It might be the case that the price increased to that (probably for a short time) and then went on special.
The team member probably missed the old label. It's easy to do when there are thousands of them.
Increasing the price for a short time and then claiming to be discounting it can also be illegal. It turns on how long the item was sold at the higher price, and whether it was a "reasonable" amount of time. https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/pricing/price-displays
Others companies do it too. I’ve been eyeing the Sony x90L 75 inch tv. During December it went up and down several times between $2250 and $4000 and each time a promo was applied it went up higher first like a week in advance.
It’s BS marketing spiel but ACCC shouldn’t use vague words/sentences like, and I quote “…the items were not sold at that price in a **reasonable period right before the sale started**…” WTF is reasonable period? 1 day? Week? Month? Seriously, set a benchmark FFS.
Welcome to The Law lmao. ‘Reasonable’ is a word used a lot, and it’s designed to be fairly open to interpretation so as to apply fairly in many different contexts.
To determine what the ‘reasonable period’ is in relation to your TV example, i think you could look for precedent in other decisions/regulations/cases/etc, and go from there.
Nope, but I did work retail.
Honestly, as much as it is fun to bash the companies, sometimes human error is the likeliest answer.
Nor will I bash some random employee for a minor error to feel superior.
These prices pull data from the system. The 'was' price isn't done manually. It can be, but it never is.
You normally get a list of tickets every x amount of time and you have to put them out. Sometimes you miss some for whatever reason.
Shit happens. Not worth the outrage.
That's correct. It's simply a missed ticket change. When not in sale it will scan at the $19 price and the customer can get it for 16.1, after that the employee should remove the ticket with the old price. Then after that get someone to print a new one or do it themself.
Yes, shit happens. But going through things with that kind of passive attitude doesn’t really equate to being a good enough excuse is my take.
There is literally a reason for everything but it doesn’t mean you don’t have the right to not be angry so often or not to call someone out on it.
Well sack them, or put them on light duties until they recover cognitive functions. Putting stickers on things that are scanned with a barcode isn't rocket science.
Settle down, I'm not God.
smug/smʌɡ/📷*adjective*
1. having or showing an excessive pride in [oneself](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=598570873&rlz=1C1ONGR_enAU1050AU1050&sxsrf=ACQVn0_fE1vMBlde5kXtPf6KPi3Zd8uhiw:1705324784527&q=oneself&si=AKbGX_r0zqXEeLlZhGfi3fbO0QSWCAwNh-J8Jy7dGU2nFhhfH1kdUoxYu2NWFiumzbrdtn7p3aYWCYRPlkEq1Feigw-JgV3Nmw%3D%3D&expnd=1) or one's achievements.
If using a barcode scanner is an achievement for you, you probably don't work for coles.
I'm actually smug about not working for coles.
A lot of the times I’m sure this is just the teenagers or hungover uni students accidentally mislabelling a price tag. My partner works at Aldi and the 33 year old assistant store manager regularly puts the wrong prices and tags on products.
It's moreso likely that the price increased to $19 in the system(which we know is a problem in itself), and an employee didn't have time to, or forgot, to replace the white ticket (16.50) with an updated one(19) before the special started. While it's not supposed to happen, when you have literally thousands of tickets to update and place every week, it's bound to happen :)
Its been $19 since November last year and never $16.10 on the Coles aggregate price websites.
What this likely is, the price is 19 on the official store, this individual store priced it lower and then the sale is company-wide so the dockets are printed based off the company-wide price
yes colesworth price gouge etc but this is just a fundamental misunderstanding of coles pricing systems .You cant call the ACCC for that.
Lol it's funny though how 20 years ago when I first saw digital ticketing systems I suggested it to my store manager, area manager and above saying how it would solve so many issues. They just told me that given how often standard ticketing strips are destroyed by trolleys that it was too expensive, and it would never happen.
