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    Your grocery bill has skyrocketed for the past years thanks to these factors

    Tomatoes are still too dear. In Japan Aust. Tommies sell for $2.50kg and that is after freight
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    Expert issues warning on popular shopping app over data fears: ‘There is a risk’

    I shop on Temu but the emails are driving me mad
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    Foliage fiasco: Retiree roots for justice against council's hefty fine!

    He should pull out the Aggie and pot them. Don't mow the nature strip and ring the council every time it needs mowing
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    Groceries Coles deals of the week: Wed 3 April to Tue 9 April

    Anyone noticed that the good markdowns are crap food
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    ‘Must be the end times’: Find out which popular veggie now costs an astonishing $18!

    The wholesale price of cabbage in Qld was $13 each a few weeks ago hence no cabbages in the shops
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    ‘Never had reduction like this’: Coles shopper bags $160 worth of groceries for $8!

    Coles Innisfail had marked down chicken use by that day with only 39c and 40 c marked down from full price. Get real!
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    This little-known grocery store helps you save more on your grocery bills!

    Some things never go out of date. Vinegar, jelly crystals (if not water damaged) mustards. Fermented sauces. I had a carton of fish sauce, and it's taken me 30 years to use, still fine because it is fermented, on my last bottle now. Milk, cheese, etc, need dates and spoiler type foods need...
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    You can score KitchenAid cookware at Coles—here’s how!

    I have a piece from their other promo and yes they are heavy
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    ‘Utterly baffled’: Shopper becomes furious over sneaky pricing switch-up

    There is also a variety called Monkey Bananas. Very small and thin skinned
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    Father instantly loses $150,000 life savings: ‘I feel sick just thinking about it’

    No they are not dumb but honest and naive. Baby Boomers lived in a world far different from today.
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    Coles' paper bag switch sparks debate among shoppers

    I have 4 of them and they ae fantastic, so light and machine washable. They hide in the bottom of my bag so I don't have to remember bags in the car.
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    Joke Tickle, tickle went the Mortician.

    A wake after a funeral was to see if the corpse was alive. A tube with a bell attached so the corpse could ring, if alive. Very macarbe, but people have been buried alive because they were in a comma. Hence the expression "for whom the bell tolls".
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    Biscuit bug-out: Coles ingredient leaves mum crumbling in disgust!

    Cochineal from insects so what! better than the chemical Cancer causing rubbish that is a lot of foods. There are over 80,000 chemicals that are in use and they haven't been tested for cancer causing properties.
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    Farmers expose unfair practices of supermarkets amid ‘price gouging’ investigation

    Woolworths bought and shut down Franklins 30 years ago. Franklins was giving them a run for their money. What other company have the big 2 shut down?
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    Massive cut on 500 tariffs could save Aussies money and reduce household expenses

    And we have tariffs with GST on top, of course there is also import duty, death taxes etc etc etc.
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    Is Bunnings now the go-to for cleaning supplies? Here’s why this shopper thinks so!

    Coles don't sell the 110 pack of Finish dish tablets only he expensive ones. Chemist wharehouse had them for $17.99 this week. Bunnings are now selling Dogfood in bulk at the big stores.
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    Want to make $1k weekly? Here’s how, according to The Trash Lawyer

    I have done the same. A fridge (working) kids toys, beds, I was even taking a TV that a tenant dumped at the bin, a bloke saw me taking it out and took it for his mate. I even put a price for sale on a fridge, apply within, guaranteed to have it pinched. It saved taking it to the dump.
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    Woolworths announces major price drop for over 400 products

    A gravy train is the rip off. If you can charge more because everyone else is the gravy train runs.
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