892.70%OFF4Academy BrandMen's FashionUp to 60% off Academy Brand’s seasonal sale: chinos, knits, jackets and tees from the Sydney-founded menswear label, with AU-stocked sizing across the full range.60%OFF5Nine WestShoes / AccessoriesUp to 60% off Nine West’s clearance: pumps, sandals, boots and handbags from the Australian-stocked range, with Click & Collect at participating stores.60%OFF

% discounts shown are indicative across each store’s sale range. Individual product savings vary.

Other Deals Worth a Look

Five deeper headline numbers in the pool today did not make the Top 5 because the categories were already taken or because the store has been rotated out under our three-day cooldown rule, but they earn a look. Rebel is still at up to 85% off on footwear and fan gear. Mossman is at 70% on its full womens collection. Eckersley’s Art & Craft is at 70% on paints, canvases and student bundles. Veronika Maine is at 70% on tailoring and occasion wear. Glassons is at 63% on knits and basics. All Australian-owned, all locally fulfilled.

The Counter-Funnel

So here is the brief, plainly.

The offshore funnel is real. It is fast. It is one click away. And it is forecast to take 36 cents of every Australian e-commerce dollar this year. That is not a complaint. That is the data.

What the data does not show is the other map. The one with 35,000 Australian retailers on it. Stores that hire locally. Stores that stock locally. Stores whose customer-service team you can reach by phone on a Tuesday. They are not absent from the internet. They are scattered across it.

That is the problem It’s On Sale was built to solve. Not to compete with Amazon on velocity. Not to out-distribute Temu. To do the one thing the offshore funnel cannot do, which is surface every genuine Australian sale, from every Australian store, in one search, every day, before lunch.

35,000 Aussie Stores. One Search. That is the offer. That is the whole offer.

The funnel will keep tilting. Amazon will keep raising expectations. Temu and Shein will keep advertising on every feed you scroll. We will keep doing what we do, which is auditing the Australian retail pool at dawn, ranking the deepest live deals, publishing the brief by 9am, and keeping the door open to every Aussie store that wants to be found.

This is the counter-funnel. It is already built. It is already here. It’s On Sale.

It’s On Sale Australia’s home for genuine retail deals. Browse today’s featured stores at itsonsale.com.au.

Neil Fairhead

CEO, It’s On Sale

inConnect

Three separate 2026 reports landed in the same week and told the same story. Australians are now deal hunters. 81% shop around. 73% wait for the sale. 79% will not buy their preferred brand at full price. The data has caught up to why we built It’s On Sale, so here is a clean answer to all of it: this is our turf. One curated map of every genuine Australian retail sale, refreshed every morning, audited at dawn. You hunt the best deals. We already did.

Australia Is Now A Nation Of Deal Hunters

The Australia Post 2026 eCommerce Report is the clearest read yet on what cost-of-living has done to Australian shopping behaviour. 81% of Aussies now actively shop around for the best deal. 73% wait for sales events before they buy. The average household now buys from 16 different retailers across a year, double what it was a decade ago. The average basket has slid to $96, down ten dollars from 2020 in real terms. Australia Post itself uses the phrase “shopper promiscuity” to describe what is happening, and Nugget Digital’s breakdown of the report calls it the end of single-retailer loyalty.

The EOFY 2026 research from Kogan and PureProfile, reported by Sue Wells in 7News, layers in the EOFY-specific behaviour. 79% of Australians say they will not buy their preferred brand if it is not on sale. 37% will actively switch to a cheaper competitor brand. 49% have intentionally delayed buying a necessary high-value item (a fridge, a laptop, a TV) for three months or more, specifically to wait for an EOFY discount. 69% are enforcing an under-$500 EOFY spending limit. Australians are not buying less. They are buying smarter, slower and more strategically than at any point in the post-pandemic period.

The third corroboration came on 2 June from the Power Retail and Arktic Fox State of eCommerce 2026 report. Teresa Sperti, Director of Arktic Fox, summed up what retailers are seeing from the other side of the counter: “The findings reveal a market at a genuine inflection point.” 97.8% of retailers now rate eCommerce growth as strategically critical. 78.6% concede their loyalty programs need to evolve. Price has officially eclipsed brand as the deciding factor in where Australians shop.

This Is Our Turf

It’s On Sale was built for exactly this Australia. One curated directory of Australian-owned retailers actually running sales right now, with the deepest headline discounts surfaced every morning. No overseas marketplaces. No drop-shippers. No expired offer pages. Each store gets a live audit at dawn so the homepage only shows sales that are actually live. The Top 6 ticker on the homepage refreshes daily. The Daily Brief lands at 8am AEST every weekday. The Top 5 Deals of the Day rotates so the same stores never run two days in a row, which is the editorial proof that we are reading the live pool, not recycling a list.

