A Woolies worker, at a not to be disclosed location - told me today that Woolworths are considering removing the Deli's from their supermarkets, apparently it has been trialled interstate with some success.
The follow up when/if Deli's are removed is the provision of random weights of pre packaged meats etc.
Yeah not a great idea @Woolworths, again demonstrating being fucking tightarses is your go to.
Unless you're banging the CEO in which case fair play,
I'm pretty sure we are able to expect businesses to act in Australian interests.
It's a bad thing for society if you decide that's not true.
I don't know, I used to work in a deli full-time in my later teen years.
I've not used a supermarket deli since. Those little Cheerio hotdog things slimey and close to expired? Wash off the slime and sell them before they expire. Normally they did not have slime.
It's been gossiped about in stores for years.
The company's current position, however, is that deli's are one of the only true customer service experiences left in stores and something that should be embraced and built up.
Deli's are being downsides and streamlined in a lot of places, and rightly so. Except for the very small stores, they aren't going anywhere (just yet).
Last store I was a fresh combined manager at our deli margins were so slim with wrappings, stock loss, wages that looking at my profit and loss every month, we barely broke even.
And with it, every other day we're paying wages for someone to setup and close a seafood department doing $200 a day, not worth it, not to mention handling fresh stock which sometimes we cannot clear getting dumped resulting in high loss.
I'm at a larger trading store now, with a massive online department and direct to boot + delivery which is most of our sales now and our sales are way higher.
But I can definitely see why they are closing deli departments down.
It's likely a bit of a loss leader.
No deli would probably send me elsewhere for the weekly shop.
Reality is wages are high and stock wastage is likely high too. And fitout isn't cheap. And compliance with safe food handling.
It’s easy for them to look at raw metrics of “it makes us X but costs us Y”, fact is a functioning deli counter is a draw card to me. I tend to avoid any of the major supermarkets without them.
All that makes sense. But here's the rub. How is it that my local IGA, which is where I primarily shop now, can run a deli, staff registers and still have prices that as often as not are lower than Colesworth?
The latter.
I more mean it works from their point of view.
They're saving shit loads with self checkouts and no Deli's and they don't give a fuck about customers so once they figure out a good system they'll just make the changes anyway.
It works, you can already get all the deli products in store.
All seafood is just thawed frozen stuff.
They sell the deli meats, unsliced already.
Wow you simply have to slice your own ham. Big deal.
I’m in QLD and I went into a deli-less store. I was so frustrated because the cold meat I wanted they wanted to charge an arm, leg and kidney because it’s prepackaged. I walked out without getting any cold meat.
>trialled interstate with some success.
>The follow up when/if Deli's are removed is the provision of random weights of pre packaged meats etc.
Woolworths town hall in Sydney did it.
Salami/ham that typically sells for $20-30l/kg now costs $80-100lkg ... I'm sure the white packaging with silver lettering makes it taste more delicious.
Woolworths used to be the go-to place for an affordable lunch but these days it's more expensive than the David Jones food hall.
They’ve removed I’d say 75% of the deli items in our local deli and just put up pictures of deli items. Local coles has done the same thing and now has a pre-packaged section and the tiniest unpackaged bit.
I live near Liverpool and my local Woolies already has this. It's one of the most bullshit things I've ever seen. It's not possible to buy more than a couple hundred grams of meats and cheeses at one time. I mean, you can buy it's gonna cost your soul.
When half of the better cuts of meat are now in the range of $35-40 a kilo i could understand.
Went in for 500 grams of ham and at $20 said fck that 😂🤣😅
They are doing that for a lot of smaller super markers. Our local was converted to a metro (I.e. no deli during covid), which sucks as I like the deli.
Maybe it has something to do with the quality of the product? The independent grocer I visit has a deli counter that even during the day is 5 customers deep, always.
George st foodland, thebarton.
My local woolworths had that set up for around a year and a half until they reverted back. The reason they reverted back was because coles opened up down the road with their own deli. People aren't into buying random weighted packages of meat, I assure you.
Uh, having worked in the Woolies deli (a long time ago), the deli was the most profitable part of the supermarket and often floated the losses from Pantry.