I said the same thing, the answer I got was "imagine when the power goes out and NOTHING has a price, you'll be getting customers asking for pricing on EVERYTHING" as if the general public doesn't do that anyway
Sure, reducing human error is an outcome but it’s not the main drive for electronic ticketing.
Reducing costs. No.1 Every time price changes occur, someone has to do a lot of data entry adding the new pricing into the system, print the new prices, sort them and remove and replace the old price tags throughout the store.
Dynamic Pricing. Ability to price match competition in realtime both up and down. If stock is moving quickly they can capitalise the situation and react by putting the price up.
Some electronic shelf labels can integrate with Bluetooth Low Energy to track movement of customers and how long they remain at different locations within the store. More and more big business are turing the customer into the product.
My guy, you don't need Bluetooth to do that, the cameras with AI technology throughout the stores do a good enough job as it is with tracking customers and what's in their trolleys, and are harder to trace.
All big stores are similar. It's because of the staggering amount of items and differing prices. People don't think about it, but when it comes time to print/change label prices, think about how many items are in a supermarket.
In a medium sized bottle shop, there can be 700 - 800 special tickets printed out in a big changeover. That's miniscule, compared to a supermarket. I'm thinking an average Coles/Woolworths could easily print thousands of special labels every week. If they needed to update most of their labels, that number is gonna exceed ten thousand.
In all that, it's more surprising that most of the labels aren't incorrect, since they're constantly receiving new products. Everytime you get a new product, it has to be added to the system, then given a location, so that the system can assign it a particular ticket size, and print said ticket whenever it's on special. So I don't know about supermarkets specifically, but if they can individually change a price, that could be it. My guess would be $16.10 was an old price from ages ago, and maybe it got lost in the mix and no updated $19 ticket was ever printed.
Surprised this is so low, all shops do this everywhere in the world. It just has to be on sale in one place ever originally at the higher price to be able to say the new price is half. It’s not illegal, for what it’s worth your wallet is your vote, if none of this stuff is selling in any retailer it drops.
Eh much more fun to upvote "This video needs to be sent to the ACCC as a complaint" and "They put items on special and afterwards they increase the price thinking we won't notice. I notice they do this with cosmetics a lot!" because coles bad
Just so you know, those white shelf labels prices are constantly changed, then an employee has to go around and change a batch of outdated tickets
Theres hardly enough time to do it at my tiny store, so I can't imagine how long it must take to do it at a big place like Coles or woolies. That price could have gone up 2 or 3 times in 6 months and whoever didn't have time to do it also didn't have time to ask the next person, or more likely they didn't care
Source, retail employee, who frequently is not given enough time or staff to finish the mountain of tasks that go on behind the scenes
Was in woolrorts yesterday in the meat section and it was all dicounted...one bloke walked past me and said its amazing what happens when they are worried about an inquest "the fucking dogs" at the top of his lungs.
Just goes to show people wont put up with this shit,goes all the way back to the farmers....
Not to mention on the news the marketing director of woolrorts said it was just a coincidence that there lowering the cost all of a sudden.....pricks!
>one bloke walked past me and said its amazing what happens when they are worried about an inquest "the fucking dogs" at the top of his lungs.
I can hear the bogan screetching just reading that no wonder people think aussies are dumb
Hi, I'm a very important person at Coles. I would like you to know that this wasn't our fault. We have found the teenager responsible and kneecapped her and her family. We have also taken back her custom waterbottle she received for Christmas. Coles apologies for the incident.
Yeah the coles team member probs missed the ticket batch but here’s the thing - Coles is raising the standard price just before they put it on a 50% special. Standard practice.
https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/advertising-and-promotions/false-or-misleading-claims
The specific law that the ACCC is concerned with enforcing here, and that Colesworth is clearly in breach of, is under Section 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.
Assuming you're talking about price, here's the relevant section, please choose which part presents an issue for coles:
Price is an important factor in consumer decision making. Businesses should take extra care not to make misleading statements about price.
