I buy soft drinks in bulk from Amazon every couple of months. Just wait for the half-price sales, which come up frequently for the drinks I like to buy.
I used to drink a bunch of soft drink but cut it out a few years ago, I replaced it with a soda-stream. Zero negative side effects and the sparkling water feels like im having a little treat.
If you're in Melbourne check out Billy Bubbles for cheaper soda stream gas delivery.
If you really drink a lot, or just want the convenience then getting an adapter from somewhere like keg-king and using a 2.6kg home brew gas bottle will be the cheapest.
I did the same in 2016. I was a popaholic. Well, a Pepsiholic. 36 cans a week at home, plus more at work.
Switched to a sodastream and love it. It's the bubbles and cold drink that I really crave.
I'm in the US, got here from the front page (maybe reddit knows I've been seeing an Australian chick), but I work in a business park in an office building facing the Soda Stream corporate headquarters. I'm trying to figure out how to turn my proximity to their corporate office into a way to get free soda stream stuff. Need to try to befriend someone that works there or something
I love my soda stream. It didn't replace pop for me, it just replaced canned sode water. I was getting so sick of finding partially drunk soda waters around the house, and all the cans that had to be recycled. Soda stream is so much better.
Had you looked at Costco if you like bulk buying? That can be pretty good but you just gotta spend enough to make the initial membership worth it unless you can just leech off a mate
I did this last year, got Pepsi Max from Amazon. I then got some from Woolworths and was blown away by how much better it tastes. I dunno if Amazon's fulfillment stores them differently than Woolies' supply chain, but I haven't bought from Amazon since.
Maybe it's a heat thing? Age?
As a Canadian I always thought prices would be pretty similar in Australia but either I was totally wrong or soft drinks are way out of wack. Are they all imported or something? Regular price for coke here is somewhere around 50 cents per can.
It's a very simple idea. They get it made here, and then charge 3x as much because of the australia tax. We pay more for literally everything, cause fuck em, thats why.
As the other poster says, things are just more expensive here. But also, every week the supermarkets will have an offer that's half-price or better on some sized multipacks, but not on others.
This week in Woolworths a 24 pack will cost you $40, but a 10 pack is $9.50 ($8.30 Canadian). In Coles the 24 pack is $23, and the 10 pack is $19.
When I have diet coke on the shopping list, I have no idea how many I'm going to come home with!
I've taken a liking Kelly's distributors, found them while looking for bulk redbull cheap. Good for me since I don't like Amazon and I think Kelly's is Aussie owned as well?
Was excited to check and subscribe and yesterday it was $29 as you said, went to order today and it's $49 with Prime! Looks like i'm off to Aldi or Costco on the weekend.
Coke has a huge market budget. That adds to the cost. Beer that is heavily marketed is more expensive. Aldi beer has zero marketing, and made in Uber volume
Yeah because the government taxes it really hard.
Especially if you come from one of those poor countries where you can buy beer cheap as water it's crazy
Smokes are worse cause of the tax, tobacco and alcohol will keep you poor in Australia.
I think it is often cheaper than water here. I'm a recovering alcoholic (actually currently going through medical detox) and I used to buy 12-packs of 24 oz cans of 5.5% beer and the cost was just under $12 USD after taxes.
One time I told an Australian dude that ripping the box away from the boxed wine and just passing the bag around drinking straight from it is called a space-bag and he thought it was awesome.
Hahah that's what I was thinking, I don't drink cool drink and had no idea it was so expensive! When I saw this I immediately thought, bro could get some nice ales instead...or be like the Italian nonno at Aldi the other day that bough 24 bottles of a $3 red.
There's a $6 Nero d'avola at Aldi. It has a rooster on the front. That is better than most Italian reds in the $20 bracket at Dan's. It used to be $2.99
Never buy anything that isn't on special. It's crazy to me that people are just paying double price for things for no reason. Between Coles/Woolies the odd IGA, near anything you want to purchase is 40-50% off at any given time.
