The Price Of Your Groceries

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Shopping at Bi-Lo used to be good, now as its coles owned and assimulted into the coles jugernaut the prices are up there. But still wollies aint that crash hot with there prices. Im definitly starting to look at Fooland now.

Foodland is pretty expensive but comes with a free warm inner glow

Foodland prices vary from store to store I think, they definitely do with the smaller stores, but the larger stores also vary as well.

[magpie in the 80's]

Shopping at Bi-Lo used to be good, now as its coles owned and assimulted into the coles jugernaut the prices are up there. But still wollies aint that crash hot with there prices. Im definitly starting to look at Fooland now.

Foodland is pretty expensive but comes with a free warm inner glow

Foodland prices vary from store to store I think, they definitely do with the smaller stores, but the larger stores also vary as well.

unfortunately you guys dont have aldi eupermarkets. by far the cheapest in aust. all dry grocery prices are the same, whether in different stores, suburbs OR different states

[Psyber]

Shopping at Bi-Lo used to be good, now as its coles owned and assimulted into the coles jugernaut the prices are up there. But still wollies aint that crash hot with there prices. Im definitly starting to look at Fooland now.

Foodland is pretty expensive but comes with a free warm inner glow

Foodland prices vary from store to store I think, they definitely do with the smaller stores, but the larger stores also vary as well.

unfortunately you guys dont have aldi eupermarkets. by far the cheapest in aust. all dry grocery prices are the same, whether in different stores, suburbs OR different states

And everything at Aldi Supermarkets is imported - Chilean orange juice for example. We looked when one opened near us but walked out as they stocked absolutely nothing that hadn't been stored for ages and been shipped thousands of miles. Cheap, but vitamin content must be almost zero! Some things were labelled "Product of Australia" but if you read the fine print it means they put it in the packets here.

We buy fruit and vegetables from local sources so we know it has not been stored in "controlled atmosphere" for months and still has nutritional value, and it is often not as dear, but doesn't look as pretty. I must admit grown yourself tastes best, but I'm not exactly the gardening type...

What really shocked me recently at a local "Safeway" - the Victorian brand of Woolworths - was a sign over the peaches saying "Best eaten crisp." Crisp peaches!! Peaches are supposed to be soft and sweet fleshed, and you can suck them not bite them. But I guess the new rubber varieties store and transport better! [I'm not sure whether they are hard varieties or whether they just have them picked before they ripen.]

[magpie in the 80's]

Shopping at Bi-Lo used to be good, now as its coles owned and assimulted into the coles jugernaut the prices are up there. But still wollies aint that crash hot with there prices. Im definitly starting to look at Fooland now.

unfortunately you guys dont have aldi eupermarkets. by far the cheapest in aust. all dry grocery prices are the same, whether in different stores, suburbs OR different states

An everything at Aldi Supermarkets is imported -

might have been in the early days pyber but i have worked for them an have seen 1st hand what contracts they have in australia, in groceries, fruit n veg and meat which is all 100% australain

[magpie in the 80's]

Some things were labelled "Product of Australia" but if you read the fine print it means they put it in the packets here.

all supermarkets have been doing it for years nothing new there. my source 20 years in the industry as store manager / buyer for bilo, franklins, aldi and safeway

[Psyber]

...might have been in the early days pyber but i have worked for them an have seen 1st hand what contracts they have in australia, in groceries, fruit n veg and meat which is all 100% australain

Fair enough, I never went back to look again after checking out the one at Ferntree Gully in VIC. when it first opened. We may check them again then, when in the area, but we have 2 Safeways, 2 Coles and a Maxi [IGA] between us and them. The nearest is 10Km from home.

Some things were labelled "Product of Australia" but if you read the fine print it means they put it in the packets here.

all supermarkets have been doing it for years nothing new there. my source 20 years in the industry as store manager / buyer for bilo, franklins, aldi and safeway

Yes, aware of that. It has been steadily growing over the years and is now nearly universal. Several owners and managers I have spoken to have claimed to have had no idea. It's the insecticides they have to be sprayed with before they can be imported that worry me.

[TroyGFC]

Really we are so lucky in Oz, just got back from Europe yesterday. 4 euro for a 600ml coke at Vatican, over 2,50 euros per litter for fuel, 13 euros for a pasta in Roma. For those who don't know exchange rate each 1 euros buys about $1.60 Australian.

[Punk Rooster]

Really we are so lucky in Oz, just got back from Europe yesterday. 4 euro for a 600ml coke at Vatican, over 2,50 euros per litter for fuel, 13 euros for a pasta in Roma. For those who don't know exchange rate each 1 euros buys about $1.60 Australian.

exchange rate?
I'll exchange you for 4 euro's- where you want to go?
Albania?...

[Snaggletooth Tiger]

Really we are so lucky in Oz, just got back from Europe yesterday. 4 euro for a 600ml coke at Vatican, over 2,50 euros per litter for fuel, 13 euros for a pasta in Roma. For those who don't know exchange rate each 1 euros buys about $1.60 Australian.

exchange rate?
I'll exchange you for 4 euro's- where you want to go?
Albania?...

Seen that movie 'Hostel?'
I'll chip in!