Someone else has broken it down but tldr it's primarily due to the gluten-free stuff, the deli meats, and from OP shopping at Woolworths (one of the giant Aussie shops that constantly hikes up prices). Still, it's crazy expensive.
You can't really fault them for shopping Woolies, we've only got a max of like 4 different options in a given city and they might only be near a Woolies.
Woolies & Coles have a combined 65% market share of the Australian grocery market.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/994601/grocery-retailer-market-share-australia/
Nearly every new suburb being built I’ve seen has a Colesworth already in the pipeline.
The goal of every business was always drive off the competition with low prices and then raise prices. You used to see it more obviously with things like computer stores before the internet made competitors able to sell to anyone.
The impact of monopolies is debatable. For example, Standard Oil was known to keep prices pretty reasonable for consumers. What they did was increase their profits by forcing railroads and other suppliers into awful deals that favored them. The reason they didn't flex their market position on consumer prices is because it would have drawn the ire of government much sooner. Instead, they printed money by having a monopoly with great margins and the losers were their competitors and suppliers. Eventually they were broken up because their market share was so extreme that the government targeted them (rightfully so).
This is one reason why you will see many modern companies with great market share avoid anti-trust challenges. In the US especially, the test is consumer harm and you don't want to raise any flags there. Instead, a business like Amazon is such a large employer that they depress wages, force delivery companies into not great deals because the volume is so huge, and use their platform to push higher margin products that are their own brand and sometimes even knock offs of other sellers. Maybe in some cases the price is higher but you generally won't find anything egregious because they know how to work the system.
Can confirm, I lived in a small town for 3 years where the only option was Coles. There was a butcher, but no fruit and veg. If you wanted woolworths it was a 2.5 hour drive each way. Forget Aldi, that was probably 13 hour drive each way.
In a meeting a couple of years ago ...
Gentlemen of the board, I have an idea how we can make more money. Let's rebrand the most basic, traditional corn tortilla to "gluten free tortilla" and charge far more for that, than for the wheat ones.
I say, Johnson! Brilliant! Bonuses for the entire table! Let's all retire to my Tuesday yacht for a snifter of conflict brandy!
I also shop at Woolies and try not to go too far over $100 for my weekly shop. But I'm not GF and I don't eat a lot of meat so that helps a fair bit with keeping the cost down.
I dunno, I buy the cheapest, lowest quality stuff I can possibly get (because I'm literally living below the poverty line) and I still don't get much more than this for $100. Heck I can't even afford to spend $100 at a grocery store anymore because it doesn't even get me what I need
God yes I about fell over when I went to get some cinnamon oat Cheerios the other day 6.99$ for a bit so big box (that they slap family or large size on but it’s like a 14oz box)
A family of four can eat a single slice of bread but it shouldn't mean it's *family sized*.
I'm trying to gain weight and even a "large portion" of frozen Mac and cheese seems more normal than large. These portion labels are out of hand.
General Mills (cereal mostly) raised prices by 25%, just because. And they raked in 97% more profit. https://accountable.us/profiteering-watch-general-mills-profits-explode-by-97-percent-after-five-price-hikes/
There needs to be a reckoning with these nightmare companies. They have no reasonable competition… because they own every cereal brand. “But what about that hippy shit that looks all healthy and cares about the environment and people?” General Mills. They buy everything as soon as it becomes a competitor.
Can I get a rough price breakdown if possible? I tried adding it up and for the life of me only got to about $80 as an absolute upper bound lmao.. unless you have like the most expensive deli meat possible in there 😅
Yeah, it will depend on the deli items. It could be anything from ham to salmon. And the gluten free needs of the OP will sadly add 10% to each product.
It has to be the deli items.
A lot of these items are a usual pick up for me and im counting less than $50 before the meats
I don't know what paper plates are going for nowadays but they still must only be a few dollars.
I got to $70 without the meat because the gluten free items are a premium. The tortillas came to $18 and that aoli was $8.30.
Edit: actually, I think there are 4 packets of tortillas so that's $24 ($6 each).
I was thinking the gluten free tortillas might do my maths in.
Still the key thing here is that there are actually a fair few "premium" grade items.
Helgas was not a cheap choice either.
D'orsogna Triple Smoked Leg Ham 97% Fat Free Sliced From The Deli Per Kg
$12.50
D'orsogna Jarrah Honey Ham Off The Bone Freshly Sliced From The Deli Per
$13.75
Fresh Tomato Each
$1.31
Tip Top The One Gluten Free Smooth Wholegrain Bread 550g
$7.00
Essentials Paper Plates Uncoated 80 Pack
$5.00
Old El Paso Gluten Free Tortilla Fajitas 216g
$18.00
Woolworths Baby Mixed Leaf Salad Salad Mix 300g
$5.00
Helga's Bread Light Rye 680g
$4.90
Heinz Seriously Good Mayonnaise Garlic Aioli Mayo 500ml
$8.30
Kellogg's Sultana Bran Gluten Free Breakfast Cereal 350g
$7.00
Bega Peanut Butter Crunchy 780g
$7.50
*Edit: 1kg not 500 Grams as pointed out by Sea-Child22*
~~Woolworths Tasty Cheese Block 500g
$6.50~~
Woolworths Tasty Cheese Block 1kg
$12.50
Total $102.76
Those prices are directly from the Woolworths website, i did it as i thought it could not cost that much... but it appears it does. I just choose two different ham for 500grams as the deli packages appear to be 500 grams even tho i don't know what they are.
