Payback time for consumers as retailers focus on discounts amid cost-of-living battle

Change in shopper behaviour is sweeping through company earnings in Australia and overseas

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Australian consumers, burnt out by relentless rises in living costs, are looking for discounts.

Terry Smart, the chief executive of JB Hi-Fi, has been forced to oblige.