If 81% of you are already shopping around and 73% are already waiting for the sale, the work has shifted. The question is no longer “is this on sale?” but “where is the best version of this sale, today?”. That is what we do. The hunting is the platform. You bring the wishlist; we bring the map.

What To Watch This Morning: Two Confidence Reads

Two data drops land before lunch and both feed straight back into how retailers price the rest of EOFY. The Westpac Melbourne Institute Consumer Sentiment Index releases at 10:30am AEST, followed by NAB Business Confidence at 11:30am AEST. IG flagged both as the week’s key local data points. If consumer sentiment stays at the three-year low it printed in last month’s KPMG Retail Health Index (80.1, down from 91.6), expect retailers to push harder into the deferred big-ticket categories (whitegoods, tech, furniture) over the next ten days. The RBA cash rate decision lands Monday 16 June; Click Frenzy fires from 7pm AEST Thursday 18 June. EOFY closes 30 June.

Top 5 Deals of the Day

Today’s catch. Five stores, five categories, all fresh ground. Yesterday’s leaders are cooled down; the hunter never works the same patch two days running.

1Today’s Top
DiscountEckersley's Pty LtdArt & CraftUp to 70% off Eckersley’s art supplies clearance: paints, canvases, brushes, sketchbooks and student bundles from the AU-owned Melbourne family business that has stocked Australian studios since 1949.70%OFF2VERONIKA MAINEWomens FashionUp to 70% off Veronika Maine’s workwear and occasion edit: tailored separates, dresses and knitwear in the polished Italian-fabric range the label is known for, sizes 6 to 16.70%OFF3ColetteBags & AccessoriesUp to 69% off Colette Hayman’s accessories sweep: handbags, jewellery, hair pieces, travel and wallets across the brand’s clearance and current-season EOFY drop.69%OFF4MYERDepartment StoreUp to 65% off Myer’s EOFY blitz across beauty, appliances, tech, luggage and home brands, with the deepest tags landing on big-ticket appliance lines.65%OFF5DuskHomewaresUp to 60% off Dusk’s candle, diffuser and gifting range: hand-poured Australian fragrances and homewares from the AU-owned national chain.60%OFF

% discounts shown are indicative across each store’s sale range. Individual product savings vary.

Other Deals Worth a Look

Three deeper headline numbers in the pool today did not make the Top 5 because their categories were already taken, but they earn a look. Sportsgirl is still at up to 90% off on its runway and EOFY clearance for womens fashion. Rebel is at up to 85% off on fan gear and footwear. Elite Supplements is at up to 80% off on protein and recovery. For homewares specifically, Glassons is at 63% on knits and basics. Original Mattress Factory is at 60% on its Cloud 9 range, and Robert Gordon Pottery is at 60% on its handmade Australian ceramics. All Australian-owned, all locally fulfilled.

Reader Takeaway

The data confirms what most households already know in their bones. Strategic shopping is the new default, not a frugality tactic. EOFY week three opens tomorrow and the deepest cuts will land between now and 30 June. Bookmark itsonsale.com.au, check the Top 6 ticker on the homepage every morning, and let the Daily Brief filter the 124 stores currently running sales down to the five worth a serious look today. You hunt the best deals. We already did.

It’s On Sale Australia’s home for genuine retail deals. Browse today’s featured stores at itsonsale.com.au.

Neil Fairhead

CEO, It’s On Sale

inConnect

Most of the country wakes to a King’s Birthday long weekend with EOFY week two firing on every category, but the mood music underneath is heavy. KPMG’s June Retail Health Index shows consumer sentiment crashed from 91.6 to 80.1, the steepest single-month drop since 2023. Three rate hikes earlier this year still bite, the next RBA call lands 16 June, and 73% of households are now waiting for sales events before they spend. The discounts are real this week. The plan needs to be real too.

Sentiment Crashes 11.5 Points As Households Tighten Up

The June Retail Health Index from KPMG, authored by Chief Economist Dr Brendan Rynne, shows the Westpac to Melbourne Institute Consumer Sentiment Index tumbled from 91.6 in March to 80.1 in April. That is the sharpest one-month fall since the cost-of-living crunch of 2023, and the index has now slipped back into clearly pessimistic territory after holding above the neutral 100 line through most of 2024.

The headline RHI itself nudged from -0.41 to -0.39 over the December to March quarters, which Dr Rynne notes is technically an improvement, but everything except sentiment is moving sideways. Inflation-adjusted retail turnover fell 0.6% in the March quarter. The household saving ratio dropped from 6.9% to 6.4%, suggesting families are dipping into savings rather than building them. KPMG does not expect a sustained recovery in retail until late calendar 2027.

For shoppers the takeaway is twofold. First, 73% of Australian households now actively wait for sale events before they buy, and 81% shop around for the best deal. That is a structural shift toward EOFY, Click Frenzy and Boxing Day as the only viable buying windows. Second, the spending that does happen is concentrated in essentials: groceries alone now make up 32% of total online spend, fashion 20%, health and beauty 11%. Deferrable categories (furniture, white goods, big-ticket tech) are where the deepest EOFY discounts will land this week.

