SUPERMARKET TACTICS;

justcruisin01 · Guru

SUPERMARKET TACTICS;

Ma · Guru

As much as they can get Jim and as much as we are prepared to part with.

justcruisin01 · Guru

Thats for shure, we need to give them the flick & support the little bloke before they are all gone>

Gerty Dancer · Guru

We dont shop there, but I feel sorry for people where there's no choice/competition!

justcruisin01 · Guru

Gerty Dancer wrote:
We dont shop there, but I feel sorry for people where there's no choice/competition!

And that will be every where soon, & they are now going in opposition to bunnings, including white goods, one being built brissy area & one at G/Coast. confuse confuse confuse

the rocket · Guru

hi, how did they get your ph. no. rocket n strop

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

Know how ya feel. However, where you shop, and how much you spend is up to you.

Having said that, many of us on this forum travel this wide land and need to patronise various supermarkets - both large and small - in towns both large and small.

I don't feel any pain at all for 'city folk' who shop Coles and/or Woolies. I feel the pain for those in the country areas where they do not usually have choice and have to pay the prices set by the supermarket. And they most certainly DO PAY.

IGA/Foodland and true independents in small towns are charging incredible prices. To sell Black&Gold generic brand items for upto 55% higher prices than the 'name' supermarkets is outlandish. Country/regional folk have limited incomes - often fixed (like us nomads) - and I am constantly astounded at how they can live properly on the prices they must pay for items - particularly bread, fruit and Veg.

It is the general consensus that Woolies/Coles are ripping us all off. However, in towns where there are Woolies (and sometimes a Coles as well) and other supermarkets (eg IGA/Foodworks), Woolies/Coles prices are most definitely no where near as high as the others in those towns. So who is ripping who off?

If you do buy at Woolies/Coles and you don't want the 4c voucher for fuel, give it to a pensioner who will appreciate the saving.

As I step (graciously?) down from my soapbox, I conclude by saying, no-one is making you buy at Woolies or Coles - so buy at the others - and pay even higher prices.

Cheers

John

justcruisin01 · Guru

I agree with you Rocky, but if the little ones were not under so much pressure trying to survive by the squeeze of the giants, then their prices could be more reasonable.

Most of them rip us off one way or another, then blame it on freight costs, thats a joke when you can often buy the same goods in the outback cheaper than the coast where very little freight costs are involved.

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

I don't shop at any of them, I've given up eating biggrin

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

Aw yeah ............. then ya not like the wommies I know .....

I can control my fuel expense, my accommodation expense ...... if I could only stop eating - I'd be a rich man aww smile ashamed

cheers

John

Ron and Shirley · Senior Member

the rocket wrote:
hi, how did they get your ph. no. rocket n strop

Probably like us when we registered the Safeway/Woolies "Everyday Rewards Card" for fuel discounts etc.

Sometimes we get the SMS like last night, and other times we get a similar message via e-mail.

So I went across to Safeway this morning, purchased two blocks of beer that were on special this week, saved $22, plus qualified for the 10c/l off diesel which will be another saving of around $10 when I fill up the Patrol in the next week or so.

Extra $32 in my pocket from items I would have purchased in the next fortnight anyway, thanks Mr Safeway.

Beth54 · Guru

I have a rewards card too, but haven't given them any phone numbers. Whenever I register for anything that requires filling the boxes, I put in as little info as possible.

The only non-friend/family messages I get on my mobile are from b.loo.dy Telstra when my pre-paid is running out. They text every few hours until I recharge! Every time another one comes I say, 'I know, stop nagging me!' disbelief

-- Edited by Beth54 on Saturday 29th of October 2011 04:56:56 PM

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

Beth54 wrote:
I have a rewards card too, but haven't given them any phone numbers. Whenever I register for anything that requires filling the boxes, I put in as little info as possible.
The only non-friend/family messages I get on my mobile are from b.loo.dy Telstra when my pre-paid is running out. They text every few hours until I recharge! Every time another one comes I say, 'I know, stop nagging me!'

-- Edited by Beth54 on Saturday 29th of October 2011 04:56:56 PM

who gave Testra your phone number ? biggrin biggrin

Beth54 · Guru

_wombat_ wrote:
Beth54 wrote:
I have a rewards card too, but haven't given them any phone numbers. Whenever I register for anything that requires filling the boxes, I put in as little info as possible.
The only non-friend/family messages I get on my mobile are from b.loo.dy Telstra when my pre-paid is running out. They text every few hours until I recharge! Every time another one comes I say, 'I know, stop nagging me!'

-- Edited by Beth54 on Saturday 29th of October 2011 04:56:56 PM
who gave Testra your phone number ?

confuse

Happywanderer · The Master

I haven't had the text but do get the emails giving me 10 cents a litre of my fuel.
Love it being a pensioner, I have saved 10 cents a litre on 3 fill ups in the last month. To me thats a big saving.

Almurta · Veteran Member

One thing that really bugs me about supermarkets is the way they charge more for the same products in different areas. I moved up here to northern NSW earlier this year. The cost of living is much higher than where I was before - Gippsland Victoria. Bread costs up to $1.50 for example.

Ma · Guru

Don't know if it is a fact or not but I have heard that the individual store managers can set a price according to what they thing the local community will bear. I would think within reason.

Ron and Shirley · Senior Member

We discovered in the early 1970s that the price of everyday items at the local Safeway/Woolies in a very "desirable" inner eastern suburb of Melbourne was more than that for the same items in the Northern Suburbs of Melbourne.

When we changed suburbs in 2005 that was still the case, with the exceptions of the weekly specials.

blaze · Guru

I am a busy big shopping area hater, dont matter the name, I hate them all with a passion. But get dragged along by the boss (wife). What I cant understand is her logic that to get a 2 litres of milk we must drive about 2.5kms through city traffic (she hates that or at least my driving approach to it) or pay a few bob mpre and get it at the kiosk at the cp which is walking distance. Or go to woolies for the milk and then drive another 1.2kms to buy a loaf of bread from a chain store baker (must be trhe right chain.
Now did I mention I hate big shopping centres. I spend my money at the smaller stores, less people, friendly service and I could go on.
cheers
blaze

pauline · Guru

My biggest gripe about the big 2 is the practice of buying 2 to get the cheaper price, it is just another way of getting us to spend more money then we had planned on, I don't want to have to buy 60 cans of coke at one time. If they can sell it at that price for two why can't they sell one for half the advertised price, a huge rip off to me and really pe...s me off bigtime. What about the pensioner who cannot afford to spend $30 in one go for cans of coke, they then have to pay the dearer price, it goes for all their products, bread, marg, etc etc etc.

RALPHRALPH · Senior Member

thats a hell offa lot off bake beans you got to buy ,better of saving and converting to gasssssssssssssssssssssss smile confuse

goinsoon · Guru

Pauline, sometimes we do agree on something, aren't those 2 buy discounts the pits, it is ok for small things like baked beans, but two large breakfast foods or whatever is a pain.

We just walk out now and go to IGA or Aldi

-- Edited by goinsoon on Sunday 30th of October 2011 11:45:08 AM

pauline · Guru

We agree on lots of things...........