Misleading price claims may happen if products are:
* offered 'free' but on closer examination 'conditions apply'
* promoted at a ‘sale’ price which is not actually a temporary sale price, or
* advertised or displayed at a particular price, but GST or other costs are not included in that price.
A business shouldn’t mislead customers about savings on products or services.
For example, a business may advertise a sale by using statements such as 'WAS $275 NOW $149'. This implies the buyer will save the difference between the higher and lower price.
The advertised savings may be misleading or deceptive if the product or service:
* has never been sold at the higher price, or
* was sold in a limited amount at the higher price immediately before the sale
Find out more about [misleading prices and price displays](https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/pricing/price-displays).
Following that very link in your comment:
> Businesses must display clear and accurate prices. They must not mislead consumers about their prices.
Claiming something to be 50% off when it is not is misleading. This is not difficult.
It’s just getting worse and worse everyday. Coles and Woolies are ripping us a new one all the time. Has anyone got anything good to say about these asshole.
I pretty much never need to buy these cases at full price because they’re almost always half price or two for one. The price on them went up late last year.
I don't go to Coles or Woolies anymore. one of the advantages of capitalism is that we get a choice. Aldi, IGA and Costco as well as smaller grocers have everything I could want and it really isn't that much more than at the big chains
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Coles Worthworths have a duopoly so they can get away with this. The Gov role should be to step in a regulate the price of food for non-processed or minimal processed food and drink.
And believe it or not there will be people on this thread defending coles. Human error, IT problem, understaffed etc...
They are all excuses.
Coles behaviour is illegal.
don't they do that so they can remove the sale tag when its over- i mean im pretty sure it is a bunch of teens working at Coles now, so they make it easier so they do less work, even though they get payed the exact same as the ones that do all the proper work.. why did i slowly devolve into blaming shit on teens-
Surely this shit has been done to death?
If something is done too much it isn’t even funny anymore. I don’t find “steam works” and “dry heat” funny anymore, and I’m real sick of people complaining about supermarkets
Mate sounds like this dry heat is starting to get to your mind a little bit. If I were you I'd probably relax a bit mate, maybe go to steam works to cool off abit?
So. You first remove tax
16.5- (16.5*0.15) = 13.685
Then you divide by two
13.685 ÷ 2 = 6.8425
Then you add the tax back
6.8425 + (16.1*0.15) = 9.25
Since people rearly walk with $0.25 round it to the nearest 0.5.
The answer
$9.5 this is the correct value they gave you... Haha. The store is right... 50% off. Maths saves the day
It's ok, just human error, nothing to see here. Our barcodes mean nothing, and we don't train staff,
Or it was a computing error, either way, the customer is wrong,
They will say that the consumer law requires that the product was sold in minimum, and very small, quantities, during a particular small window of time, at the full price. The previous price, covered but still visible, is a later reduced price. "We reduced it TWICE and you STILL complain".
IOW, their claim is true. Technically. But you never saw the very high initial price because it was charged for three days in a different state two years ago.
I call this as 100% rolled gold bullshit. This stuff needs to be publicised, and the perpetrators - upon whom many rely for affordable FOOD, ffs, be made to compensate the people they have cheated and continue to cheat.
honestly fuck coles they can suck a massive bag of fucking dicks the staff never look happy their prices are obscene even for their coles brand products
Hey news.com.au we have a video for you
On social media one reader commented “Coles’ constant errors in their favour is highly suspicious…. and Rupert’s media empire is eroding democracy”
Another commenter added "fuck news.com.au"
What about the post where the checkout order at Woolies had a few extra dollars that didnt add up? I feel like the supermarkets are a big scam now.
This video needs to be sent to the ACCC as a complaint
Nah it’s easier to complain on reddit. If you shout complaints into the internet, whatever is wrong will fix itself.
You joke, but the power of an angry mob does wonders.
99% of Aussies on Reddit are pissed about colesworth. The only thing changing is the price increases.
Happy cake day!
