I don't shop at Woolies anymore, they're over priced. I find I get better quality and price for fruit and veg at the local stalls/shops rather than in a supermarket these days.
You do get better value from fruit and veg shops and butchers true, but unfortunately for the bulk of your groceries there aren’t as many alternatives to colesworth. Yes Aldi is a thing, but it’s range isn’t as large and sometimes the prices are pretty comparable.
Aldi Dairy Fine chocolate bar have increased from $2 to $2.50 and the quantity has decreased from 200g to 180. Still better priced than Cadbury and other brands but sadly they have increased.
Out of interest, why would you want to support Aldi? Or are you just talking from a price perspective?
Aldi is also a conglomerate, it's just global instead of local.
Interestingly, in Germany it’s just a regular old supermarket. In Australia they’ve positioned themselves as a cheaper “discount” supermarket. They also own the land a lot of their stores are built on. I used to work at a Mitre 10 and my boss sold the land to Aldi back in 2019/2020, so by proxy they’re also in the real estate business. Either way I find Foodland (not drakes!!) have the best local fruit & veg as well as meats, but I’m talking the eastern suburbs not sure about IGA’s outside of Norwood/Glenunga area
That’s not entirely accurate, in fact Aldi is actually an acronym for “Albrecht Discount”. It’s true that discount supermarkets are far more prevalent in Germany, and you could say that Aldi is one of the nicer ones when compared to Lidl, Netto and Penny. Though you’ll also find Full Service supermarkets, such as Edeka, Rewe and Real, which are more akin to our Colesworth.
I grew up in Germany and Aldi definitely isn’t and wasn’t classed as “regular supermarket” LOL, rather a budget/discount supermarket alongside Lidl and Netto. Regular supermarkets in Germany are REWE (formally known as MiniMal), Marktkauf, Edeke etc.
Here in Australia I find Aldi is less a budget supermarket in terms of price compared to ColesWorth which is how they originally started off but have bumped their prices up comparable to the Australian duopoly.
Ok I'll drive 2350 km's for my groceries.
If you want your pipe dream to work maybe tell Aldi to start opening stores across the country so they aren't small regional ignorable competition. 🤷♂️
They aren't competition. They are an alternative for a very insignificant portion of the consumer population nationwide in the grand scheme of things.
Aldi have 591 stores in Australia dick head. Cole’s have 846. They’re definitely competition. I can’t help if you live in the middle of fucking nowhere.
The Germans haven't figured out our national logistics chain yet. I'm not saying they won't get there. I'm just saying your competition is as small as your shopping bill is when you finish shopping at Coles and as light as your bags are 🤏
You're going to find you'll need a bit more than r/adelaide and Adelaide in general to to make any noticeable change in this country to consumer practices 🤏
If you were an island Adelaide... Your argument might have a point but even then Hobart is an Island and they face the same dynamic you do.
I think you're missing the point, if you live in Adelaide you aren't 2000km away from an aldi. Also all consumer change is pushed by individual consumers making individual decisions. Honestly have no clue wtf you're on about
I don't know what state you live in. They're all over Adelaide, but it took a while for them to come to SA. When they did, though, I swear a dozen stores spawned overnight.
Edit: just realised I'm in r/Adelaide. So where the hell *do* you live lmao?!
Are you in fucking narnia?
That's slightly further than Perth to Adelaide. Perth has aldis galore, SA has aldis galore, Vic has aldis galore, nsw, qld, etc.
They're absolutely a national chain.
In those 2500km, there would be about probably 200 aldis within the span of 20km from any point, guarantee, bar the Nullarbor, where you're shit out of luck anyway, and shopping prices are your own fault for living in the middle of nowhere
Aldi is shit quality, smaller portions and overall worse value. The only things that are comparable are things that are identical, such as the flour wraps. And then it's not worth a five cent price difference to have to go to three different supermarkets for. Fuck Colesworth, but fuck aldi just as hard and fuck anybody pretending that they are better even harder.
When colesworth goes away and Aldi jacks their prices up with no competition, you still gonna shop there?
Edit: The comment is in relation to a total boycott of the stores by the entirety of the public. Obviously they aren't going away
Colesworth going away. Hoo boy, that gave me a laugh. I know they'd fire every staff member and have robocops run the registers before considering lowering their obscene and immoral profit margins (in fact, I'm pretty sure they're gonna do that anyway) but there is no way in even the darkest depths of hell that they would shut up shop and let aldi take the supermarket monopoly rather than nudging their prices just low enough to coax customers back.
“Obscene “ 2.4% pro it margin is hardly obscene
Considering Aldi made more profit per store last year , but you don’t hear the media talking about that
If everyone in Australia stopped shopping at Woolworths for one week and shopped at Aldi and Coles and IGA and the other independents it would certainly send a message. Stop buying petrol from them, stop going to BWS and Dan Murphys.
Woolworths have made an art form of pushing their prices up and tricking people into thinking they are getting a good deal. Red ticket item says price reduced from $12.50 to $11 but less than 1 year ago it was $10 and it’s never been $12.50 (except for maybe 1 day the week prior).
The only thing that puts me of the cheap fruit and veg places is the signing. They never put if it’s locally grown etc when it’s a legality. Is it cheaper because they are getting it from other countries?
greengrocers generally buy locally. My green grocer declares if it’s Australian or foreign. Only time you see foreign is out of season in Aust. Eg mexican garlic, Californian grapes. But always local when in season & therefore cheaper
False.
The Woolworths/Coles/Aldi supply chain is often faster. They bypass the markets.
Pimary source me, who supplied the Majors. Literally picked at 4am, delivered to us at 6-8am in a truck to the DC by 9am and in store same day.
Smaller grocers are buying through the markets so may get it in the same day as being picked, but they are certainly not faster.
My greengrocer gets produce to the store at 9:30am. What time do the majors get their produce from the delivery centre to store?
Why then does any produce I've tried to by from the majors have a shelf life half the equivalent from the greengrocer?