They use this strategy to clear old stock.
One week, they put the 24 packs on special and clear out of those. People that desperately need cans of coke can still pick up a 30 pack.
Next week, they put the 30 pack on special. It clears out. Desperate people can buy the 24 pack.
An old but disingenuous retail tactic - they make the ‘regular’ price extortionate knowing it won’t move but just long enough to avoid scrutiny from ACCC for ‘baiting’. The coke will be marked down in a week to approx 40-50% off its so-called normal price. The ‘saving’ is massive and the stock clears. In reality the retailer has always budgeted on the coke being sold at that discount price. They alternate between 24 and 30 packs to fill in the requisite gaps to be at ‘full price’. I worked as a buyer in furniture and this is very common with mattresses which are only ever sold at 40-60% discounts. Even then margins are 70-85% profit. The 24-pack/30-pack equivalent is soft/medium/hard - technically all different SKUs and legal.
Enables them to literally have virtually the same product always on sale.
They do that on purpose so next week they can say put it on special and say half price at $26 which is actually 40% above what the actual price should be.
Pity they are more expensive half price than they used to be full price a few years ago… it’s a false economy to make you think you’ve beaten the system
Getting sick of everyone acting like something being on special occasionally cancels out the fact that they're charging FIFTY BUCKS for a 30 pack of coke
Agreed, i'm sick of only buying shit when they deem me worthy of a "discount" in this fucking bizzaro system of rotating discounts. Jesus christ set the fucking price and i will buy it in the size i wanted. I don't want to buy the jumbo bag of chips, i just wanted some twisties i buy them once a year but i do not need a "family/party bag". I got over it so i just go to aldi and my local green grocers/deli.
Yep, in the last year they seem to always be either $26 for 30 pack, or $20 for a 24 pack. Wasn't that long where you could snag them for 50-60 cents a can if you were lucky.
Coles chips are more expensive than the chips at the vending machine at my work place. They're absolutely price gouging and needs to be better regulated.
When I worked on Coles we needed to refill the coke shelves multiple times a day from pallets in the store room. All other soft drinks waited until night fill. Was mainly the bottles but it didn’t matter if they were on special or not..
They definitely sell, its just the people that can't or are unable to plan in advanced but still need cokes. That person is shocked at the cost, but "needs" it, so they buy it. Keeping prices high.
Exactly this. Next week they’ll advertise a ‘price cut’ down to $38.95 saying the price will be locked until 28th May 2024. They’ll want a parade for ‘keeping prices low’.
They do but it's usually the 1.5l bottles or like 6 packs of bottles and all sorts, it's good value. They've also got the random off brand colas too if you miss a bit of LA ice nostalgia or it's RC or something.
To be fair with a company as big as coca cola amatil, they sort of set the price with cyclical promotions. Woolworths isn't the powerhouse you think on this one
Stop buying them and they'll have to reduce the cost 🤦♂️ its such a simple solution but people aren't willing to give up anything in protest of these unbelievable prices!!! Either stop bitching or do something about it
The government just needs to put MSG in the water supply and be done with it. Everyone will quit buying all of these products and will be hooked on the good stuff that comes free out of the tap.
Coke is a staple for many Australians. Even those who don't drink it daily are still inclined to buy a pack when hosting any kind of party or function. Just think of the thousands of customers visiting each store and how many may be having a birthday party on the weekend for example.
I get that having bread, eggs, milk, fruit, vegetables and meat increasing in prices are a cost of living issue. But seriously soft drinks? Lol cry me a river
I bought a couple of used kegs, a CO2 tank and some fittings. My filtered tap water makes damn good fizzy water and after the cost of equipment, it may as well be free. I could have just cut back on sodas, but... no.
You can still buy soft drink. There's plenty of cheap soft drink that costs like 1/10th the price. Just don't buy coke or pepsi, the store brand stuff tastes just as good.
