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Car Forum / Australian Car Forums / General Car Topics (Australian group) / May 20084c shopper dockets now a joke.
I'm sure some of us can remember when these shopper dockets first started. Fuel was around 65c litre and if you spent $30 in the one transaction, you'd get a 4cents litre saving, if you spent $60 in the one transaction, the discount was 10cents litre. It appears those 10cents have disappeared for good. Now if 4 cents litre back then represented 6.1% then shouldn't, if the margin was to be maintained the $1.50 litre should be carrying a discount of 9cents per litre. We are being ripped off again. These Supermarkets have achieved what they set out to do and that was to bury the small guy and then move into the Mr Bigs, Coles, Shell and Woolies, Caltex. Roger > I'm sure some of us can remember when these shopper dockets first started. > Fuel was around 65c litre and if you spent $30 in the one transaction, you'd [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > bury the small guy and then move into the Mr Bigs, Coles, Shell and Woolies, > Caltex. They were always a rort from what I could tell - at least in the case of the Woolies/Caltex station, they were always amongst the dearest in the area. Besides, more often than not those stations have line-ups of people waiting to fuel up, while the BP down the road has available bowsers. I couldn't be f.cked waiting in a queue just for the sake of saving a couple of bucks... As you say - that 4 cents represents jack-sh.t these days. > > I'm sure some of us can remember when these shopper dockets first started. > > Fuel was around 65c litre and if you spent $30 in the one transaction, you'd [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > As you say - that 4 cents represents jack-sh.t these days. Exactly. Fuel today is $1.82.9 diesel and $1.63.9 petrol. The four cents changed in the last week alone. Re-index the saving to the fuel price otherwise you are not saving a couple of bucks. > These Supermarkets have achieved what they set out to do and that was to > bury the small guy and then move into the Mr Bigs, Coles, Shell and > Woolies, Caltex. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We don't shop at Coles or Woolsworths anymore. We shop at Franklin's for groceries and at weekend markets for everything else. -- Coles.and.Woolies=expensive. > I'm sure some of us can remember when these shopper dockets first started. > Fuel was around 65c litre and if you spent $30 in the one transaction, [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > bury the small guy and then move into the Mr Bigs, Coles, Shell and > Woolies, Caltex. The dockets are a scam. If you have a docket you pay normal price, if you haven't you get ripped off by another 4c a litre. > The dockets are a scam. If you have a docket you pay normal price, if you > haven't you get ripped off by another 4c a litre. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Not necessarily. The Caltex close to where I live has about the same price as Shell or the independent servo. However if I shop at Woolies, it's a guarantee that I'll be ripped off. -- The.grocery.is.where.the.ripoff.happens. >> The dockets are a scam. If you have a docket you pay normal price, if you >> haven't you get ripped off by another 4c a litre. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > as Shell or the independent servo. However if I shop at Woolies, it's a > guarantee that I'll be ripped off. I guess that depends on how you regard food. >>> The dockets are a scam. If you have a docket you pay normal price, if >>> you haven't you get ripped off by another 4c a litre. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > I guess that depends on how you regard food. Foraging for insects is cheaper I suppose. >>>> The dockets are a scam. If you have a docket you pay normal price, if >>>> you haven't you get ripped off by another 4c a litre. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Foraging for insects is cheaper I suppose. Or enjoying a nice Black & Gold 'gourmet' coffee... or whatever. >>>>> The dockets are a scam. If you have a docket you pay normal price, if >>>>> you haven't you get ripped off by another 4c a litre. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Or enjoying a nice Black & Gold 'gourmet' coffee... or whatever. LOL yeah, that too. > I'm sure some of us can remember when these shopper dockets first started. > Fuel was around 65c litre and if you spent $30 in the one transaction, [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Roger Off topic here.... I used to work in Category Management for a large australian food manufacturer and dealt with Woolies and Coles buyers. I left that 5 years ago and won't go back. The general public has no idea to what extent they abuse their market power. Between them they have almost 80% of the grocery market - no other grocery market in the world has this level of domination by only 2 players. On some lines their margin is well over 70%, and even on some staples they don't like to go below 30-35%. Reality is they aim to make money off their customers and their suppliers, and in doing so they will push prices up as much as they can get away with, and squeeze manufacturers mercilessly. Look at Woolies - despite claims of small margins they continue to announce record profits. All that matters to them is their share price. My advice, buy your staples at Aldi (they were very fair to deal with when I was in the game, aim to support mid-tier producers that Woolies and Coles squeeze and benchmark their products to market leading brands which they then source from very reputable local sources), fruit and veg at markets and only the speciality lines you need from the majors. Chris |
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