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Cooked Thawed Small Whole Australian Rock Lobster $20 Each (Was $35) @ Woolworths

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"Woolworths has announced a half price lobster sale in the lead-up to Christmas.

The retail giant will sell Western Australian rock lobsters for just $20 each, 50% less than they were this time last year.

The luxury seafood buy is a favourite across Australia, however high prices have meant it’s often too expensive to include in festive spreads."

Courtesy of 7news


Mod. From article: Woolworths’ new 1/2 price lobster offer will be rolled out from Saturday, December 12. Whilst the price is showing online currently, no stores appear to show stock. OP please do not remove the start date from the deal unless alternate information is presented.

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  • Didn’t they run the same promo last year?

    Think it was Harris Farm @ $25.

    • +21

      Cheaper if you buy them small and grow them - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VunWdHCjbI8

      • +35

        PINCHY!!

        • +1

          sob

      • crawfish?

        • Crayfish.

      • Thank you. Enjoyed that

    • Harris Farm are currently advertising them at $23.99 ea, charged by weight ($63/kg or so).

      Seems the average size there may be 350g. Woollies may be the same, bigger, or smaller.

  • +79

    Thank you China…

    • +22

      没问题

      • +2

        我去,贼你么亲切今儿个,哈哈哈,看看他们肿么Google给翻个

        • +1

          谷谷噜看傻了

        • 看了这么多评论,就服你 😂

    • +12

      隨時樂意提供幫助

      • -1

        总是乐于帮助自己

        • +1

          Thank you Google Lens

        • +1

          我不会说中文哈哈

      • -2

        do we need to learn chinese now in ozbargain ?!

        • +6

          It's a joke. In the Russian VPN post for Cyberpunk 2077 there was also text in Russian. Don't be offended over nothing

        • 是的!

        • +1
        • Not with google translate you don't. You can even compose your own poorly translated Chinese in response.

    • +3

      I'm not even sure this is a good price. They were talking about it on the radio and they said it should drop to less than half price.

      • +1

        You can get a live lobster for under $50 a kg from a lot of seafood shops now…well in the not rip-off suburbs.

        • +1

          Please find me one in Melbourne. Live is $75 in CBD

          • @OzCheapo: Mine is $89.99

            They said these lobster were big one, so more expensive

          • +3

            @OzCheapo: Make a trip down to Springvale ;) Live Snowcrab is also pretty cheap. You can have cooked lobster and snowcrab in the Chinese Restaurants in the South East for about half the price of the CBD too at the moment. CBD is such a ripoff these days. Last weekend it was just under $50. Maybe $45? The tanks were overflowing with them at all the stalls. All the same price too. So many it wouldn't be possible to ozbargain the supply lol

      • Why is lobster price dropping?

        • +1

          China

        • Because western rock lobster commercial fishing had a huge amount of exports to China.

    • +3

      敞亮。就喜欢这种懂得感恩的

      • +4

        愿你的山羊总是吃多汁的荆棘。

        • Inspirational jv

    • +16

      Next the Australian houses. I can't wait to stock up when they are 50% off

      • +2

        I am afraid it will instead sky rocket.

        • We can always dream, but its looking like it will skyrocket, especially with the new first home buyer bonuses now. Crazy why the government wants to keep driving the prices up like this. Everything jumped about 80k overnight where I was looking

    • Was that you Winnie the Pooh ?

      • +1

        This isn't a thread about imported berries from China…

    • 不客气

      • +2

        愿您婆婆熨烫您的所有衬衫,为您煮鸡汤。

        • no idea what you said.. LOL

          • @mzbac: May your mother-in-law iron all your shirts and cook chicken soup for you.

          • +1

            @mzbac: Google translate says: May your mother-in-law iron all your shirts and cook chicken soup for you.

            But 婆婆 can also mean grandma instead of mother-in-law.

    • +2

      不客气 感谢莫里森

      • -1

        可能你的内衣上的洞很小习近平先生

    • Finally, something to enjoy because of China. Won't starve now… hopefully :)

    • 我的气垫船里有鳗鱼

  • +20

    Likely due to oversupply from spat with China.

    https://www.broadsheet.com.au/national/food-and-drink/articl…

      • fraction of the cost heee heee

        • +2

          "Aussie agriculture minister David Littleproud telling the ABC the crustaceans were sitting at Chinese ports after customs clearance delays due to increased inspections; "
          maybe they were sitting around for a bit n got returned to sender… hehe

      • +3

        As in not likely because you think the supplier's CEO is lying about that being the reason?

        • no… i just think that the chinese are more likely to be taking export of live lobsters rather than cooked frozen ones. if there was a over supply it would be of live lobsters

          • +3

            @Archi: How much is still being sent to China then? The cooperative is apparently selling live lobsters to customers locally that they say would have been sent to China in previous years for a far greater price.

            • @kiteo: It is suprising how many trucks used to come out of the Welshpool factory (used to work near it when it first opened up) the tanks they put in were huge.

              Think they came in on tanks, left in trucks

          • +3

            @Archi: one can transform into the other

            • +1

              @gringo: except cooked lobsters come off the boat cooked and live ones fetch a higher price. per kilo.. not the same thing technically

            • @gringo: And back again…

          • @Archi: If you put downward pressure on the top end of the market that flows down through to the bottom end.

          • @Archi: someone on boat tried to be smart and said. hey let's cook and freeze them before they go stink.

          • @Archi: The export produce is diverted to the domestic market which is largely frozen. Has to be as the market is smaller, smaller like the fish we usually get with the big ones for export. There is a whole area of economics on why it works like that.

            Same with live Coral Trout. We get it frozen.

      • Which rock have you been living under?

