For the last 7 odd years I took the $1 a litre of milk for granted.
I was about to buy a 3L bottle of milk today when i casually noticed the price was $3.30!
It looks like coles recently raised the price on the 3l (but the 2l is still $2). Seems odd as normally there are better economy of scale for bulk.
https://i.imgur.com/RepPWrJ.png
Source: https://pricehipster.com/
Woolworths still has $1 a litre
Seems like a Royal commision is getting some attention again
Proudly, Woolworths has shown the courage
Wow, we should award them a bravery medal.
Yes, this is a politician, Federal Agriculture Minister David Littleproud, licking the corporate boots by speaking about Woolworths as though they're World War 1 veterans when all they did was raise the price of milk by 10 cents.
Federal Agriculture Minister David Littleproud
Don't forget the follow-up numb-nuts did about them there foreigners (& Coles): https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-15/coles-aldi-blasted-ov…
tl;dr:
Numb-nuts: "Aldi isn't raising prices and giving it to the battlers like good-ol' Ozzie Woolies!"
Aldi: "F.U. numb-nuts. We pay more which is the easier solution. No added bureaucracy, same retail price, and we'll wear the decreased profit."
So much BS in that news article.
I would question where the 10c is really going.
Some of the other branded milks that have a 10c farmers "levy" on them have already been told that the supermarket will not be dropping the price when the drought publicity is over and the supermarket will be keeping the 10c.
Coles / Woolies are not nice companies.
I fear we have entered a cold war,relations calcified, a bovine phase, cowed and udderless.
That was mooving!
The world needs more tolerance. Lactose tolerance.
I suggest you read the news more often.
But maybe Ozbargain is the news to him… haha
OK, who is the Prime Minister?
Abbott. But I don't see the relevance
Coma test.
lol isn't knowing milk price good enough to prove you are not in a coma.
Woolworths still has $1 a litre
No they don't: https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/browse/dairy-eggs-fridge/milk?filter=Brand(Woolworths)&filterOpen=1&openFilter=Brand. They've had the 'drought milk' for a while now.
Well ok, the UHT milk is $1/l, which is a bit odd.
Well in WA Woolworths still has it as $3
https://i.imgur.com/GeFgbNc.jpg
There is no drought relief advertising on the milk in WA stores
The price increase will be applied to products sold in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.
Although Coles has implemented it in WA.
Good to know WA is still helping out the other states in crisis.
Even after getting ripped for so long with GST!
no drought relief advertising on the milk in WA stores
Maybe you don't have drought over there.
We get slightly more colourful labels on our milk: https://cdn0.woolworths.media/content/content/wk15-harvey-ba…. Hmm, I guess the gummint gets an extra 3 cents worth of GST as well.
Does Federal Agriculture Minister David Littleproud know about this? We'll send all our cows & farmers your way. Or at least as far as NT or SA, apparently there's no drought there either. Or Tassie, but we can't expect the cows to swim that far.
Could someone ELI5 (with a below average attention span for a 5-y.o) why we hate the milk war?
I thought it was good (cheap milk) but I know I'm probably wrong.
I think it's because farmers get up early and work hard but aren't great businessmen. They signed contracts they didn't understand.
I own a farm but I'm not a farmer and don't even try, but country folk have quite a superiority complex regarding 'knowing the land'…except of course when drought, flood, locust plague, poor harvest, you name it predictable natural cyclic phenomena happens when they become perma-victims.
Clive Palmer is going to fix things by letting you pump as much water from the river as you want, and not pay for it either.
Job done.
Onya Clive!
You sure? I figured the supermarkets were taking the hit on milk, and making the loss back on other shit by inflating the prices slightly.
NSW is not a big player in the dairy market but they process milk by the litre so it's a simpler example. The claim there is the farmer gets 50c per litre where the cost to produce due to drought feeding is close to $1. Everything gets more complicated by the price being decided afterwards. It's a mess. I wouldn't be getting out of bed at 4:30am to lose money, but many farmers are or were before getting out. The supermarkets are very secretive about their contracts so that part is unknown.
@[Deactivated]: Okay. So the milk wars are a lot more than Coles and Woolworths selling milk at a loss to get us into the store and walk to the back like i had assumed.
And people seem very emotional about the topic.
I wouldn't get out of bed to lose money either, unless it are short-term to keep things going ready for a huge reward in the future.
Thanks for the explanation.
43c a litre farmgate price in Qld ,
and it's more like 3:30 rise ,
to let the ladies in by sun up.
Life would be a lot easier if only QLD had daylight savings!
;-)
</me ducks for cover after throwing the DST grenade>
there is no milk war,the woolworths prices were raised by 10c/lt and the extra price was bought in to help the dairy farmers that were going to the wall,the joke is that the reason they were going broke was caused by the supermarkets lowering their purchase prices from the dairy farmers,so in reality they were only raising the purchase price to what it should be,I noticed they only raised the price on their own brand and I also noticed the price stickers only related to the 3 ltr bottles from $3 to $3.30 p/b it was advertised as 10cp/lt on 1lt 2lt and 3lt bottles,does any body out there think the supermarkets would do any thing that would help any body,really they word it as we WoolWorths are doing this to help the hard done by,the truth is,it is the customers who are doing these things by buying the raised prices but have you ever seen them advertised that IT IS OUR (WoolWorths)CUSTOMERS THAT ARE DOING THIS)I have not seen it,has anybody seen it????
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2018-09-20/woolworths-to-i…