Originally Posted by NKSK version 2

Bread choice - much better in the UK. Cereals - wholewheat cereals not Kelloggs and the like - much better choice. Seafood ditto. .

Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack

I think there is less choice.

But does it bother you, that's the issue. And does it make life unbearable...

Originally Posted by NKSK version 2

Yoghurts, flours, bottled waters, (Jesus how sad am I, thinking of product lines where there is a better range in the UK...!).

Originally Posted by northernbird

Can't see the water thing as we fitted a water filter in the kitchen and now have decent water on tap.

Originally Posted by The Crow

Just as important - climate - don't see many banana plantations in the Yorkshire Dales.....

Originally Posted by MikeStanton

Doh! Those Californian oranges I bought in Oz must have come from where? And the Kiwi fruit, Sherlock?

Originally Posted by NKSK version 2

I hate myself for joining in on a thread about supermarkets but couldn't resist....

There really are a few rose-tinted specs here.

Supermarkets should not be an important factor in migration but to pretend that the Aussie ones are anything on a par to the UK ones (or better because they are 'different') is just plain wrong IMO.

Organic produce - hardly any in supermarkets here and still expensive if it does occur. In the UK, price difference is relatively small and they have an excellent range.

Range of products here - poor. Prices on many, many things - I hesitate to say all things - higher.

Foods with colourings and artifical additives - many here. In the UK getting less and less and seem to be only in cheapo brands if at all.

Been here two and a half years and I thought supermarkets and food shopping generally was crap when I first arrived. And I still think it's crap now. Having lived through the 80s and most of the 90s in the UK, I never thought the day would come when I would sing the praises of UK supermarkets.

Originally Posted by kevinbloomfield

Totally agree, anyone who says there is a larger choice here is living in dream land, there may be a wider choice of shops to shop in but they all sell the same small range.
Coles and Woolies own a large proportion of the retail space, they just don't call all of their shops Woolies or Coles.
Don't get me wrong, I love living here and don't plan on going back to the UK but the shops are shite.

Remember a few years ago when the UK was a 'rip off' society? Well it's alive and well here and hopefully sooner or later we will stop being ripped off and the consumer will see through the greedy retailers.

Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack

To be fair, noone ever really says they are as good, they just like what they find and are not too effected by them, or have adjusted. There is a massive difference, some supermarkets here do seem better than others and it depends on area too.

I find it sad when the 'rose tinted' or ''delusional'' comments are wheeled out - the only people that say these are the ones who miss it the most - alot of other people have adjusted or am not truly bothered.

For the record, my experience is that I never bought any of all this variety in UK supermarkets. In fact I was distracted by all the fluff and only wanted to zero in on all the staples.

Now I have more money I would probably appreciate if I lived in the UK and had the variety on tap, and now might even enjoy and celebrate it, but as I don't, I don't miss it. I'd rather have more variety in housing stock, lifestyle etc.

Originally Posted by Ransi

Surely I am not the only one who thinks this?

Originally Posted by Ransi

I find them good.

Surely I am not the only one who thinks this?

Originally Posted by Wendy

No mate, you're not

You must have the same glasses as me

Originally Posted by Hutch

Mate, I do too - but apparently we're deluding ourselves. Life, apparently, would be perfect if Waitrose came to Oz in order charge gullible aussies 20 quid for a packet of pasta.

Originally Posted by Hutch

Mate, I do too - but apparently we're deluding ourselves. Life, apparently, would be perfect if Waitrose came to Oz in order charge gullible aussies 20 quid for a packet of pasta.

Originally Posted by Ransi

I dissagre with all the above and I too am in Perth! Where I shop there is a massive range of organics...

I find the choice here LARGER, and I am not in dream land


I find them good.

Surely I am not the only one who thinks this?

Originally Posted by NKSK version 2

We are talking about supermarkets here not speciality shops - which supermarket has a massive range of organic products?

Originally Posted by Hutch

Mate, I do too - but apparently we're deluding ourselves. Life, apparently, would be perfect if Waitrose came to Oz in order charge gullible aussies 20 quid for a packet of pasta.

Originally Posted by NKSK version 2

Well as ever, it looks as though consensus is impossible to reach - the true believers will always see Australia's turds as smelling of roses and the true knockers will never be convinced that Australia is better than the UK.