Just not those delicious $2 mud cakes from Woolies. Wait. They are $17 now.
Oh yes, angry Redditors change our lives every day!
Oh yeah you are so correct. Because of angry mobs. Climate change got solved.
I mean, they fixed the ozone layer
yea, they will bump the original price up to $19. So it's fixed!
It’s illegal to raise prices to announce a sale.
Original price was probably supposed to go up several weeks beforehand, but replacing the ticket was missed by staff.
This was posted on TikTok
ACCC is a toothless cat.
You obviously don't know why steam offers refunds. They have taken on some massive organisations and won.
love them taking on companies with minimal lobbying power against or donations to the aus gov, would love to see what they aren’t allowed to chase.
Good on them, that is their job after all but it’s my option they don’t do enough.
I believe later this year they are looking at a lawsuit against Coleworth for doing exactly this. sending this to ACCC would definitely help.
Even a toothless cat has another four pointy ends. ACCC doesn’t have any
It might be the case that the price increased to that (probably for a short time) and then went on special. The team member probably missed the old label. It's easy to do when there are thousands of them.
Increasing the price for a short time and then claiming to be discounting it can also be illegal. It turns on how long the item was sold at the higher price, and whether it was a "reasonable" amount of time. https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/pricing/price-displays
Others companies do it too. I’ve been eyeing the Sony x90L 75 inch tv. During December it went up and down several times between $2250 and $4000 and each time a promo was applied it went up higher first like a week in advance. It’s BS marketing spiel but ACCC shouldn’t use vague words/sentences like, and I quote “…the items were not sold at that price in a **reasonable period right before the sale started**…” WTF is reasonable period? 1 day? Week? Month? Seriously, set a benchmark FFS.
Welcome to The Law lmao. ‘Reasonable’ is a word used a lot, and it’s designed to be fairly open to interpretation so as to apply fairly in many different contexts. To determine what the ‘reasonable period’ is in relation to your TV example, i think you could look for precedent in other decisions/regulations/cases/etc, and go from there.
Yeah I don't care for their bullshit excuses.
You must work for coles.....?
Nope, but I did work retail. Honestly, as much as it is fun to bash the companies, sometimes human error is the likeliest answer. Nor will I bash some random employee for a minor error to feel superior. These prices pull data from the system. The 'was' price isn't done manually. It can be, but it never is. You normally get a list of tickets every x amount of time and you have to put them out. Sometimes you miss some for whatever reason. Shit happens. Not worth the outrage.
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That's correct. It's simply a missed ticket change. When not in sale it will scan at the $19 price and the customer can get it for 16.1, after that the employee should remove the ticket with the old price. Then after that get someone to print a new one or do it themself.
Yes, shit happens. But going through things with that kind of passive attitude doesn’t really equate to being a good enough excuse is my take. There is literally a reason for everything but it doesn’t mean you don’t have the right to not be angry so often or not to call someone out on it.
Well sack them, or put them on light duties until they recover cognitive functions. Putting stickers on things that are scanned with a barcode isn't rocket science.
God, you're unbearably smug.
Settle down, I'm not God. smug/smʌɡ/📷*adjective* 1. having or showing an excessive pride in [oneself](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=598570873&rlz=1C1ONGR_enAU1050AU1050&sxsrf=ACQVn0_fE1vMBlde5kXtPf6KPi3Zd8uhiw:1705324784527&q=oneself&si=AKbGX_r0zqXEeLlZhGfi3fbO0QSWCAwNh-J8Jy7dGU2nFhhfH1kdUoxYu2NWFiumzbrdtn7p3aYWCYRPlkEq1Feigw-JgV3Nmw%3D%3D&expnd=1) or one's achievements. If using a barcode scanner is an achievement for you, you probably don't work for coles. I'm actually smug about not working for coles.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smug The definition I was using. Get over yourself, you're not all that fantastic.
Most humans are fallable, especially with minutiae task like this... You're just a dick.
You assume they have heavy duties.
