Grocery Prices higher in some suburbs?

Who would have thought a supermodel would be interested in grocery affairs
My bad; Naomi Robson.

I used to shop Woolies and Coles for the price alone. Now I shop Supabarn because they have more of what I want. I’m willing to fork out the extra few bucks a week for the extra class. Wandered into Woolies Dickson on the weekend and found it to be a very ‘bogan-oriented’ range.

Guess I’m not a bogan :-þ

Hmmm. Qbn is my local Coles/woolies, but I shop at Manuka Coles when I can, because they are much faster to prevent lines building up (Qbn seem to not notice shoppers lined up back into teh aisles, and Woolies is now as bad)

The things I routinely buy don’t cost more at Manuka… Cocky seed, Harris coffee, tins of tomatoes, Uncle Toby’s cereal… in fact they seem to bung on those price drop tickets more often at Manuka, and their meat bit is much better stocked, and they scrawl new prices on the meat throughout the day.

I actually quite like Coles’ brand stuff, it has it all over Woolies in that regard.

The only problem with Manuka Coles is the hopeless layout, they didn’t have to do it like that, with the deli right in the middle, and the cold aisles hidden away where people can’t find them.

Naomi Campbell once exposed Manuka Coles as the pricyest in the country

Who would have thought a supermodel would be interested in grocery affairs?

“It costs more to ship produce to the outlying regions like Gungahlin :-)”

Or it could be danger money for the drivers using the sub-standard road infrastructure.

Gunghalin ALDI sells fruit and nut mix 1kg bag for more than Civic ALDI.

Myth Busted

It costs more to ship produce to the outlying regions like Gungahlin 🙂

D’ya reckon Pottsy shops at Queanbeyan?

Apparently Queanbeyan has the best valued groceries. My friends around Griffith, Red Hill etc shop there all the time.

Naomi Campbell once exposed Manuka Coles as the pricyest in the country, and not just on each line, but also cause they don’t stock a lot of no-name products.

Who gives a crap? If you think you can get stuff cheaper, go there and shop. If it’s inconvenient, make a decision not to.

If you think this sucks, go spend some time in the third world – it will give you some perspective.

I disagree – ORL summarised it beautifully –

“Isn’t this whole site about whinging!?” – ORL, August 2005

In the words of one of the greatest actors never to have won an oscar “it’s not a story, it’s an adventure”.(Steven Seagal) I have to go I am starting to tear up just thinking about him ;)~

I found that DIckson was cheaper than COles manuka

Supporting Deano’s comments – now what do you think all those petrol voucher dockets are for? To determine when you have money in your pocket, they know roughly what areas where you live (as people generally buy groceries close to home) and that helps then determine when to set the prices lower for each store.

But don’t go to Aldi at 0900 on a Thursday… all the old folk are there buying any cattledog special – especially electrical – maybe they think its Aldi Airport.

Per store pricing is standard practice for nearly all major retailers and not just groceries. They spend considerable sums of money understanding the demographics and preferences of shoppers in the area and set prices to what they believe will maximise their profit. Prices can also be influenced by the local competition.

Aldi are the only chain that has consistent prices across all stores, which is part of their keep it simple operating strategy.

Ah yes, “newly renovated” – and yet still an understocked, badly-serviced, inconvenient tip.

Seriously, how do they manage to spend all that money without actually improving anything?

And any prduct not bearing a Coles in-house brand has mysteriously vanished from the shelves.

In Coles advertising last week, sirloin steak was (IIRC) $9.97/kg at the newly renovated Curtin Coles, but $8.97/kg at Chisholm.

Lyneham Independent is about 10 to 20 per cent more expensive than Ainslie across the board. It’s worth crossing Northbourne to shop.

Jerrabomberra Woolworths is definitely dearer on everyday products than Queanbeyan.

On the other hand, the more affluent areas tend to get fresher produce, better meat etc – they send the crap stuff to the povo suburbs.

So it’s unfair two ways, but perhaps they balance out.

You will live in the rich part of town!

If course it’s true. Soo if you can get yourself hands on the annual Choice magazine compare, where they compare the costs of a common grocery basket, albeit Oz wide.

More affluent areas tend to be higher.

The two closest woolworths used to have different catalogs not sure if they still do!