Pretty good deal. Works out to be 78 cents a can
Here’s the rest of the black friday week deals
https://www.woolworths.co.nz/shop/content/black-friday?promo…
2x 18 Pack Coca-Cola/Sprite/L&P 330ml Cans $28 @ Woolworths
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This is part of Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals.
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they usually last 2-3 weeks after the best before - the best before is very conservative. I ate eggs today with a bb of 9th November
Woolworths do occasionally have a good deal, but their general business practices/pricing are so awful it's making me less and less inclined to engage with them at all
I think a lot of people get sucked in by the allure of points for their loyalty card. My first 2 boosts this week are Plax Mouthwash 500ml with 140 bonus points and Anchor Probiotic Yoghurt 4-pack with 160 bonus points.
Sounds ok doesn't it? 140 and 160 bonus points, awesome, 300 points is just under a 6th of the way towards a $15 voucher, from buying just 2 items, great! That is until you realize that 140 points are worth $1.05, and 160 are worth $1.20, and if I bought the same 2 items from Pak'n Save instead of Woolworths I'd save $2.80 and $2.20 respectively.
So even taking into account the 300 bonus points plus the 11c worth of standard points I'd get for spending $15 on the 2 items at Woolworths, I'd still be better off by $2.64 if I bought these same items from Pak'n Save. That's just the first 2 items from my boosts and I'm already up by $2.64 if I don't buy them from Woolworths.
I imagine a lot of people don't break it down and just see the bonus points and think they're getting a deal.
How is this not considered a scam?
I think it depends on your local store. Where I am it's 50/50 as to who's cheaper on any given item, and I never feel like I'm saving a substantial amount at Pack n Save. Plus their stores are always busy, dirty, and a bit yuck. Woolworths is a much nicer experience, but like I say everyone's local situation is probably different.
Go have a read of this https://www.consumer.org.nz/articles/what-s-the-cheapest-sup… which I also posted in the general discussion forum a few weeks ago.
the tl;dr version is that consumer recently tracked online prices for a basket of the same 22 grocery items for 8 weeks at New World, Pak’nSave and Woolworths stores in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. They took into account Everyday Rewards points and New World Club savings. The total of the cheapest basket overall, which was Pak'n Save, averaged out at around $116
What they found was that if you bought these 22 items every week for a year from Pak'n Save you'd save on average $825 compared to someone who bought the same items from Woolworths. New World even worked out slightly cheaper than Woolworths over the 12 months for New World Clubcard members.
Pretty shocking really, and that's just 22 normal everyday items like Purex toilet rolls and Anchor/Meadowfresh milk.
This line stood out to me -
There was little savings benefit for Woolworths Everyday Rewards members – on average, swiping your card would have saved less than $1.60 each week.@Flippant: "In 2020, we tracked the prices of a very similar basket of goods.
While we expected prices to have increased, we were surprised by how much. In Auckland, Pak’nSave Mt Albert prices had increased by 33%, Woolworths Mt Eden by 37% and New World Mt Roskill by 37%."
Yes PnS is the cheapest, but make no mistake, it's a masqueraded duopoly. Increase prices by 35%, then knock off a couple % off and say we're helping NZ families save money.
I know it's been said before but we need someone like Aldi, more than ever.
@Redcafej: I don't think it's to do with the duopoly at all, most countries have experienced dramatic increases in food prices. USA for example has seen a 26% increase in food prices since 2020, and they're not a small geographically isolated group of islands at the bottom of the world with limited buying power.
You have to remember that global supply chains aren't the same as they were before Covid, fuel prices and other factors have increased the costs of manufacturing/producing and shipping goods globally, every step of the journey has increased, from when the raw materials needed to make it are produced right up to the person putting the finished product on the shelf at Pak'n Save. Nearly every step is paying more for fuel, more for electricity, higher wages than they were in 2020, and there are a lot of steps in the chain, and it's not just food, it's the chemicals and machinery that our local food production rely on, it's the forklifts and trucks to get the food from the docks to the shops, there's just so many factors. And while each step might see only a small increase, they all add up like drops of water falling in a cup, a drop of water is nothing, but put enough in there then that cup is going to overflow.
Like I said earlier we're an isolated country with a small market and limited buying power, unlike the UK for example that has 13 times NZ's population and is surrounded by dozens of food producing countries that can just drive food to them instead of having to ship it, and has like 10 different chains of supermarkets, yet still the UK saw a record high 19% increase in food prices over a 12 month period between March 2022 - 2023, which has since gone down to 8% but it just shows how volatile food prices can be even when you're in the perfect spot and not tucked away down the bottom of the globe.
It's easy to blame the duopoly, and they probably are part of the problem, but I don't think they're all of the problem. If it was possible for them to increase prices by less then why would Woolworths increase their prices more than Pak'n Save? It makes no sense when you're in direct competition with them to increase your prices by more if you can afford to increase them by less, the only two explanations are that they couldn't afford to raise prices by less, or they're part of some cartel with Foodstuffs, which is a whole different conspiracy theory discussion for another day.
quite a few12 and 10 packs of eggs for 99c sitting in a trolley at Pak'n Save in Dunedin when you first walk in. Only catch is that one brands expiry date is tomorrow while the other expires the day after, but if you need to make a cheap emergency pav for tonight….