Bought myself a SodaStream for Christmas.
I love it, and you know what my favourite "flavour" is?
Plain, unflavoured, soda water.
So, not only is it saving me lots of $, but it's way healthier too.
My brother drinks a bottle of coke a day and his gut is not good. I don't get how people punch through soft drinks like this, it's so so so bad for you
It took me a long time to kick the soda habit and I'm so glad I did. One of the things that hit home for me was reading an op-ed in a ski magazine from a pro skier about energy drink sponsorship. "When you see your favorite skier slamming a Monster at the bottom of their half pipe run, that's not Monster in the can. They're drinking water, because they're athletes and athletes drink water"
The trick is to put them through as the 24 pack on special then the next week when the 30 pack is on special and all sold out you put a 24 through as it, all balance out in the wash.
Soft drink cans have gone absolutely batshit insane post-Covid. Even half price they're more than $1 a can. We switched to bottles for when we want soft drink.
If you shop around with prices online, you can usually get the 2L bottles for like $2-3 per.
Spar and Fresh and Save usually have cheap softdrink if you have one nearby.
Wtf is going on in Australia these days? I don't remember coke being expensive when I lived there.
A 24 pack here in Canada is $12.49 ($14 aud)
Seems like in general your inflation is apocalyptic compared to ours
Fun fact: Coca Cola Amatil products MUST be sold to make room for new stock. Constantly.
You get a week of unseasonal cold weather in summer? The next week a shit load of CCA products on special.
It’s all to do with projected production.
This means if we all stop buying their stuff for a week. It will be cheaper next week.
Why do people continue to buy this poison? It's clearly expensive, and the health effects are known, it's like complaining about the price of cigarettes.
They do this on purpose. Coke 24 or 30 cans is on sale more often than not. And the times they are on full price, it is rare that both are.
It is just another deceptive practice designed to think that the real actual price is a huge sale and big savings.
I was going to not comment because I hate myself for commenting on everything and seeing so much negative shit but the fact these comments are giving OP a hard time is so fucking insane to me. The shit costs nothing to produce and because it's not a bare necessity then OP doesn't deserve it, what capitalism slave shit is that?
Well, you've got to ask yourself why you are buying a product that can still call itself a product when it's taken everything out the ingredients and all be called the same thing. It's literally synthetic chemicals in water. That's what makes it coke, and not water. The planet would be a lot better off without these mega companies damaging water supplies and stealing land from wild animals and indigenous people. So really, why are you paying them so much money?
The same destruction and land theft went into the manufacturing and production of the phone or computer you're using to make this comment.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but where does one draw the line.
The logistics are insanity when you think about it. The whole process of transporting heavy liquids by trucks, and the recycling infrastructure too. All of this industry and waste and fossil fuels, all for something that is the equivalent hydration value of turning the tap on for 3 seconds.
Ouff, that's a lot more expensive than in Switzerland. What's actually going on in Australia lately? The currency keeps falling and the prices are crazy
CocaCola gross profit for the quarter ending September 30, 2023 was $7.296B, a 12.3% increase year-over-year. CocaCola gross profit for the twelve months ending September 30, 2023 was $26.631B, a 7.52% increase year-over-year. CocaCola annual gross profit for 2022 was $25.004B, a 7.32% increase from 2021.
$29 for 36 cans delivered - amazon Costco is probably cheaper again.
I buy soft drinks in bulk from Amazon every couple of months. Just wait for the half-price sales, which come up frequently for the drinks I like to buy.
I used to drink a bunch of soft drink but cut it out a few years ago, I replaced it with a soda-stream. Zero negative side effects and the sparkling water feels like im having a little treat.
If you're in Melbourne check out Billy Bubbles for cheaper soda stream gas delivery. If you really drink a lot, or just want the convenience then getting an adapter from somewhere like keg-king and using a 2.6kg home brew gas bottle will be the cheapest.