King’s Birthday Long Weekend: Two-Speed Retail

Today is the King’s Birthday public holiday in NSW, Victoria, the ACT, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory, which gives most of the country a three-day shopping window. Queensland and Western Australia trade as normal (Queensland observes the holiday on 5 October, WA on 28 September), so Brisbane and Perth readers are looking at a regular Monday.

The practical retail consequence is timing. Southern-state shoppers should expect quieter physical stores at opening, then a midmorning surge through David Jones, Myer and JB Hi-Fi, with online traffic running heaviest from late afternoon. David Jones is currently flagging up to 50% off fashion and homeware (offer expires 8 June, today). Myer’s EOFY runs to 30 June with savings across appliances, beauty, tech, luggage and home brands.

The smart play if you are in a holiday state is to lock in your one or two biggest planned purchases this morning (online beats the queues), then leave the smaller browsing for tomorrow when the rush has passed. If you are in Queensland or WA, your weekly shop sits in the quietest day of the EOFY window, which is its own advantage.

What To Watch This Week: Rate Decision, Business Confidence, Click Frenzy

Three macro signals land between now and next Monday that all feed back into how aggressively retailers price the second half of EOFY. The NAB Business Confidence release lands at 11:30am AEST on Tuesday 9 June (tomorrow), and the read on retailers’ own outlook will shape how willing they are to discount deeper into late June. IG flagged this as the week’s key local data point.

The RBA cash rate decision lands Monday 16 June. The cash rate currently sits at 4.35% after three hikes earlier in 2026, and consensus is leaning toward a hold, but any hawkish commentary from Governor Bullock would tighten consumer spend immediately. Then on Thursday 18 June at 7pm AEST, Click Frenzy returns for a week-long EOFY event, free for retailers to participate. Co-founder Gabby Leibovich confirmed the platform expects a broader retailer lineup than 2024 thanks to the no-fee model.

Top 5 Deals of the Day

Five stores. Five categories. The deepest headline discounts surfaced from a sweep of every retailer on It’s On Sale, audited at dawn.

1Today’s Top
DiscountSportsgirlWomens FashionUp to 90% off Sportsgirl’s runway-leaning sale floor: party dresses, knits, denim and accessories with EOFY clearance running deepest in the popular size 6 to 14 range.90%OFF2RebelSport & FitnessUp to 85% off Rebel’s fangear, plus a deep sweep through running, training and basketball footwear from mid-tier and tier-one brands.85%OFF3Elite SupplementsHealth & SupplementsUp to 80% off Elite Supplements’ clearance: protein, pre-workout, creatine and recovery from Australian-made brands in stack-friendly sizes.80%OFF4Kick Push SkateSkate & WheelsUp to 79% off the Kick Push Skate sale: complete decks, trucks, wheels, helmets and apparel from skate-owned Australian labels.79%OFF5BakuSwim & BeachUp to 70% off Baku’s swim and beach clearance: bikinis, one-pieces, rash vests and resort wear, AU-owned with local fulfilment.70%OFF

% discounts shown are indicative across each store’s sale range. Individual product savings vary.

Other Deals Worth a Look

Beyond the Top 5, a handful of strong supporting acts are running in the Today’s Sales pool. DECJUBA is at up to 70% off sitewide fashion. Veronika Maine is also at 70% across its workwear and occasion edits. Colette Hayman is at 69% across bags and accessories. Glassons is at 63% across knits and basics. For homewares specifically, Dusk is at 60% on candles, diffusers and gifting, and Original Mattress Factory is at 60% on its Cloud 9 range.

Reader Takeaway

Sentiment is at a three-year low, but the discounts are genuinely deep this EOFY week. The discipline that has been forced on households (planning, waiting, shopping around) is the same discipline that turns a sale event into actual value. If you have a long weekend, use the quiet morning for the one or two big-ticket items you actually planned for. Keep the rest of the browse for tomorrow. Watch NAB business confidence at 11:30am AEST Tuesday, the RBA decision next Monday, and Click Frenzy from 7pm Thursday 18 June.

It’s On Sale Australia’s home for genuine retail deals. Browse today’s featured stores at itsonsale.com.au.

Neil Fairhead

CEO, It’s On Sale

inConnect

Consumer group CHOICE has filed a formal complaint over banned and unsafe products still listed on Amazon, Temu, AliExpress and eBay. The ACCC has ordered four marketplaces to delist magnetic chess-style games carrying a deadly ingestion risk. Amazon’s Mid-Year Sale ends tonight, which is exactly the moment to step back, breathe out, and look at the AU-owned EOFY catalogue running deeper than anything on Haul.

