lynnbrooks

As you know, here in the uk, we have a lot of "buy one get one free" and "3 for 2" offers...are these common offers in Aus?
Lynn

jad n rich

You dont see that much at all, there are some weekly leaders, like abc's examples, a coloured catalogue comes out most weeks to your mailbox, and we use them to stock up on stuff when its on special.

There are some really funny savings too, like 2c off or 8c off really stupid amounts like was $4.98 now $4.90 or buy $40 of dental products and get an extra 100 fly buy (shopper) points.

NKSK version 2

Australian offers are the meanest, most tight-arsed cons in the history of marketing.

I saw one the other week - buy a $1000 BBQ and get 12 cans of coke free.

Ialibu

That'a mainly dictated by Health regulations. From memory, no milk based products can be sold unless the milk has been pasteurised, that kills most nasty (and a lot of beneficial) bacteria. That automatically cuts out most overseas cheeses and dramatically lessens the scope for developing new Australian cheeses. I believe that some locals and importers are fighting this one.

ABCDiamond

But it's you who brought up the yogurt only costing 8p per 200gm tub in the UK

I'd just like to know if everyone pays that price in the UK, it seems a valid question to ask, doesn't it .

rammygirl

Where does your mum shop I am still in UK- Lancashire and can't get stuff that cheap even at local market!!

spottydog

Have to say having only being in Australia (Sydney versus London) just over a month these UK prices seem unbelievable.

Carrots 29p a kilo, only in London when you buy value stuff in 5 kilo bags, normally moe like 50p a kilo when I was there plus it is the cheapest time of year to buy them fresh in the UK.

Cucumber 44p - one thing that annoyed me I was paying about 90p in London mid december then I got here and was charged 98c then suddenly overnight they went up to more than $2 (I've only recently bought one again when they went back down under $2

Onion 25p a kilo (10p a pound) don't think I've ever known them that cheap ever even as a student 10 years ago unless you bought them at minimum 35 pound sacks.


Bananas, saw them here just before Christmas in a local greengrocers at 29c a kilo, $2.75 a kilo now, very rarely saw them any where near as cheap as this in the UK (and generally at this price very brown and desparate to get rid of)

Cherry Toms: cheap tasteless ones from tesco when I left were 69p a punnet but here at least they taste of something (I'm a tomato fan and hope here I won't have to get my fix for 6 months of the year from tinned tomatoes like I did in the UK to get any taste)

Baby lettuce hearts, never seen cheaper that nearly £1 per pack ever in the UK.

Mushroons, a little pack in the UK maybe 99p for 100g certainly never seen anything below 50p although you don't seem to get the big stewing dodgy looking value packs here.

Cant really remember the price for other things but at this time of year in the UK turkey is normally can't give it away prices since everyone ate to much at christmas.

What I've found so far in Australia is prices can be a bit more on veg if you don't follow the special offer trends but meat (particularly beef) is much cheap and far higher quality than the UK. I've learnt to go shopping and take advantages of the vegetable deals and the quality of the fresh produce.

Vash the Stampede

The Australian cucumber market is notoriously unstable; analysts attribute this to over-speculation in cucumber futures.

Vash the Stampede

And it's all very well people saying that they're dirt cheap in the UK, but at that sort of price the only bananas you'll get are those dodgy unethical Latin American ones, which are big - but tasteless!

My missus and I prefer to pay a higher price for the smaller, tastier fair trade bananas from the Windward Islands.

paulf

Same problem with frozen OJ and pork bellies, so I,ve heard

Vash the Stampede

It's always the way with these exclusive "niche market" products.

wargod

Size isnt important

Vash the Stampede

I'm going to leave that one well alone.

glittababe

I pay less than that. Family weekly shop here now costs £45 p/w that includes sandwich stuff for boys. When we first got back here it cost £75 so its almost halved in 12 mths. Eric you really must come back to the UK to actually see how prices have changed. You'd be so surprised as everythings cheap as chips and bloody good quality.

Vash the Stampede

What brand is that yoghurt, and where are you buying it? I haven't found anywhere which sells the stuff that cheap - and I've sunk as low as Morrisons in search of a good deal.