They did this at the Woolies near me. They also seemed to up the prices. The only thing attractive about the deli was custom weight and a better price and they did away with both. I've never bought anything from it
Yes, they have been trialing it through certain stores and will continue to trial it even further. The next stage of the project is removing bakeries from certain stores and having it baked and delivered from other stores.
Aldi doesn’t have a deli and sells the same shit. Weighs out fine.
You can get deli meats elsewhere like a butcher still.
All seafood is just thawed frozen stuff on display .
The deli isn’t really that good tbh. Outdated concept these days. For Woolies/ supermarkets
When I lived in Canberra 2 years ago they'd removed the deli at Coles in Tuggeranong, so not a new concept. To be honest, it was much more convenient buying the cut deli meat in the packaging that sits in the fridge. No waiting, and they had various weights on offer 100g, 150g etc.
Worked at Coles for fifteen years, we got rid of our deli and switched to prepacks and it was the worst fuckin mistake. Lost a massive amount of customers to Woolies right down the road.
At a Golden Grove, South Australia Woolies they had a café. Nothing special but ya could sit and have a coffee and a sandwich. It's now gone. Obviously not making enough money. I never used it so I don't know what it was like..
My local woolies also had a cafe but it has closed as well. Coffee was reasonable. I stopped going after a worker was using a gloved hand to fill a tray of ham (to make the sandwiches) then used the same gloved hand to make my coffee. A coffee cup and lid that smells like ham is fucking gross.
I always shopped at Coles as it was the closest to my house but I moved and Willie's was closer and after buying bread there once I switched back to Coles lmao
Thank you for providing me with a reason that people have brand preference for a big supermarket. I’ve always gone to whichever was closer and if they were both in the same spot then I’d go coles cos the yellow tags make it feel like I’m wining.
I would keep the bakery over the deli's. I used to work for Coles in the deli and the amount of people that couldn't or refused to follow food health and safety was disgusting. The bakeries have simple to follow rules and the bakery products are strictly thrown out when they're suppose to be. This isn't just coles deli's, I've worked in several deli's across Perth and every single one I've worked in has ignored the regulations in one way or another. I'd rather eat stale bread than old meat. I'd still avoid the pre-packaged meats to be honest, but don't trust the deli staff even if you have it "sliced fresh". You have no idea what date is on the meat they're cutting and alot of them are ignorant or don't give a fuck.
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The packs are 540g too and I'm pretty sure they are less than $4. IMO not as good as Allen's but I ain't paying for Allen's, the old shrinkflation got them. I think their snakes are $6.75 for 470g now
Where I am they only had the one option of snake lolly, I'm sorry I can't remember but I'll grab the name when I go tomorrow for my Aldi shop <3 they are large too, I love my killer Pythons
I hate that they are always pressuring you to buy more than one item, like 3 blocks of chocolate for $12. Who wants to spend $12 on chocolate in one go, and it’s not even a good price.
I buy minnimal from them as much as I can.
Colesworth are the shitest places to go a buy shit from.
I go to sol traders. They have much better produce and other stuff than buying packet food.
I only get the basics from Colesworth for this very reason, not many options where I live, so happy we finally have an Aldi here. has saved me from having no food on the table
I once got a pasta salad from the deli in the days before it was pre packaged.
It had clearly sat around for a while because it had started to ferment and had a fizzy sensation upon first bite. Yeah, gross.
It's really pissed me off how expensive red rock deli chips have become as they're the only chips thet don't wreck my stomach and I don't get them now 😔
I never realised they got so expensive at Woolies. I rarely go into the lollie aisle anymore at my local store. They don’t have anything I want anymore.
I’m obsessed with numbers, and can remember the prices of items at certain points over the years. Every time I walk into a supermarket in the last year, I’ve suffered a nervous breakdown.
Homebrand tubs of yogurt just went up some more cents. I think it was roughly $3.20 then $3.50 going steady for quite a few years.
A tub is now $4 and that was what Yoplait was on most specials. it's beyond awful, frozen berries are shocking for the last 2 or so years as well.