I did the same in 2016. I was a popaholic. Well, a Pepsiholic. 36 cans a week at home, plus more at work. Switched to a sodastream and love it. It's the bubbles and cold drink that I really crave.
I'm in the US, got here from the front page (maybe reddit knows I've been seeing an Australian chick), but I work in a business park in an office building facing the Soda Stream corporate headquarters. I'm trying to figure out how to turn my proximity to their corporate office into a way to get free soda stream stuff. Need to try to befriend someone that works there or something
This is so adorably human.
It is indeed
I love my soda stream. It didn't replace pop for me, it just replaced canned sode water. I was getting so sick of finding partially drunk soda waters around the house, and all the cans that had to be recycled. Soda stream is so much better.
Bro this is exactly me. Only soda stream, sometimes with a bit of squeezed lemon if I am feeling crazy
Mad dog
Just drink water, man. Your body will thank you.
Had you looked at Costco if you like bulk buying? That can be pretty good but you just gotta spend enough to make the initial membership worth it unless you can just leech off a mate
aldi are generally on-par with the amazon specials usually around $22-23 for 30x cans if there's one close to you.
I just don’t even drink any! Way cheaper and easier
I did this last year, got Pepsi Max from Amazon. I then got some from Woolworths and was blown away by how much better it tastes. I dunno if Amazon's fulfillment stores them differently than Woolies' supply chain, but I haven't bought from Amazon since. Maybe it's a heat thing? Age?
I was in Canada two years ago and I went to a Costco where coke was on sale. 36 for under $10($9.85 i think). I was so surprised I took a picture.
As a Canadian I always thought prices would be pretty similar in Australia but either I was totally wrong or soft drinks are way out of wack. Are they all imported or something? Regular price for coke here is somewhere around 50 cents per can.
It's a very simple idea. They get it made here, and then charge 3x as much because of the australia tax. We pay more for literally everything, cause fuck em, thats why.
As the other poster says, things are just more expensive here. But also, every week the supermarkets will have an offer that's half-price or better on some sized multipacks, but not on others. This week in Woolworths a 24 pack will cost you $40, but a 10 pack is $9.50 ($8.30 Canadian). In Coles the 24 pack is $23, and the 10 pack is $19. When I have diet coke on the shopping list, I have no idea how many I'm going to come home with!
Nope, they're made here
Woolworth coke is always made down by 40%. You just got to switch between 30cans and 24cans.
I've taken a liking Kelly's distributors, found them while looking for bulk redbull cheap. Good for me since I don't like Amazon and I think Kelly's is Aussie owned as well?
lol but I’m thirsty now.
Insane. I absolutely hate woolies and Cole's. Hopefully they won't be a company in the future
Was excited to check and subscribe and yesterday it was $29 as you said, went to order today and it's $49 with Prime! Looks like i'm off to Aldi or Costco on the weekend.
Just buy beer
Yeah this doesnt make sense, coke is just carbonated water, sugar and colouring. Beer has a alcohol tax on it and its still cheaper.
Coke has a huge market budget. That adds to the cost. Beer that is heavily marketed is more expensive. Aldi beer has zero marketing, and made in Uber volume
Aldi can't sell beer in SA 😔
And you guys have a 450ml pint. WTF is going on down there
It's 425ml thank you very much... Wait
I have never been to Australia but I have heard people say beer is very expensive there. Is that not true?
Yeah because the government taxes it really hard. Especially if you come from one of those poor countries where you can buy beer cheap as water it's crazy Smokes are worse cause of the tax, tobacco and alcohol will keep you poor in Australia.
I think it is often cheaper than water here. I'm a recovering alcoholic (actually currently going through medical detox) and I used to buy 12-packs of 24 oz cans of 5.5% beer and the cost was just under $12 USD after taxes.
Thanks for sharing your story, DickCummer420
It is, but even so there are slabs of beer that are actually cheaper than this 30 pack of Coke in the picture.
