expensive groceries
#108
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Re: expensive groceries
General question which may be best posted in this thread. Do the online shopping prices for Coles and Woolworths match the instore prices? also is there much regional variation between the prices in the major supermarkets?
#109
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Re: expensive groceries
Remote area = more expensive food due to transport costs – hardly rocket science.
Easy way round this is to buy local & seasonal food and avoid processed food that gets shipped in from other states.
Same when I lived in Darwin – fresh local food was cheap and processed food trucked up from Sydney was expensive.
Quite frankly, I think people have lost the plot when they are arguing over a couple of cents difference for meat or milk. Given that so many people in world are either staving or living on $1.00 a day, you should be grateful that you have access to clean water and fresh food in the first place.
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Re: expensive groceries
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Re: expensive groceries
Can we get away from the use of offensive language please, and stick to the topic of the offensive price of groceries.
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Re: expensive groceries
Plenty of wits and c***ts around, mores the pity. Maybe there is a special visa class for them - I often wonder.
#113
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Re: expensive groceries
Well just read all the posts from people who live there......who are whining about the cost of food.
Remote area = more expensive food due to transport costs – hardly rocket science.
Easy way round this is to buy local & seasonal food and avoid processed food that gets shipped in from other states.
Same when I lived in Darwin – fresh local food was cheap and processed food trucked up from Sydney was expensive.
Quite frankly, I think people have lost the plot when they are arguing over a couple of cents difference for meat or milk. Given that so many people in world are either staving or living on $1.00 a day, you should be grateful that you have access to clean water and fresh food in the first place.
Remote area = more expensive food due to transport costs – hardly rocket science.
Easy way round this is to buy local & seasonal food and avoid processed food that gets shipped in from other states.
Same when I lived in Darwin – fresh local food was cheap and processed food trucked up from Sydney was expensive.
Quite frankly, I think people have lost the plot when they are arguing over a couple of cents difference for meat or milk. Given that so many people in world are either staving or living on $1.00 a day, you should be grateful that you have access to clean water and fresh food in the first place.
I priced out my actual shopping trolly here. For better representation of the costs of others trollies, I suggested others might like to scan and post their shopping reciepts. None did.
One result of that thread was that my shopping trolly of groceries was very close to the same price in ASDA and in Woolworths in cash terms and in average adult male full time wage terms was 48.1% more expensive in ASDA than in Woolworths, or, inversely, 32.5% ((1/1.481)-1) cheaper in Woolworths than in ASDA. With the end of summer fruits, I find the cost a little less again.
Another result was to find that if the exchange rate returned to $2.50 / £1.00, the cost of the groceries on a cash basis (not considering wages) would be 56% more expensive in ASDA than in Woolies.
Your point that transport costs are often added onto the price of goods is, I believe, accurate but not entirely relevant to the cost of a shopping trolley of groceries as rational shoppers select the better value local goods.
I suggest that transport adds relatively little to the cost of goods in remoter areas in proportion to the other costs asscoiated with remoteness. For example the shopping infrastructure and associated costs are spread over fewer customers. This is seen by some as a lack of competition rather than simply a higher cost per customer base.
If you are right that Perth is more expensive (whether or not due to remoteness) then that would show in higher prices of a wide range of goods. I have yet to see any direct evidence.
Last edited by AllGoode; May 11th 2010 at 11:15 pm.
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Re: expensive groceries
I priced out my actual shopping trolly here. For better representation of the costs of others trollies, I suggested others might like to scan and post their shopping reciepts. None did.
I came to the conclusion that the costs are equal (obviously at the current exchange rate COLES might look a little dearer now).
- With regards to salary, I was earning near double the UK average, something I haven't managed here yet.
Last edited by coolshadows; May 12th 2010 at 3:36 am.
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Re: expensive groceries
with ref to this and the reply you gave me earlier Badge- if you dont want to chat about the current topic because you think its stupid- please feel free to take your narky negative posts and put them where someone else might be interested in them, theres plenty of space on this site and plenty of other posters who will whine with you Im sure
#119
Re: expensive groceries
with ref to this and the reply you gave me earlier Badge- if you dont want to chat about the current topic because you think its stupid- please feel free to take your narky negative posts and put them where someone else might be interested in them, theres plenty of space on this site and plenty of other posters who will whine with you Im sure
#120
Re: expensive groceries
Errrrrr helllloooo, I've been saying this for the last 6 months and some. It's a royal rip off here in Perth. Expensive housing, groceries, etc.
You need to be pulling in $70K a year at least for a family if you have no mortgage or rent just to get by. $100K and you'll still struggle with a $250K mortgage. Fact - unless you live like a student, don't go out, eat noodles and beans and like the park/beach and packed lunches as a day out week in week out. Defo need a high paying job to have any kind of 'lifestyle'.
Wake up people, hopefully you'll get what it's like in Perth and just don't think it's the negative locals spouting lies.
You need to be pulling in $70K a year at least for a family if you have no mortgage or rent just to get by. $100K and you'll still struggle with a $250K mortgage. Fact - unless you live like a student, don't go out, eat noodles and beans and like the park/beach and packed lunches as a day out week in week out. Defo need a high paying job to have any kind of 'lifestyle'.
Wake up people, hopefully you'll get what it's like in Perth and just don't think it's the negative locals spouting lies.
'Lifestyle' is a moving target. I think we live pretty well...but others may have higher expectations.