Whinge of the day thread...

[davsgold]

hey sand surfer, I reckon the butcher is going to do good, and if everyone started to use them, the big supermarkets might wake up, I know that is a big ask, but if their meat stayed on the shelves, well you get the idea

 

[sand surfer]

that's right dave ,the butcher is a fair bit cheaper on all there cuts ,his pricing is reflective of the market price paid for the produce

i have pointed a few pensioners their way ,i see them at the meat section at the super market and hear them say they can not afford the meat
i say call in and see the butcher on your way out ,you will be surprised ,and i told them that he has the bulk buys all the time ,but they were not thinking straight as she said we don't have the room for bulk buys ,and i said what's wrong with 2 or more of your friends pooling the money and sharing the bulk buys

on my way out o told them to meet me at the butchers ,i introduced them to the owner and explained their problem ,he said no worries we can soon divide it up for you at those prices as long as you use the bulk buys

they are happy he is happy win win

it has always been like that in that store nothing is a burden or to much trouble
like the lamb legs if you are a pensioner and only want a 6 inch long piece that's what he cuts
and yes dave he is doing quite well

 

[Mackka]

I think when Coles closed their own instore butcher shops thats when prices started to go up dramatically as they had to bring everything in prepacked rather than packed in store. We had an external butcher but he closed as he was too expensive. Now it just convenience to get your whole grocery and meat requirements in one shop, unfortunately.

 

[sand surfer]

iga here is nearly the same mackka ,they have 1 butcher and 1 apprentice butcher
i said to the butcher one day ,why have a apprentice when everything turns up in a bloody box and all you do is tray it ,they will learn nothing
he said they get 1 side of lamb every now and then for the apprentice to break it down ,but that's it ,no pig or bullocks for the apprentice to learn on ,not going to learn much

 

[Mackka]

Very sad mate and it's not only butchers' apprentices that don't get the right training, but also across most fields.

 

[LONEWOLF]

Oranges at Coles Yesterday...... $9.90kg... Source = ' Mixed Origin'.... Hmmmm pass thanks...

LW....

 

[sand surfer]

they will try anything john ,can not even state where they come from now ,like all the meats are estimated weights

what i can not work out is ,how does weights and measures allow them to estimate the package weight (ie meat) on trays
it is sold by the kilo to them( either live or carcass weight) it should be sold by the kilo to the public

like the grower of vegetables ,the box beans or whatever had to be 10kg of produce at the point of sale or the grower got fined
when we grew the beans every box that left the shed was 10.3kg to allow for loss of weight due to dehydration from being cooled and time spent in transport (depending on how far it had to travel bris,syd melb markets)
99% of the time the beans were sold the next morning at the brisbane markets ,yep that's right at 10.3kg but we got payed by the 10kg box not the 10.3kg that was packed so for every pallet that we sent there was approx. 30 kg of free beans to the buyer
i will not buy meat from coles or wooly's as it all is estimated weight
at least iga still weigh all the trays and they are correct, even if they are bit expensive but i will give them that one

 

[Mackka]

Yesterday evening my wife said she was cooking an Asian chicken stir fry and could I go to Woolies to get a capsicum, she forgot to buy. No probs. Had to walk through the chocolates, lollies, biscuits aisle and 80% of all the goods was on special with bright yellow price tags everywhere. Go to the veggie area and found the capsicum, $8.90 Kg!!!! what a bloody ripoff. Woolies also stated that they are throwing out the Australia Day merchandise as sales for them had dropped over time. Well guess what Woolies, I will now drive the extra 1.5K to Coles from now on, you totally Un Australian piece of ....!!

 

[sand surfer]

got that right mackka
first they rip us of no end with over inflated prices
then have the %#^$& nerve to tell me i don't want to buy australian merchandise for australia day
the only way we are going to get them to see sense is boycott them 'hit their pocket and see how the pricks like it
then they say the prices charged at the checkout are reflective of what they pay the grower BUUULLLSSHHIIIITTTT

get your daily paper mackka there should be a brisbaine market report in there some where
it will have all the prices(low to high depending on quality)of every fruit and vegetable that was sold at the markets yesterday, may even have sydney and melbourne prices

 

[Mackka]

Thanks SS but paper is too expensive and then you just recycle it so I looked up Ausmarket.net.au and they have the Daily Report on Fruit and Veg for Brisbane Market. So Capsicum Red 27L Carton ( I don't know how many that would hold) $40.00 however, Green is $14.00 for the same size carton. I know blokes out there like Silver will be able to tell me but I thought that Red Capsicum were simply Green ones but left to ripen longer. Red was noted as very light supply but demand was good. Therefore, the deduction is , supply and demand, short supply high prices but that does not apply broadly like meat whereby supply is extremely high with low $ return to producers, E.G. whole lamb $20 on the hoof, and extreme prices in the supermarkets. Price Gouging at its best.