CHOICE Calls Out Amazon, Temu and AliExpress Over Banned Kids’ Products

Consumer advocacy group CHOICE has lodged a formal complaint with the consumer regulator after finding that prohibited and unsafe products continue to be sold through Amazon, Temu, AliExpress and eBay, ABC News reported on 3 June. The items flagged include novelty cigarettes that emit smoke, toy-like lighters, detachable tongue studs with choking risk, flammable clothing and toys containing potentially lethal button batteries.

CHOICE campaign director Andy Kelly told the ABC that online sellers often portray themselves as intermediaries to deflect responsibility onto third-party vendors. “This legal gap permits online marketplaces to continue selling these unsafe items with minimal repercussions,” Kelly said. CHOICE wants the federal government to introduce a general safety provision that would force every business, marketplace included, to take responsibility for the safety of what they ship.

The complaint follows the ACCC’s recent Federal Court action against Amazon over unicorn toddler backpacks missing button-battery warnings, the first time the watchdog has tested an online marketplace under product safety law. Kelly called that case a significant test of Amazon’s accountability. For Australian parents the shopper takeaway is consistent. If it touches a child, prefer an AU-owned retailer with local fulfilment, a phone number that rings, and product compliance you can verify before checkout.

ACCC Orders Four Marketplaces to Delist Magnetic Toys

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued removal orders to Amazon, eBay, Kogan and Fruugo, requiring them to delist magnetic chess-style games that contain small high-powered magnets banned under Australian Consumer Law since 2012, Retail Insight Network reported on 1 June. The ban covers any product with detachable high-powered magnets small enough to be swallowed, including toys, games, construction kits and jewellery.

ACCC deputy chair Catriona Lowe warned that “high-powered magnets can cause life-threatening injuries, particularly to young children. Magnets can link together in the intestine or tissue. They are also a choking risk.” All four platforms have agreed to remove the listings and contact affected customers with safety notifications. Kogan, Amazon and Fruugo have either issued or agreed to issue refunds. The regulator is also seeking commitments that the same or similar items will not be relisted by other sellers.

For parents and grandparents currently shopping for school holiday and birthday gifts, the practical move is simple. AU-owned toy stores like Mr Toys Toyworld and Showbags carry compliance certifications and Australian product safety standards on every listing, and customer service is reachable inside business hours rather than via a global help-desk queue.

EOFY Week One: What’s Still Live and Worth Chasing

End of Financial Year 2026 deals are in full swing across every major Australian retailer, with the deepest discounts of the year now visible on big-ticket categories, Homes To Love updated its tracker on 5 June. The genuine standouts among AU-owned brands this week: Lounge Lovers running up to 50% off sitewide, MCM House at 20 to 50% off, and Sleeping Giant pushing 30 to 60% off storewide on mattresses. Pillow Talk has 40% off sitewide, Koala has up to 30% off across mattresses and sofa beds, and Linen House opens at up to 50% off from 15 June.

The veteran shopping tip worth repeating: discount depth does not deepen as 30 June approaches, but choice gets dramatically thinner. Popular stock such as mattresses, laptops and TVs sells out well before the final week. If you have a specific item in mind this is the weekend to lock it in rather than gamble on a deeper price on day 25 of a 30-day sale.

Last Call: Deals Closing This Week

A handful of strong AU-owned promotions wrap inside the next seven days, according to the Australian Women’s Weekly EOFY 2026 tracker updated 4 June. The Body Shop has 30% off all full-priced skincare ending today, 7 June, with selected exclusions. Lovehoney’s up-to-60% off wellness sale also closes tonight. MoveActive has up to 60% off selected activewear styles ending today. Papinelle’s end-of-season sale runs to 8 June at up to 60% off, City Chic has 30 to 50% off almost everything to 8 June, and MARAIS has an extra 20% off selected full-price and sale items closing 7 June.

Looking one week ahead, Linen House opens 15 June with up to 50% off, Yoto launches 20% off players and accessories from 16 June to 22 June, and Click Frenzy returns 18 June for the first time in over a year, the platform’s first major outing in over a year. That week-two cluster is when EOFY pivots from soft-launch to peak shopping volume, so if you can defer until then, the catalogue widens substantially.

Top 5 Deals of the Day

Five stores. Five categories. The deepest headline discounts surfaced from a sweep of every retailer on It’s On Sale, audited at dawn.

1Today’s Top
DiscountSportsgirlWomens FashionUp to 90% off the Sportsgirl sale floor: party dresses, knitwear, denim and accessories with the deepest clearance running in mainstream sizes through to size 16.90%OFF2RebelSport & FitnessUp to 85% off Rebel’s footy fan-gear clearance, plus a strong sweep of running, basketball and footy boots from mid-tier and second-tier brands.85%OFF3Kick Push SkateSkate & WheelsUp to 83% off complete decks, trucks, wheels, bearings and apparel from skate-owned Australian labels at Kick Push. Free shipping over $80.83%OFF4Elite SupplementsHealth & SupplementsUp to 80% off the Elite Supplements clearance: protein, pre-workout, BCAAs and recovery from Australian-made brands in stack-friendly multi-tub sizes.80%OFF5BakuSwim & BeachUp to 70% off the Baku swimwear sale: one-pieces, bikini separates and rashies sized 8 to 22, with end-of-season clearance prices on resort prints.70%OFF

% discounts shown are indicative across each store’s sale range. Individual product savings vary.

