Woolworths Group aims to lead in the responsible retailing of alcohol and tobacco. Whilst we want to provide customers choice, we are committed to adopting retailing strategies, processes and controls to minimise potential harm.

Cigarette sales across Australia and New Zealand are declining due to healthier customer choices, excise taxes and government regulation. We continue to work with the Australian and New Zealand governments to implement tobacco and nicotine control and preventative health policies. In early 2024, changes to the New Zealand Smokefree legislation reversed the anticipated Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan regulation of the sale of smoked tobacco products. As a result of this industry-wide change New Zealand Supermarkets will continue to retail these products in our stores at this time. With further regulation of vaping products taking effect, we have reviewed our retailing of vaping products and decided to cease retailing these products in New Zealand from 1 July 2024. This is consistent with our approach in Australia where we do not retail these products.

To encourage our customers to drink responsibly, we strive to stock a range of low and zero alcohol beverages. We prominently co-locate and promote these options within the beer and wine sections across our New Zealand Supermarkets to drive accessibility and choice for our customers. In Australia, our supermarkets offer a range of zero alcohol beverages in store. Alcohol is sold online via our Australian Supermarkets, BIG W, Everyday Market, Milkrun and MyDeal in partnership with BWS and other suppliers. In F24 we continued to drive proactive measures to enable the responsible sale of alcohol such as training of Age Restricted Goods team and delivery drivers, and mystery shopping testing.