Small businesses fighting to stay open amid 'insidious cost creep'
08-09-2026 22:30 via abc.net.au

Small businesses fighting to stay open amid 'insidious cost creep'

Small business owners hit with rising costs will no longer be able to add surcharges on card payments from October 1. One operator in regional South Australia has described it as an "insidious cost creep".
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