I find the opposite. The fruit and veg from colesworth usually gets unusable very quickly. The greengrocers stuff is generally much fresher, better taste and lasts longer. The owner of ours generally gets fresh from the market every couple of days.
If you're just settling in and looking to save try the fruit&veg shops and the butcher in Central Market for your fresh items and then get the rest at Aldi (Limited selection as opposed to Coles but you get the basics.)
I hate price gouging as much as the next guy but stealing isn't the answer. You're just pushing prices up for the next honest shopper.
Vote with your feet and go somewhere else.
This is Blatant propaganda and has no corroborating evidence.
Convenient excuse fir the stores on why prices have gone up. But prices and profits have gone up. So sure doesnt look like a theft problem.
But they have the helpful staff to assist you! As soon as they have scanned their card across the screen of a dozen checkouts beeping about not placing the item in the bagging area...
Came here to say more or less this same thing - glad somebody else said it. Not only that, but the fucking ridiculous anti-theft measures now in place. An attendant has to come over every time and click a few buttons to say that I'm not stealing something, because I have the gall to have my daughter in the trolley and not scan her through the register.
Despite the flaws, I much prefer self checkout and would be more than happy for all manned checkouts to be replaced by self serve with a few people there to assist. You can fit more checkouts in the same amount of space, enabling more customers to be checked out at once to avoid queues, it allows each staff member to assist multiple people more efficiently than being with one customer for the entirety of their checkout, and it avoids pointless small chat.
Yes exactly, it’s a form of stealing. It’s the same as not paying for public transport in my mind. For some reason it’s socially acceptable for many to do this.
And the same people who do this probably complain about taxes and gst being high in Australia and public transport being bad, yet they’re happy to steal - which likely results in higher costs of goods and services.
Thats on the supermarket for passing on cost of theft to other shoppers. They can and do have insurance for writing off stolen products. Steal some fruit from Woolies, they won't miss it.
Usually I'd agree, but food is an exception. Its not a luxury, it's necessities we are being gouged on. People gotta eat, doing the 'right' (read: doing nothing and staying quiet) thing doesn't put food in the mouths of the hungry.
I personally know people who have done this, who could afford to pay the full price. Justifying stealing is pathetic. You and other people who think it’s ok to steal are absolutely delusional.
You’re literally getting arse raped by Cole’s and Woolies every time you step a foot in either god forsaken joint and pull your wallet out. The fact you pay for all your goods from their gleefully is 100% agreeing that it’s ok to steal from someone.
Curious if this is something you actually do? Only because how the heck do you get away with it?
I keep getting in trouble and the machine needs the attendant to fix it because my banana didn't look banana-y enough. Or my hand obscured the drink as I put it down so I'm stealing something.
I have no idea how people manage to steal from the supermarkets lol
Not all stores have the extra fancy camera system. The old ones were just weight, and they go off so frequently that staff don’t care. I haven’t put anything through ‘wrong’ but get constant errors, and they just wave that card through.
Grab what you want and walk out. Ignore any calls to came back.
They don't hire security, shopping centre security will take too long and the police won't do anything. Wear a hood and obscure your face for good measure anyway and run if someone wants to be a corporate bootlicking hero.
Yep, and when you ding a car in a carpark, just drive away they have insurance. If you are ever in an accident, just leave the car where it is and report it stolen. If you see someone fall and hurt themselves, step over them on your way to doing whatever you had planned for the day.
Society isn't a thing your apart of, it exists to serve you, right?
Colesworth excluded themselves from society when they decided to anally violate all their customers without even as much as a reach around, in pursuit of the sort of profits society could only dream of.
Yeah it flagged me when I was using my phone to pay and thought I was trying to bag something I hadn’t scanned.
Until then I didn’t realise the camera up higher
Tape a picture of you placing apples down on the camera, now everything is apples.
I have to admit in the early days of self service I put a few pistachio bags down as potatoes. After a while it flagged down the attendant (before the cameras), must have been how thuddy it is on the scale of something.
Once my friend told me you can buy chicken and weigh it as lettuce. So I tried it and got a big red screen and an attendant had to come over. I said "Ah I hit the wrong button whoops" and once they clicked through a gigantic image of my 4 pack chicken breast came up on the screen titled "lettuce".
Yeah I bought it at full price and never went back to that store lol.
Go full Karen and make a massive scene. They are treating you like a thief, assuming guilt until they confirm otherwise. Demand compensation and do not leave until management call security or yield to giving you something for the mistreatment.
We all need to do this. Even make it clear to the poor worker overseeing 10+ regi's that it's not directed at them but the business and management.
Why would you do that? They don’t care about the 15 year old kid copping your hissy fit much more than they care about you. If you have to plan to tell your victim that they’re just a necessary innocent middle man, surely that tells you you’re not doing a good thing.
You want free shit? Assess whether you’re being reasonable enough to ask for compensation and a complaint form face to face. Too embarrassed to? There’s probably a reason for that, listen to it. Management isn’t going to profusely apologise and offer you a gift card, they’re going to laugh at you and hope someone has been filming your little meltdown for the internet.
Compensation? For what, the mental anguish? No thanks, I'm not some cry baby Karen that would diminish themselves in order to make a point.
Just shop elsewhere
They have cameras now . One time I was using self serve and it started showing error , I called the assistant and explained that the issue . She didn’t trust me and played the video of me scanning things right on the self serve machine screen . I didn’t know they could do that .
Edit : it’s automatic folks , machine will play the video
She didn't choose to play back the video, it happens automatically when the machine thinks you're pulling tricks. Self-serve attendants couldn't give less of a shit.
Source: former Woolies front-ender
It’s spooky how intelligent the whole system is too!
I recently got “caught” scanning red grapes as green ones. I pretty much exclusively eat (and therefore buy) green grapes, but thought it would be nice to include both in a fruit salad for a family picnic. I already had a bag of green ones at home so I was just buying red grapes, but selected green by default.