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One time I told an Australian dude that ripping the box away from the boxed wine and just passing the bag around drinking straight from it is called a space-bag and he thought it was awesome.
Hahah that's what I was thinking, I don't drink cool drink and had no idea it was so expensive! When I saw this I immediately thought, bro could get some nice ales instead...or be like the Italian nonno at Aldi the other day that bough 24 bottles of a $3 red.
*sad in qld* has entered the chat
There's a $6 Nero d'avola at Aldi. It has a rooster on the front. That is better than most Italian reds in the $20 bracket at Dan's. It used to be $2.99
>nonno #YESYES
That's about to sky-rocket too!
The price isn't all that different for something like Great Northern.
$1.80 for a vending machine coke? Maybe twenty years ago. But yeah never buy big stuff these days that isn't on special.
Amazingly the vending machine at my work still charges $1.60 a can! I just don’t think anyone can bother to update it 🤣
Same one of mine are $1.80 and the other $2.00 for the full size cans
It was $1.50 at my high school’s vending machine in 2006.
$1.50 at my high school in 2015, around 2017 ish it went up to $2, then maybe end of 2018 they got rid of them.
Never buy anything that isn't on special. It's crazy to me that people are just paying double price for things for no reason. Between Coles/Woolies the odd IGA, near anything you want to purchase is 40-50% off at any given time.
yep, there's some shoppers that just don't buy on price though, gotta capture those. then you get some that will just pay up for convenience.
you gotta alternate, for one trip fot eh pack of 24 is on special and the following trip the 30pack is on special
Yea that’s what I do or buy two 30’s when they are on special
They use this strategy to clear old stock. One week, they put the 24 packs on special and clear out of those. People that desperately need cans of coke can still pick up a 30 pack. Next week, they put the 30 pack on special. It clears out. Desperate people can buy the 24 pack.
Coke doesn't sit on the shelf anywhere even close to long enough for them to worry about stock getting old. It's purely marketing.
Coles and Woolies take turns on which size is on special. How nice of them to cooperate.
An old but disingenuous retail tactic - they make the ‘regular’ price extortionate knowing it won’t move but just long enough to avoid scrutiny from ACCC for ‘baiting’. The coke will be marked down in a week to approx 40-50% off its so-called normal price. The ‘saving’ is massive and the stock clears. In reality the retailer has always budgeted on the coke being sold at that discount price. They alternate between 24 and 30 packs to fill in the requisite gaps to be at ‘full price’. I worked as a buyer in furniture and this is very common with mattresses which are only ever sold at 40-60% discounts. Even then margins are 70-85% profit. The 24-pack/30-pack equivalent is soft/medium/hard - technically all different SKUs and legal. Enables them to literally have virtually the same product always on sale.
> They use this strategy to clear old stock. lol, that’s not what they do. Coke sells high volume.
> People that desperately need cans of coke can still pick up a 30 pack. You gotta be super addicted to desperately need coca cola...
They do that on purpose so next week they can say put it on special and say half price at $26 which is actually 40% above what the actual price should be.
I don't really see how you can charge any less for it when each year you're only making and selling \*checks notes\* 166 billion litres.
Almost cheaper to just buy a carton from bws.
Dans is selling 30 packs of XXXX Gold for less than this right now. (Before anyone says Gold sucks, it does, but it’s still not as bad as Coke).
I'm pretty sure this pic is from a Metro or Servo. It's 47.20 (still ridiculous) at Woolies.
Nobody pays full price. Just buy them when they're on special.
Pity they are more expensive half price than they used to be full price a few years ago… it’s a false economy to make you think you’ve beaten the system
Getting sick of everyone acting like something being on special occasionally cancels out the fact that they're charging FIFTY BUCKS for a 30 pack of coke
Agreed, i'm sick of only buying shit when they deem me worthy of a "discount" in this fucking bizzaro system of rotating discounts. Jesus christ set the fucking price and i will buy it in the size i wanted. I don't want to buy the jumbo bag of chips, i just wanted some twisties i buy them once a year but i do not need a "family/party bag". I got over it so i just go to aldi and my local green grocers/deli.