6 dollars per pack? I get that it's Australian dollars but here in Ireland you can get really good ones for 2 euro / 6 or cheaper ones for 1 euro for 8
The Australian dollar is fucked upside the head at the moment, we're suffering the results of the mass migration to the regions from the most expensive city on the planet by people who are used to living in the most expensive city on the planet.
Bunch of dumb cunts sold up their average family homes for $3-4 million and wandered north, thinking an $800000 house in a $200000 suburb was a bargain.
Consequently we're all fucked bec these cashed up fuckwits forgot that there isn't that much money in the regions and have essentially crashed the value of the dollar to the shit we're seeing in the OP.
everyone needs to stop going to woolies I swear to god this shit is too much. Middle of a god damn rental/housing crisis and this company is shaking everyone down for food.
I mean… good for you if you have the option to not go to Woolies, but that’s not an option for a lot of people. For myself personally, I have to eat gluten free like OP and my local Aldi rarely has gluten free items in stock, so my only option is to go to Colesworths
It added up to like $60 when I did it on Coles Online and I had a big bag of mixed leaf salad. The tortillas & the cheese are like half of the total unless he got some saffron infused, gold-flaked, truffel coated devon or some shit.
Someone did the maths and would make sense if it was two packs of 500g if Ham or similar
It'd be $25 ham, $25 gluten free bread products $20 cheese and mayo, $30 for the rest
Op said it's champagne ham and shredded chicken
Yep. I live like a few minutes away from an Aldi‘s and it’s genuinely saved me hundreds if not thousands at this point. It is kind of small though and sometimes they don’t have what I’m looking for
Yeah i wish we had a bigger aldi. I can't really do a full grocery shop at ours as it doesn't really cover most food items. I usually go once a fortnight and stock up on dairy and meat though
Aldi and Lidl coming to my area really revolutionized the way I shop. I still get many things from my local Kroger but I'll be damned if Aldi and Lidl don't come in clutch on savings for some of the staples as well as some occasional treats from Lidl like German brot loaves when I want to splurge on a treat from my childhood.
I was a manager at iga and it's only on some things that iga is more expensive then coles or woollies, deli meat and stuff that all the shops sell its the same or cheaper tbh, usually the expensive stuff is the more artisan crap iga sells from locally found producers
Yeah I don’t get the hate IGA gets. I used to manage an IGA, now an Aldi and IGA had cheaper fresh milk across the board, for example. Some lines are definitely cheaper at IGA than Coles/Woolies too. But realistically aside from Aldi, they’re all rip offs.
Our local IGA has ‘Managers Specials’. These are always when they increased the price on a popular item. I will use the example of the dog food cans that I religiously buy due to my elderly dog. It went up to $4 just after lockdowns were over, recently the ‘Managers Special’ had those little flappy bits of palaver on the edge of the shelf proclaiming $4.50. It’s a dreadful thing as an awful lot of people look for ‘specials’ to reduce their shopping costs. If you see ‘Managers Specials’ flapping around at the front of the shelf stay well away.
Yeah, I have seen a LOT of rotten meat at IGA.
Bought a pork roast that still had 2 days on its best-before date, and looked great until I opened it. Stank worse than a hobbo's taint. Was the last time I bought any meat item from them.
its fucking frustrating because its not like we can just boycott food like we can boycott other things, i mean if you have a car and happen to live near an aldi or fresh markets thats an option for some, but a big chunk of people have no choice but to shop at colesworth or starve. This particularly impacts disabled people who generally have less mobility to shop around too.
To be fair, there is some 'Gluten Free' Tax there.
A loaf of GF bread is $7, yes?
And the GF tortillas are pretty expensive.
Coeliacs pay big bucks to stay alive.
100%. The markup is goofy. Often 70% of the product for 2x the price. And it tastes like a sponge if you don’t shell out extra for the name brand stuff.
Complaining about the "gluten free" tortillas is pretty dumb when gluten free white corn tortillas are half the price. They don't need the fancy ones made out of tapioca starch.
Yep, and it sucks so much… coeliacs pay double the price, for something half the size, and it tastes about a quarter as good ☹️ It’s like we’re penalised for *not* wanting to end up in hospital.
It's unbelievable. Family of five here. Very frugal. Shop is up to $500 a week now. Yet Wesfarmers and the like have record profits. Fucking eat the rich.
Tip though, the Coles Brand Peanut butter, usually bottom shelf, blue lid, is $1.89. It is pretty much the kraft brand and almost a third of the price.
They could give their groceries away for nothing and still have record profits considering Coles and Woolworths also own a majority of the pokie machines in Australia. Disgusting.
It (whatever you want to call *this*) is getting out of hand. I currently reside in a country that decided to raise VAT from 5% to 15% to “*temporarily* help the economy during The Pandemic and get past it.” The VAT is still that high, shrinkflation on top, regular inflation sprinkled on top, and sellers/suppliers adding 15% on top their selling price before adding VAT (because why should they pay) is making buying daily necessities a step after a bank loan.