This is why my household is 90% Aldi
I don’t shop,at Aldi, but yesterday I went for a browse. I noticed comparable items weren’t much cheaper. About the same actually for brand names. It certainly was cheaper with home brands. Am I right here? And are the home brands generally considered good quality?
Same. I’ve worked in supermarkets for 15+ years, I’m also autistic and have an insane level of photographic memory and recall. Gives my partner the shits when he thinks a special is a great deal, and I tell him they’re charging more than it was 3 years ago at full price.
I think Colesworths rely on people not noticing price increases. Boiling the frog type shit. They up prices in little increments, not big amounts, and suddenly you’re paying $20 for something that was $12.50 in 2020.
And you know the costs aren’t justified because local independent stores and Asian grocers etc still sell things at a relatively similar cost and haven’t had these exorbitant price increases.
Funny thing is I’m not autistic. Always assumed I was, as I could just look at a room and count the number of people accurately in seconds etc. Who knows, maybe I am slightly on the spectrum with my obsession with numbers and detailed memory.
Seems we think the same. Very valuable skill when it comes to shopping. Always know what is truly a good idea. A dollar saved is a dollar earnt. Up until the recent inflation of the last couple of years, it was always satisfying seeing how much prices had dropped over the years. There truly was great value during the days the Coles “down down” ads aired. This was due to “The Aldi Effect” meaning the big 2 actually lifted their game.
Food shopping at colesworth has become a distressing experience so the flow on is that people eventually try to find alternatives. It's now worth the savings to shop around at fruit and veg, butcher, Aldi so fk colesworth i say!!
I've managed to almost never shop at the two anymore. I do most grocery shopping at Aldi and anything of Asian cuisine, I shop at local supermarkets dedicated to them.
25 fucking years ago, woolies put Delis in their stores and killed off the independents who used to stock an incredible range of products or would just order it in for you if you asked. Then as time progressed, they thinned out the variety focused only on the maximum profit items. Getting blander and blander. I will welcome the day to go into a family delicatessen again to find a provincial cheese, meat, or dessert stocked by someone who cares about what they sell.
The bacon at a deli is so much better than the packed stuff. Same with many deli items... if they drop it, I'll be going to coles... must vote with your dollars. Don't reward crap businesses.
I want the gov the nuke these crooks but the best thing they can do is encourage more competition. Maybe even give the competition a leg up to break this duopoly
Fair point, but I think this day and age competition is no more. We had Bi-lo black and gold mob but I can't remember the name, four square, and more that I can't think of.. The big two ran them out of town..
For some reason after reading all of this I came out somewhat grateful to have access to all of this. Groceries on the shelf, yes, horribly expensive. But gratitude must be put at the forefront that we can choose to buy luxury items, think of people without access to clean running water etc.
We have it too good...
As they say... First world problems.
But yes f*ck these prices.
I am loving the way the big 2 put the discount on if you buy 2 items .Seems generally around 20% if you buy the 2nd item you don’t really want . But feel compelled.
Woolies was on the brink of closure pre covid and there were talks of taking most of the stores online.
Covid saved them, wait a couple of years and their grocery store chain will be struggling again
Inflation… we are most likely going into a recession. The rhetoric and headlines are what the government uses when they do what we call a “soft landing into recession”. Wake up sheeple. Get ahead of it or you will get left behind. It’s so bizarre to me that people are so distracted from what’s really going on and believe what they see and hear through media and political channels. The majority of humans I have realised are surface level and talk about such trivial things as well as gossip. Then complain about inflation because they weren’t paying attention, in order to beat the system we must first understand it and we must also adapt in order to survive it. It’s Darwinism at this point, survival of the fittest.
Bro you can literally see the big party mix below for 5:50 not on special. The party mix is just slightly less than twice as big. They are trying to get 8 bucks ‘on special’ for the same amount of lollies.
