[Hack] Up to 49% off Sliced Meat - Online Orders Only @ Woolworths

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RubyChoco on 28/08/2025 - 18:14 woolworths.com.au (1454 clicks)
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I'm not sure if this is considered a hack, but it is something I have been doing for a while. It only applies to Woolworths (not Coles) and only for online orders.

Woolworths has an unadvertised rule for weight-based items (that are not pre-packaged in a tray). The rule is, they have to give you more than what you pay for.

For example, if you buy 100g of ham and one slice of ham is 75g, then they have to give you two slices, which would be 150g and you'll only pay for 100g.

This deal works better with sliced meat, as opposed to shaved meat, because each slice weighs more.

Say if I want 300g of ham and I'm not fussy about which type. Instead of buying 300g of ham, I'd buy 100g of one type of ham and 100g of another type of ham. I usually end up with around 300g of ham and only paying for 200g.

Note: This also works with other weight based items that are not prepackaged where you have to purchase by weight, e.g. in 100g lots. The amount of saving depends on how chunky the item is

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  • bob98 on 28/08/2025 - 18:15
    +107

    HUGE NEWS FOR THE UNEMPLOYED!

    • Big L on 28/08/2025 - 18:56
      +22

      And anyone that hates colesworth

    • Clarky77 on 28/08/2025 - 20:15
      +62

      Yeah take the piss outta someone trying to save a few $s on food when there are plenty of shameless schemes for totally useless crap here on the regular!
      Well done OP the supermarkets are getting away with crazy pricing these days and we need any little advantage we can get :)
      We shouldn’t have to play the flybys game just to get a decent price on basic staples they should be offering the best price as a matter of course.

    • QuickToThePointless on 28/08/2025 - 20:28
      +21

      PSA - if you want to cook the ham, remember to always use public park BBQ's, for the extra 'free'

      • ATangk on 28/08/2025 - 21:06
        +12

        If you cook the meat, you lose money because the water evaporates!

      • prophet on 28/08/2025 - 21:07
        +4

        This is the way.

        • QuickToThePointless on 28/08/2025 - 21:11

          yes, indeed! after you've enjoyed a hot ham dinner at 33% off, have a free bath by filling some stock pots at a nearby drinking fountain then heating them on the public bbq!

          • garage sale on 28/08/2025 - 22:44

            @QuickToThePointless: the cost of petrol for get the hot water home is more than heating water at home, economists call it “the cost of shoes leather for running around” in IT we factor it into TCO, the common man calls it “cost of overheads” …

    • dickiee on 29/08/2025 - 09:40

      Best comment….and sadly true for me. Need something to munch on while filling out depressing job applications

  • leeroys_dad on 28/08/2025 - 18:17
    +22

    Brilliant. Leeroy will grow big and strong with all the extra meat

    • nightelves on 28/08/2025 - 18:20
      -2

      Leeroy already has enough meat each day.

    • qaz182 on 29/08/2025 - 11:20
      +5

      Leeeeeeeeroyyy Jennnkinnnnnnnnnnssssssss………..

  • nightelves on 28/08/2025 - 18:19
    +6

    Is this the same person that did the Hungry Jacks hack?

    • RubyChoco on 28/08/2025 - 18:21
      +8

      Nope. This is the first hack I have posted

      • capslock janitor on 28/08/2025 - 18:28

        why not applicable for coles ?

      • ATTS on 28/08/2025 - 19:34
        +5

        Thanks op nice hack.

        Better than the 2c hack.

        Can we do click and collect for that hack?

        • RubyChoco on 28/08/2025 - 19:34
          +2

          Yep. I use click and collect all the time

  • High on 28/08/2025 - 18:22
    +1

    That's like 33% off. Interesting idea though

    • TEER3X on 28/08/2025 - 18:46

      Probably end up getting a much lower discount if any

  • 87percent on 28/08/2025 - 18:26

    Didn’t someone post recently about doing split payments at Woolworths as well?

  • capslock janitor on 28/08/2025 - 18:26
    +6

    any sliced ribeye steaks for my bbq

  • tc423 on 28/08/2025 - 18:33
    +8

    This is next level……my respect.

  • tazmaniak on 28/08/2025 - 18:34
    +8

    I've done this with salmon fillets since they tend to be a certain weight. 👍

  • Guybrush- Threepwood on 28/08/2025 - 18:36

    Think it would work ordering 5 grams of the same ham, 10 times?