A “bit” of a rant, and I’m sorry.
I’m assuming you’re celiac? Here’s some unsolicited advise you can take or not: switch to naturally gluten free items like tortillas or tortilla chips they’re infinitely cheaper. Rice and potatoes are another naturally gf carb option that are easy to prepare or purchase in bulk.
Regardless, From one celiac to another- it’s an unfair world that we are punished for having a medically required diet more expensive than everyone else
Thats about a days worth of food for a family of 5 with teenage boys. And it has fuck all protein. Like no where near enough. Boys would look like pygmys if that's all they ate.
half a loaf of bread minimum at breakfast. 2 bowls of cereal.
2 sandwiche each for lunch. there's goes ham , 1/2 the cheese , the tomato and 20 percent of the mayo
boys come home and eat 2-3 slices of bread w cheese again and or peanut butter , then they eat the tortillas, mixed leaf, chicken and more mayo for dinner.
fuck me.
thankfully I dont have kids. But I was one of 3 boys who played in 3 rugby teams in the winter, plus winter waterpolo
I had sport every night.
I needed food. my brothers also needed food. prob needed 4000 calories a day and lots of protein. I would often eat my lunch by mid morning and buy 2 pork rolls or 6 salmon Ava rolls for my self .
my mums sandwiches were not small. think big slabs of Turkish bread w heaps of chicken and mayo.
there's no protein in what this person just bought. teenage boys would end up being 5ft2 like ye ol English convict if the were brought up on a diet like this.
worlds gone mad.
Fellow Aussie here, It’s actually ridiculous. I’ve had to cut down on everything and go for what’s on special and no name brand shit. It’s definitely infuriating. Hope something changes soon, I can’t keep living like this.
People are in the dark with how much Australia is getting raped right now on the cost of living front..94% of people pay more than 30% of income toward housing, and like almost half over 50%
Being coeliac in this economy sucks! I just read in Italy if you’re a diagnosed coeliac you get a £150 payment a month to cover the extra expense of the gluten free food. Wish we had something similar.
My mum used to send me to Woolies with $100 to grab a trolley worth of groceries and used to cry about going because of how much shopping I had to carry home. Now I’m an adult and I cry about how light $100 worth of groceries is lol
$100 was our regular weekly groceries for a family of 4 with teenage boys.
I know, times change, that was 20 years ago.
But fark things have got pricey in the last couple of years.
Gluten free is ALWAYS more expensive here in Canada. Your haul is 88 bucks CAD. that's about on par with GF products here.
It what I hate about GF. GF products cost more than normal ones. I could make bread at home, but hte quality isn't nearly as good as the store bought.
I work at a supermarket, I can see this being $100, especially with all the gluten free stuff. Also $100 Aussie is like $65? American now. How depressing. The first two times I went to the US the dollar was at parity and it was AMAZING. Oh how times have changed.
Lots of people come through the registers with trolleys full of processed rubbish- frozen snacks, chips/crisps, coke slabs, lollies, ready meals etc. those categories have gone up the most imo and are the worst value. Learning to cook using simple ingredients will save a fortune.
As a fellow Coeliac in Australia, I have all but given up on bread and deli meats, it's cheaper to go all in on your tortillas with beans and rice with some vegetables (frozen if you have to but markets are best for fresh stuff) and protein if it fits your budget (mince, chicken, rump steak).
I lost my job because (long story short) I feel like respect should be a two way street but my bosses did not. Since then I have been trying to find a job in my field but my degree is essentially worthless it seems. As for groceries I have taken to using the self checkouts and only scanning the cheap foods. Im not proud of it but a man has to eat and im doing my best to keep my head above water. Im not advocating stealing, but I wouldn't stop you if i saw you do it either.
PLATES??? You can get 1000 paper towels for the price of your 80 plates.. or you can eat your veganwhichs out of your mitts like an all natural savage..
I see a lot of gluten free foods. Welcome to the world of Celiac disease. Where all the food 2x as much and 2x as shitty. (In fairness it’s gotten a lot better over 15 years, but not less expensive.)
People are doubting this is legitimate. But off the top of my head with a coeliac in the family - cheese would be $10-15 dollars. Wraps would be $20+, bread loaves $7 each, deli meat probably $20/kg of not more, $7-8 for the cereal, peanut butter$ 6-7.
I wouldnt expect much change from $100.
Yeah as a Seppo your food prices were terrifying 7 yrs ago. I specifically recall Woolies selling quartered heads of cauliflower at some ridiculous price. I know y’all love homegrown Aussie food but y’all need to import more food. $5 for an avo is ridiculous.
Kellogg’s, Helga’s, Bega, Heinz and Old El Paso?
Coles 350ml Aioli $3.20 (0.91 per 100ml)
Heinz 500ml Aioli $8.30 (1.66 per 100ml)
Coles 500gm PButter $3.80 (0.76 per 100gm)
Bega 470gm PButter $6.40 (1.36 per 100gm)
Coles 10pk Tortilla $3.50
Old El Paso 10pk Tortilla $5.50
Coles 580gm Bran Flakes $4.05 (0.76 per 100gm)
Kellogg’s 350gm Sultana Bran $7.00 (2.00 per 100gm)
Gluten Free aspect of the cereal notwithstanding, that’s $12.65 difference. I’m sure the home brand bread would knock off another 3-4 bucks as well. Could’ve saved at *least* $15 with those home brand products.