Sourced from a daily sweep of every retailer on It’s On Sale. Ranked by headline percentage, one store per category for fair coverage.

Other Deals Worth a Look

• Eckersleys: up to 70% off art, craft and stationery. Strong picks for winter-holiday craft packs and journaling supplies.
• Grahams Jewellers: up to 70% off selected diamond, pearl and gold pieces. Family-owned Australian jeweller since 1907.
• Veronika Maine: up to 70% off polished workwear and event dressing. Australian-designed, sized 6 to 16.
• Decjuba: up to 70% off winter knits, denim and outerwear. Melbourne-founded, AU-owned, free delivery over $99.
• Dusk: up to 60% off home fragrance, candles and diffusers. The reliable EOFY hostess-gift restock.

What to Watch Tomorrow

Two markers for the week ahead. Click Frenzy is expected to publish its participating-retailer list around 11 June, which will tell us how broad the free-to-list model has pulled smaller AU labels into the platform. And the Fair Work Commission’s 5.97% minimum wage increase from 1 July is now driving the deepest pre-EOFY clearance from small AU-owned retailers most exposed to payroll inflation, so the next three weeks are when their margin-led discounts hit hardest before the 1 July reset.

Tomorrow’s brief: a parent’s compliance checklist for spotting unsafe marketplace listings before they hit the cart, plus week-two EOFY winners as the Lounge Lovers and Linen House Mid-Year drops kick off.

It’s On Sale Australia’s home for genuine retail deals. Browse today’s featured stores at itsonsale.com.au.

Neil Fairhead

CEO, It’s On Sale

inConnect

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has dragged Amazon’s local arm into the Federal Court over toddler-backpack safety, the first time the watchdog has tested an online marketplace under product safety law. EOFY week one is open, 69% of Aussies are running a hard spending cap, Click Frenzy returns 18 June, and the 1 July minimum wage tick is locked in at 5.97%. Plenty for shoppers to read carefully before reaching for the card.

Amazon Hauled Into Federal Court Over Toddler Backpack Safety

The ACCC filed proceedings against Amazon Commercial Services in the Federal Court on 30 May, alleging that Unicorn Toddler Backpacks sold through amazon.com.au were supplied without the mandatory button-battery warning labels required under Australian product safety law, according to Paul Drecksler at Shopifreaks. The backpacks contained a detachable light-up unicorn plush powered by button batteries. Amazon Australia sold 41 of the products between June and November 2022, with another 267 units still sitting in its fulfilment centres at the time of investigation.

The watchdog says this is the first Federal Court case it has brought against an online marketplace operator under product safety laws. An ACCC deputy chair noted that button batteries “can cause severe internal burns and in some cases death if swallowed by young children”, which is why the warning-label standard is mandatory. The ACCC is seeking declarations and penalties from the court.

For Australian parents the practical takeaway is the one this brief has been running since the start: if it touches a child, prefer an AU-owned retailer with local fulfilment, a returns desk you can phone, and product compliance you can verify in writing. Marketplaces can be convenient, but accountability for what arrives on your doorstep is still being tested.

EOFY Week One: How Aussies Are Spending This Year

EOFY 2026 is now live across every major Australian retailer, but the spending pattern looks tighter than last year. 7News reported on 5 June that 69% of Australian shoppers are enforcing a hard cap of under $500 for the whole EOFY window, with 31% running an even tighter $50 to $200 limit and 38% sitting in the $200 to $500 band. Cost-of-living pressure is driving genuinely strategic behaviour, not impulse hauls.

The brand-level deals worth knowing about this week include Dyson sitewide at up to 50% off, Samsung running a full-store EOFY event, and Kogan flagging up to 70% off across the catalogue. The category playbook for shoppers on a sub-$500 budget is simple. Buy the one big-ticket item you have been deferring (vacuum, headphones, kettle), pair it with a planned wardrobe replacement, and skip the small impulse adds. That is how a strict cap still delivers the year’s best value.

Click Frenzy Returns 18 June, Free for Retailers

Click Frenzy has confirmed a week-long EOFY event launching 18 June 2026, the platform’s first major outing in over a year, Retail World Magazine noted on 5 June. Co-founder Gabby Leibovich wrote on LinkedIn that “Click Frenzy is officially returning with a massive EOFY event starting on 18 June”, and confirmed participation will be free for retailers for the first time in the platform’s history.