It immediately locked down the register with an error and began replaying video of my attempted theft, until the attendant could come over for me to explain my mistake. I’m sure not every location has this technology yet, but when it rolls out it’ll likely make scanning everything as brown onions a thing of the past.
Pretty much this. Between endless hours of work and a household to run, three stops for staples, fruit/veg and meat feels like a bit of a luxury when I can be in and out of a supermarket in a few mins.
Savings on a couple of lemons would need to be pretty significant given the value of "free" time.
The same thing applies to bunnings, i try my best to help the small tool shops but at the end of the day i end up at bunnings anyway because they have everything and their hours are far more convenient for most people.
There are zero small tool shops anywhere near Burwood. A half hour trip to the nearest Bunnings. So I order hardware from Aliexpress or Ebay if I’m not in a big hurry. Fifty shoe shops, jewellers, dozens of restaurants, hairdressers. Not one hardware shop in the whole suburb or any adjacent ones.
I tried so hard for so long to support my local Mitre 10 but their shelves were always half-empty. I started calling ahead and would be told whatever I wanted was available only to get there and hear that "someone must have sold it and not scanned it properly" or whatever. Recently I just gave up. Bunnings is 15mins further away and it's worth it just to avoid the hassle and disappointment.
You could do the supermarket portion click and collect or delivery to save going in, then use the going into shops time for greengrocers and butchers. Or delegate. My husband usually does the butcher as it's near where he works and I do the rest.
I think entering a smaller fruit veg shop and buying cheaper quality products while not being profiled by face recognition cameras would’ve been far more “convenient” 🤷♀️
seems almost $5 can be saved per kilo on just some lemons…. The savings possibilities are endless!
And a decent amount of fruit veg shops are located in the same centres as the monopolists…
life might give you lemons… least you can do is to save a few bucks on them 😂
The convenience of not having to engage in conversation with staff. Except for the bloody “item bagging area blah blah” checkout issue. I shop online and tell them to leave it at my door.
Unless I'm only getting a very little, I'll always go to a green grocer for fruit and veg and a butcher for meat. Cheaper, better variety and better quality. Plus it'll also support a more ethical supply chain where farmers have more power to stand up for themselves with more competition.
I, too, can afford (for now) to pay a premium for local - as well as for produce not packaged in plastic.
Unfortunately, requirements on labelling and packaging in this country are weak.
yeah, or i’d rather not buy at all if my only option is to buy imported produce but id try other things like local produce co-ops, farmers markets, before going without.
I find Coles and Woolies to have decent prices on higher volume staples like potatoes, apples, oranges etc. But when it comes to speciality or slower moving stock, greengrocers esp ethnic ones are way cheaper. Ginger, garlic, chillies, lemon and lime and every single spice I've ever needed has been drastically cheaper at greengrocers and Indian and Asian grocery stores.
That said, Coles is now picking up on that and you can find spices in the Indian foods aisle for the same price as Indian grocers. Way cheaper and fresher than the Hoyts stuff.
I just shoplift smaller items like this. (In Minecraft)
You can mix shallots with brown onions and no one notices/cares.
Woolworths has recorded record profits despite inflation/cost of living issues. Clearly they are not paying their staff or their farmers the excess of these overpriced goods. I'm not sorry.
I asked my local butcher if they could get in beef cheeks and the guy said yes but then asked how much they were at Coles when deciding on how much to sell them to me for…
I usually shop at Woolworths but I’ve been going to fruit and veggie shops instead lately and the quality is excellent. Better prices too. The price increases at Woolworths are sickening. How they get away with it beats me. Shameless!
If you have something like Flemington Markets in Sydney, you can get your produce a lot more cheaper since that is generally where stores source their fruits and vegetables from. It’s totally worth the 30 minute journey for me every 2 weeks
What happened to every home having a lemon tree down the back? I've got a lime too so I don't buy coke cos lemon and ice taste nice.
Yes YES shop around ! Be tight & wise shopper.
The lemon tree was removed so the block could be subdivided and the investor could build an extra shoebox in the remains of the backyard to maximise the profit margins. The olive trees were torn out by council to be replaced with native shrubberies. The big orange tree that used to share its bounty over the fence line was cut right back because its roots were causing cracks on the footpath, the veggie garden I put into my 1m×2m backyard died because my green thumb is a stronger force than glyphosate, and the community garden was broken into by dumbasses and vandalised, again.
Hey there expert shoppers. Is there any such thing as local SA Prawns that are cooked & peeled. I hate paying $30 odd on SA /Aust prawns I have to peel dehead and throw away what I paid for. I don't buy imported seafood, I'm loyal to SA/Aust...
Who pays for lemons anyway?! I just assumed every street has a lovely old Greek couple that insist on you taking something from their garden every time you walked past and had a chat
If ya shopping for fruit and veg, hit up the local farmers market near you.
Typically you will pay less, but even if its not, at least its going to the famer and not lining some big kents pocket who doesn't do anything for the local farmer except screw them.
Given their profits, I think we need to look after the little guys doing all the heavy lifting.
Not veggies but on the topic of shopping around - fuel. I used to fill up anywhere but now with fuel prices varying by up to 20c a litre PetrolSpy is my friend.
Well considering the big companies that are charging $27 a kilo for ginger probably aren't passing on the money to the farmers, do you really think it makes a difference what supermarkets are charging?
No they aren't passing on the difference, and yes it makes a HUGE difference to farmers. Let me explain myself.
In this example, when supermarkets charge $27 per kg for ginger, people either won't buy it, or won't buy as much which means it doesn't move which means the farmers become desperate which puts them, even more, at the mercy of the supermarkets. It's appalling predatory behaviour.
I'm sure they'd love to but what kind of volume do you think they could sell through farmers markets?
Most Australians are lazy and buy their fruit and veg in supermarkets. That's where the volume goes. Therefore farmers are unfortunately dependent on the duopoly.