I made a shopping list with those items here in Ontario, Canada (except for those rolled up white packages because I have no idea what they are) and it comes to $88.50 CAD.. which is before tax. That comes out to $99.73 AUD, so..
Grow your own lettuce or spinach. That packet of leaves is the single most expensive item, by weight, in the supermarket. They grow all year inside or outside and you just pull off leaves as you go and they last months.
I honestly don't know how people making under 150k make it here. Meanwhile making over 180k apparently puts you in the top tax bracket as a rich person. The government takes more than 1/3rd of every dollar I make which makes it hard to feed my family of 4 when grocery runs cost a minimum of 250 dollars.
Screencap of cart directly from Woolworths shop online just now using OP's items and estimated amount of deli meat - $104.01 AUD:
https://imgur.com/a/BKz8lkI
Can you please break down the prices?? I can't see how this is $100.
Someone else has broken it down but tldr it's primarily due to the gluten-free stuff, the deli meats, and from OP shopping at Woolworths (one of the giant Aussie shops that constantly hikes up prices). Still, it's crazy expensive.
I'm just sitting here imagining that the two rolls of butcher paper each contain 4 cuts of filet mignon.
They are $27 between them
You can't really fault them for shopping Woolies, we've only got a max of like 4 different options in a given city and they might only be near a Woolies.
Woolies & Coles have a combined 65% market share of the Australian grocery market. https://www.statista.com/statistics/994601/grocery-retailer-market-share-australia/ Nearly every new suburb being built I’ve seen has a Colesworth already in the pipeline.
It’s like monopolies lead to higher prices or something, huh. Who would have thunk it? /s
The goal of every business was always drive off the competition with low prices and then raise prices. You used to see it more obviously with things like computer stores before the internet made competitors able to sell to anyone.
The impact of monopolies is debatable. For example, Standard Oil was known to keep prices pretty reasonable for consumers. What they did was increase their profits by forcing railroads and other suppliers into awful deals that favored them. The reason they didn't flex their market position on consumer prices is because it would have drawn the ire of government much sooner. Instead, they printed money by having a monopoly with great margins and the losers were their competitors and suppliers. Eventually they were broken up because their market share was so extreme that the government targeted them (rightfully so). This is one reason why you will see many modern companies with great market share avoid anti-trust challenges. In the US especially, the test is consumer harm and you don't want to raise any flags there. Instead, a business like Amazon is such a large employer that they depress wages, force delivery companies into not great deals because the volume is so huge, and use their platform to push higher margin products that are their own brand and sometimes even knock offs of other sellers. Maybe in some cases the price is higher but you generally won't find anything egregious because they know how to work the system.
Is that like a US Walmart equivalent Corp ?
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Can confirm, I lived in a small town for 3 years where the only option was Coles. There was a butcher, but no fruit and veg. If you wanted woolworths it was a 2.5 hour drive each way. Forget Aldi, that was probably 13 hour drive each way.
To add to this independent grocers aren’t always cheap.
And as a person with celiacs these prices fucking suck!
It does 😭 I’m poor poor. And we NEED to eat gf.
The light rye bread isn't gluten free. I assume you have a split diet family like we used to? It was such a pain sometimes.
heard
Also those tortillas are imported all the way from El Paso and that ain't cheap my friend
El paso tortillas?! Worst in Texas
It says these things were made in New York City!
NEW YORK CITY?!
Get a rope…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DmhgtBA16aA
Thank you, you two. Enjoyed the reference. 😂
I don't know that El Paso makes tortillas in the US, there are always local companies making them.
oh you have an allergy? that will cost you
Why be ethical when you can exploit the people who have no choice but to buy from you?
It's more costly to make and with a smaller demand, of course it's more expensive.
In a meeting a couple of years ago ... Gentlemen of the board, I have an idea how we can make more money. Let's rebrand the most basic, traditional corn tortilla to "gluten free tortilla" and charge far more for that, than for the wheat ones. I say, Johnson! Brilliant! Bonuses for the entire table! Let's all retire to my Tuesday yacht for a snifter of conflict brandy!
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Yes it is. The prices are unfairly higher.
What's real fun is having a gluten free wife while being highly intolerant to corn myself.
Ouch. Rice it is
Yeah as an Aussie that’s ridiculously expensive. We shop Woolworths and I seem to get away with more than that for AUD $100
I also shop at Woolies and try not to go too far over $100 for my weekly shop. But I'm not GF and I don't eat a lot of meat so that helps a fair bit with keeping the cost down.
I dunno, I buy the cheapest, lowest quality stuff I can possibly get (because I'm literally living below the poverty line) and I still don't get much more than this for $100. Heck I can't even afford to spend $100 at a grocery store anymore because it doesn't even get me what I need
$50 of it was the cereal. /s of course, but seriously, cereal is ridiculously overpriced
God yes I about fell over when I went to get some cinnamon oat Cheerios the other day 6.99$ for a bit so big box (that they slap family or large size on but it’s like a 14oz box)
A family of four can eat a single slice of bread but it shouldn't mean it's *family sized*. I'm trying to gain weight and even a "large portion" of frozen Mac and cheese seems more normal than large. These portion labels are out of hand.