For shoppers the practical signal is timing. Genuine sitewide percentage deals on AU-owned brands tend to hit Click Frenzy’s first 48 hours, then taper. If you are watching a specific store that participates, mark 18 and 19 June as the peak window and set price alerts before then. The free-participation model should also pull in smaller AU retailers who normally avoid the platform’s listing fees, so the range of stores is likely to be broader than 2024.

What Changes 1 July: Minimum Wage and the New Financial Year

The Fair Work Commission has confirmed a 5.97% lift to the national minimum wage from 1 July, taking the base rate to $25.44 an hour from $24.95, according to ABC News on 2 June. Award workers get a 4.75% adjustment. The change lifts pay for roughly 2.9 million Australians and feeds directly into retail wage-bills from the first pay cycle in July.

For shoppers two things follow. Retailers facing higher payroll costs tend to thin staffing on weekday daytime hours first, so factor extra time into in-store browsing in July. And the small AU-owned stores most exposed to payroll inflation will be the ones running the deepest pre-30 June clearance to clean inventory before the cost step-up. If you have been watching a small label, the next three weeks are the window before margin compression forces a price reset rather than a discount.

Top 5 Deals of the Day

Five stores. Five categories. The deepest headline discounts surfaced from a sweep of every retailer on It’s On Sale, audited at dawn.

1Today’s Top
DiscountSportsgirlWomens FashionEOFY clearance across party dresses, knits and denim, deepest in size 6 to 14.90%OFF2Rebel SportSport & FitnessFangear clearance plus running, footy and basketball footwear.85%OFF3Elite SupplementsHealth & SupplementsProtein, pre-workout and recovery from Australian-made brands.80%OFF4UGG ExpressShoesClassic and short ugg styles, slippers and kids’ sizes. Melbourne dispatch.80%OFF5Kick Push SkateSkate & WheelsComplete decks, trucks, wheels and apparel from skate-owned labels.78%OFF

% discounts shown are indicative across each store’s sale range. Individual product savings vary.

Sourced from a daily sweep of every retailer on It’s On Sale. Ranked by headline percentage, one store per category for fair coverage.

Other Deals Worth a Look

• Costume Box: up to 75% off party and costume range. AU-owned, sensible to lock in school-event gear before term 3.
• Betts: up to 70% off mens and womens shoes including leather formals and winter boots.
• Eckersleys: up to 70% off art, craft and stationery. Strong for kids’ holiday-prep packs and journaling supplies.
• Myer EOFY: up to 60% off beauty (including 40% off selected premium brands) and 50% off bed linen through 30 June.

What to Watch Tomorrow

Two signals to track. The Federal Court is expected to set first-mention timing on the ACCC v Amazon matter within 14 days, which will tell us whether this becomes a fast-tracked test case or a 2027 hearing. And Click Frenzy’s participating-retailer list typically previews 7 days before launch, so 11 June is when the size of the 18 June event becomes concrete.

Tomorrow’s brief: a working-from-home EOFY claim checklist for the self-employed, plus the Sportsgirl 90% mark broken down item-by-item for the sub-$500 budget.

It’s On Sale Australia’s home for genuine retail deals. Browse today’s featured stores at itsonsale.com.au.

Neil Fairhead

CEO, It’s On Sale

inConnect

The Reserve Bank flagged a 4.5% inflation peak in the June quarter on Wednesday, while Treasury locked in 1 October 2026 as the day card surcharges disappear from Australian point-of-sale terminals. Shoppers also got the ACCC’s first Federal Court action against an online marketplace, and Woolworths quietly turned on a Gemini-powered shopping assistant. EOFY 2026 just got more interesting.

RBA flags 4.5% inflation peak, card surcharges end 1 October

Governor Michele Bullock told the Senate Economics Committee on Wednesday that headline inflation is on track to peak at 4.5% in the June quarter before easing through the second half of 2026, according to her prepared remarks published by the Reserve Bank. Bullock used the same testimony to confirm the Treasurer’s earlier announcement that surcharging on Visa, Mastercard and EFTPOS debit and credit cards will end at all Australian merchants from 1 October 2026, with interchange caps also lowering on the same day.

For shoppers the cards reform is simple money back. The Reserve Bank’s own modelling pegs the annual saving at roughly $60 per adult, with the heaviest gains landing on households who tap-pay at hospitality and small-merchant terminals. The interchange cap reduction (capped at 0.30% for credit, 0.06% for debit) should also feed through to lower headline prices over the following 6 to 12 months as merchants reset menu boards and shelf tags. If a retailer in your local strip still surcharges you 1.5% on a debit tap on 2 October, that is now the merchant absorbing it as a loss, not the law.

ACCC takes Amazon to Federal Court, first marketplace test

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission filed proceedings in the Federal Court against Amazon Commercial Services last week (its first case against an online marketplace operator), ABC News consumer affairs reporter Daniel Ziffer wrote on 29 May. The case centres on Unicorn Toddler Backpacks sold through Amazon Australia between November 2023 and December 2024, with allegedly unsecured button batteries and inadequate compliance warnings.