 

[sand surfer]

27L carton mackka is 8 1/2 kg or aprox 21 large or 27 to 30 small capsicums ($75.65 a box @ $8.90kg)

you are right a red capsicum is a green one left on the bush longer same with tomatoes mackka
they go from green to chocalate then red
usually up to the farmer what colour to pick, but other times it is the market push, that makes up their mind

funny isn't mackka the government inquiry into price gouging started today and coles and woollies, all of a sudden found all these products that miraculously they can reduce the price
well well well the plot thickens

the government set us up for this years ago mackka , letting coles and woollies own to much of the retail market

should be like america the big supermarkets are only allowed about 15% of the retail market i think
if someone knows the correct % correct me ,it is so the little guy can compete

why do you think we have shrinkflation, i may be a skeptic but it would not have anything with coles or wollies wanting the price cheaper so they can gouge again

another thing peoples of the forum to ponder

kraft(which is american owned now )a few years ago sold the original recipe for kraft peanut butter to bega
now the have released their own version of peanut butter which is not the same as the original one
this is after the assured bega that kraft would not sell peanut butter in australia again so if you like peanut butter buy bega

 

[The geezer]

To much market share for Coles and woolys. This enquiry will come to nothing just make a noise and pay a few fat Ones a bit more folding !

 

[Hawkear]

Funny government announcing a supermarket price enquiry, when there are such huge out of control taxes, levies and other costs applied between grower and retail sale point. Just to name a few.
Taxes - Payroll, Company, GST, Land, Rates etc
Workers compensation and general insurances
Fuel excise.
Energy costs
Interest rates which affect site rentals
Wages
Superannuation
Company taxes.
Regulation compliance costs, eg health, safety etc.
Am not saying these are unreasonable but all are influenced by government to some or even the full extent. Some of those compound in extent as costs on costs or taxes on taxes.
Seems hypocritical that at the same time the government announces the enquiry it also introduces regulations that reduce water entitlements to farmers and consequently their ability to grow more food which adds upward pressure on the prices for the lesser amount grown.
The over regulation and the cost of doing business in Australia is out of control and causing businesses and farmers to close doors left right and centre. There is little incentive for new local businesses to open up in this over regulated and costly business environment.
This supermarket enquiry is just a smokescreen aimed at diverting attention away from discussing the role that governments need to play in reduction of regulations and costs aimed at aiding and encouraging local businesses large and small to become more price competitive here in Australia and also overseas. The only thing that some of these regulations and compliance requirements seem to do, is provide jobs for public servants.

 

[Mackka]

Just read that there will be no mention of Australia day at the Gabba on Thursday but they will have a Welcome to Country. Australia Day was celebrated in July in 1915, 1916, 1917, and 1918. The day was celebrated with markets and stalls and the proceeds went towards the war effort. Australia Day was changed to January 26 in 1939 and has stayed that way and will stay that way. Lets fire up the barbee, throw a few prawns on and some lamb chops, crack open a few tinnies (or whatever) get the cricket set out and celebrate this beautiful country that WE are so lucky to live in no matter what colour your skin is or your religious beliefs or your sexual orientation.
"I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel sea. Her beauty and her terror, The wide brown land for me."
Excerpt from " My Country"- Dorothea MacKellar
Love It Or Leave It!!!!!

 

[sand surfer]

and in 1935 all the states agreed on the 26 of january and called it australia day

i don't know if they still have it but the dingee, yallook, tandarra tennis association used to have a big tennis tournament each year on australia day
ahh fond memories of that ,a couple of under sixteen doubles wins in the bag
they never played singles back then all men's , women's and mixed doubles it was a bloody big weekend by the time you played all the round robin games

 

[sand surfer]

good old woolies


and with a e for estimate

 

[sand surfer]

 

[Mackka]

Just saw that a bronze statue of Capt. James Cook in Melbourne Park has been cut off at the legs and the memorial spray painted. Do these idiots not know that we are living in the greatest country in the world due to he landing in Botany Bay and establishing a colony that is now the envy of the entire world. The woke mentality of some is a total disgrace to all normal thinking people. I hope they catch them and punish them with more than a wet lettuce leaf.

 

[Hawkear]

Makes me wonder who the preferred colonists might have been. Perhaps Spanish conquistadors, Portuguese, French or Russian imperialists, Chinese, or maybe even American.
Or maybe just left alone to exist in a Stone Age culture forever. The latter was never going to happen in a world starting to bulge at the seams, and whilst some injustices did occur, there is some fortune that the British came and brought the concept of fairness and the rule of law to this continent rather than the alternatives.
The ideas of fairness evolve over time and what is considered fair in one era may not be in another. Laws similarly follow that pattern.
The perpetrators of the Captain Cook statue vandalism should acknowledge that we are not back in primitive times that they seem to revere but where they would probably be very harshly dealt with.

 

[Mackka]

Here here!!