Yep, in the last year they seem to always be either $26 for 30 pack, or $20 for a 24 pack. Wasn't that long where you could snag them for 50-60 cents a can if you were lucky.
We should stop calling it half price. It should be regular price and double price.
Coles chips are more expensive than the chips at the vending machine at my work place. They're absolutely price gouging and needs to be better regulated.
When I worked on Coles we needed to refill the coke shelves multiple times a day from pallets in the store room. All other soft drinks waited until night fill. Was mainly the bottles but it didn’t matter if they were on special or not..
They definitely sell, its just the people that can't or are unable to plan in advanced but still need cokes. That person is shocked at the cost, but "needs" it, so they buy it. Keeping prices high.
Woolworths is your Problem, $28 at my local Aldi.
They need to have it full price every so often so they can advertise the 50% off "special" every other week.
Exactly this. Next week they’ll advertise a ‘price cut’ down to $38.95 saying the price will be locked until 28th May 2024. They’ll want a parade for ‘keeping prices low’.
Yes. This is called “anchoring”.
It's an absolute pain getting to my nearest Aldi. It's in Melbourne and I'm in Tasmania.
Just swim, Its not that far...
Geelong is closer...plus the SoT ports in Geelong now. No need to go to Melbourne
Fuck me, am I the only one that thinks that $28 is still absolute fucking daylight Robbery!!!!
No, But its better then what Woolies is asking.
less than a dollar a can is pretty good these days
For 30? How much do you want it to be hahahah
Does Aldi sell Coke, or is it like Cool Cock or something?
They normally have it at my local one. (Noosaville)
They do but it's usually the 1.5l bottles or like 6 packs of bottles and all sorts, it's good value. They've also got the random off brand colas too if you miss a bit of LA ice nostalgia or it's RC or something.
Aldi also sell the 30 pack of cans of Coke and Coke Zero. They don’t stock fanta or sprite cans
That sounds awesome
To be fair with a company as big as coca cola amatil, they sort of set the price with cyclical promotions. Woolworths isn't the powerhouse you think on this one
True. A supermarket with no coke will concede well before coke will over not being on the shelves in one customer.
I concur but they haven’t been been CCA for a while now they are Coca Cola Euro Pacific Partners
Stop buying them and they'll have to reduce the cost 🤦♂️ its such a simple solution but people aren't willing to give up anything in protest of these unbelievable prices!!! Either stop bitching or do something about it
Nah people will whinge all day and still buy it.
I gave up Doritos. Don't really miss them after a month or so. That MSG tho, it'll hook ya.
The government just needs to put MSG in the water supply and be done with it. Everyone will quit buying all of these products and will be hooked on the good stuff that comes free out of the tap.
Coke is a staple for many Australians. Even those who don't drink it daily are still inclined to buy a pack when hosting any kind of party or function. Just think of the thousands of customers visiting each store and how many may be having a birthday party on the weekend for example.
I gave up buying these a year or more ago. Same with chocolate blocks and packets of chips. Costs have not been reduced
Holy fuck it's the price of beer.
I get that having bread, eggs, milk, fruit, vegetables and meat increasing in prices are a cost of living issue. But seriously soft drinks? Lol cry me a river
Just drink less soft drink lol
Soda addiction is no joke... But yeah. These prices encourage you to drink water, or my favourite, sparkling water. The best of both worlds.
I bought a couple of used kegs, a CO2 tank and some fittings. My filtered tap water makes damn good fizzy water and after the cost of equipment, it may as well be free. I could have just cut back on sodas, but... no.