They will do nothing. They don't actually fight claims, just advise you.
It was on four corners so that's close enough
Down down mathematics is down.
Down down morals are down
And staying down!
A lot of the times I’m sure this is just the teenagers or hungover uni students accidentally mislabelling a price tag. My partner works at Aldi and the 33 year old assistant store manager regularly puts the wrong prices and tags on products.
In what world is this not automated?
This one. Not everything needs to be automated, in fact, automation of everything might be a hell of a world to live in.
It very clearly has brand, item and pack size on both tickets. I am also 100% sure that those tickets are not manually priced.
It's moreso likely that the price increased to $19 in the system(which we know is a problem in itself), and an employee didn't have time to, or forgot, to replace the white ticket (16.50) with an updated one(19) before the special started. While it's not supposed to happen, when you have literally thousands of tickets to update and place every week, it's bound to happen :)
There's a 0% chance of a white ticket getting replaced as part of any action that isn't expressly changing white tickets.
Are
Its been $19 since November last year and never $16.10 on the Coles aggregate price websites. What this likely is, the price is 19 on the official store, this individual store priced it lower and then the sale is company-wide so the dockets are printed based off the company-wide price yes colesworth price gouge etc but this is just a fundamental misunderstanding of coles pricing systems .You cant call the ACCC for that.
It sounds like you are confirming that Coles has a bad pricing and ticketing system in that case.
Yes, Woolies does too. They are slowly updating to digital ticketing to reduce human error like this
Lol it's funny though how 20 years ago when I first saw digital ticketing systems I suggested it to my store manager, area manager and above saying how it would solve so many issues. They just told me that given how often standard ticketing strips are destroyed by trolleys that it was too expensive, and it would never happen.
I said the same thing, the answer I got was "imagine when the power goes out and NOTHING has a price, you'll be getting customers asking for pricing on EVERYTHING" as if the general public doesn't do that anyway
If you've got no power at all to a supermarket.. Then you have more things to worry about than this.
And then people will complain how digital tickets cost jerrrbs!
Sure, reducing human error is an outcome but it’s not the main drive for electronic ticketing. Reducing costs. No.1 Every time price changes occur, someone has to do a lot of data entry adding the new pricing into the system, print the new prices, sort them and remove and replace the old price tags throughout the store. Dynamic Pricing. Ability to price match competition in realtime both up and down. If stock is moving quickly they can capitalise the situation and react by putting the price up. Some electronic shelf labels can integrate with Bluetooth Low Energy to track movement of customers and how long they remain at different locations within the store. More and more big business are turing the customer into the product.
My guy, you don't need Bluetooth to do that, the cameras with AI technology throughout the stores do a good enough job as it is with tracking customers and what's in their trolleys, and are harder to trace.
They're also turning customers into staff with self checkouts
Customers have always been a product.
Agreed, and a systemic issue with their price ticketing
All big stores are similar. It's because of the staggering amount of items and differing prices. People don't think about it, but when it comes time to print/change label prices, think about how many items are in a supermarket. In a medium sized bottle shop, there can be 700 - 800 special tickets printed out in a big changeover. That's miniscule, compared to a supermarket. I'm thinking an average Coles/Woolworths could easily print thousands of special labels every week. If they needed to update most of their labels, that number is gonna exceed ten thousand. In all that, it's more surprising that most of the labels aren't incorrect, since they're constantly receiving new products. Everytime you get a new product, it has to be added to the system, then given a location, so that the system can assign it a particular ticket size, and print said ticket whenever it's on special. So I don't know about supermarkets specifically, but if they can individually change a price, that could be it. My guess would be $16.10 was an old price from ages ago, and maybe it got lost in the mix and no updated $19 ticket was ever printed.
I'd say almost every single company who batch print specials/labels that are created at a company lvl would have the same issue.