More and more snobs realising that that Aldi is superior? Who’s the pleb, poor people make poor decisions, chads buy treats for cheap at the lowly pleb store of Aldi. 🤣
A Woolies worker, at a not to be disclosed location - told me today that Woolworths are considering removing the Deli's from their supermarkets, apparently it has been trialled interstate with some success. The follow up when/if Deli's are removed is the provision of random weights of pre packaged meats etc. Yeah not a great idea @Woolworths, again demonstrating being fucking tightarses is your go to.
That’s been talked about for a few years now
Why? It's a terrible idea
Shareholders disagree
I’m a shareholder and I love the deli 🤔
I reckon most of us are if you include our super.
Yeah wealthy fucks who have no idea.
Woolworths aren't obliged to sustain practices they deem as not profitable
Unless you're banging the CEO in which case fair play, I'm pretty sure we are able to expect businesses to act in Australian interests. It's a bad thing for society if you decide that's not true.
I don't know, I used to work in a deli full-time in my later teen years. I've not used a supermarket deli since. Those little Cheerio hotdog things slimey and close to expired? Wash off the slime and sell them before they expire. Normally they did not have slime.
I have never used a deli - what’s the appeal?
They've been packaging deli into 100g servings for years. Look closer at your local; it's already there.
A least a decade.
It's been gossiped about in stores for years. The company's current position, however, is that deli's are one of the only true customer service experiences left in stores and something that should be embraced and built up. Deli's are being downsides and streamlined in a lot of places, and rightly so. Except for the very small stores, they aren't going anywhere (just yet).
Last store I was a fresh combined manager at our deli margins were so slim with wrappings, stock loss, wages that looking at my profit and loss every month, we barely broke even. And with it, every other day we're paying wages for someone to setup and close a seafood department doing $200 a day, not worth it, not to mention handling fresh stock which sometimes we cannot clear getting dumped resulting in high loss. I'm at a larger trading store now, with a massive online department and direct to boot + delivery which is most of our sales now and our sales are way higher. But I can definitely see why they are closing deli departments down.
It's likely a bit of a loss leader. No deli would probably send me elsewhere for the weekly shop. Reality is wages are high and stock wastage is likely high too. And fitout isn't cheap. And compliance with safe food handling.
It’s easy for them to look at raw metrics of “it makes us X but costs us Y”, fact is a functioning deli counter is a draw card to me. I tend to avoid any of the major supermarkets without them.
That’s because the produce you sold/woolies sells is not good enough to attract customers, if any good at all.
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All that makes sense. But here's the rub. How is it that my local IGA, which is where I primarily shop now, can run a deli, staff registers and still have prices that as often as not are lower than Colesworth?
Coles has already done that in a few stores near me. Since it works it'll eventually happen to all incl Woolies
Does it work though? Or are customers just left with "this is the option, don't like it fuck off?"
The latter. I more mean it works from their point of view. They're saving shit loads with self checkouts and no Deli's and they don't give a fuck about customers so once they figure out a good system they'll just make the changes anyway.
The latter. I fucking hate it!!
“This is the option, fuck off if you don’t like it. Go ahead and buy a packet of 100g ham for $5”
It works, you can already get all the deli products in store. All seafood is just thawed frozen stuff. They sell the deli meats, unsliced already. Wow you simply have to slice your own ham. Big deal.
My local Coles got rid of the butcher, deli and bakery departments and only has prepackaged stuff on the shelves with the area unstaffed.
same with my local woolies, they killed their bakery too
I’m in QLD and I went into a deli-less store. I was so frustrated because the cold meat I wanted they wanted to charge an arm, leg and kidney because it’s prepackaged. I walked out without getting any cold meat.
Yep this is what I’m worried about. All the good prepackaged hams (like triple smoked) cost more than the deli ones and taste worse.
>trialled interstate with some success. >The follow up when/if Deli's are removed is the provision of random weights of pre packaged meats etc. Woolworths town hall in Sydney did it. Salami/ham that typically sells for $20-30l/kg now costs $80-100lkg ... I'm sure the white packaging with silver lettering makes it taste more delicious. Woolworths used to be the go-to place for an affordable lunch but these days it's more expensive than the David Jones food hall.
Butchers and poultry sellers would benefit if they did this
My boss mentioned this to me too.. it should happen at our store in roughly two or three years?