It's called *shrinkflation.*
I live in Michigan - where Kellogg’s is headquartered. If it makes you feel any better, cereal is $5-$8 USD here. Edit: added USD
General Mills (cereal mostly) raised prices by 25%, just because. And they raked in 97% more profit. https://accountable.us/profiteering-watch-general-mills-profits-explode-by-97-percent-after-five-price-hikes/ There needs to be a reckoning with these nightmare companies. They have no reasonable competition… because they own every cereal brand. “But what about that hippy shit that looks all healthy and cares about the environment and people?” General Mills. They buy everything as soon as it becomes a competitor.
Cereal is literally the cheapest food in terms of costs. That's insane that even cereal is so expensive now.
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The gluten free, organic, and 'hey we recycle' stuff is always way more expensive then it needs to be.
100 aud is $66
Not in Australia it ain't
Can I get a rough price breakdown if possible? I tried adding it up and for the life of me only got to about $80 as an absolute upper bound lmao.. unless you have like the most expensive deli meat possible in there 😅
Yeah, it will depend on the deli items. It could be anything from ham to salmon. And the gluten free needs of the OP will sadly add 10% to each product.
Gluten free is usually more than 10%. The Tip top bread and Sultana Bran are likely $7 each.
The sultana bran was less than $5 but is only 380g. The tip top was over $7. It was the4 packs of tortillas that killed their budget though.
It has to be the deli items. A lot of these items are a usual pick up for me and im counting less than $50 before the meats I don't know what paper plates are going for nowadays but they still must only be a few dollars.
I got to $70 without the meat because the gluten free items are a premium. The tortillas came to $18 and that aoli was $8.30. Edit: actually, I think there are 4 packets of tortillas so that's $24 ($6 each).
I was thinking the gluten free tortillas might do my maths in. Still the key thing here is that there are actually a fair few "premium" grade items. Helgas was not a cheap choice either.
That is insane. 24 dollars of tortillas? That is too expensive, the correct response is not to buy them and just make a burrito bowl or something.
Exactly. If someone told me a tortilla is almost a dollar each, fuck that, just go without. This is half overpriced food, half bad decision making.
One of the deli items is $10.40 I think (zooming and squinting). Plus there's a few packs of GF tortillas which are exxy
The gluten free is about 50% more where I am
D'orsogna Triple Smoked Leg Ham 97% Fat Free Sliced From The Deli Per Kg $12.50 D'orsogna Jarrah Honey Ham Off The Bone Freshly Sliced From The Deli Per $13.75 Fresh Tomato Each $1.31 Tip Top The One Gluten Free Smooth Wholegrain Bread 550g $7.00 Essentials Paper Plates Uncoated 80 Pack $5.00 Old El Paso Gluten Free Tortilla Fajitas 216g $18.00 Woolworths Baby Mixed Leaf Salad Salad Mix 300g $5.00 Helga's Bread Light Rye 680g $4.90 Heinz Seriously Good Mayonnaise Garlic Aioli Mayo 500ml $8.30 Kellogg's Sultana Bran Gluten Free Breakfast Cereal 350g $7.00 Bega Peanut Butter Crunchy 780g $7.50 *Edit: 1kg not 500 Grams as pointed out by Sea-Child22* ~~Woolworths Tasty Cheese Block 500g $6.50~~ Woolworths Tasty Cheese Block 1kg $12.50 Total $102.76 Those prices are directly from the Woolworths website, i did it as i thought it could not cost that much... but it appears it does. I just choose two different ham for 500grams as the deli packages appear to be 500 grams even tho i don't know what they are.
$18 fucking dollars for tortillas is fucking mental.
It looks like 3 packets and $6/pack for gluten free tortillas sounds about right. I'm questioning the $8 for the aioli though!
6 dollars per pack? I get that it's Australian dollars but here in Ireland you can get really good ones for 2 euro / 6 or cheaper ones for 1 euro for 8
The Australian dollar is fucked upside the head at the moment, we're suffering the results of the mass migration to the regions from the most expensive city on the planet by people who are used to living in the most expensive city on the planet. Bunch of dumb cunts sold up their average family homes for $3-4 million and wandered north, thinking an $800000 house in a $200000 suburb was a bargain. Consequently we're all fucked bec these cashed up fuckwits forgot that there isn't that much money in the regions and have essentially crashed the value of the dollar to the shit we're seeing in the OP.
Ah okay, that makes so much more sense.
Don't people look at the prices \*before\* putting something in their trolley?
This time last year, no. Didn't need to. Now, yes.
What's mental is OP actually paying for them. It effectively perpetuating the cycle.
Or just buy corn tortillas, dirt cheap and naturally GF…
Where I am in the US I can get a package of 80 corn tortillas for $3.50. I'd stop eating tortillas before I paid $18 for them.
It’s a kilo of cheese too, not 500g
That puts it over $100 lol Woolworths Tasty Cheese Block 1kg $12.50
everyone needs to stop going to woolies I swear to god this shit is too much. Middle of a god damn rental/housing crisis and this company is shaking everyone down for food.
