How one David Jones supplier got paid when the others didn’t

August 10, 2026 — 3:59pm

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David Jones - billed as the house of brands, still feels like a house of cards.

The war between David Jones and its suppliers has become so extreme that the owners of Platypus Shoes and Athlete’s Foot, Accent Group, threatened to exercise its default rights against David Jones after enduring many months of overdue payments.

Typically, this “default right” would involve legal action or even a winding up order against David Jones - one which could open the floodgates to an avalanche of suppliers that have been waiting for payments.

Faced with Accent’s hardball game of chicken, David Jones swerved and paid the group which is now supplying on a cash on delivery only basis.

It also emerged last week that David Jones was proposing to lengthen its payment times for suppliers, offering many suppliers a 20-week payment schedule.

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