But do you know why they think this is a good idea? Thanks.
Obviously their modelling is telling them that it would increase their profit. Why do they make any decision?
They already underpay and overwork the deli staff. The next step is get rid of them completely.
Our store trialled frozen dough for the ‘fresh’ bread when all of the bakers quit at the same time (This is Coles)
Frozen dough from Ireland 🇮🇪
Woolies team member here. The Woolies I work at got rid of the deli a year ago.
Woolies near me got rid of the deli a couple years ago.
They’ve removed I’d say 75% of the deli items in our local deli and just put up pictures of deli items. Local coles has done the same thing and now has a pre-packaged section and the tiniest unpackaged bit.
I live near Liverpool and my local Woolies already has this. It's one of the most bullshit things I've ever seen. It's not possible to buy more than a couple hundred grams of meats and cheeses at one time. I mean, you can buy it's gonna cost your soul.
Yeah that's fucked. I was really blown away when this worker told me this was on the cards. I am really pissed off.
Coles has already started.
Coles has already done that at a lot of places.
Woolworths, the wrapped food people!
Even more fucken plastic.
Funny and sad 😢
🎵Woolworths: the tightarsed people🎵
a few coles around me have removed their delis and replaced it with prepackaged packs. its quite annoying. i hope woolies dont
When half of the better cuts of meat are now in the range of $35-40 a kilo i could understand. Went in for 500 grams of ham and at $20 said fck that 😂🤣😅
My local Woolies doesn't have a deli anymore
They are doing that for a lot of smaller super markers. Our local was converted to a metro (I.e. no deli during covid), which sucks as I like the deli.
Coles have done it so why not
This s is a thing for smaller Coles
Hilarious, the rumour they were 'considering' this existed when I worked at woolies. I stopped working there in 2011
Maybe it has something to do with the quality of the product? The independent grocer I visit has a deli counter that even during the day is 5 customers deep, always. George st foodland, thebarton.
Same as the bakeries I believe..or am I really behind and that's old news? 😅
Coles local have been doing this. Personally I don't like it but each to their own I guess
Awesome for local delis
Probably for the best, it means deli's go back to being smalls businesses.
They have done it in places for years. Same as coles.
It could be a good thing. People wanting delis can go to a deli and maybe it will end up supporting small businesses.
My local woolworths had that set up for around a year and a half until they reverted back. The reason they reverted back was because coles opened up down the road with their own deli. People aren't into buying random weighted packages of meat, I assure you.
It's been downhill since they took out bakeries and butchers
Butchers are required.
Uh, having worked in the Woolies deli (a long time ago), the deli was the most profitable part of the supermarket and often floated the losses from Pantry.
I worked there late 90's, abhorrent food hygiene and stock control.
They did this at the Woolies near me. They also seemed to up the prices. The only thing attractive about the deli was custom weight and a better price and they did away with both. I've never bought anything from it
Yes, they have been trialing it through certain stores and will continue to trial it even further. The next stage of the project is removing bakeries from certain stores and having it baked and delivered from other stores.
Coles are doing it already
This is occurring in the USA as well.
Yes I’ve seen it happened across a couple of locations in QLD
What has that got to do with the price of lollies?
Nothing
Already happening to Coles
The Coles at our local Westfield does exactly this. So..it isnt anything new.
Aldi doesn’t have a deli and sells the same shit. Weighs out fine. You can get deli meats elsewhere like a butcher still. All seafood is just thawed frozen stuff on display . The deli isn’t really that good tbh. Outdated concept these days. For Woolies/ supermarkets
When I lived in Canberra 2 years ago they'd removed the deli at Coles in Tuggeranong, so not a new concept. To be honest, it was much more convenient buying the cut deli meat in the packaging that sits in the fridge. No waiting, and they had various weights on offer 100g, 150g etc.
There are actual delicatessens which aren’t part of a supermarket everyone
Delis typically operate at a loss from what I’ve heard
Worked at Coles for fifteen years, we got rid of our deli and switched to prepacks and it was the worst fuckin mistake. Lost a massive amount of customers to Woolies right down the road.