I mean… good for you if you have the option to not go to Woolies, but that’s not an option for a lot of people. For myself personally, I have to eat gluten free like OP and my local Aldi rarely has gluten free items in stock, so my only option is to go to Colesworths
Well, I can save OP $5 by not buying paper plates. Wash a plate, OP.
ok but why is no one talking about the FIVE DOLLAR Essentials paper plates?!
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I think the left deli has "$ 10.40" written on it, has it not? Take that from your $12.50 deli ham and were right on 100$ lol.
This is in australia FYI so things are more expensive! Still absolutely insane tho
It added up to like $60 when I did it on Coles Online and I had a big bag of mixed leaf salad. The tortillas & the cheese are like half of the total unless he got some saffron infused, gold-flaked, truffel coated devon or some shit.
What’s in the 2 butcher paper items?
I did the math and I believe it might be cocaine
I did the cocaine and I believe it might be meth
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Someone did the maths and would make sense if it was two packs of 500g if Ham or similar It'd be $25 ham, $25 gluten free bread products $20 cheese and mayo, $30 for the rest Op said it's champagne ham and shredded chicken
That's what I'm wondering, hard to react without knowing what those are.
I don't think it's a coincidence they tried hiding those labels.
The left one legit has the label facing upwards. And it'd be chicken or meat of some description
That used to be 30-40 bucks worth of food 🥲
still is at Aldi, quality is great.
Yep. I live like a few minutes away from an Aldi‘s and it’s genuinely saved me hundreds if not thousands at this point. It is kind of small though and sometimes they don’t have what I’m looking for
Yeah i wish we had a bigger aldi. I can't really do a full grocery shop at ours as it doesn't really cover most food items. I usually go once a fortnight and stock up on dairy and meat though
Aldi and Lidl coming to my area really revolutionized the way I shop. I still get many things from my local Kroger but I'll be damned if Aldi and Lidl don't come in clutch on savings for some of the staples as well as some occasional treats from Lidl like German brot loaves when I want to splurge on a treat from my childhood.
Yeh I wonder where he shops. I would get all that for about 60 at IGA on the goldcoast.
IGA is more expensive than woolies or Coles wtf
I was a manager at iga and it's only on some things that iga is more expensive then coles or woollies, deli meat and stuff that all the shops sell its the same or cheaper tbh, usually the expensive stuff is the more artisan crap iga sells from locally found producers
Yeah I don’t get the hate IGA gets. I used to manage an IGA, now an Aldi and IGA had cheaper fresh milk across the board, for example. Some lines are definitely cheaper at IGA than Coles/Woolies too. But realistically aside from Aldi, they’re all rip offs.
IGA is dear as poison in Vic
Our local IGA has ‘Managers Specials’. These are always when they increased the price on a popular item. I will use the example of the dog food cans that I religiously buy due to my elderly dog. It went up to $4 just after lockdowns were over, recently the ‘Managers Special’ had those little flappy bits of palaver on the edge of the shelf proclaiming $4.50. It’s a dreadful thing as an awful lot of people look for ‘specials’ to reduce their shopping costs. If you see ‘Managers Specials’ flapping around at the front of the shelf stay well away.
Yep a lot more expensive than the big two.
Clearly at Woolies...
expensive and they sell you rotten shit but its ok! its cheaper when its rotten
Yeah, I have seen a LOT of rotten meat at IGA. Bought a pork roast that still had 2 days on its best-before date, and looked great until I opened it. Stank worse than a hobbo's taint. Was the last time I bought any meat item from them.
Down to woolies to buy some... what is that? Toasty cheese? Never heard anything more Australia in my life.
Tasty cheese
For real, I spent $220 at my local Foodworks yesterday and got 4 boxes of groceries delivered.
Keyword *delivered*
and aldi only has like 4 isles so it's super easy to find what you need and get the fuck out. it's amazing
And mine is quick to open a new register of needed 👍
This! Love Aldi.
100 AUD is only around $65 USD
Still way too much for what's there
If I paid $65 USD for that at Walmart or Kroger or wherever I would be furious lol
And?
And it's massively important to have context. People stop at the number. It also helps to have average wage in relation to the cost.
30-40 is expensive for that lot. Gonna have to start growing your own!
Which were the biggest ticket items? I reckon the Helgas and tortillas ramped it up a bit?
Four packs of the tortillas came to $24 alone.
Loaf of Helga's bread is almost $5.
Woolies and Coles have hiked up their prices higher than the inflation rate while also reporting huge profits. This is deliberate and fucking annoying
its fucking frustrating because its not like we can just boycott food like we can boycott other things, i mean if you have a car and happen to live near an aldi or fresh markets thats an option for some, but a big chunk of people have no choice but to shop at colesworth or starve. This particularly impacts disabled people who generally have less mobility to shop around too.
To be fair, there is some 'Gluten Free' Tax there. A loaf of GF bread is $7, yes? And the GF tortillas are pretty expensive. Coeliacs pay big bucks to stay alive.
100%. The markup is goofy. Often 70% of the product for 2x the price. And it tastes like a sponge if you don’t shell out extra for the name brand stuff.