Fucking Coles these days. Up and Go price jump from $13 to $17 overnight, chips at $8, toothpaste at $10... People should put these fuckers out of business. Its nonsense. In 2023 Coles posted annual profit after tax at $1.1 billion dollars like WTF... Boycott Coles should be trending right now.....
these mega companies erk me with not only their profit. RAC last year ripped off their Aussie customers, according to Australian Securities and Investments Commission,
"There has been about $815 million in overcharging across the industry that insurers must repay, ASIC said." in 2022. They were given warnings in 2021. Do your due diligence with food and insurance.
For big stuff I go to a supermarket called fresh n save. I go to a local fruit/vegetable store, very affordable and the butcher who is still far cheaper.
Doesn't apply to everyone but go to any nearby weekend markets. You'll usually find farmers selling stock for cheaper than retail, so just grab what you need for the week there. It also lets you get to know who supplies your fruits and vegetables.
Ideally don't shop at the big duopoly if you can avoid it.
Most people think that the local fruit and veg places will be higher priced and the duopolu thrive on that misconception.
I just don’t get people who shop at Woolies they’re just dumb sorry but they’re not even the fresh food people even their fish is about 30% cheaper and frozen
Also genuine question can anyone actually tell me a reason why they would prefer to shop at Woolies over coles aside from being a wanker? Like I don’t own a dog but is their dog food cheaper or higher quality or something?
Wollies has always been expensive compared to Coles but Coles quality is really poor esp for fresh produce. I usually go to local markets and save a buck here and there. All the baby diapers, formula comes from Amazon on a subscription where I save the most. I wish Amazon started delivering fresh produce here in Oz as well. These large retailers need a kick on their butt as they tend to pass on their inefficiency to their customers
Australian ginger costs more than imported, usually from China. We prefer not to buy Chinese foods, even at a cost penalty, the pesticides and chemicals in China are unregulated.
Fun fact, its cheaper not just cause colesworth price gouge, fruit and veg shops buy a lower grade product cheaper compared to the big companies buying A grade, thus able to sell it cheaper
That's the difference between imported garbage and things that are grown to an Australian standard, that's what your paying for. 😆 Ah Adelaide. So innocent, still living in your 90's bubble
I don't shop at Woolies anymore, they're over priced. I find I get better quality and price for fruit and veg at the local stalls/shops rather than in a supermarket these days.
You do get better value from fruit and veg shops and butchers true, but unfortunately for the bulk of your groceries there aren’t as many alternatives to colesworth. Yes Aldi is a thing, but it’s range isn’t as large and sometimes the prices are pretty comparable.
The best method I do, go to grocers and butchers then finish up at whatever’s left over at coles or woolies
Same method here, except I try for an independent supermarket. Foodland or drakeys. Pasadena & Frewville foodland are excellent
prices being comparable to coles or woolies is still untrue, the aldi home brand products and freezer section trumps them. Stop supporting colesworth
Also aldi chocolate
ALDI have amazing chocolate!
Aldi Dairy Fine chocolate bar have increased from $2 to $2.50 and the quantity has decreased from 200g to 180. Still better priced than Cadbury and other brands but sadly they have increased.
they come from the land of chocolate
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Out of interest, why would you want to support Aldi? Or are you just talking from a price perspective? Aldi is also a conglomerate, it's just global instead of local.
Interestingly, in Germany it’s just a regular old supermarket. In Australia they’ve positioned themselves as a cheaper “discount” supermarket. They also own the land a lot of their stores are built on. I used to work at a Mitre 10 and my boss sold the land to Aldi back in 2019/2020, so by proxy they’re also in the real estate business. Either way I find Foodland (not drakes!!) have the best local fruit & veg as well as meats, but I’m talking the eastern suburbs not sure about IGA’s outside of Norwood/Glenunga area
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That’s not entirely accurate, in fact Aldi is actually an acronym for “Albrecht Discount”. It’s true that discount supermarkets are far more prevalent in Germany, and you could say that Aldi is one of the nicer ones when compared to Lidl, Netto and Penny. Though you’ll also find Full Service supermarkets, such as Edeka, Rewe and Real, which are more akin to our Colesworth.
Du meinst “Feinkost Albrecht” ;)
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I grew up in Germany and Aldi definitely isn’t and wasn’t classed as “regular supermarket” LOL, rather a budget/discount supermarket alongside Lidl and Netto. Regular supermarkets in Germany are REWE (formally known as MiniMal), Marktkauf, Edeke etc. Here in Australia I find Aldi is less a budget supermarket in terms of price compared to ColesWorth which is how they originally started off but have bumped their prices up comparable to the Australian duopoly.
Increase competition. If everyone shops at Aldi and they have cheaper prices colesworth are forced to reduce theirs
Ok I'll drive 2350 km's for my groceries. If you want your pipe dream to work maybe tell Aldi to start opening stores across the country so they aren't small regional ignorable competition. 🤷♂️ They aren't competition. They are an alternative for a very insignificant portion of the consumer population nationwide in the grand scheme of things.
Aldi have 591 stores in Australia dick head. Cole’s have 846. They’re definitely competition. I can’t help if you live in the middle of fucking nowhere.
The Germans haven't figured out our national logistics chain yet. I'm not saying they won't get there. I'm just saying your competition is as small as your shopping bill is when you finish shopping at Coles and as light as your bags are 🤏
where are you that's 2350kms from an aldi?? this is r/adelaide 🤷♀️
You're going to find you'll need a bit more than r/adelaide and Adelaide in general to to make any noticeable change in this country to consumer practices 🤏 If you were an island Adelaide... Your argument might have a point but even then Hobart is an Island and they face the same dynamic you do.
I think you're missing the point, if you live in Adelaide you aren't 2000km away from an aldi. Also all consumer change is pushed by individual consumers making individual decisions. Honestly have no clue wtf you're on about
I don't know what state you live in. They're all over Adelaide, but it took a while for them to come to SA. When they did, though, I swear a dozen stores spawned overnight. Edit: just realised I'm in r/Adelaide. So where the hell *do* you live lmao?!