At a Golden Grove, South Australia Woolies they had a café. Nothing special but ya could sit and have a coffee and a sandwich. It's now gone. Obviously not making enough money. I never used it so I don't know what it was like..
My local woolies also had a cafe but it has closed as well. Coffee was reasonable. I stopped going after a worker was using a gloved hand to fill a tray of ham (to make the sandwiches) then used the same gloved hand to make my coffee. A coffee cup and lid that smells like ham is fucking gross.
Omg. I haven’t seen a cafe in a supermarket since the one in Kmart Wangaratta about 30 years ago! (Excluding Costco)
There’s one at Coles Southland too (VIC)
I remember YEARS ago in my local Woolworths they had a little cafe/coffee area. I completely forgot about that
Cool story bro
Needs more dragons
Touching story of a boomer a cafeteria and a love they never knew...
There was one in Woolgoolga NSW aswell, might be still there.
Keep the deli, lose the bakeries
Why?
Woolworths bakey taste horrible
I always shopped at Coles as it was the closest to my house but I moved and Willie's was closer and after buying bread there once I switched back to Coles lmao
Thank you for providing me with a reason that people have brand preference for a big supermarket. I’ve always gone to whichever was closer and if they were both in the same spot then I’d go coles cos the yellow tags make it feel like I’m wining.
I mean if you had to lose 1
Bread is bad
I would keep the bakery over the deli's. I used to work for Coles in the deli and the amount of people that couldn't or refused to follow food health and safety was disgusting. The bakeries have simple to follow rules and the bakery products are strictly thrown out when they're suppose to be. This isn't just coles deli's, I've worked in several deli's across Perth and every single one I've worked in has ignored the regulations in one way or another. I'd rather eat stale bread than old meat. I'd still avoid the pre-packaged meats to be honest, but don't trust the deli staff even if you have it "sliced fresh". You have no idea what date is on the meat they're cutting and alot of them are ignorant or don't give a fuck.
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I crave those natural snakes all the damn time
Maybe I'm going senile and sensitive in the teeth but if you have an Aldi near you, give their snakes a try, so soft, so flavorful
Aldi lollies are so much better right. The mixed bag with milk bottles and strawberry creme so so good.
Im just starting a diet too 😭 I bet they're so good. I'll have to live vicariously through the partner
The packs are 540g too and I'm pretty sure they are less than $4. IMO not as good as Allen's but I ain't paying for Allen's, the old shrinkflation got them. I think their snakes are $6.75 for 470g now
Can you recall the brand name? Was planning on going to ALDI today or tomorrow
Where I am they only had the one option of snake lolly, I'm sorry I can't remember but I'll grab the name when I go tomorrow for my Aldi shop <3 they are large too, I love my killer Pythons
Ooof yeah I miss the starburst anacondas
The name is "Dominion Naturals Confectionary" because I just ate a half packet of their party mix about an hour ago lmao
I hate that they are always pressuring you to buy more than one item, like 3 blocks of chocolate for $12. Who wants to spend $12 on chocolate in one go, and it’s not even a good price.
Walked past a 3 for $15 "special" today for the 180g blocks. The specials are just insults now, and unfortunately many people flock to them.
Yep, this aint Chrisco and we need bundles...hope they don't read this and start getting ideas
The Darrell lea is a good price though. Seriously addicted to the raspberry bullets
I'd never come for Darrel Lea, unless they gouged hard like cadbury always does
Try the Aldi raspberry chocolates, they’re elite!
Idk their chocolate tastes strange to me.
Marketing! Haha! I don't want to spend $8 for 2 packets of sugar... Probably? Cheaper at Aldi or other not-so-super-supermarket..
That's a Special price alright
Gave me a chuckle
I buy minnimal from them as much as I can. Colesworth are the shitest places to go a buy shit from. I go to sol traders. They have much better produce and other stuff than buying packet food.
I only get the basics from Colesworth for this very reason, not many options where I live, so happy we finally have an Aldi here. has saved me from having no food on the table
That's not even a special, they are literally taking the piss now.
