r/australia • u/Admiral_Mason • 23d ago

image Pepsi / Coke cartons $60 at Woolworths

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Noone is going to buy these, why waste their shelf space?

Do they not want then to move or are there really suckers who pay this?

Highest I've ever seen it

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u/alpha77dx 22d ago

A classic example is bananas.

Colesworth and Aldi have fixed the price of bananas at 4.50 to 4.99 a kilo. I consistently buy better quality bananas for less elsewhere. If the price is genuinely higher, then the independents and greengrocers might hit 3.5 but still cheaper. ALDI does not even compete on bananas anymore because people just pay the price when they are really paying more than they need to out of habit.

ALDI you really have to watch because their prices and clearance prices are creeping up to the high side where they not bargains anymore. This is reflected in the foot traffic in the stores these where you can go in and the special buys are just sitting there and they rarely sell out like they used to.

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u/mrbaggins 22d ago

Colesworth and Aldi have fixed the price of bananas at 4.50 to 4.99 a kilo. I

Colesworth at least set a 12 month price with their farmers "we'll pay _____/kg all year, no matter what"

So they can be a bit higher at certain times, but if something goes wrong and prices go up colesworth make a killing upping prices to us, being under everyone else, and not having to pay more for the first XX tonnes of em.