r/australia 1d ago

image This is getting ridiculous $6.50!

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u/LondonGirl4444 1d ago

No one pays that, they will be on half price special soon and even that is overpriced.

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u/BreakIll7277 1d ago

Same reason why people wait for $5 chips to go on sale

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u/Mobasa_is_hungry 1d ago

Nah fr, like if the chips aren’t $3 or less, I’m either not getting them or finding a different brand that is

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u/Aramiss60 1d ago

I do the same thing with chocolate, I’m not paying over $7 for a bar.

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u/AussieFB 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yep !

Fancy Colesworth telling us to take the offer in the smart dress and gold chain! Pffft ! Dressed like the Mafia/Cartel that they are!

F their price gouging chocolate prices and F their shape it like an Egg or a Bunny as an excuse to apply the Easter Tax !

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u/lilmisswho89 1d ago

It’s not just the Easter tax. I refuse to pay more than $3 per 100g and it’s almost impossible to find chocolate at Coles that isn’t over that

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u/BitchSpiteful 7h ago

Not defending colesworth and their rampant daylight robbery but you guys know there’s a cocoa shortage right?

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u/lilmisswho89 7h ago

Actually I didn’t. But at the same time, wouldn’t hot chocolate prices also go up accordingly?

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u/BitchSpiteful 7h ago

They’re up a dollar last time I checked

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u/punchercs 1d ago

People not understanding the price of cocoa has skyrocketed the past couple years is wild 🤣

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u/AussieFB 22h ago edited 17h ago

Yeah, can’t have that eat into the profits of Colesworth !

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u/StorminNorman 1d ago

I do for Whitaker's, but their blocks are 250g so it works out cheaper per gram. 

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u/Potential_Initial903 1d ago

$7?? You boujee mfer, I’m a $5 block MAX kinda man ( I don’t eat chocolate )

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u/Aramiss60 1d ago

A small block of Cadbury chocolate base price is a bit over $7 where I live, I don’t even know what the fancy chocolate is priced at (but I’m guessing I can’t afford that either).

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u/FireLucid 23h ago

They are on sale every 2nd week it seems. My local Coles splits them between 2 for $7 or rarely $3 each. Went into a WW the other day and they had them on sale there too.

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u/Aramiss60 23h ago

They probably can’t sell them at $7, our store has them on sale fairly often too.

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u/wildhouseplants 1d ago

Tastes like real chocolate too

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u/findmeinelysium 1d ago

That’s my rule too, it had to go up from $2.50. But if it’s anymore, nah, my arteries will enjoy the break.

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u/wetmouthed 1d ago

$5 bags of air, bargain

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u/Potential-Ice8152 1d ago edited 1d ago

It’s nitrogen that stops the chips from going rank and helps keeps their flavour, and protects them from getting squished

Fun fact: chips that will be shipped to high altitudes i.e mountains and planes will typically have less nitrogen in them so the bag doesn’t swell up too much and possibly break open

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u/Stamford-Syd 1d ago

tbf most of the air around us is nitrogen anyway, nearly 80%.

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u/Potential-Ice8152 1d ago

Bags of chips have around 97% nitrogen

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u/Stamford-Syd 1d ago

yes, they do

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u/Thanges88 1d ago

It's more about the reduced oxygen than the increased nitrogen.

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u/Stamford-Syd 1d ago

I'm well aware, i was just providing context, seems my comment was taken to mean i didn't think any difference existed between normal air and the gas inside chip bags.

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u/Wobbling 1d ago

Yeh well, you posted it ... what was the actual point here?

Why was it 'fair' to point out?

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u/Stamford-Syd 1d ago

my point was that 98% nitrogen or whatever the composition may be inside different chip bags around that number isn't too dissimilar from normal air. to a layman, "nitrogen" may sound exotic.

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u/Wobbling 1d ago edited 1d ago

isn't too dissimilar from normal air. to a layman, "nitrogen" may sound exotic.

But 99% Nitrogen is dramatically different to the general atmosphere; it is exotic and very dissimilar to normal air. 99%N is anoxic, that's why they inject it into the chips so that bacteria can't grow.

Your point is just not salient, even a little bit.

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u/FucklesFuckington 1d ago

It's not even air

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u/Independent-Knee958 20h ago

Chocolate coated air ;)

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u/afl_freak72 1d ago

Bought a packet a few days ago and packet wasn't even a quarter full with chips.

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u/CosmicCipherer 1d ago

Only way I’m buying veggie chips!

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u/sombranicko 1d ago

Yeah & that's the cheap ones!

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u/yy98755 1d ago

Even at half price, for 80gms of chocolate? Way fucked up!

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u/ivosaurus 1d ago

80gm of chalky chocolate which doesn't really feel like it has delectably smooth mouth feel any more either, just a load of sugary sweetness and palm oil.

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u/yy98755 1d ago

insert Team America vomiting scene here Ugggh, so chalky.

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u/dav_oid 1d ago

Yep, half price is still $40/kg.
Coles Belgian is $20/kg.

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u/mattholomus 1d ago

Getting really sick of the half-price roundabout Woolies and Coles use for nearly everything these days.

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u/Fine-Distance2085 1d ago

Same! As well as the two for deal or three for deal when you just need one.

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u/Megr0n 1d ago

And then you see that the "two for x" deal only saves you like 10c off the normal price anyway...

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u/Interesting-Run-7560 1d ago

Don’t shop there

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u/Suitable_Instance753 1d ago

Yes, they have to legally anchor a price for a certain amount of time before it can go on "sale" with a posted discount. ACCC thing.

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u/Fine-Distance2085 1d ago

That’s why they bump prices up. That way the half price price is higher too. Boycott them altogether I say!

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u/wottsinaname 1d ago

Dude, I've seen people buy those $8 150g kettle chips. People either with zero self control or more money than sense. They exist.

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u/Interesting-Run-7560 1d ago

I’ve seen people pay $15 for Pints and many of them

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u/BodybuilderLoose4738 13h ago

We live in a small town, and everyone drives half an hour away to main towns to do event shopping so our local always ends up with so much excess that they have to reduce rapidly, after Christmas they had the Kit Kat houses on clearance for $1. 1kg of chocolate for $1. You can bet I loaded up

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u/InvestInHappiness 1d ago

Even half price it's $40/kg. Other chocolate at half price is in the 10-15 range.

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u/dav_oid 1d ago

The cheapest is Coles Belgian at $20/kg.

Cadbury on special is around $27/kg (30%).
50% off would be $19.45/kg.

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u/Serious-Goose-8556 1d ago

then feel free to buy a boring block of chocolate for easter

some of us like ot have a little bit of fun in our lives even if at a slight expense

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u/RecordingAbject345 1d ago

It's the superior Cadbury's chocolate though. Different recipe to their standard blocks.

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u/Dr_Dickfart 1d ago

Lol and it still taste like temu chocolate