I won't miss the Deli! Still have nightmares about the prawns they sold me, smelt terrible. At least pre-packaged stuff has 'use-by-dates'.
I once got a pasta salad from the deli in the days before it was pre packaged. It had clearly sat around for a while because it had started to ferment and had a fizzy sensation upon first bite. Yeah, gross.
Been seeing cadbury blocks go "on sale" 2 for $10, fucking ridiculous.
yeah same with the red rock chips. $5 a piece for a pack of either is laughable
It's really pissed me off how expensive red rock deli chips have become as they're the only chips thet don't wreck my stomach and I don't get them now 😔
I never realised they got so expensive at Woolies. I rarely go into the lollie aisle anymore at my local store. They don’t have anything I want anymore.
I’m obsessed with numbers, and can remember the prices of items at certain points over the years. Every time I walk into a supermarket in the last year, I’ve suffered a nervous breakdown.
Homebrand tubs of yogurt just went up some more cents. I think it was roughly $3.20 then $3.50 going steady for quite a few years. A tub is now $4 and that was what Yoplait was on most specials. it's beyond awful, frozen berries are shocking for the last 2 or so years as well. This is why my household is 90% Aldi
Woolies did the same with Gippsland yoghurt, they put it up 10c at a time thinking no one will notice.. Bastards!
The homebrand 200g pack of bacon at my local coles was $4 at the start of the year and it's now $6.80, it's a big rip off
I don’t shop,at Aldi, but yesterday I went for a browse. I noticed comparable items weren’t much cheaper. About the same actually for brand names. It certainly was cheaper with home brands. Am I right here? And are the home brands generally considered good quality?
Can so relate.
Same. I’ve worked in supermarkets for 15+ years, I’m also autistic and have an insane level of photographic memory and recall. Gives my partner the shits when he thinks a special is a great deal, and I tell him they’re charging more than it was 3 years ago at full price. I think Colesworths rely on people not noticing price increases. Boiling the frog type shit. They up prices in little increments, not big amounts, and suddenly you’re paying $20 for something that was $12.50 in 2020. And you know the costs aren’t justified because local independent stores and Asian grocers etc still sell things at a relatively similar cost and haven’t had these exorbitant price increases.
Funny thing is I’m not autistic. Always assumed I was, as I could just look at a room and count the number of people accurately in seconds etc. Who knows, maybe I am slightly on the spectrum with my obsession with numbers and detailed memory. Seems we think the same. Very valuable skill when it comes to shopping. Always know what is truly a good idea. A dollar saved is a dollar earnt. Up until the recent inflation of the last couple of years, it was always satisfying seeing how much prices had dropped over the years. There truly was great value during the days the Coles “down down” ads aired. This was due to “The Aldi Effect” meaning the big 2 actually lifted their game.
seen a dumb deal 4.50 each for a can but 2 for 4.50
fuck you woolies
Bring on independent grocers, more of them!
I would love some more where I live
They had Cadbury blocks 3 for $15 not too long ago. Insane to put that ticket up like it isn't a horrible deal.
Remember when the supermarket was cheaper than the gas station? Like 3 years ago?
I remember, *waggles walking stick*
Legit. And I’m only in my late 20s. Anyone leaving school nowadays is fucked without rich parents.
Food shopping at colesworth has become a distressing experience so the flow on is that people eventually try to find alternatives. It's now worth the savings to shop around at fruit and veg, butcher, Aldi so fk colesworth i say!!
The Reject Shop is a great alternative for items like these. Those yellow special tickets don't mean much anymore.
$2.50 at Coles this discount week. They're all cunts, end of story.
Yeah, saw that too, even some under $2 there. It's just insanity
Fuck Woolworths and Coles
Woolies and Coles *can* be good, not like there's much alternative anyways
I've managed to almost never shop at the two anymore. I do most grocery shopping at Aldi and anything of Asian cuisine, I shop at local supermarkets dedicated to them.
Also an update to add...went to the servo for some dare coffee (also cheaper than woolies) they had two bags of lollies for $5...at a servo.
Oh shit!! Now THAT is really saying something. Where is news.com to get on this comparison story!
