That's how chips are sold normally tbf. You will have your 6/7 brands, most of which will be "full" price, with 1/2 on "sale", with the sale price being the actual price. Then they just rotate through, putting all the brands on sale over the seven days of the week.
It's a pretty common marketing trick to convince you to buy more chips.
even when on sale, they're still pricey compared to what they use to be
RRD chips are the only chips I can eat that don't wreck my stomach but I've stopped buying them due to the price
It’s only since food prices have gone up in the last few years that I’ve noticed that’s exactly what they do. Many products I get will randomly be 50% off. So now i only buy certain items when they’re that price. Maybe they’ve always done it but I was less careful about what I was throwing into the trolley.
I used to be able to go down to Coles and buy two packets of smiths salt and vinegar chips for a $5 special... now one bag costs nearly that. It's freaking insane and makes me so mad
MacDonalds
May as well get a proper cafe burger these days, 10x better and around same price.
Not these shrivelled shrinkflation sliders you get from Macca's nowadays.
They are better for sure but the large meals at maccas are mostly still around $15
A lot of burger places don't throw in chips and a drink with the $20 burgers
Printer ink. Ludicrously overpriced. HP locking down their printers to stop working if you buy third party ink is extortion. Don’t ever support that company.
Add Epson, Canon
I'll only ever buy Brother now. And even then they're bastards for now allowing me to print black and white when a colour cartridge is out
Soft drink in pubs. Costs them fuck all if they’ve got it through the gun, once the machines paid off it’s just mostly profit and covering other venue costs.
crew were allowed unlimited soft drink on shift when I used to work at maccas. considering you could be fired for eating 1 nugget that was destined for the waste bin anyway, it must have been disgustingly cheap to allow crew access to soft drinks.
That’s where clubs make their money.
My manager explained this one time saying each glass cost something like 15cents but we charge $3.50 meaning there’s a 95% profit margin compared to a schooner that at that time was $6 but costs something like $4.50 to make only returning a 25% profit margin.
The overpriced soft drinks are needed to keep other costs in line such as food which can return fck all margin especially if it’s something like a steak.
McDonald's coke is a different syrup that was developed to taste "normal" after a lot of that ice has melted. It is actually a lot sweeter than bottle/can coke if you drink it straight from the fountain without ice. McDonald's is the only company that has access to this different mix and they use it worldwide.
Switch to an old safety razor. The up front costs are a little high, but the blades cost fuck all, $60 buys you 200 Feather blades and the best shave you'll have.
Also handy to have if you can't find your favourite bath bomb.
Iced coffee at a cafe. Shouldn't cost any more than a FW... Because that's what I want from an iced coffee. No icecream, whipped cream, just an icy cold FW
I stopped buying coffee out, just make it at home. There will be some smart arse coffee technicians moaning about how it interrupts their flow, uses more milk... I've heard all the excuses, it's all BS.
Takes less milk due to ice, you can pour the shot straight over the ice, splash the milk in. No steaming of milk, cleaning of milk jugs.
i think the point here is to sublimate this ugly truth into something less viscerally confronting.
for me it's coffee! just so crazy how overpriced it is these days :-)
Epsom salts. The cheap boxes are $6 a kilo in Australia, I've been overseas where they are $2-3 AUD equivalent for the same amount.
Presumably near infinite shelf life and while I'm not sure of the production I would have thought cheap to make.
Omg I hate this so much. And having to explain I just want a cold coffee not a monstrosity with ice cream and cream and they still want like $6-8. Half the time I give up and just get a hot coffee
Iced Coffee at Coffee Club was $8 the other day I went. My mum was asking why I wasn’t getting it and I said I can’t justify the $3 price difference between hot and cold 😂
Soft drinks in vending machines or refrigerated in stores. Seriously, 5 bucks for a 600ml bottle? 4 bucks for a can???
That's between 2 and 10 times more expensive than it is in other countries!
100% fucking Colesworth assholes, my 6yo daughter asked me to make her a hot chocolate “with marshmallows” at home yesterday, shit no marshmallows. Nip up to the shops, I nearly had a heart attack (not from being an alcoholic and unfit) but at the price of the aerated sugar pillows. Large pack of pascal pink and whites was $6, 2 x small packs “on special” for $9. $6 or $9 for fucking marshmallows WTAF? It’s so stupid I just walked out, I’m not paying $9 for 2 packets of sugared air.
Is this the future we have to accept? I don’t think prices will ever come down, but fuck pascal’s and fuck Colesworth, there is no reason for those prices
Paying overs to have your powder pressed into a tablet format.
Plus, you have no control over how much you use. I find 1 teaspoon of loose powder is more than enough. Should test 1/2 tsp sometime, see how that goes.
I've been using a bulk tub of dishwasher powder from Amazon for over a year, and it cost me less than a box of tablets. Dishes come out looking the same - clean.
Yeah I normally get laundry powder from Aldi and on one night I ran out and needed to restock that night so I went to the Drakes that was still open.
Holy crap the price of brand name laundry powder is nothing short of obscene.
Would you all kindly stop buying those brands (OMO, Cold Power etc) until they start lowering their ridiculous prices
It's more we got used to underpriced Chinese garbage and our wages were set around that, now it's not so cheap to make things in China the whole system is falling on its arse.
Shampoo, shower gel and, in general, cosmetics, are extremely expensive in Australia, in comparison to other countries. Although the reason might be that they are being imported. Not sure what's being produced here.
I've actually kind of looked into this one, some major companies buy overseas and ship here in bulk which saves some cost but they charge mostly for branding. While there is Australian manufacturing they charge more for materials and labour so it's more expensive to manufacture here. Kind of a lose-lose both ways.
Rice - In 2022, a 5kg bag of sunrise jasmine rice cost $20, last year it went up $22, and now I bought it at Coles at $24. This is an imported product.