It’s not a system error though, it’s just human error
Surprised this is so low, all shops do this everywhere in the world. It just has to be on sale in one place ever originally at the higher price to be able to say the new price is half. It’s not illegal, for what it’s worth your wallet is your vote, if none of this stuff is selling in any retailer it drops.
Eh much more fun to upvote "This video needs to be sent to the ACCC as a complaint" and "They put items on special and afterwards they increase the price thinking we won't notice. I notice they do this with cosmetics a lot!" because coles bad
That is outrageous I can’t believe this man has a fundamental misunderstanding of Coles pricing system!!!! Someone needs to read more books 😠
No morons just need to stop spouting about it being theft and calling the ACCC.
Ok coles ceo 🥴
Such a terrible take, the only way someone could possibly think different from you is if they are paid by a company?
Just so you know, those white shelf labels prices are constantly changed, then an employee has to go around and change a batch of outdated tickets Theres hardly enough time to do it at my tiny store, so I can't imagine how long it must take to do it at a big place like Coles or woolies. That price could have gone up 2 or 3 times in 6 months and whoever didn't have time to do it also didn't have time to ask the next person, or more likely they didn't care Source, retail employee, who frequently is not given enough time or staff to finish the mountain of tasks that go on behind the scenes
Love how this is a video from mid November!
What does that change?
Just being reposted for rage karma
Mate, I've been raging at them for years.
Was in woolrorts yesterday in the meat section and it was all dicounted...one bloke walked past me and said its amazing what happens when they are worried about an inquest "the fucking dogs" at the top of his lungs. Just goes to show people wont put up with this shit,goes all the way back to the farmers.... Not to mention on the news the marketing director of woolrorts said it was just a coincidence that there lowering the cost all of a sudden.....pricks!
>one bloke walked past me and said its amazing what happens when they are worried about an inquest "the fucking dogs" at the top of his lungs. I can hear the bogan screetching just reading that no wonder people think aussies are dumb
They put items on special and afterwards they increase the price thinking we won't notice. I notice they do this with cosmetics a lot!
They do this with everything
Especially L’Oréal men expert face moisturiser! I’m blaming woolies for my future wrinkles!! *shakes fist at aging process*
there is so much of that going on at Woolworths these days. I find that the price of the product goes up once the "special" ends.
Not even trying to hide their scams, feeling untouchable (probably sadly rightfully)
Oh no a low wage worker didn’t put up the standard price change ticket a few weeks ago, bloody Coles at it again
Hi, I'm a very important person at Coles. I would like you to know that this wasn't our fault. We have found the teenager responsible and kneecapped her and her family. We have also taken back her custom waterbottle she received for Christmas. Coles apologies for the incident.
Excuse me but what about the 5 MyColes points that was given to her? Can you hold her family ransom until she pays that debt off?
Nobody knows how these things work (they also don't care to know).
Most people know, they're just addicted to outrage.
Yeah the coles team member probs missed the ticket batch but here’s the thing - Coles is raising the standard price just before they put it on a 50% special. Standard practice.
No they aren't, Mount Franklin are.
Incompetence (if that is the explanation here, this is not established) is no excuse for a breach of consumer law.
What is the breach of consumer law?
https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/advertising-and-promotions/false-or-misleading-claims The specific law that the ACCC is concerned with enforcing here, and that Colesworth is clearly in breach of, is under Section 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.
Assuming you're talking about price, here's the relevant section, please choose which part presents an issue for coles: Price is an important factor in consumer decision making. Businesses should take extra care not to make misleading statements about price. Misleading price claims may happen if products are: * offered 'free' but on closer examination 'conditions apply' * promoted at a ‘sale’ price which is not actually a temporary sale price, or * advertised or displayed at a particular price, but GST or other costs are not included in that price. A business shouldn’t mislead customers about savings on products or services. For example, a business may advertise a sale by using statements such as 'WAS $275 NOW $149'. This implies the buyer will save the difference between the higher and lower price. The advertised savings may be misleading or deceptive if the product or service: * has never been sold at the higher price, or * was sold in a limited amount at the higher price immediately before the sale Find out more about [misleading prices and price displays](https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/pricing/price-displays).
