These days, it’s hard not to wince when you take a good look at your grocery bill at the end of your grocery shop.

But one Aussie shopper was left absolutely gobsmacked recently when she found a 12-year-old ALDI receipt and took a closer look.

The shopper shared an image of a docket she had found inside a book in a social media post, saying: 'I found a receipt from 2012.'

In the picture was a paper, a bit yellowed with age, detailing the prices of goods from just over a decade ago. One product caught her attention: '$1.39 for 250g butter.'

The same item has increased a staggering 165 per cent as it now costs $3.69 at ALDI.

One ALDI shopper discovered a receipt from a grocery shop done in 2012. Image source: ALDI (left), Facebook (right).

She added: 'The butter is over two and a half times the price now.'

The post prompted several reactions from other users, but another detail caused further outrage among other shoppers.

'Leave the butter, look at the cheese block,' one commented.

The docket showed the price for a 500g block of tasty cheese that was at $3.79 in 2012. Now, it costs $6.99 at ALDI—an increase of 84 per cent from its price 11 years ago.

One user replied: 'Now you need to remortgage your house to buy that $3 block of cheese.'

While another said: 'I get [anxious] when I go shopping now—the prices are just crazy ridiculous.'

'I used to have a good stock of everything in my pantry, now it’s just empty shelves and weekly doing the groceries, paying a mortgage twice as we used to pay,' a third shared.

'Pity my pay hasn’t quadrupled in 11 years,' a fourth added, as another simply requested: 'Take me back!'

While one user suggested: 'Can someone hurry up and invent a time machine so we can go back to when it was good to live here?'

'Prices have gone insane yet wages haven’t risen and pensions have hardly risen enough to really help.'

But not all of the items had seen such large price increases.

Surprisingly, a packet of pasta spirals set the shopper back just $2.89 twelve years ago—with the current price listed at $2.99.

In similar news, another shopper discovered a docket from a grocery shop done in Coles three decades ago.

The receipt revealed that in 1992, two kilograms of white onions cost $2.48, and a large bag of chips for entertaining cost only $2.98. In stark contrast, shoppers today can be charged as much as $7.20 for a smaller bag of chips.

The receipt also displayed the prices of two packs of thick sausages, which were $6.15 and $5.91, respectively.

You can read more about this story here.

Key Takeaways

• An ALDI customer’s receipt from 2012 has sparked debate on social media due to the sharp increase in prices of everyday items.
  
• The receipt showed that the price of 250g of butter had risen from $1.39 in 2012 to $3.69 now, a 165 per cent increase.
  
• Similarly, a 500g block of cheese that cost $3.79 in 2012, was currently priced at $6.99 at ALDI, an 84 per cent increase.
  
• Social media users have expressed their disappointment at the steep price increases, lamenting that wages and pensions have not risen at the same rate.
  

Members, how do you feel about the prices of everyday items at the grocery store? Is it getting harder and harder to budget? Share your experiences, thoughts, and tips with us in the comment section below.

 

[marni]

Actually pays have more than quadrupled since 2008 and prices have been kept at a lower level by sacking people and using automation, this has avoided quadruplication of overheads and as a result prices have increased by less than wage increases...the highest cost today for any product is labour and fuel

Thank you - the only reply that says it as it is

 

[Littleboy8]

if you haven't been to Aldi i the last twelve years you are unaware of all the positive changes - you are not qualified to speak of todays Aldi.

What’s it got to do with food having sulphites in them

 

[SandyM]

the age pension has always been a subsistence income. It WAS formulated on the basis people would own their own home, potentially grow some produce on the 1/4 acres they lived on with a couple of chooks. Compulsory super has been in place for well over 30 years now. Add another 20 years to that and all super will be is an inheritance, which unfortunately is what many holders of super think it is. Lots of retirees also made no plans for their retirement, public housing, welfare dependant, tennants or just poor planning and life choices in your working days. If people have nothing in super from the past 30 years, then they most likely were in receipt of welfare or possibly drew down like so many did in covid thinking retirement isn't part of the plan.

I don't have a lot of super because I worked a number of part time jobs at the same time. This was to work around being a wife and mother. The problem was that none of these jobs paid enough money to qualify me getting super paid by any of my employers. (There is a minimum gross amount you have to earn before an employer has to pay super for an employee.) I was not in receipt of welfare nor did I draw down on my super during covid!

 

[Ricci]

the age pension has always been a subsistence income. It WAS formulated on the basis people would own their own home, potentially grow some produce on the 1/4 acres they lived on with a couple of chooks. Compulsory super has been in place for well over 30 years now. Add another 20 years to that and all super will be is an inheritance, which unfortunately is what many holders of super think it is. Lots of retirees also made no plans for their retirement, public housing, welfare dependant, tennants or just poor planning and life choices in your working days. If people have nothing in super from the past 30 years, then they most likely were in receipt of welfare or possibly drew down like so many did in covid thinking retirement isn't part of the plan.

I take exception to some of the comments made. Some of us did try to make provisions for our retirement but things like raising kids, 20% mortgage interest rates and the ability to only work part time took a toll on our ability to save much. I have never lived in public housing, have not been welfare dependent, have not rented other than a year before our home was ready and apart from taking the time out to raise my two kids have always worked. I have still only managed to accumulate $60,000 in super which pays me just over a hundred per month. I worked mainly in the service industry where wages were never high but you were valued for your care. Poor planning or life choices? Maybe.... I chose to have kids and I chose to work at a job where I would be appreciated if undervalued. I actively chose not to chase the Great God Dollar but to enjoy my life and family at every opportunity.

I don't agree either that the age pension is a subsistence income. My pension is over a $1000 per fortnight, an amount I never achieved in the whole of my working life. Sure the cost of living has gone through the roof but with a little care and judicious spending life can still be good.

 

[IAN3005]

Everything is going up substantially except age pensions. Before people start cracking on about the purpose of super!! it came a bit late for some us. Personally I don't think the advantage of super will kick in for the next twenty years, that is if political parties don't start piss farting about with it like it seems they are doing n

 

[IAN3005]

Everything is going up substantially except age pensions. Before people start cracking on about the purpose of super!! it came a bit late for some us. Personally I don't think the advantage of super will kick in for the next twenty years, that is if political parties don't start piss farting about with it like it seems they are doing now!.

The pension needs to go up $900 a fortnight..... just to keep the nose above the poverty line.
Super is a relic of days gone by and should be abolished.

 

[IAN3005]

I take exception to some of the comments made. Some of us did try to make provisions for our retirement but things like raising kids, 20% mortgage interest rates and the ability to only work part time took a toll on our ability to save much. I have never lived in public housing, have not been welfare dependent, have not rented other than a year before our home was ready and apart from taking the time out to raise my two kids have always worked. I have still only managed to accumulate $60,000 in super which pays me just over a hundred per month. I worked mainly in the service industry where wages were never high but you were valued for your care. Poor planning or life choices? Maybe.... I chose to have kids and I chose to work at a job where I would be appreciated if undervalued. I actively chose not to chase the Great God Dollar but to enjoy my life and family at every opportunity.

I don't agree either that the age pension is a subsistence income. My pension is over a $1000 per fortnight, an amount I never achieved in the whole of my working life. Sure the cost of living has gone through the roof but with a little care and judicious spending life can still be good.

Well, the government wants to tax us and spend like a spendthrift so they should spend it on the pension.

 

[Defiant540]

Do you feel better expressing yourself with such obnoxious language?

oh poor you!