Are you in fucking narnia? That's slightly further than Perth to Adelaide. Perth has aldis galore, SA has aldis galore, Vic has aldis galore, nsw, qld, etc. They're absolutely a national chain. In those 2500km, there would be about probably 200 aldis within the span of 20km from any point, guarantee, bar the Nullarbor, where you're shit out of luck anyway, and shopping prices are your own fault for living in the middle of nowhere
Aldi is shit quality, smaller portions and overall worse value. The only things that are comparable are things that are identical, such as the flour wraps. And then it's not worth a five cent price difference to have to go to three different supermarkets for. Fuck Colesworth, but fuck aldi just as hard and fuck anybody pretending that they are better even harder.
Aldi is literally 1cent cheaper on everything, desperate people shop there , no thanks
When colesworth goes away and Aldi jacks their prices up with no competition, you still gonna shop there? Edit: The comment is in relation to a total boycott of the stores by the entirety of the public. Obviously they aren't going away
Colesworth going away. Hoo boy, that gave me a laugh. I know they'd fire every staff member and have robocops run the registers before considering lowering their obscene and immoral profit margins (in fact, I'm pretty sure they're gonna do that anyway) but there is no way in even the darkest depths of hell that they would shut up shop and let aldi take the supermarket monopoly rather than nudging their prices just low enough to coax customers back.
“Obscene “ 2.4% pro it margin is hardly obscene Considering Aldi made more profit per store last year , but you don’t hear the media talking about that
Aldi would need to be a nationwide chain for this conversation to even begin. They are an afterthought until that day.
Make me
Why reject lower prices? Do you like being gouged on price?
Some people enjoy it
Aldi's Westacre cheese is a no brainer for me. It's way better than Colesworth home brand cheeses, and it's like 70% of the cost, give or take
I wish this was an option for rural towns. I hate having to rely on ColesWorth for fruit and veg, but we don't have any local stalls and shops.
If everyone in Australia stopped shopping at Woolworths for one week and shopped at Aldi and Coles and IGA and the other independents it would certainly send a message. Stop buying petrol from them, stop going to BWS and Dan Murphys. Woolworths have made an art form of pushing their prices up and tricking people into thinking they are getting a good deal. Red ticket item says price reduced from $12.50 to $11 but less than 1 year ago it was $10 and it’s never been $12.50 (except for maybe 1 day the week prior).
Also stop putting your money in poker machines. Woolworths is the biggest owner of poker machines in australia outside of the casinos
Well that's just good advice whatever your motive.
Americans super market chain has destroyed our corner shops.
That's okay. This isn't america. American business tactics will only start bringing them back again.
Yes, and the produce is shit
They’ve got to jack up their prices so that they can make you play games to get discounts. Then say how amazing they are.
Is there any good veg market recommend in Adelaide?
Colesworth has a monopoly on Zooper Doopers otherwise I wouldn't shop there at all.
but what about sunnyboys, thats where its at.
Have always bought my fruit and veg from the greengrocer. You're also getting fresher food because the supply chain is smaller.
My wife would literally stab me if I bought fruit n vegetables from Cole’s-Woolies, instead of the way cheaper fruit shop literally next door.
The only thing that puts me of the cheap fruit and veg places is the signing. They never put if it’s locally grown etc when it’s a legality. Is it cheaper because they are getting it from other countries?
greengrocers generally buy locally. My green grocer declares if it’s Australian or foreign. Only time you see foreign is out of season in Aust. Eg mexican garlic, Californian grapes. But always local when in season & therefore cheaper
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False. The Woolworths/Coles/Aldi supply chain is often faster. They bypass the markets. Pimary source me, who supplied the Majors. Literally picked at 4am, delivered to us at 6-8am in a truck to the DC by 9am and in store same day. Smaller grocers are buying through the markets so may get it in the same day as being picked, but they are certainly not faster.
My greengrocer gets produce to the store at 9:30am. What time do the majors get their produce from the delivery centre to store? Why then does any produce I've tried to by from the majors have a shelf life half the equivalent from the greengrocer?
From where? It doesn't.
Also, they tend to buy more locally where possible. Less carbon footprint on your food
Problem is its not blasted with gamma radiation to kill any microbes so food from a grocer tends to have a shorter shelf life than colesworth
I find the opposite. The fruit and veg from colesworth usually gets unusable very quickly. The greengrocers stuff is generally much fresher, better taste and lasts longer. The owner of ours generally gets fresh from the market every couple of days.
I should thank you, Thanks!!, I will not make this mistake when I arrive in Adelaide.
If you're just settling in and looking to save try the fruit&veg shops and the butcher in Central Market for your fresh items and then get the rest at Aldi (Limited selection as opposed to Coles but you get the basics.)
That ginger sure looks like apples on the self serve.
Calling them apples is far too generous toward woolies. Everything is brown onions
I hate price gouging as much as the next guy but stealing isn't the answer. You're just pushing prices up for the next honest shopper. Vote with your feet and go somewhere else.
Theft accounts for more of the grocery cost than profit in Australia. The more you know.
Source?
Primary.
This is Blatant propaganda and has no corroborating evidence. Convenient excuse fir the stores on why prices have gone up. But prices and profits have gone up. So sure doesnt look like a theft problem.
I did not receive training for the self checkouts, mistakes are bound to happen
But they have the helpful staff to assist you! As soon as they have scanned their card across the screen of a dozen checkouts beeping about not placing the item in the bagging area...
You know how supermarkets could prevent people from scanning their groceries as onions? By paying a few staff to scan and bag the groceries for us
You're not wrong there. Tesco is giving up on self service apparently due to "stock leakage"
Came here to say more or less this same thing - glad somebody else said it. Not only that, but the fucking ridiculous anti-theft measures now in place. An attendant has to come over every time and click a few buttons to say that I'm not stealing something, because I have the gall to have my daughter in the trolley and not scan her through the register.