    • RubyChoco on 28/08/2025 - 18:36
      +1

      Unfortunately you have to order in 100g lots

  • michael128 on 28/08/2025 - 18:40
    +12

    As an employee of Woolies IT team, I will pass this to the business, thanks for bring it to our attention, we will get it fixed asap.

    • TEER3X on 28/08/2025 - 18:47
      +12

      There's nothing to fix, margins on manufactured meat are huge. A little bit of goodwill goes a long way.

    • askbargain on 28/08/2025 - 18:53
      +18

      “Woolies IT team” lmao

      • truetypezk on 28/08/2025 - 18:57
        +7

        Certainly more respectable than their counterparts at Coles :)

    • Big L on 28/08/2025 - 19:00
      +8

      They don't know how to, that's why it exists 😂

      Better still, the IT effort will cost more than the hack, go ahead 😂

    • RubyChoco on 28/08/2025 - 19:44
      +4

      This one is pretty hard to fix. The solution needs to consider situations when a person pays by gift card and may not have extra money on the gift card to charge.

      The alternative is to do what Coles does, where you don't pay until the shopping is prepared and the exact amount is confirmed. This also has its challenges because what happens if there isn't enough money on the card when the shopping is already prepared, i.e. is the staff member supposed to put the items back onto the shelf?

      Either way, changing this system is easier said than done

      • truetypezk on 28/08/2025 - 20:39
        +3

        Coles solves this problem by not allowing gift card payments for online orders lol.

        • bcYield on 28/08/2025 - 20:54

          Coles charge extra after and the final payment is totally based on a dasher.

      • Shitforbrains on 28/08/2025 - 20:59

        They can just sell it by the slice, instead of by weight. When you buy fruit from Woolworths online they charge per fruit instead of per kg.

    • bcYield on 28/08/2025 - 20:52
      +1

      An average IT guy should have known about this glitch. If they are confident of the weights the items, they can sell per item. But it don't think it's easy.

  • Fobsessive on 28/08/2025 - 18:41
    -6

    Wastes plastic packaging

  • blah-blah on 28/08/2025 - 18:44

    I remember it works for olives too if they too lazy to get to the exact 100g weight, but the saving may be much lower, like 5 or 10 cents maybe.

    Whereas Coles charge you what it weighs, so order total changes later on.

  • Rochie on 28/08/2025 - 18:44
    +2

    The math aint mathing.

    • realaccount627465746 on 28/08/2025 - 19:41
      +1

      yeah 300g for the price of 200g isn't 50% off

    • Big L on 28/08/2025 - 20:18
      -1

      "up to". Order more varieties

      • Rochie on 28/08/2025 - 20:23
        +1

        It mathematically cannot work. To be able to get 50% off you would have to have 50g slices as they are half of 100g. But then you would just get 2 slices equaling 100g. Then you have saved no money.

        • Dalryk on 28/08/2025 - 22:39
          +3

          Hypothetically, if a single slice weighed 99 grams, and you ordered 100g, they would be forced to give you two slices totalling 198g.

          198-100/198 = 49.5% discount!

    • Big L on 28/08/2025 - 20:20

      You use sliced meat for a hack?

    • truetypezk on 28/08/2025 - 20:38
      +7

      I think you need to use even better Engrish so we can understand

    • topherboi on 29/08/2025 - 07:51
      +2

      but if you know you know

      This idiom really needs to die.

  • RoyalGala on 28/08/2025 - 18:54
    +3

    Also works with ginger… sometimes you'll get a whole slab when selecting minimum weight.

    • truetypezk on 28/08/2025 - 19:00

      I used to do this with King crab meat when they still sell those. Not motivated enough with slice meat or gingers. You can get reasonable dirt cheap imported gingers at Asian grocers.

      I miss those cheapskate king crabs!

    • RubyChoco on 28/08/2025 - 19:10
      +2

      I once bought 100g of ginger and ended up with 1kg

      • welcomeUniverseWorld on 28/08/2025 - 21:13
        +1

        What do you do with 1 Kg of ginger?

        • RubyChoco on 28/08/2025 - 21:21
          +2

          I froze it and used it slowly over time

          • Daabido on 28/08/2025 - 22:30

            @RubyChoco: That's perverse!

          • Embaloo on 28/08/2025 - 22:32
            -2

            @RubyChoco: Had the same thing happen! Did the same thing too!! 😝 grated and froze in an ice cube tray, worked a treat. Haven't purchased ginger for so long… did report it, was told all good lol.