ACCC chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb said the action is a “significant test of whether online marketplaces can be held to the same standards as bricks-and-mortar retailers for products sold on their platforms”. For Australian parents the practical takeaway is the one this brief has been running since Issue 01: if it goes in a child’s hand, a kitchen, or near a power point, prefer an AU-owned retailer with local fulfilment, a returns desk you can call, and product compliance you can verify in writing.

Woolworths quietly launches Gemini-powered shopping assistant

Woolworths Group has switched on a Google Gemini-powered conversational shopping assistant inside the Woolworths app, the University of Western Australia retail analytics team noted on 4 June. The assistant handles natural-language meal planning (“dinner for four under $40 with no nuts”), basket completion, and shelf-tag price comparison across the loyalty programme. Coles is understood to be running a closed pilot of an Anthropic-backed equivalent and is expected to launch publicly before Christmas.

For shoppers this is a genuine convenience lift on price comparison and dietary filtering, but the prompt engineering matters. Ask the assistant to surface the cheapest unit-price option in a category rather than the recommended product, and verify the AU-source flag if local provenance matters to you.

EOFY 2026 deal landscape, week 2 of June

The headline EOFY catalogues are now live across the AU majors. Myer’s EOFY sale runs through 30 June with up to 60% off beauty and homewares, while TechRadar’s EOFY tech tracker is showing JB Hi-Fi, The Good Guys and Bing Lee all running matched-pricing weeks through the month. The premium discount opportunities, the ones worth waiting for, are concentrated in the homepage retailers we audit every dawn.

Top 5 Deals of the Day

Five stores. Five categories. The deepest headline discounts surfaced from a sweep of every retailer on It’s On Sale, audited at dawn.

1

Sportsgirl

Womens Fashion

Up to 90% off the runway-leaning Sportsgirl sale floor: party dresses, knits, denim and accessories with EOFY clearance running deepest in size 6 to 14.

90%OFF

2

Rebel Sport

Sport & Fitness

Up to 85% off Rebel’s fangear clearance, plus solid sweep through running, footy and basketball footwear in mid-tier brands.

85%OFF

3

Elite Supplements

Health & Supplements

Up to 80% off whey, pre-workout, BCAAs and recovery stacks. Australian-owned, Brisbane warehouse, free shipping over $150 if you stack.

80%OFF

4

Kick Push Skate

Skate & Wheels

Up to 78% off skate decks, complete setups, helmets and apparel. AU-owned, Brisbane-based, free shipping over $99.

78%OFF

5

Baku Swimwear

Swim & Beach

Up to 70% off Aussie-designed swim, resort and rash vests. Strong end-of-season clearance in size 8 to 16.

70%OFF

% discounts shown are indicative across each store’s sale range. Individual product savings vary.

Sourced from a daily sweep of every retailer on It’s On Sale. Ranked by headline percentage, one store per category for fair coverage.

Other Deals Worth a Look

• Grahams Jewellers: up to 70% off sterling silver and gold-plated pieces. Sensible mid-year gifting category before the July price resets.
• Myer EOFY: up to 60% off beauty (including 40% off selected Lancôme and Estée Lauder) and 50% off bed linen through 30 June.
• Dan Murphy’s: EOFY wine and spirits clearance running with up to 50% off selected packages. Worth a browse for Australian reds before the July uplifts.
• Spotlight: winter linen and electric blankets at up to 60% off for VIPs, KOO bamboo cotton sheet sets remain the standout pick.

What to watch

Three signals shape spending between now and the 30 June EOFY close. The June quarter Wage Price Index lands on 13 August, the July monthly CPI indicator on 28 August, and household consumption data through July tells us whether the cards-reform $60 a head is actually showing up in receipts. A material upside surprise on services inflation puts the RBA’s “scope to pause” language at risk, which means the current mortgage rate plateau (6.10% to 6.25% for prime owner-occupiers) is the easier half of 2026.

Tomorrow’s brief: a deep dive into the Sportsgirl 90% mark, plus a working-from-home EOFY claim checklist for the self-employed.

It’s On Sale Australia’s home for genuine retail deals. Browse today’s featured stores at itsonsale.com.au.

The Australian economy lifted just 0.3% in the March quarter, the Reserve Bank held the cash rate at 4.35%, and consumer watchdog CHOICE escalated unsafe-product complaints to the ACCC. For shoppers, EOFY 2026 is landing into the tightest household budgets in two years, and the AU retailers running genuine discounts deserve every dollar that would otherwise wander to a banned-listing marketplace.

GDP barely budged. Spending will be picky.

Australia’s economy grew by 0.3% in the first quarter of 2026, taking the annual rate to 2.5%, the Australian Bureau of Statistics confirmed yesterday. ABC News flagged the quarterly pace as an annualised 1.2%, the slowest meaningful expansion since the post-pandemic plateau. Construction and professional services lifted, while mining and retail trade weighed (sales of goods and services fell in 5 of 15 industries, led by Mining down 3.1%, per the ABS Business Indicators release for March 2026).