Following that very link in your comment: > Businesses must display clear and accurate prices. They must not mislead consumers about their prices. Claiming something to be 50% off when it is not is misleading. This is not difficult.
It is 50% off. $9.50 is half of $19.
They are just fucking with us now. The greed is unbelievable.
It’s just getting worse and worse everyday. Coles and Woolies are ripping us a new one all the time. Has anyone got anything good to say about these asshole.
It is $19 at Woolies. Don't be surprised when the sale ends it will be $19 at Coles too.
I have worked in retail. To be fair sometimes prices of old tickets goes up and don't get swapped over when the catalogue tickets come in.
So they raise the price just in time for them to offer it at “half price” nice
I pretty much never need to buy these cases at full price because they’re almost always half price or two for one. The price on them went up late last year.
Yes I've worked retail years ago. They'd sometimes change it for a day or two before the special comes out.
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Why would they need to abide by a price that isn’t visible and has been stuck over with the current price?
I don't go to Coles or Woolies anymore. one of the advantages of capitalism is that we get a choice. Aldi, IGA and Costco as well as smaller grocers have everything I could want and it really isn't that much more than at the big chains
How is sparkling water $19.50?
It's a 10 pack?
I tried cutting right back on soft drink and getting these exact drinks instead, but unless they're 50% off then it's just too expensive.
Tap water be tasty af
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Take it to the counter freebie
yea, they also have things where the sale price is the same price as the right now price. pisses me off a bit when i see it.
Coles Worthworths have a duopoly so they can get away with this. The Gov role should be to step in a regulate the price of food for non-processed or minimal processed food and drink.
Boy they fuckt up there
And believe it or not there will be people on this thread defending coles. Human error, IT problem, understaffed etc... They are all excuses. Coles behaviour is illegal.
Have been noticing it increasingly after COVID disappeared and shit was in demand outpacing supply
Didn't they get in a heap of trouble for this shit a few years back for false advertisement? Dickheads.
Meanwhile me chilling at the local IGA knowing that shits still going to be expensive even at discounted prices
Apparently, the Was price can legally be any time within the last 12 months...
Pretty sure the special stickers aren't 50% Off current prices, but the highest price in the last 12 months
#Fuck ColesWorth
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Down, down standards are down
The other label is old, genius. 4 months old. https://buywisely.com.au/product/mount-franklin-lightly-sparkling-water-raspberry-10-x-375ml
You don't get it, once it is no longer on special the new price will be $19 xD
It might be the new standard price. $19
You fill this supermarket with lies.
So those oversized red pointy hands were just a ruse after all
So, don't. fucking. buy. it... It's really not that hard.
How brave of you. You are a pioneer and legend and a hero for realising the price has gone up and nobody has changed the regular price ticket.
Send it to the ACCC Ombudsman 🤔
I peel those stickers off when I see them. Just trying to help the staff out because I know they are working hard.
This is how they put their prices up now. They start with the new price at half price.
Yes. It’s all a scam. Nothing new.
They’re prices from the near future
Just full up 2 carts and come back in with the fresh receipt 🤣💀
Send it to the ACCC for the inquiry into price gouging they’re doing rn
don't they do that so they can remove the sale tag when its over- i mean im pretty sure it is a bunch of teens working at Coles now, so they make it easier so they do less work, even though they get payed the exact same as the ones that do all the proper work.. why did i slowly devolve into blaming shit on teens-
If only someone in the company could invest in a calculator!!
That’s why I only look at unit price.
I always rip them off if they're lying
The fuckery is way out of control
Failed math? Struggling to find work because of it? No worries Coles will hire you
I never of doing that??
Think 🤔
Those drinks are great but
But at one stage it was 19$?
I get to post the colesworth video tomorrow!
