Cadbury YAK

[pgc hunter]

Checked the prices of Cadbury bars at the BigW I work at. $4.60 for 200g. Last year it was $3.95 for 220g. Sticker shock right there.

Might explain their profit loss. Consumers are letting them know what they think. They keep doing this crap they deserve to go out of business.

[brian nordstrom (As avatar)]

Here, here. .
But it is not just Cadbury doing this. , almost every manufacturer is pulling this stunt. , Australia is getting harder and harder to live in , how much more we can take is the question .

Go the. 'Spudshed' , we have here in Perth. , sensible prices on all items , we do all our shopping there now. , bugger Coles and Wollies as well .

Brian.

[OzStarGazer]

Not to mention ClickFrenzy....
If you check some of their specials and then normal prices on eBay for example you will be astonished how they all try to rip us off! Or maybe not so astonished after all... Some sellers must think buyers are complete idiots, and some probably are. They see 40 or 50% off and they rush to buy without checking other sellers...

[Eratosthenes (Peter)]

I believe that food processing by products in the USA are still classed as waste streams and cannot be used for human consumption.

Vegemite is manufactured from the yeast extract produced as a waste stream by the beer fermentation industry. Vegemite was banned for sale in the USA for a long time, and this ban may well be still in place.

I have some experience with the Vegemite process in Oz and included in the process is a caramelisation step which effectively gives Vegemite it's dark color. Yeast extract is a kind of "poo" color and was thought to be a poor choice of hue to market (strange, because one can argue that chocolate is also excrement color, but is laden with sugar and caffeine and flavor, so we may as consumers let that go to the keeper)

Ironically in the USA, the way the FDA laws are structured, if a beer manufacturer said they were fermenting their barley malt, to produce yeast extract at the bottom of their vats and that was their product goal, then the alcoholic beer in the vats would be a waste by product and banned for sale to humans for consumption

[pgc hunter]

Originally Posted by brian nordstrom

Here, here. .
But it is not just Cadbury doing this. , almost every manufacturer is pulling this stunt. , Australia is getting harder and harder to live in , how much more we can take is the question .

Go the. 'Spudshed' , we have here in Perth. , sensible prices on all items , we do all our shopping there now. , bugger Coles and Wollies as well .

Brian.

I know right! Every time you go to supermarket, the price of something has gone up. Working at Big W I see this first hand and some of it really is jarring. Meanwhile, Woolies keeps taking the piss with those 2 corny birds and stupid jingle and Coles with the big red finger. Example: Grilled whole chicken at Colesworths costs $11. At one local butcher, it is $8. Another example: popcorn at BigW used to sell at $2.48 last year. Now you can find them on special 2 for $5. The exponential price increases are also quite breathtaking on my visits to Dan Murphys. Some of this stuff goes up by $2-3 overnight at random times of the year for no apparent reason.

You often hear discussion about things like soft drink tax, fast food tax etc. What is happening now is equivalent to taxes slapped on items multiple times a year that's how ridiculous these relentless random price increases are.

[LewisM]

I find Woolworthless nauseating in every sense of the word, from the obnoxious slogan music, to the soulless staff and a-hole managers strumping around like roosters in suits. Their shop layout is poor.

Coles is a far more pleasant experience I always find - good layout usually, staff usually friendly enough (and LOTS on the floor on average), 90% of the time cheaper than Woolworthless.

IGA in QLD have shocking prices, so I tend to avoid them. IGA in WA was nearly ALWAYS cheaper than Coles/WW when we lived there for a while, so we shopped there.

Aldi is OK... but I don't like their lack of many products. I can usually get one particular product we like at Aldi for $2.99, vs WW's $7.99 for the EXACT same product made in the SAME factory (fact - I know one of the product's company execs - comes from working as a chef for 10 years - and they confirmed they make it for WW, Coles AND Aldi)