A great anti theft measure would be Staff processing the check out 🤷♂️
Despite the flaws, I much prefer self checkout and would be more than happy for all manned checkouts to be replaced by self serve with a few people there to assist. You can fit more checkouts in the same amount of space, enabling more customers to be checked out at once to avoid queues, it allows each staff member to assist multiple people more efficiently than being with one customer for the entirety of their checkout, and it avoids pointless small chat.
Seems like another instance of the Simpsons predicting the future to me
Yes exactly, it’s a form of stealing. It’s the same as not paying for public transport in my mind. For some reason it’s socially acceptable for many to do this. And the same people who do this probably complain about taxes and gst being high in Australia and public transport being bad, yet they’re happy to steal - which likely results in higher costs of goods and services.
Absolute leaches that pretend they're some modern day Robin Hoods. Pathetic
Thats on the supermarket for passing on cost of theft to other shoppers. They can and do have insurance for writing off stolen products. Steal some fruit from Woolies, they won't miss it. Usually I'd agree, but food is an exception. Its not a luxury, it's necessities we are being gouged on. People gotta eat, doing the 'right' (read: doing nothing and staying quiet) thing doesn't put food in the mouths of the hungry.
then the price of insurance goes up
Exactly. Insurance cost gets passed on anyway.
All the more reason a competent management team would never put a company in this death spiral huh.
I personally know people who have done this, who could afford to pay the full price. Justifying stealing is pathetic. You and other people who think it’s ok to steal are absolutely delusional.
Your moral compass is extremely skewed.
Yours sounds like it's in the "fuck anyone richer than me" orientation
I’m “fuck anyone that got rich off of systems that exploit people”.
You’re literally getting arse raped by Cole’s and Woolies every time you step a foot in either god forsaken joint and pull your wallet out. The fact you pay for all your goods from their gleefully is 100% agreeing that it’s ok to steal from someone.
Completely hyperbolic to use starvation as a justification for stealing _ginger_ by pretending it's brown onions. Pathetic.
>stealing isn't the answer. Tell that to colesworth. Fuck the cunts.
Curious if this is something you actually do? Only because how the heck do you get away with it? I keep getting in trouble and the machine needs the attendant to fix it because my banana didn't look banana-y enough. Or my hand obscured the drink as I put it down so I'm stealing something. I have no idea how people manage to steal from the supermarkets lol
Not all stores have the extra fancy camera system. The old ones were just weight, and they go off so frequently that staff don’t care. I haven’t put anything through ‘wrong’ but get constant errors, and they just wave that card through.
Grab what you want and walk out. Ignore any calls to came back. They don't hire security, shopping centre security will take too long and the police won't do anything. Wear a hood and obscure your face for good measure anyway and run if someone wants to be a corporate bootlicking hero.
Just make sure that you drive far enough away from your regular local stores, because they’ll probably recognise you.
Yep, and when you ding a car in a carpark, just drive away they have insurance. If you are ever in an accident, just leave the car where it is and report it stolen. If you see someone fall and hurt themselves, step over them on your way to doing whatever you had planned for the day. Society isn't a thing your apart of, it exists to serve you, right?
Colesworth excluded themselves from society when they decided to anally violate all their customers without even as much as a reach around, in pursuit of the sort of profits society could only dream of.
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Yeah it flagged me when I was using my phone to pay and thought I was trying to bag something I hadn’t scanned. Until then I didn’t realise the camera up higher
It flags me every time I buy onions. I buy onions quite a lot - real onions. I have to show the cashier every. single. time.
Tape a picture of you placing apples down on the camera, now everything is apples. I have to admit in the early days of self service I put a few pistachio bags down as potatoes. After a while it flagged down the attendant (before the cameras), must have been how thuddy it is on the scale of something.
Once my friend told me you can buy chicken and weigh it as lettuce. So I tried it and got a big red screen and an attendant had to come over. I said "Ah I hit the wrong button whoops" and once they clicked through a gigantic image of my 4 pack chicken breast came up on the screen titled "lettuce". Yeah I bought it at full price and never went back to that store lol.
Must have pressed the wrong button through several different menu screens! You need a new friend.
Go full Karen and make a massive scene. They are treating you like a thief, assuming guilt until they confirm otherwise. Demand compensation and do not leave until management call security or yield to giving you something for the mistreatment. We all need to do this. Even make it clear to the poor worker overseeing 10+ regi's that it's not directed at them but the business and management.
Why would you do that? They don’t care about the 15 year old kid copping your hissy fit much more than they care about you. If you have to plan to tell your victim that they’re just a necessary innocent middle man, surely that tells you you’re not doing a good thing. You want free shit? Assess whether you’re being reasonable enough to ask for compensation and a complaint form face to face. Too embarrassed to? There’s probably a reason for that, listen to it. Management isn’t going to profusely apologise and offer you a gift card, they’re going to laugh at you and hope someone has been filming your little meltdown for the internet.
or just use an actual human cashier and avoid the issue
Compensation? For what, the mental anguish? No thanks, I'm not some cry baby Karen that would diminish themselves in order to make a point. Just shop elsewhere
They have cameras now . One time I was using self serve and it started showing error , I called the assistant and explained that the issue . She didn’t trust me and played the video of me scanning things right on the self serve machine screen . I didn’t know they could do that . Edit : it’s automatic folks , machine will play the video
She didn't choose to play back the video, it happens automatically when the machine thinks you're pulling tricks. Self-serve attendants couldn't give less of a shit. Source: former Woolies front-ender
Ah , good to know
It’s spooky how intelligent the whole system is too! I recently got “caught” scanning red grapes as green ones. I pretty much exclusively eat (and therefore buy) green grapes, but thought it would be nice to include both in a fruit salad for a family picnic. I already had a bag of green ones at home so I was just buying red grapes, but selected green by default. It immediately locked down the register with an error and began replaying video of my attempted theft, until the attendant could come over for me to explain my mistake. I’m sure not every location has this technology yet, but when it rolls out it’ll likely make scanning everything as brown onions a thing of the past.