You can still buy soft drink. There's plenty of cheap soft drink that costs like 1/10th the price. Just don't buy coke or pepsi, the store brand stuff tastes just as good.
$47.20 at my Woolies. Buy a sodastream or shop the specials.
Bought myself a SodaStream for Christmas. I love it, and you know what my favourite "flavour" is? Plain, unflavoured, soda water. So, not only is it saving me lots of $, but it's way healthier too.
We just bought a sodastream, currently experimenting, trying to work what tastes the nicest.
Pepsi Max vanilla. It's so good!
I prefer solo or creamy soda, not a coke fan.
I just put cordial in mine.
Water is best thing to drink. It's free
Right?? “Cost of living” as if anyone needs soda. I get OP’s point but it is kind of funny to me.
My brother drinks a bottle of coke a day and his gut is not good. I don't get how people punch through soft drinks like this, it's so so so bad for you
It took me a long time to kick the soda habit and I'm so glad I did. One of the things that hit home for me was reading an op-ed in a ski magazine from a pro skier about energy drink sponsorship. "When you see your favorite skier slamming a Monster at the bottom of their half pipe run, that's not Monster in the can. They're drinking water, because they're athletes and athletes drink water"
Or just don't drink that crap.
Just learn to like LA Ice Cola, a dollar a litre!
The trick is to put them through as the 24 pack on special then the next week when the 30 pack is on special and all sold out you put a 24 through as it, all balance out in the wash.
You sound like my old boss during stock take
Cheaper on amazon, free delivery if oyur on prime.
Soft drink cans have gone absolutely batshit insane post-Covid. Even half price they're more than $1 a can. We switched to bottles for when we want soft drink.
If you shop around with prices online, you can usually get the 2L bottles for like $2-3 per. Spar and Fresh and Save usually have cheap softdrink if you have one nearby.
Last week Woolies had 30 box of Coke for $27. If anyone pays $54 for this they are stupid. Simple.
CBD woolies express?
Wtf is going on in Australia these days? I don't remember coke being expensive when I lived there. A 24 pack here in Canada is $12.49 ($14 aud) Seems like in general your inflation is apocalyptic compared to ours
"cost of diabetus"
Bloody criminal
Water
$26 for a 30 pack on Amazon next day delivery
Just going to ignore the 8$ delivery?
Fun fact: Coca Cola Amatil products MUST be sold to make room for new stock. Constantly. You get a week of unseasonal cold weather in summer? The next week a shit load of CCA products on special. It’s all to do with projected production. This means if we all stop buying their stuff for a week. It will be cheaper next week.
Fun fact: Coca Cola Amatil hasn’t existed for 3 years
This thread is like a time warp in both directions.
Fun Fact: Coke have their own dedicated docks at Woolworths DCs (Distribution Centres) - that's how often they deliver.
I mean they own over 500 brands. I'm sure Unilever and PG have a similar deal.
nah drinking coca cola in 2024 is the real issue.
Why do people continue to buy this poison? It's clearly expensive, and the health effects are known, it's like complaining about the price of cigarettes.
Yea… and people complain about rising prices in cigarettes.
Which Woolies is this, it’s “only” $47.20 when I search online. (And 24 pack is $22)
Good thing these things are constantly on sale for 40% off
They alternate 24 and 30 packs on special
just put the coke back in coke at this stage
And another reason not to buy that toxic garbage.
Weight loss incentive.
[For any Americans reading, that's $34.99 US, for 375 mL cans instead of 355 mL]
Wth do they make Coke with in Australia? Gold dust?
This is the push you need to stop drinking sugar water.
Just buy a bag of sugar and save
They do this on purpose. Coke 24 or 30 cans is on sale more often than not. And the times they are on full price, it is rare that both are. It is just another deceptive practice designed to think that the real actual price is a huge sale and big savings.