      • not sure why you got negged, the lobsters china takes are from australia are big ones, not the tiny ones at supermarkets that weigh 300 grams, the small ones aren’t destined for china as there are other cheap sources of small crayfish e.g from mexico.

    • +55

      No way could us aussies get our own seafood at a decent price. So ridiculous.

      • +10

        You can add cherries into your comments. It ridiculous.

      • +8

        …No chance of getting good seafood at Woolies or Coles. they sell us scraps and charge us full freight

        • +1

          you do know Woolies own many many prawn farms??

      • +13

        which probably has more to do with farmers and fisherman then anything else

        best quality exported because they make more money.
        lower quality in australia because no-one wants to pay the high price. thats why we import the same food that we also export

        • You would think it the other way because of transport costs, but that is a big reason the best stuff is sent long distance. You get to bear the cost of the freight better. More so with live critters.

      • +27

        Australia's current comfortable lifestyle is largely due to exporting our primary products and importing cheap manufactured ones back from places with far less natural resources and very low-paid workforces. Mostly China, of which trading with is increasingly in jeopardy. So, good news for the chrissy spread hey!

        Please address your concerns to the Federal Government regarding their views on regulatory economics and international diplomacy.

        • +2

          Due to your concerns, you've been targeted for investigation under the charge of being against the Federal Governments governance.
          https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/tech/2020/12/10/dutton-surve…

          • +7

            @ATangk: No worries, I helped bust refugees out at Woomera, & my de facto worked as a legal aid refugee lawyer, so I'm sure I'm on the potato's personal shitlist already.

        • +2

          We need more people who are as sane as you, who sees logic rather than blind hatred.

    • +2

      na, small size lobsters ar not for exportation, not enough profit.
      the article is talking about 2kg+.

    • +11

      something good came out of it lol now only if they ban the Chinese buyers from home purchases..

      • Short term thinking at its best. Lobster farming is not going to unviable with 40% of its exports vanishing, this is likely to temporary due to oversupply. Once we’re back at equilibrium prices will return to what they once were.

    • this is the consequences when all the good food export out to overseas and give us aussie the bad and expensive ones,
      they used to give all the big 1kg+ lobsters to china, and we cannot buy any in here

      i won't support this, if u decide to lick china, u know one day u will be screwed.

      • +16

        You say this as if it's China's fault for buying what we're selling LOL

        Lucky that problem is being fixed then! If you're an LNP voter, then you're supposed to approve of free trade agreements, but also picking a fight with the country that helps make us wealthy & creates a lot of jobs! The days of the British Empire are long gone. If you're a Labor voter, then you're supposed to agree with tariffs and trade quotas, but you're also supposed to care about all the blue collar jobs that come from how much we export our primary resources. If you're a consumer, your house is full of Chinese-made goods, not all of them cheap either.

        I'm just hearing a lot of xenophobic "China baaaad" without actually thinking of what Australia's role has been, and should be.

        • +2

          Bloody good insight, sad that still that many ppl didnt see the trade dispute coming when we banned Huawei's business in Australia and reduced foreign investment threshold to 0$ without government assessment. There are no good or bad in this situation, governments all have their interest need to defend. In the mean time, those wine makers are definitely no saint either when they are trying to fight their market share, Yellow Tails are selling 700ml wine in China for 3$ a bottle.

        • +1

          You'll get my vote if you run for the next election! Unfortunately our politicians are too shortsighted and choose to follow US blindly without thinking what foreign policy benefits Australia the most.

        • +6

          What is Australia's role and what does that even mean? China (CCP) are straight up gangsters so take that for your 'baaad'. Brb Huawei ban was unfair, brb stop funding anti chinese research, brb stop calling us out on our behaviour in South China Sea, Xinjiang and Hong Kong. Really? And we're supposed to bend at the knee so we can get our front page Xiaomi deals?

          We've been way too reliant on China and its no secret they've successfully subverted us to the point where the Liberals have now woken up and smelt the coffee.

          • +1

            @nomoneynoproblems: Asking "what does that even mean" for Australia's role doesn't mean that we haven't made active choices here, not being able to get cheap crayfish isn't some communist plot to wrest it off our hapless citizens, Australia has to take PRETTY MAJOR RESPONSIBILITY for that no matter how much brainless xenophobia just screams YELLOW PERIL and avoids thinking too deeply about the choices we need to make in future - including what sacrifices we might have to make when dealing with a large bullying nation who also has helped to improve our standard of living. There's no easy answers, so Grow Up, Australia, and talk about what we're prepared to do.

            • +6

              @kiteo: Oh please. This country was better off before Richard Nixon and his open up to China crap. We would be better off with less plastic and electronic junk but more jobs, cheaper and better quality food, less congestion, affordable house prices, Australian owned water, cheaper gas prices, respectable universities, etc. You lot always scream racism.

              • -2

                @Emerald Owl: Aww you lot. Wah

              • @Emerald Owl: Seems the alt-right ozbargain crowd back at it again. Multiculturalism has been a success which has improved the standard of living, but the boomer Anglo protectionist crowd still love harping up about the good ol’ days.

          • @nomoneynoproblems: I think they mean Scotty from Marketing should have:
            A) not said that looking into the origins of COVID-19 would be a good idea.

            Well that’s about it. Also, being that the Chinese are upset at the US, but the US being too big to pick on, we being a little guy, are a handy proxy.

            As for whether or not the liberals have woken up and smelled the coffee, I doubt it. The are Australian politicians, who live on enormous salaries gifted by factions, who would have no chance of earning these kinds of wages in the real world. Labor, liberal, green. All the same. Snouters.

    • Not really. It's too small for exports to China.

    • Thank you China.

  • +4

    whats the approx. weight of these?

    • +12

      Only the male ones are allowed to be weighed…

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