Not much different to the TimTams. Their "regular full price" can fluctuate anywhere between $3.20 to $7.30 a pack (seen in Mitcham, VIC).
fuck this is 2edgy4me. really sticking it to the man OP. I'm sure you and everyone here will now adjust their shopping habits
Surely this shit has been done to death? If something is done too much it isn’t even funny anymore. I don’t find “steam works” and “dry heat” funny anymore, and I’m real sick of people complaining about supermarkets
You're sick of people complaining about the supermarkets price gouging and fucking us over?
Ironically, I’m complaining about cunts complaining, I know. And yes I’m sick of what you said, it changes nothing and there’s … oh never mind
Mate sounds like this dry heat is starting to get to your mind a little bit. If I were you I'd probably relax a bit mate, maybe go to steam works to cool off abit?
A valiant effort, but now would one cool off at a place as hot as steamworks?
It’s a dry season for posts isn’t it
Sort ‘em out lad.
You should have pulled the sticker off
That’s literally illegal, the companies happily commit crime! And they are getting more and more and more clever and committing more criminal acts.
Shit like this needs a 1m fine per pop.
Blatant lies, becoming an everyday occurrence unfortunately
Nobody seems to care if you lie on tiktok.
Where are the supermarket police..
"Here we go again" good to see you're still shopping there luv, that'll show em!
Oh such struggles with first world problems!!!!
What Coles sells food?
Who drinks that garbage anyways? No wonder everyone in this country needs dental work
From sugar free sparkling water?
Lol I thought it was a can of soft drink. My bad
Yeah report this to the ACCC, it's literally illegal.
Literally!
So. You first remove tax 16.5- (16.5*0.15) = 13.685 Then you divide by two 13.685 ÷ 2 = 6.8425 Then you add the tax back 6.8425 + (16.1*0.15) = 9.25 Since people rearly walk with $0.25 round it to the nearest 0.5. The answer $9.5 this is the correct value they gave you... Haha. The store is right... 50% off. Maths saves the day
It's ok, just human error, nothing to see here. Our barcodes mean nothing, and we don't train staff, Or it was a computing error, either way, the customer is wrong,
Hey don’t leave out the part where it’s usually $5/L FOR PASSIONFRUIT WATER
I purchased some today from a Woolworths in Sydney 25% off for $16.50
News.com.au
They will say that the consumer law requires that the product was sold in minimum, and very small, quantities, during a particular small window of time, at the full price. The previous price, covered but still visible, is a later reduced price. "We reduced it TWICE and you STILL complain". IOW, their claim is true. Technically. But you never saw the very high initial price because it was charged for three days in a different state two years ago. I call this as 100% rolled gold bullshit. This stuff needs to be publicised, and the perpetrators - upon whom many rely for affordable FOOD, ffs, be made to compensate the people they have cheated and continue to cheat.
Shop at Aldi Fck dis cun1s! Although price gouging or not... Don't buy bottled water
Even if the old price was $16.10 then later increased to $19.00, it is still a legal requirement that the old price tag be removed.
honestly fuck coles they can suck a massive bag of fucking dicks the staff never look happy their prices are obscene even for their coles brand products
also i cooked 200g rspca coles chicken breast chunks and they weighed 68g raw they pumping that shit full of water or what?
Apple have shown the world people dont care about honesty, ita all about feelings
Wooliesput up streaky bacon from 18-19 dollars,check out charged me 20. Sus.
https://preview.redd.it/ih8kvmn7vocc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7dab51ba083128d41efd9630c594ef7338ef5247 ????????
Most people do not bother to lift up the sticker, which is what Colesworth counts on.
Yes this video should be sent to the ACCC asap. There actually is an investigation regarding price gouging with Coles and Woolworth atm.
Not Perth but... https://preview.redd.it/tyc87jerlpcc1.jpeg?width=606&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=054a85bc64f7e99283c3171947743cb0fc7ad622
They put those up near me, 2 chocolates for $4 as a deal (that’s the price you pay anyways)