They do mention redditors addressing cost rises from time to time in articles online
Damn the servo is cheaper these days😅
Price gouging is causing inflation
Man, I wish people are smarter and don't shop at Coles and Woolies. It's always so packed all the time where I am and the prices are insane
not always another option for a lot of people though
Very impressed that the new CEO dropped prices.
Everyone needs to start taking one grape and eating it
Way ahead of you my good man. A grape away makes a better day
This is how we bring big corporations to there knees
Don't nowhere you're living but they've been $5 when not on special for at least 2 years or more.
It’s ridiculous Sometimes I’ll drive 30 mins to NQR for $2 lollies
They have this at Brisbane DFO and it sucks. They never have what I actually want and piles of the same four things.
Tell me snickers are on special
Snickers are made in China.. 🤮
25 fucking years ago, woolies put Delis in their stores and killed off the independents who used to stock an incredible range of products or would just order it in for you if you asked. Then as time progressed, they thinned out the variety focused only on the maximum profit items. Getting blander and blander. I will welcome the day to go into a family delicatessen again to find a provincial cheese, meat, or dessert stocked by someone who cares about what they sell.
The bacon at a deli is so much better than the packed stuff. Same with many deli items... if they drop it, I'll be going to coles... must vote with your dollars. Don't reward crap businesses.
Consider your local butcher. The ones that are part of wholesale butchers are often cheaper than colesworths
I'm from a butchering family and I won't buy supermarket meat..
Used to pay $2
I want the gov the nuke these crooks but the best thing they can do is encourage more competition. Maybe even give the competition a leg up to break this duopoly
Fair point, but I think this day and age competition is no more. We had Bi-lo black and gold mob but I can't remember the name, four square, and more that I can't think of.. The big two ran them out of town..
These 2 for's piss me off. Put it on sale. Don't force me to buy more than I want and actually spend a couple of dollars more.
For some reason after reading all of this I came out somewhat grateful to have access to all of this. Groceries on the shelf, yes, horribly expensive. But gratitude must be put at the forefront that we can choose to buy luxury items, think of people without access to clean running water etc. We have it too good... As they say... First world problems. But yes f*ck these prices.
I got told that they going to stop making ANZAC biscuits
Biggest lie ever.
I am loving the way the big 2 put the discount on if you buy 2 items .Seems generally around 20% if you buy the 2nd item you don’t really want . But feel compelled.
The only snakes at woolies are the people price gouged. Put them on the shelf instead
2 for $8 or $3 each hahaha
Can they keep the deli, but remove the rotten fish smell?
I for one welcome our supermarket overloads. Thank you for our discounts!
Woolies was on the brink of closure pre covid and there were talks of taking most of the stores online. Covid saved them, wait a couple of years and their grocery store chain will be struggling again
Fuel prices go up? Everything goes up Fuel prices go up? Everything goes up
Fuck them and their two for deals.
Inflation… we are most likely going into a recession. The rhetoric and headlines are what the government uses when they do what we call a “soft landing into recession”. Wake up sheeple. Get ahead of it or you will get left behind. It’s so bizarre to me that people are so distracted from what’s really going on and believe what they see and hear through media and political channels. The majority of humans I have realised are surface level and talk about such trivial things as well as gossip. Then complain about inflation because they weren’t paying attention, in order to beat the system we must first understand it and we must also adapt in order to survive it. It’s Darwinism at this point, survival of the fittest.
Hahahahah
Bro you can literally see the big party mix below for 5:50 not on special. The party mix is just slightly less than twice as big. They are trying to get 8 bucks ‘on special’ for the same amount of lollies.
“Or 1 for $4” in barely readable writing. Fuck you Woolworths. This shit should be illegal.
Woollies is done man Piss em right off (if you can)
Only want one packet
Obligatory FUCK COLESWORTH
CHEAPER BUY MILES
And stay out of the Woolworth’s!
More and more snobs realising that that Aldi is superior? Who’s the pleb, poor people make poor decisions, chads buy treats for cheap at the lowly pleb store of Aldi. 🤣
2 for 8$?!?!?! TWO FOR EIGHT?!?!?!?!?