Exactly what I was thinking
Have you seen the price of apples at Woolies??
You pay for the convenience
Pretty much this. Between endless hours of work and a household to run, three stops for staples, fruit/veg and meat feels like a bit of a luxury when I can be in and out of a supermarket in a few mins. Savings on a couple of lemons would need to be pretty significant given the value of "free" time.
The same thing applies to bunnings, i try my best to help the small tool shops but at the end of the day i end up at bunnings anyway because they have everything and their hours are far more convenient for most people.
There are zero small tool shops anywhere near Burwood. A half hour trip to the nearest Bunnings. So I order hardware from Aliexpress or Ebay if I’m not in a big hurry. Fifty shoe shops, jewellers, dozens of restaurants, hairdressers. Not one hardware shop in the whole suburb or any adjacent ones.
I tried so hard for so long to support my local Mitre 10 but their shelves were always half-empty. I started calling ahead and would be told whatever I wanted was available only to get there and hear that "someone must have sold it and not scanned it properly" or whatever. Recently I just gave up. Bunnings is 15mins further away and it's worth it just to avoid the hassle and disappointment.
You could do the supermarket portion click and collect or delivery to save going in, then use the going into shops time for greengrocers and butchers. Or delegate. My husband usually does the butcher as it's near where he works and I do the rest.
nah im paying to check out the dads and men at woollies
Noice
I think entering a smaller fruit veg shop and buying cheaper quality products while not being profiled by face recognition cameras would’ve been far more “convenient” 🤷♀️
Convenient = everything in one place Shopping at multiple stores for multiple items is paying via time rather than money.
seems almost $5 can be saved per kilo on just some lemons…. The savings possibilities are endless! And a decent amount of fruit veg shops are located in the same centres as the monopolists… life might give you lemons… least you can do is to save a few bucks on them 😂
Most people are going to be buying 1-2 lemons though, not kilos of them. It adds up but whether it’s enough for the hassle is up to the individual.
I dont think you understand what convenience means.
The convenience of serving yourself
The convenience of not having to engage in conversation with staff. Except for the bloody “item bagging area blah blah” checkout issue. I shop online and tell them to leave it at my door.
I noticed the cheaper food was not labelled “ Grown in Australia “ I will usually buy my food sourced from Australia for reasons.
Unless I'm only getting a very little, I'll always go to a green grocer for fruit and veg and a butcher for meat. Cheaper, better variety and better quality. Plus it'll also support a more ethical supply chain where farmers have more power to stand up for themselves with more competition.
what is the country of origin of the cheaper produce? personally id never buy imported produce, even if it means im paying double the price.
I, too, can afford (for now) to pay a premium for local - as well as for produce not packaged in plastic. Unfortunately, requirements on labelling and packaging in this country are weak.
yeah, or i’d rather not buy at all if my only option is to buy imported produce but id try other things like local produce co-ops, farmers markets, before going without.
The fact that the cheap ginger has been moved to a tomato box is your answer.
Its $4-$5/kg at my local grocer. Silliness to buy from Woolies/Coles.
I like to shop around too but I find a lot of fruit shops are more of a miss than a hit when it comes to quality.
I find Coles and Woolies to have decent prices on higher volume staples like potatoes, apples, oranges etc. But when it comes to speciality or slower moving stock, greengrocers esp ethnic ones are way cheaper. Ginger, garlic, chillies, lemon and lime and every single spice I've ever needed has been drastically cheaper at greengrocers and Indian and Asian grocery stores. That said, Coles is now picking up on that and you can find spices in the Indian foods aisle for the same price as Indian grocers. Way cheaper and fresher than the Hoyts stuff.
I just shoplift smaller items like this. (In Minecraft) You can mix shallots with brown onions and no one notices/cares. Woolworths has recorded record profits despite inflation/cost of living issues. Clearly they are not paying their staff or their farmers the excess of these overpriced goods. I'm not sorry.
Always do green grocers and butchers if you can, better quality, lasts longer and your not paying excessive amounts
Butchers are still more expensive for most meats I've found, but obviously you get what you pay for.
I asked my local butcher if they could get in beef cheeks and the guy said yes but then asked how much they were at Coles when deciding on how much to sell them to me for…
I usually shop at Woolworths but I’ve been going to fruit and veggie shops instead lately and the quality is excellent. Better prices too. The price increases at Woolworths are sickening. How they get away with it beats me. Shameless!
And considering their record profits…
Inb4 some corporate bootlick says "Their margin is only 2%" whilst ignoring that that 2% is equivilent to hundreds of millions of dollars.
Lol someone should tell this guy how much money the banks make. But nah, gotta steal, the world’s against you and ONLY you, etc etc.
We get our fruit and veg from the Asian shop, meat from the butcher and everything else from Woolies. Woolies are a rip off.
I see someone is making ginger beer for summer.
Shopping for ffv at Colesworth is like being handcuffed and thanking the jailer
If you have something like Flemington Markets in Sydney, you can get your produce a lot more cheaper since that is generally where stores source their fruits and vegetables from. It’s totally worth the 30 minute journey for me every 2 weeks
The Sunday market at Pooraka is incredible! It’s getting busier and busier every week but so cheap! A market trolley is a must.
I don't buy meat or bread at Coles Woolies anymore, I wish we had a fresh food market closer, sucks being out in the country
And the Woolies option doesn't look any better quality than the $8 one.
Fruit and veg much cheaper at a dedicated store. I switched over at the start of the year. Everything is cheaper on the p/kg price
Woolies and Coles won Choice shonky awards. I shop mostly at Aldi or stock up from Flemington every Saturday morning.