For shoppers, the read is simple. Household consumption data through April already showed the first meaningful slowdown since late 2025. The wallet has tightened, and the rest of EOFY 2026 will be about choosing fewer, better deals rather than chasing every banner.

RBA holds at 4.35%, mortgage rates frozen

The Reserve Bank board voted unanimously to hold the cash rate at 4.35% on 2 June, ending six months of move probability priced at every meeting. James Mitchell, writing for Your Finance Guide, notes Governor Bullock used the post-decision press conference to explicitly leave the door open to a further hike if inflation surprises, while the board’s “scope to pause” language appeared again in the statement.

Big 4 owner-occupier variable rates remain in the 5.99% to 6.20% band for prime borrowers, with non-bank lenders running 5.79% to 5.95% on the same files. If you have not had a rate review in 18 months, the maths on a same-lender review for a $700,000 loan is $290 to $470 a month back in the household budget, according to Mitchell. That is real EOFY money before you have walked into a single store.

CHOICE escalates to ACCC over Amazon, Temu, eBay

Consumer advocacy group CHOICE lodged a “super complaint” (the one allowed each year, reserved for the most pressing consumer issues) with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission this week. The complaint, covered by the ABC News team, lists novelty smoking cigarettes, toy-like lighters, detachable tongue studs, flammable clothing, and potentially lethal button batteries among the items found on sale across Amazon, Temu, eBay and AliExpress.

CHOICE campaign director Andy Kelly told AAP the legal gap “permits online marketplaces to continue selling these unsafe items with minimal repercussions”. ACCC deputy chair Catriona Lowe confirmed the watchdog had issued removal requests for the magnet-toy listings to Amazon, eBay, Kogan and Fruugo, and all four took the items down. The ACCC’s separate court case against Amazon Commercial Services (over toddler backpacks with unlabelled button batteries) remains live, with CHOICE calling it a significant test of Amazon’s accountability.

For Australian shoppers the practical takeaway is the same one this brief has run since Issue 01: if a product is for a child, a kitchen, or a power point, prefer an Australian-owned retailer with local fulfilment, real product compliance, and a returns desk you can call. Cheap is not cheap when the listing disappears the next morning.

Special of the Day: House, 84% off Baccarat knife block

Today’s Special of the Day goes to House, the Australian-owned kitchen and homewares retailer. The deepest single deal on the page is the Baccarat Damashiro EMPEROR Hisa 9 Piece Knife Block at $249.99, down from an RRP of $1,639.99. That is a saving of roughly $1,390 and an 84% markdown, the deepest headline figure across the 13 stores reviewed for this issue.

The same Kitchen & Homeware Deals page also lists the Baccarat STONE 10 Piece Cookware Set at 76% off and the iD3 BLACK SAMURAI knife block at 71% off, plus multiple cookware sets at 70%. With EOFY claims for home-office kitchen kit on the table for self-employed Australians, and a slower economy making one-off durable upgrades more sensible than monthly impulse buys, the timing is good. Verify stock at checkout because the deepest Baccarat sets have moved fast at this discount level in prior weeks.

Other Deals Worth a Look

• David Jones: extra 50% off selected sale styles, plus 50% off selected cookware (Essteele, Anolon, Circulon) and up to 40% off bed linen. Strong EOFY pairing with the House cookware run if you want to mix premium with mid-range.
• Repco: Ultimate DIY Workshop Catalogue (ends Tuesday 16 June) with 45% off the Mechpro 120 Piece Automotive Tool Kit ($99, was $190) and 40% off the Mechpro 2000kg Trolley Jack. Rewards members also get the Invisible Glass Rain Repellent at half price.
• Dan Murphy’s: EOFY wine and spirits clearance is running with up to 60% off selected packages. Worth a browse for cellar-door pricing on Australian reds before the July uplifts.
• Spotlight: Spot-Take Sale (Wed 3 to Sun 21 June), VIPs save 50% off flannelette bed linen, electric and winter blankets, and Mygenie vacuums. KOO Bamboo Cotton Sheet Set at 59% off is the standout.

What to watch

Three data points will shape consumer pricing into Q3: the June quarter Wage Price Index (released 13 August), the July monthly CPI indicator (28 August), and household consumption data through July and August. A material upside surprise on either trimmed-mean inflation or services inflation puts the RBA hike back on the table, which means today’s mortgage rate plateau is the easier half of 2026. EOFY savings now are partly an insurance policy against a tougher H2.

Tomorrow’s brief: AU retailer EOFY claim-period guides for working-from-home shoppers, plus a deep dive into a homepage retailer’s deepest single-item deal.

It’s On Sale Australia’s home for genuine retail deals. Browse today’s featured stores at itsonsale.com.au.