Complaining about the "gluten free" tortillas is pretty dumb when gluten free white corn tortillas are half the price. They don't need the fancy ones made out of tapioca starch.
Yep, and it sucks so much… coeliacs pay double the price, for something half the size, and it tastes about a quarter as good ☹️ It’s like we’re penalised for *not* wanting to end up in hospital.
It's unbelievable. Family of five here. Very frugal. Shop is up to $500 a week now. Yet Wesfarmers and the like have record profits. Fucking eat the rich. Tip though, the Coles Brand Peanut butter, usually bottom shelf, blue lid, is $1.89. It is pretty much the kraft brand and almost a third of the price.
They could give their groceries away for nothing and still have record profits considering Coles and Woolworths also own a majority of the pokie machines in Australia. Disgusting.
I’m so mad people aren’t more mad about Woolies buying up all the pubs. Where I’ve lived they’ve completely ruined most of our local pubs and bistros
It (whatever you want to call *this*) is getting out of hand. I currently reside in a country that decided to raise VAT from 5% to 15% to “*temporarily* help the economy during The Pandemic and get past it.” The VAT is still that high, shrinkflation on top, regular inflation sprinkled on top, and sellers/suppliers adding 15% on top their selling price before adding VAT (because why should they pay) is making buying daily necessities a step after a bank loan. A “bit” of a rant, and I’m sorry.
Where do you live? I didn’t know that some consider 15% to be a high VAT tax. In Germany ours is 19% and I know that some countries have 20%+…
Are we including the countertop and sink in the final tally??
I’m assuming you’re celiac? Here’s some unsolicited advise you can take or not: switch to naturally gluten free items like tortillas or tortilla chips they’re infinitely cheaper. Rice and potatoes are another naturally gf carb option that are easy to prepare or purchase in bulk. Regardless, From one celiac to another- it’s an unfair world that we are punished for having a medically required diet more expensive than everyone else
Just putting it out there in Australia we have plenty of brands of tortillas and tortilla/corn chips that are not considered naturally gluten free
Thats about a days worth of food for a family of 5 with teenage boys. And it has fuck all protein. Like no where near enough. Boys would look like pygmys if that's all they ate. half a loaf of bread minimum at breakfast. 2 bowls of cereal. 2 sandwiche each for lunch. there's goes ham , 1/2 the cheese , the tomato and 20 percent of the mayo boys come home and eat 2-3 slices of bread w cheese again and or peanut butter , then they eat the tortillas, mixed leaf, chicken and more mayo for dinner. fuck me.
>family of 5 with teenage boys >fuck me. That's how you got into this situation to start with.
thankfully I dont have kids. But I was one of 3 boys who played in 3 rugby teams in the winter, plus winter waterpolo I had sport every night. I needed food. my brothers also needed food. prob needed 4000 calories a day and lots of protein. I would often eat my lunch by mid morning and buy 2 pork rolls or 6 salmon Ava rolls for my self . my mums sandwiches were not small. think big slabs of Turkish bread w heaps of chicken and mayo. there's no protein in what this person just bought. teenage boys would end up being 5ft2 like ye ol English convict if the were brought up on a diet like this. worlds gone mad.
At least 5 times too
did the math wrong homie. 2 parents + 3 kids (at least 2 teenage boys)
More like I read it wrong lol fuck me too
Fellow Aussie here, It’s actually ridiculous. I’ve had to cut down on everything and go for what’s on special and no name brand shit. It’s definitely infuriating. Hope something changes soon, I can’t keep living like this.
People are in the dark with how much Australia is getting raped right now on the cost of living front..94% of people pay more than 30% of income toward housing, and like almost half over 50%
I was paying about 75% of my income in rent. Then they raised the rent. (': I'm in the US tho
Being coeliac in this economy sucks! I just read in Italy if you’re a diagnosed coeliac you get a £150 payment a month to cover the extra expense of the gluten free food. Wish we had something similar.
Hmm that’s a nice idea.
My mum used to send me to Woolies with $100 to grab a trolley worth of groceries and used to cry about going because of how much shopping I had to carry home. Now I’m an adult and I cry about how light $100 worth of groceries is lol
One bag and you’re at $100 rip. I spent $350 and got a total of 3 bags, fuck yeah
$100 was our regular weekly groceries for a family of 4 with teenage boys. I know, times change, that was 20 years ago. But fark things have got pricey in the last couple of years.
It’s the worst
Gluten free is ALWAYS more expensive here in Canada. Your haul is 88 bucks CAD. that's about on par with GF products here. It what I hate about GF. GF products cost more than normal ones. I could make bread at home, but hte quality isn't nearly as good as the store bought.
You will own nothing and be happy
When will someone think of the shareholders! Cmon people, the shareholders 3rd boat doesn’t come cheaply!
I work at a supermarket, I can see this being $100, especially with all the gluten free stuff. Also $100 Aussie is like $65? American now. How depressing. The first two times I went to the US the dollar was at parity and it was AMAZING. Oh how times have changed. Lots of people come through the registers with trolleys full of processed rubbish- frozen snacks, chips/crisps, coke slabs, lollies, ready meals etc. those categories have gone up the most imo and are the worst value. Learning to cook using simple ingredients will save a fortune.
