For those who voted Labor

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13661633/Why-photo-groceries-left-Coles...

23 July 2024



    Shoppers called the price of groceries a 'joke'
    Social media users outraged over cost of 'essentials'

A Coles shopper has shown just how little you get when spending close to $100 at the supermarket due to untamed inflation.

The customer shared a photo on X showing just 14 items purchased from their local supermarket on Sunday, with another photo of the receipt showing that cost $97.28.

'It's not easy under Albanese's cost of living crisis,' the caption read.

'Today I bought some basics: salt, rinse aid, dishwasher detergent, toilet cleaner, milk, carrots, raspberries, chicken, rump steak, stewing beef, lamb shanks, pork, and three potatoes. What do you think it cost?'

'Food is up about 25 per cent Albanese came to power, electricity is about 30 per cent, gas is incalculable, insurance is up,' they wrote.

Are your wages keeping up?'

Many social media users shared their fury about the sky-high prices, while others suggested not shopping at Coles but using a cheaper alternative.

That's a lot of meat. You can get rump for less than half that price.

I saw it for 12 recently. For a whole rump. I'm pretty sure a lot of butchers have it at around that price. I think the price has gone down again recently. Maybe because it is drying out after a wet summer.

I don't really pay much attention to the price of steak in Coles Bobby. Anyone who actually buys it there does not care about the price.

freediver wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 7:24am:


What about an impulse buy -
you see and you have to have it?

Wow - Gordy knows where to buy his meat.

we've only just begun to see the inflationary pricing of meat.

wait until the latest green legislation is passed .

then you will really be living on rolled oats 

Bobby. wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2024 at 11:56pm:


I do okay. And I happen to be living about $100 to $200 a week higher than the poverty level.