Shopping at the chain stores has become so uneventful and tedious; its all the same, same ice cream, chocolate, sauces, chips, meat choices, etc etc.
Independents have different variety however that comes with an increase in price.
Just curious as to what others think?
What Would You Like to See More of in Supermarkets?
Wider aisles.
Less night fillers during the day time clogging up the isles… you know where half of the aisle is taken up by their trolley carrying the goods and the other half of the aisle with the filler themselves. As much as I'm tempted, I don't want to resort to running them over with my trolley.
Less /cry time. I'll explain: "suck you in to love a product" and then, wham, "product discontinued".
Allow people to take the things that were going to be thrown away. I find it ridiculous how supermarkets actually lock bins to prevent people taking things out of landfill! Let people take it away for free instead of wasting it!
I work for Coles and they don't even give any of that to their staff. Tight arses. Our lunch room consist of bruised fruit and if you're lucky, the crust from the $1 bread. You usually have to fight for it.
Meanwhile just out the door, are trolleys full of beautiful stone baked bread, donuts, pastries and biscuits all heading for the bin. You get caught touching it,you lose your job.
Wow. That is simply crazy.
That's not fair.
Better spice options, this hasn’t changed since the 70s for some reason.
Also fresh cut small goods at delis, if I’m paying $20/kg for it I don’t want shaved product that’s been in the open air for the best part of a day.
Naked chicks and spy cameras.
and also 'fresh' produce, or the age of it (in years) marked on it.
Flaming Hot Cheetos.. nuff said
Trolleys with coin locks. Very tired of seeing lazy people who can't walk a few metres to return a trolley and create very messy carparks.
People still carry coins???
This. Very annoying when I need a trolley and have no coins; trolleys with a PayPass authorisation that gets returned to you when the trolley is returned, however I think that’s a long way off and also ripe for credit card fraud …
At Aldi, you can buy a reusable coin that can be attached to your car keys, so you just unclip it or leave it in your wallet.
@pformag: I've seen those, but they seem a little pointless.
You pay to buy a piece of plastic, that can just replace a coin in the trolley.
I just leave a $1 coin in the car console, solely for trolley use.
@pformag: My car keys literally can't accommodate any more keyrings and I don't carry my wallet at Coles or Woolies as my loyalty cards and credit cards are on my phone, hence my request for a PayPassable trolley but that'll never happen
@kerfuffle: Never say never kerfuffle but it's probably a while away.
I wish all supermarkets had the aldi system. Too bad people just have to learn to take $1 or buy one of the 99 cent coins.
Too many trolleys around for lazy people that take their trollies home and don't bring them back then poor trolley people (on a minimum wage) have to go find them in the suburbs. You NEVER see aldi ones floating around!
If they can offer permanent free delivery, with good delivery timings, I can stop going altogether.
Yeah, we're still a bit behind 1st world countries with this
Free WiFi. Tourists do not have local SIM card. Seen this in Asian country.
Camel milk
My local organic supermarket on Lygon St sells this!
Awesome….in Melbourne?
Organic Wholefoods Brunswick in 483 Lygon. I was just there today and noticed a large bottle of camel milk in the dairy section. First time I've seen it anywhere.
Beer
Stick mags at the checkout
Fresh flat bread varieties (Certain Coles stores sell fresh chapattis. Considering the growing subcontinent demographics, if it is made available at different stores , it would be very convenient for families and students), Fresh Dosa batter (Indian crepe)
Porn
Open pharmacies in supermarkets - like they have in the UK and US
Sell alcohol in all supermarkets, not just Aldi (for WA - not sure what happens in other states)
Open pharmacies in supermarkets - like they have in the UK and US
Dreaming. The Pharmacy Guild (nice name for Union) are too powerful
Agree. The government had an opportunity to curtail their power a few years ago but didn't.
It's a joke.
Nicer, pre-prepared meals and foods like they do in Marks & Spencer or Waitrose in the UK. They can be meals for one (which I think is lacking in Oz) or easy family dinners or dinner parties.
Also a scanner to take with you and you scan as you go and just pay the scanner at check out would be useful.
Yes, this ^^^
I noticed that M&S recently upped the cost of their 'Dine In' deal from GBP10 to be GBP12, but Tesco still have this for GBP10:
- 1 x main dish (e.g. 700gm lasagne, or 550gm gammon shanks, or 700gm paella)
- 1 x side dish (e.g. 450gm chips, or 260gm green vegetables, etc.)
- 1 x dessert (e.g. 8 profiteroles)
- 1 x bottle of 750ml wine or soft drink or beers
That is quite a lot of food for ~$18
Dr Pepper or Cherry Coke in cartons. Not single cans. At the same price at Pepsi/Coke.
Buy only if they're the UK variety - no one wants that HFCS American stuff.
I'm a simple man, all I want is for all Supermarkets to use the exact same trolley type and coin mechanism so that you don't spend ages looking for a trolley bay with your exact trolley type
I'M LOOKING AT YOU WAVERLEY GARDENS!!
Bread products that aren't overcooked and too dark brown and dry.
More cereal varieties (and 58 different Uncle Toby's "Plus" and Kellogg's "K" don't count).
High-end and specialty baking supplies. For example, I've been trying to get things like Cocoa Butter, Pectin, Inverted Sugar, and gel paste and powdered food colours, but there's only a small number of specialty stores across Melbourne that sell any of these things. I feel like if they were more common people might know how to use them more, and people would recommend recipes which use them more often, which would drive demand.
Pre chopped mushroom packs actually being clean.
7-Eleven advertising which flavours of Slurpee they have in stock.
In supermarkets?
close enough
I would maybe like to see more health and well being offerings like you see in health yoga co-op shops.
I don't know might be a start maybe just trial some products see how they go.
I live in a country where almost fresh and quality products: vegetables, meat, fish, milk, bread, fruit etc you can buy only on markets. And shopping on market never will be boring cause many people want sell something and loud talking what they want to sell. For example: "Fresh fish! A minute ago it swam at the sea! Miss, you should buy this fish. It look at you and fish like(feeling means) you. I know you want buy it."
Go to market you can know all news, which happened in country last month.
Finally, in my country people like to bargain.
And I'll never changing market where you can talking with people or get to know where this or that product from; who grew it for comfortable supermarket with uncontol new technologes where you have to do the same from day to day.
I know people still go to the supermarket however I cannot really understand for those with a choice otherwise why they would.
Online ordering is an absolute dream, no carpark, no lines, no heavy lifting - they bring in the groceries into your Kitchen.
More sugar free options
Putting the staple food items at the front of the store. I always end up buying the specials on the way back because the stuff I need is in the back.