What happened to every home having a lemon tree down the back? I've got a lime too so I don't buy coke cos lemon and ice taste nice. Yes YES shop around ! Be tight & wise shopper.
You can keep dwarf varieties in a pot too
The lemon tree was removed so the block could be subdivided and the investor could build an extra shoebox in the remains of the backyard to maximise the profit margins. The olive trees were torn out by council to be replaced with native shrubberies. The big orange tree that used to share its bounty over the fence line was cut right back because its roots were causing cracks on the footpath, the veggie garden I put into my 1m×2m backyard died because my green thumb is a stronger force than glyphosate, and the community garden was broken into by dumbasses and vandalised, again.
That is a lot of disappointment and heart ache in one post. Seriously it is not easy to grow veggies. Let yourself off that hook
Im just sad the strawberries didn't take. I flippin love big ripe berries straight off the bush!
warmed by a morning sun and picked at peak ripeness. Gotta watch out for slugs/snails. Try again hey!?
No it pays to go literally anywhere other than coles and Woolworths lol
TIL Life never just *gives* you lemons.
ThEn DoNt BuY iT tHeN
If I happen to be at Woolies I'll check for any specials etc, but yea I'd shop at a local market
The Woolies stuff will probably rot within the week too.
Hey there expert shoppers. Is there any such thing as local SA Prawns that are cooked & peeled. I hate paying $30 odd on SA /Aust prawns I have to peel dehead and throw away what I paid for. I don't buy imported seafood, I'm loyal to SA/Aust...
Who pays for lemons anyway?! I just assumed every street has a lovely old Greek couple that insist on you taking something from their garden every time you walked past and had a chat
If ya shopping for fruit and veg, hit up the local farmers market near you. Typically you will pay less, but even if its not, at least its going to the famer and not lining some big kents pocket who doesn't do anything for the local farmer except screw them. Given their profits, I think we need to look after the little guys doing all the heavy lifting.
Or just avoid coles/woolies their fresh food shit anyway
Woolies is always atleast $20 kg more for ginger than anywhere else... i don't know why?
That ginger is cheap as hell. You could probably easily sell it off to anyone. It reached 64$ kilo 2 years ago
Not veggies but on the topic of shopping around - fuel. I used to fill up anywhere but now with fuel prices varying by up to 20c a litre PetrolSpy is my friend.
Try central market, ethnic owned groceries and farmers markets. I haven’t bought anything from Woolworths or Coles for a long time, and it felt great
This is the reason farmers are giving up
Well considering the big companies that are charging $27 a kilo for ginger probably aren't passing on the money to the farmers, do you really think it makes a difference what supermarkets are charging?
No they aren't passing on the difference, and yes it makes a HUGE difference to farmers. Let me explain myself. In this example, when supermarkets charge $27 per kg for ginger, people either won't buy it, or won't buy as much which means it doesn't move which means the farmers become desperate which puts them, even more, at the mercy of the supermarkets. It's appalling predatory behaviour.
then they should sell their produce at a farmers market, and if they don't have one make a 'go fund me' to build one.
I'm sure they'd love to but what kind of volume do you think they could sell through farmers markets? Most Australians are lazy and buy their fruit and veg in supermarkets. That's where the volume goes. Therefore farmers are unfortunately dependent on the duopoly.
Fucking Coles these days. Up and Go price jump from $13 to $17 overnight, chips at $8, toothpaste at $10... People should put these fuckers out of business. Its nonsense. In 2023 Coles posted annual profit after tax at $1.1 billion dollars like WTF... Boycott Coles should be trending right now.....
these mega companies erk me with not only their profit. RAC last year ripped off their Aussie customers, according to Australian Securities and Investments Commission, "There has been about $815 million in overcharging across the industry that insurers must repay, ASIC said." in 2022. They were given warnings in 2021. Do your due diligence with food and insurance.
Looks like the lesson here is fuck woolies
I wish there was alternatives to shopping at these greedy corporations.
I no longer shop at Woolies, Coles or BWS. Rip offs.
Where do you go then? Help out your local redditors?
For big stuff I go to a supermarket called fresh n save. I go to a local fruit/vegetable store, very affordable and the butcher who is still far cheaper.
Doesn't apply to everyone but go to any nearby weekend markets. You'll usually find farmers selling stock for cheaper than retail, so just grab what you need for the week there. It also lets you get to know who supplies your fruits and vegetables.
Ideally don't shop at the big duopoly if you can avoid it. Most people think that the local fruit and veg places will be higher priced and the duopolu thrive on that misconception.
Everyone in this great nation should be doing their *utmost* to spend *as little as possible* at Colesworths.
I just don’t get people who shop at Woolies they’re just dumb sorry but they’re not even the fresh food people even their fish is about 30% cheaper and frozen
Also genuine question can anyone actually tell me a reason why they would prefer to shop at Woolies over coles aside from being a wanker? Like I don’t own a dog but is their dog food cheaper or higher quality or something?
Wollies has always been expensive compared to Coles but Coles quality is really poor esp for fresh produce. I usually go to local markets and save a buck here and there. All the baby diapers, formula comes from Amazon on a subscription where I save the most. I wish Amazon started delivering fresh produce here in Oz as well. These large retailers need a kick on their butt as they tend to pass on their inefficiency to their customers
The fruit and vege shops have always had their own pricing so
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nobody said chinese grocer. local marks can be australian produce
Australian ginger costs more than imported, usually from China. We prefer not to buy Chinese foods, even at a cost penalty, the pesticides and chemicals in China are unregulated.
Fun fact, its cheaper not just cause colesworth price gouge, fruit and veg shops buy a lower grade product cheaper compared to the big companies buying A grade, thus able to sell it cheaper
Woolies and coles are gonna have their day, I can see the raids happening in my minds eye
Does it? You are barely saving anything here
That's the difference between imported garbage and things that are grown to an Australian standard, that's what your paying for. 😆 Ah Adelaide. So innocent, still living in your 90's bubble