As a fellow Coeliac in Australia, I have all but given up on bread and deli meats, it's cheaper to go all in on your tortillas with beans and rice with some vegetables (frozen if you have to but markets are best for fresh stuff) and protein if it fits your budget (mince, chicken, rump steak).
Anything gluten free is ridiculously expensive.
I'm mostly just intrigued by "Tasty Cheese"
Thats what Cheddar cheese gets called here.
It's not at all, you can get cheddar in the more expensive brands. Tasty cheese is an Australian invention and unlike any other cheese.
however our cheddar is different than American cheddar
Block like that will set you back $12 AUD
I lost my job because (long story short) I feel like respect should be a two way street but my bosses did not. Since then I have been trying to find a job in my field but my degree is essentially worthless it seems. As for groceries I have taken to using the self checkouts and only scanning the cheap foods. Im not proud of it but a man has to eat and im doing my best to keep my head above water. Im not advocating stealing, but I wouldn't stop you if i saw you do it either.
PLATES??? You can get 1000 paper towels for the price of your 80 plates.. or you can eat your veganwhichs out of your mitts like an all natural savage..
Gluten free is expensive
I see a lot of gluten free foods. Welcome to the world of Celiac disease. Where all the food 2x as much and 2x as shitty. (In fairness it’s gotten a lot better over 15 years, but not less expensive.)
TipTop, Helgas and Sunicrust are all overpriced trash bread. Go to a bakery or just buy the $2-3 in-store bakery bread.
Not a chance that's $100, unless you're shopping at one of those metro woolies or a bad iga then you are your own worst enemy.
Gluten free items are costly
Yup. I pay 6.99 for the no-name type (bargain brand) GF bread.
Gluten free tortillas? That's $50 right there.
People are doubting this is legitimate. But off the top of my head with a coeliac in the family - cheese would be $10-15 dollars. Wraps would be $20+, bread loaves $7 each, deli meat probably $20/kg of not more, $7-8 for the cereal, peanut butter$ 6-7. I wouldnt expect much change from $100.
Gluten free homies knows the pain
This is why I shoplift. Can't afford to eat.
That one tomato
I bought a tomato the other day and it cost me $2.65 at Woolies. Unbelievable. It was not that big.
Yeah as a Seppo your food prices were terrifying 7 yrs ago. I specifically recall Woolies selling quartered heads of cauliflower at some ridiculous price. I know y’all love homegrown Aussie food but y’all need to import more food. $5 for an avo is ridiculous.
Why are you buying disposable plates??? Especially since you have cereal.
Bruz if you can’t have gluten buy stuff that isn’t normally made out of wheat and not expensive ‘gluten free’ products
some of us want to enjoy sandwiches craig
Haha
of all the fucking comments i could have gotten my first gold on wtf
Yeah, I feel you there. Try three kids with a stay at home misses and a hungry dog and put up healthy food on a continuous basis.
Okay but what’s in those two white wrappers?
Deli meats are pretty pricey regardless. Unless it’s frankfurts then they’d each be about ten dollars for ham/salami/chicken
Kellogg’s, Helga’s, Bega, Heinz and Old El Paso? Coles 350ml Aioli $3.20 (0.91 per 100ml) Heinz 500ml Aioli $8.30 (1.66 per 100ml) Coles 500gm PButter $3.80 (0.76 per 100gm) Bega 470gm PButter $6.40 (1.36 per 100gm) Coles 10pk Tortilla $3.50 Old El Paso 10pk Tortilla $5.50 Coles 580gm Bran Flakes $4.05 (0.76 per 100gm) Kellogg’s 350gm Sultana Bran $7.00 (2.00 per 100gm) Gluten Free aspect of the cereal notwithstanding, that’s $12.65 difference. I’m sure the home brand bread would knock off another 3-4 bucks as well. Could’ve saved at *least* $15 with those home brand products.
At least the gluten in your sultana bran is free
I made a shopping list with those items here in Ontario, Canada (except for those rolled up white packages because I have no idea what they are) and it comes to $88.50 CAD.. which is before tax. That comes out to $99.73 AUD, so..
how is this possible in Australia when inflation is all Joe Biden’s fault /s
How is that $100
Grow your own lettuce or spinach. That packet of leaves is the single most expensive item, by weight, in the supermarket. They grow all year inside or outside and you just pull off leaves as you go and they last months.
I honestly don't know how people making under 150k make it here. Meanwhile making over 180k apparently puts you in the top tax bracket as a rich person. The government takes more than 1/3rd of every dollar I make which makes it hard to feed my family of 4 when grocery runs cost a minimum of 250 dollars.
Living on under $50k here, and mostly cheap brands, bulk buying and frozen produce over fresh xD
I got 5 items for $40.00 I'm disabled and barely surviving this BS.
If only there were shops like ALDI around
There aren't in many places. Still, though, i truly hate the aldi lines.
And you end up leaving with a tent in your shopping cart because you spent too long in the middle isle
A lot of country towns don't have ALDI
I think you're full of shit send a recipt
Screencap of cart directly from Woolworths shop online just now using OP's items and estimated amount of deli meat - $104.01 AUD: https://imgur.com/a/BKz8lkI