        • capslock janitor on 28/08/2025 - 23:08

          we like chicken ginger stir fry. 1kg wouldnt last long. the unpickable quality is the problem

          • Craze on 01/09/2025 - 13:27

            @capslock janitor: You'd have still gotten a bargain if paid for 100g and received a whole kg worth of ginger!

  • Maglia Nera on 28/08/2025 - 18:54

    wonder if this works with Brandon Smith

    Maybe that's why he's in strife ?

  • bingsta on 28/08/2025 - 18:59

    Wont they just charge u for the actual weight? Or do u have to insist they charge you only for 100g?

    • RubyChoco on 28/08/2025 - 19:00
      +2

      They can't. The online shopping system does not have a way to charge you more afterwards

  • whichwhatwho on 28/08/2025 - 19:08

    No amount of cheap deli goods is worth it when they are all trained to cut it with an axe and slop it into a bag. Don't need to be a proper Italian deli to slice things thin, layer it and respect the (profanity) produce but all of the major supermarkets are hopelessly inadequate at serving the goods they're there to sell.

  • punkel on 28/08/2025 - 19:14
    +1

    Do they do sliced Wagyu?

  • mrvaluepack on 28/08/2025 - 19:19

    I thought they fixed this "hack"? i used to buy chicken online and got +0.5 +1kg, but now you have to prepay the max weight range and if you get under what you pay for but still within range, then too bad for you.

    • RubyChoco on 28/08/2025 - 19:21
      +3

      This post only relates to things that does not come in a tray. Chicken usually comes in a tray unless you specifically buy it from the deli

      When things come in a tray, you are right that you pay the max weight and get refunded the difference

      • commandershephard on 28/08/2025 - 20:30
        -1

        So why can’t they implement this system and give you less than you ordered with deli meats if they wanted to stop this hack?

  • Slo20 on 28/08/2025 - 19:36
    +6

    OP is 100% responsible for Woolies recent bad financial report.

  • ihbh on 28/08/2025 - 19:45
    +3

    Penny wise, pound foolish.

    Processed meats are bad for you. E.g. https://www.cancercouncil.com.au/1in3cancers/lifestyle-choic…

    • Jaduqimon on 28/08/2025 - 20:36
      +2

      100% of the people who dont eat processed meat also die.

      • welcomeUniverseWorld on 28/08/2025 - 21:14
        +1

        100% agree.

      • muwu on 28/08/2025 - 21:28
        +1

        It's how you live that matters.

      • fredblogs on 29/08/2025 - 13:37

        100% of the people who don't smoke also die. Do you smoke?

    • muwu on 28/08/2025 - 21:27
      +3

      Despite the negs, he is not wrong. There's a lot of causation evidence between processed meats and many of our chronic diseases. Especially true for colorectal cancer.

  • ilubbargains on 28/08/2025 - 20:09

    freakin' MVP you are!

  • ahmedaman on 28/08/2025 - 20:19
    +1

    Respect

  • chilln2006 on 28/08/2025 - 20:19

    I don’t want to risk my ham being spat on by the butcher. 🤪

  • bcYield on 28/08/2025 - 20:58
    +1

    The real cost is the time and effort and travel and the wait time for the C&C and have to spend more to meet the C&C requirements.

  • Mild October on 28/08/2025 - 20:59
    -1

    Hamboi you are.

    Anyway greater hack than the two cents one

  • cbpeh1 on 28/08/2025 - 21:05
    +1

    I remember in the early days, i would order 2 x half chickens.
    They often run out of that so would give me 2 x whole chickens.

    • kiitos on 28/08/2025 - 23:47
      +1

      How can that be? They don't have 2 half chickens so they give you 4 half chickens?

  • CheapCookie on 28/08/2025 - 21:34

    Darn.
    Just put my Woolworth's shop in earlier.
    Cool meaty hack to share :D

    • RubyChoco on 28/08/2025 - 23:08
      +4

      There’s another way of looking at this

      I’d rather shop at Woolies than Coles because of this hack and Woolies has earned me as a customer. The amount of money they get from me from the rest of the shopping far outweighs the extra ham I got, so it’s a win-win

      • MattyD on 29/08/2025 - 07:16
        +1

        Yeah fair play

  • bdl on 28/08/2025 - 21:38
    +1

    No matter how you slice it - you can't beat meat

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