Supermarket prices are out of control (Still)

[Cleavy]

Not sure

I'm guessing it's the party bag, which according to Woolworths site RRP is $8.50 (but discounted to $5 atm), RRP of the smaller bag is $4.80.

 

[HirdyLannister]

I'd love my wife to pay attention to when things are discounted. Goes into every shop paying no attention to price tags at all. Infuriating.

When the missus comes home with the shopping, I keep asking "was this half price?" She is sick of me asking and only buys this luxury items at a discount.

For chips and chocolate, a good store is NQR

 

[magpie_marty]

And they deliberately place the stock with previous packaging in different end-of-aisle locations, if the container size is visually obvious.
Which is a clear act of deception.

High price product at eye level is something that has been around for year also.

 

[Andre]

The one that is a clear case of the packaging outright lying, is Cadbury’s still shows the glass and a half of milk image on chocolate bars. It’s been over a decade since that was true. They should be fined for false advertising or forced to remove it.

 

[Cruyff14]

I pay at most $4.99 (and that's when it's expensive) at a fresh food grocer I do my veg shopping at. I see it's regularly at $8.99 at Safeway.

 

[Frank Bunn]

I pay at most $4.99 (and that's when it's expensive) at a fresh food grocer I do my veg shopping at. I see it's regularly at $8.99 at Safeway.

$4.99 for what?

Does Safeway still exist in Australia?

 

[Cruyff14]

$4.99 for what?

Does Safeway still exist in Australia?

Capsicum.

Woolies. Same thing.

 

[the_interloper]

I like to buy the XL eggs from my local fruit and veg, they're now over $1 an egg

 

[Chief]

I like to buy the XL eggs from my local fruit and veg, they're now over $1 an egg

If you can get them.

 

[kickazz]

Transportation costs, energy cost - yeah they all have an input to this.

But I see things like packets of chips cheaper at petrol stations now than at the supermarket.

Coles and Woolies are having a larf.

 

[Gough]

If you can get them.

Corporate tax cuts will solve that I'm led to believe.

 

[the_interloper]

Corporate tax cuts will solve that I'm led to believe.

Does that mean we'll be shelling out less for a carton of eggs?

 

[errant bounce]

I'd like to go down to an independent place ran by some old Greek family but half the time I buy something, in season, and it's off within about three days. if you're the only one you're cooking for then all you do is end up getting frustrated because you're throwing half of it out.

Markets are shithouse value these days.

 

[Cleavy]

I'd like to go down to an independent place ran by some old Greek family but half the time I buy something, in season, and it's off within about three days. if you're the only one you're cooking for then all you do is end up getting frustrated because you're throwing half of it out.

Markets are shithouse value these days.

freeze what you don't use?

 

[Chief]

Does that mean we'll be shelling out less for a carton of eggs?

No more scrambling for stock.

 

[errant bounce]

freeze what you don't use?

Freezing tomatoes and cucumbers?

 

[HirdyLannister]

Freezing tomatoes and cucumbers?

Tomatoes work, use frozen when a dish requires them like a stew.

Never tried cucumbers

 

[Cleavy]

Freezing tomatoes and cucumbers?

tomatoes you could puree into an ice cube tray?

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[errant bounce]

Tomatoes work, use frozen when a dish requires them like a stew.

Never tried cucumbers

They go to absolute mush. I absolutely hate food waste so I find ways of using things and then freezing them as a meal, but it’s a pain in the arse to have to use half a lettuce, three mushrooms, and a zucchini.

You end up buying a few other things to just use those leftover items and it’s a false economy. and then those things are leftover!

Most of those things lose texture fairly quickly but seem to lose all structure way quicker from markets.

It’s just a cope people use to feel like they’re escaping the chokehold of major supermarkets but it’s just a false economy unless you’re partnered or share veggies with housemates.

 

[errant bounce]

I was reading today about Dutton's culture war on the Aboriginal flag.

Relieved to learn we don't have any real issues like cost of living, and that we can waste our time on such pointless shit.

Just classic divided shit, when there's real issues that affect your day to day, everyone just wants to escape so concentrates on mostly irrelevant shite like that. all politicians like it because it doesn't require you to actually put in any hard work and undermine or hurt businesses and people with heaps of ****in money.

A chick in a sharehouse who went to Israel protests has more in common with a 60-year old mechanic who probably just realised in the last 18 months that his super isn't too flash and retirement definitely isn't coming at 65. but yknow. all people like thinking they're above the shithouse situation they're in and they have all the right answers.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

30 pack of coke just gone up to pineapple land

 

[HirdyLannister]

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30 pack of coke just gone up to pineapple land

The last 4 years companies have taken the piss with corporate greed and saying "COVID inflation"

 

[Cleavy]

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30 pack of coke just gone up to pineapple land

the CDL (Can Disposal Levy) pushed the prices up on top of that.

 

[errant bounce]

the CDL (Can Disposal Levy) pushed the prices up on top of that.

The system in Victoria is complete trash too.

Classic Vic Government going for the worst option when there's established infrastructure that every other city uses across the world.

For some reason they went for these machines that don't accept squashed cans and require a barcode to get scanned.

So you have to have a proper bin to store all these uncrumpled cans, instead of being able to squash them down and store about five times as many.

Then it takes about 10 second per container to deposit, so this huge queue builds up, as opposed to using a weight system to deduce how many cans you're bringing back.

And then because the cans/bottles aren't squashed, the machine fills up incredibly quickly.

It's ****in shithouse, such a cumbersome process. now who is actually benefitting?

I used to have a couple of people who'd come by the bins on a Monday night and rifle through them and good for them if they're making a bit of extra money in retirement or whatever, but they haven't bothered for months. it's probably a waste of time.

 

[kickazz]

The system in Victoria is complete trash too.

Classic Vic Government going for the worst option when there's established infrastructure that every other city uses across the world.

For some reason they went for these machines that don't accept squashed cans and require a barcode to get scanned.

So you have to have a proper bin to store all these uncrumpled cans, instead of being able to squash them down and store about five times as many.

Then it takes about 10 second per container to deposit, so this huge queue builds up, as opposed to using a weight system to deduce how many cans you're bringing back.

And then because the cans/bottles aren't squashed, the machine fills up incredibly quickly.

It's ****in shithouse, such a cumbersome process. now who is actually benefitting?

I used to have a couple of people who'd come by the bins on a Monday night and rifle through them and good for them if they're making a bit of extra money in retirement or whatever, but they haven't bothered for months. it's probably a waste of time.

Yeah when you factor it all in, I don't see how it's an efficient system.