glittababe

prices in the UK started to go down when Wal-Mart came in and provided us with Asda!

Anyway, have emailed Tesco so just waiting for a response

BadgeIsBack

Me too HUP. It won't happen overnight.

copa

You were robbed.

copa

for a family of three I rarely pay over $100 per week... and that includes meat.

Some department stores in Canberra have self service tills. Much faster.

copa

In Australia I can get a great steak with chips/vegetables for lunch at the local club for only $5.95.

Where can i get that for less than 2.5 pounds in the UK? I'd love to know for my next visit.

ozzieeagle

Good point, service foods, eating in and taking out, does seem a rip off in the UK, when you consider that retail, and I assume wholesale food prices are similar. I dont see how the UK can claim higher property costs as a factor or wage costs for that matter, when it comes to the food industry. Especially if you compare say Liverpool, Birmingham or Manchester, to Sydney and Melbourne.


For the most part, on my recent visit I really did feel slightly ripped off evertime I purchased eating out food.

Vash the Stampede

Exactly.

Even Branson had to take some terrific losses while establishing the Virgin Blue brand. But he was prepared to absorb those losses, because he knew that all he had to do was hang on long enough to witness the demise of Ansett.

Yes, but that's a bad thing. It's already too easy to get credit, and I don't believe it will be good for the economy if every Tom, Dick and Harry can phone up for a piece of plastic when he feels like it.

According to yesterday's episode of Beat the Bailiff, personal debt in the UK increases at the rate of £1 million every four minutes.

I don't want Australia ending up in the same boat.

Dicko

Here we go again

1 Bedroom Apartment London

1 Bedroom Apartment Sydney

You sure we are being ripped off here ????

Check out the Big Mac index, this is the true indication purchasing-power parity Price of a Big Mac

I suppose it what we have to live with, it is a true statement of supply and demand if you dont pay the prices you dont get the goods, unfortunately you dont live in that country anymore, as I was told when I got here, when you get paid in dollars then this is what you pay for everything & the sooner you drop the " I wonder how much this is in pounds?" then I would say it wont bother you anymore.

Dont let it get to you, otherwise you may turn into one of those "Whinging Poms" and we wouldn't want that to happen would we

HUP

Oh no doubt that its a bad thing and Oz is in need of some education in relation to dealing with credit. There will be some hard lesons learnt over the next couple of years as consumer debt is massive here already.

The point though is that when u see competition you start to see consumer benifits. I strongly suspect that anyone coming into Oz first time will get a knock at the door and be told to play the game with pricing or there lives will be made difficult. It needs a player who is big enough to say I don't care I'll play it fair

HUP

Wal-Mart did not provide us with Asda they bought it. There was meant to be a massive pricing revolution because of this but by and large it never really happened. There was a lot of price reductions and initially it could be attributed to the Wal-mart fear factor but the big players are so firmly locked that the price revolution should continue. As I understand it Tesco is still totally dominant. The emergence of Morrisons with the Safeway take over and their pricing policy has had a major impact.

spottydog

Certainly had an impact where I used to live. The new Sainsburys suddenly got queues and became reallly busy and Safeway went from really busy (i.e. the only time you could get round quickly was after 8.30 at night) to dead (i.e. pick which till you want to use as they're all empty) then it was noticable that the shoppers in Safeway (rebranded Morrisons) became a lot lower spenders (car park changed from mainly nearly new, higher quality cars to 8 year plus cars) and it started shutting earlier as it wasn't used.

The only good thing I found with Morrisons is the big ones (i.e. not those taken over from Safeway and rebranded) sell Ausralian beef which is the best steaks I've found in any of the UK supermarkets plus I think it was close on the cheapest too.



You're being ripped off

In Central Sydney we regularly eat 300g steaks with mash and gravy for $5 washed down with a few beers.

NKSK version 2

Talking about shopping not eating out. The UK has always been a rip off for eating out.

NKSK version 2

The corollary of that of course is, if you can eat out so cheaply here in Australia, why do you pay 3 times the price for the ingredients when you go to the supermarket in order to cook it yourself?!!

ozzieeagle

Quite a few single people I know, eat the Majority of their meals out.

NKSK version 2

Suggests a huge wholesale/retail price differential.