Aldis,Coles,Woolies,IGA or which supermarket

[Scottwa2468]

As In my town we only have Coles and Woolies I do about $95% of my shopping at Woolies,even when I lived in Perth Woolies was my first choice

[Lt. Commander Data]

1. Woolworths
2. Foodland
3. IGA
4. Coles
5. Aldis

No Aldis in SA, so that is at the bottom. I go to Woolies, but prefer Foodland (South Australian Supermarket) and hate Coles. I get my fruit and veggies at the Handorf Market Garden. I I just need something quick like milk or bread, i will go to the Heathfield Deli.

[crazyturbo76]

I still use Woolies as my one stop shop for the majority of groceries, but there are a few things I grab from Coles as well (like bug spray, Coles branded surface spray works wonders). I don't really use Aldi as it is a bit of a walk from Mt Druitt Interchange...

[rustbucket]

Woolies, don't like Aldi as I don't like shopping and there is no way you can do a complete shop at Aldi.
The 2 majors are much the same, we have been a Woolies supplier for over 20 years and they are great to deal with, no issues with price if you require an increase, as long as you can make a reasonable case.
Bunnings are much the same as Coles to deal with, we gave up on Coles many,many years ago when they kept lossing pallets of stuff.
Put a product into Bunnings (exclusively), manager changed, deleted the product because he thought too expensive. Was selling well so ????
The way they work is a long story but makes stuff way more expensive than needed to be.

[Thebusofdoom]

In my house its a mix between Aldi, Coles and a greengrocer. There's no Wollies nearby in my part of the world.

[captainch]

give it time if you have coles and aldi woolies will follow!

[Lt. Commander Data]

give it time if you have coles and aldi woolies will follow!

Except in SA where Aldi are not. They say they are going to put one in Elizabeth (a outer northern suburb), but that is nowhere near the Adelaide Hills (where i live). I went to aldi on the Gold cost and i liked it

[Bedford-29]

Lidl which is Aldi rival is thinking of marking there territory here in Australia next year Lidl has been scouting around for sites to build there stores which be interesting to see.
www.lidl-info.com/

[captainch]

what states they looking at!

[Bedford-29]

Perth and WA is one place Lidl looking at but nothing else has come up as to where Lidl looking at to set up shop but at least we have Aldi till Lidl come on scene Captain.

[captainch]

i DON'T mind aldi you only need one brand of peanut butter ect and you save money peanut butter is peanut butter and I like the WIDE isles you get what you want and out!

[nbus]

Aldi is now coming to SA and WA in the next few weeks. I saw some stuff on it last night.

[Lt. Commander Data]

what states they looking at!

You could bet everything you own that they are not coming to SA

Aldi is now coming to SA and WA in the next few weeks. I saw some stuff on it last night.

I thought this day would never come!

[boronia]

give it time if you have coles and aldi woolies will follow!

Except in SA where Aldi are not. They say they are going to put one in Elizabeth (a outer northern suburb), but that is nowhere near the Adelaide Hills (where i live). I went to aldi on the Gold cost and i liked it

There was something on ACA the other night, mentioned something about Aldi opening at Seaford. Still probably not much use to you. But once they start they will need to keep going because it can be very expensive to have just one store.

[Lt. Commander Data]

Except in SA where Aldi are not. They say they are going to put one in Elizabeth (a outer northern suburb), but that is nowhere near the Adelaide Hills (where i live). I went to aldi on the Gold cost and i liked it

There was something on ACA the other night, mentioned something about Aldi opening at Seaford. Still probably not much use to you. But once they start they will need to keep going because it can be very expensive to have just one store.

I have not been to Seaford for 6 months, so this is new learning to me

Thanks

[boronia]

One of the pitfalls at Aldi is they get some really good products, you get hooked on them, then after a few weeks they either change the supplier (and the replacement equivalent is nowhere near as good) or they discontinue the line altogether.

[Lt. Commander Data]

One of the pitfalls at Aldi is they get some really good products, you get hooked on them, then after a few weeks they either change the supplier (and the replacement equivalent is nowhere near as good) or they discontinue the line altogether.

That happened to me with a particular type of tea once. I had it for maybe a month and then they stopped docking it.

[boxythingy]

I find some of Aldi's regular stocked food to be quite tasty eg. the Pies and Yoghurt.

[captainch]

DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE ELSE noticed but recentlly my local WOOLWORTHS more and more BRAND names stock is disappearing of the shelves to be replaced by woolworths select brand!

[tonyp]

Aldi makes a huge difference to the hole in your pocket.

When we were living in central Europe in 2012 we noticed how our money went miles further, so I thought I'd keep a record to check against.

I kept the docket of our last big shop at the supermarket in Plzen and for our typical major shop of 60 items it was about $90. Not an exactly scientific "basket" to compare but we buy pretty much the same things every time.

Come back to Australia and the similar 60 items at Coles first time is $375. Heart attack after 6 months away from it!

So our usual approach is to do as much as we can at Aldi and top up at Coles. (My wife gets home deliveries from Woolworths sometimes and they cost over $500, FMD!)

So at around the same time I kept the dockets for the similar 60 items at such an Aldi/Coles top-up shop and it was $136 for 36 items at Aldi and $151 for 24 items at Coles. Total $287. A lot better than just using either Woolworths or Coles ("the Colesworths duopoly" I call it).

[MaxHeadway]

I kept the docket of our last big shop at the supermarket in Plzen and for our typical major shop of 60 items it was about $90 ... Come back to Australia and the similar 60 items at Coles first time is $375

In other words, three times as much in real terms, if ILO figures (average wages in PPP dollars; admittedly from 2009) are anything to go by.

Even bringing the cost down to $287 still makes it twice as expensive as in the Czech Republic.

[tonyp]

To add insult to injury a lot of products are the same international brand but 3x the price in Australia. They were selling Jacobs Creek wine in the Plzen supermarket for about $7 a bottle (and European wine for about $3!) Of course there are about 8 competing supermarket chains in CZ. I bet that makes a difference.

[boxythingy]

(Australian) Cheese was very expensive in China. It depends on how much tariff the government puts onto certain exports.

[Shoudy Chen]

Most of the time, I go to Coles where I use my Flybuys card to earn points. Every dollar would receive one Flybuys Point.
When I go to Woolworths, I have to spend at least $10 on Fruit and Vegetables to earn Woolies Dollars.
IGA - I seldom head off to this supermarket
Spud Shed - Prices on foods and other groceries are cheap.

[Denv12]

I buy most of my groceries from Foodland.There are a lot of them.I buy coles online once in awhile.