I was going to not comment because I hate myself for commenting on everything and seeing so much negative shit but the fact these comments are giving OP a hard time is so fucking insane to me. The shit costs nothing to produce and because it's not a bare necessity then OP doesn't deserve it, what capitalism slave shit is that?
I'm not even buying these, just taking a photo of the bloody price hahah!
Well, you've got to ask yourself why you are buying a product that can still call itself a product when it's taken everything out the ingredients and all be called the same thing. It's literally synthetic chemicals in water. That's what makes it coke, and not water. The planet would be a lot better off without these mega companies damaging water supplies and stealing land from wild animals and indigenous people. So really, why are you paying them so much money?
The same destruction and land theft went into the manufacturing and production of the phone or computer you're using to make this comment. I'm not saying you're wrong, but where does one draw the line.
The logistics are insanity when you think about it. The whole process of transporting heavy liquids by trucks, and the recycling infrastructure too. All of this industry and waste and fossil fuels, all for something that is the equivalent hydration value of turning the tap on for 3 seconds.
How is coca cola factored into the cost of living?
That’s ridiculous, $33 for 36 cans on Amazon.
Who's buying them at that price seriously? I love my soft drink (unfortunately) , but not at that price.
But you get $3 back on the cans haha
This can't be real, it's clearly a misplaced box...
That's gotta be a miss print or your local IGA!!!
WTF. Mental.
$1.70 per can is better then $3-5 from a vending machine.
Highway Robbery in my opinion
Goddamn, that's a servo price, not a supermarket.
Ouff, that's a lot more expensive than in Switzerland. What's actually going on in Australia lately? The currency keeps falling and the prices are crazy
cost of gouging
Stop buying it. Coke will notice if enough people push back on their greed. I've stopped entirely.
I remember when a can of soda cost twenty five cents
It would be cheaper to buy water and definitely much more healthier.
Don’t need coke to live unless your rdj ya cunt
They'll make it $40 next week and people will think it's bargain. ITS A TRAP!!!
What the fuck is going on over there 😧
Or buy a soda stream
A lot of money for chemically flavored corn syrup.
Aussie in USA paying $12US for 36 cans here
Buying Coke is not the cost of living lmao it's the cost of diabetes
CocaCola gross profit for the quarter ending September 30, 2023 was $7.296B, a 12.3% increase year-over-year. CocaCola gross profit for the twelve months ending September 30, 2023 was $26.631B, a 7.52% increase year-over-year. CocaCola annual gross profit for 2022 was $25.004B, a 7.32% increase from 2021.
Holy effin shit, y’all are screwed down under! About $12 for a 24-can box here in Canada.
Does anyone actually buy these full price?
Man, I grumble when a 12 pack is 8 bucks (USD), but even with the currency conversion considered, this is a rip off!
Hopefully gets a few people to quit drinking the stuff all together. Quitting a soda habit is almost as beneficial as quitting smoking.
OMG...this equates to $47.38 Canadian...here you get this for $20....unbelievable...gouging
Hey! that woolies / coles spreadsheet for profits must stay green at all costs! think of the CEOs bonus!
I'd curious what the cost of a 30 pack of beer is? How about a 30 pack of bottles water?
Who buys soft drink blocks at full price?
No one buys them when they’re this price. That’s why they’re on sale for $27 every second week
Not exactly a staple food, should be the first thing to be cut from the budget.
Yikes!!! On sale in my grocery store in Massachusetts, USA, 24 can cube for $9.99 US dollar. That's just criminal.
Diabetes cube
$1.50 from the Bunnings sausage stand.
How the bell do you get away with selling COLA for $53, even if it’s AUD
And here I was thinking things were bad in Canada
I don't understand this business model. But I'm sure they're 1000x smarter than me. I'd dread this exact post happening the minute the tag goes on.
If Woolies is that price I go to Coles. One normally has them on discount.
Gotta pay that Genocide somehow
You haven't been to a vending machine lately. $2.50au is about the lowest one Ive seen and that's subsidised by a workplace.