(Reuters) – Australian grocer Woolworths Group reported a 1.8% rise in first-quarter sales on Thursday, helped by higher product prices.
Total group sales for the country’s biggest supermarket chain came in at A$16.36 billion ($10.39 billion) in the quarter, compared with A$16.07 billion reported a year earlier.
($1 = 1.5751 Australian dollars)
(Reporting by Harshita Swaminathan and Navya Mittal in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika Syamnath)