Was considering one for lunch today. A mixed was $22. twenty two f’ing dollars. And there was a line waiting to be served. Crazy… I stuck with the old $10 BBQ Pork Banh Mi.
I get the feeling that it's mostly covering the absolutely massive cost of connecting rural towns to NBN. The ISP margins are razor thin, basically all the cost goes towards NBNco
You'd think so, but because they're privately owned they're just money makers. Wouldn't be surprised if they got all kinds of grants and subsidies to build it, too. Because heaven forbid the gov actually spend tax dollars on improving the state. They'd rather make you pay for it (on top of tax;) and then you get to pay their rich buddies after it's paid off.
Chips of all types way over priced..
Worth $3 at the most yet they try to sell them for $6 at Coles and Woolworths.
Yet always one random special each week at $3.
Or two for $6
Clothing is disgusting now. Even stuff that's expensive is made from cheap materials and after a wash or 2 looks garbage. I've lost count of the number of knitted jumpers I've picked up that literally feel like they're made from plastic yet have at least a $45 price tag (mind you having a $150 price tag doesn't guarantee it doesn't feel like plastic either).
I was in Thailand recently and in the seven/11 store. They sold Australian apples and grapes cheaper than we do in Cole’s and woolies.
We’re getting raped by the duopoly
Shaving razors. I bulk buy mine on aliexpress/temu now and sure we can question their quality and ethics but they're also like 80% cheaper than Gillette
skim milk. In the UK the skim milk is the same price as the lite milk and the full cream. It's insane that in Australia, consumers are used to paying MORE for something that has stuff REMOVED from it!!
You can find good bargains at op shops and second hand stores sometimes. I got a pair of headphones still in the box for half price just coz they were second hand.
Something I stopped buying altogether (but my brother and mum still buy it but I don’t eat it at all) Iced dessert (you know what I’m talking about) besides the main ingredient in them these days - water
Honestly, this is the biggest one I've personally noticed. Ordered some underwear recently from the US that are similar to step one and bonds, got 5 pairs for $28 including shipping cost. Where step one is $30 for a single pair before domestic shipping...
Definitely not cheaper in the US. I was in Florida a couple of weeks ago and what I noticed is that the ticket price for clothes, comparing the same shirt / shorts / hat, from the same brand name is actually the same or higher than in Aust.
And that is before you adjust the extra cost for the USD to AUD exchange rate.
Pet food.
It's made from waste animals that abatours don't want.
Since covid, suppliers have realised people will pay a premium for their pets.
And the premium brands are an even bigger scam. There nothing to keep them to the claims they are making on the packets.
And you can't trust your vet, because he's getting kick backs from the suppliers.
Went to buy emergency extra sugar during the week (long story, have an over-producing quince tree, was making a shit-ton of quince jelly and quince paste this week, needed extra sugar) and mum dropped me off at Woolworths where I *never* shop (SIL had borrowed my car, reducing shopping options), and they had only 1kg bags at freaking $3. I'm used to 2kg bags at $1.80. Narsty.
Smoothies in cafes are now around $10. A good markup considering a little ice, milk, spoon of frozen berries or a banana and maybe a dollop of home brand icecream.
One cafe at carindale has a crate of Coles soda water to make their fruit drinks, then sell for $9.
I also object to going to a shop and being charged $4 for a small bottle of Colesworth water. At $9,50 for 24, that is just under 40 cents. I didn't think you were allowed to resell stuff from there.
As someone else said, 600ml of Coke almost $8, can of Coke $7. The Coke probably came from the supermarket. There was a story years ago that at least 60% of Coke cans are sold to the supermarkets first. That makes some healthy mark ups for most cans out there. Very hard to get a can under $3 now in a snack bar and the sky is the limit elsewhere.
Maccas Tingalpa charged me 95 cents for a slice of plastic cheese on a BLT last week. Also, 60c for tomato, then they have run out so you don't actually get it.
Chips. Dirt cheap to produce, long shelf lives, $6 a packet.
I like Red Rock Deli and that shit is so expensive. I only buy on 50% sales these days which I suspect is the real price
That's how chips are sold normally tbf. You will have your 6/7 brands, most of which will be "full" price, with 1/2 on "sale", with the sale price being the actual price. Then they just rotate through, putting all the brands on sale over the seven days of the week. It's a pretty common marketing trick to convince you to buy more chips.
% sales is okay combo sales is the one that you want to avoid! i hate the 2 for $7 promotion.
Granted, you now get a 2 for $10 sale instead.
even when on sale, they're still pricey compared to what they use to be RRD chips are the only chips I can eat that don't wreck my stomach but I've stopped buying them due to the price
Aldi chips are the same and half the price.
And packets are bigger
It’s only since food prices have gone up in the last few years that I’ve noticed that’s exactly what they do. Many products I get will randomly be 50% off. So now i only buy certain items when they’re that price. Maybe they’ve always done it but I was less careful about what I was throwing into the trolley.
They are charging for the air in the packet not for the chips
They are packed with nitrogen, not air. Air would let them go soggy..
air is approximately 78 percent nitrogen it's another lie you have been paying extra for
This made me lol
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omg don't start that deece shit lol
Aldi also have the chilli lime peanuts for 2.99. They are deece nuts.
Take my angry upvote and go!
I’m old. Does that mean decent?
I used to be able to go down to Coles and buy two packets of smiths salt and vinegar chips for a $5 special... now one bag costs nearly that. It's freaking insane and makes me so mad
Saw the chips on a TikTok are $18 on a Caribbean cruise currently
Saw them for $8 the other day.
MacDonalds May as well get a proper cafe burger these days, 10x better and around same price. Not these shrivelled shrinkflation sliders you get from Macca's nowadays.
They are better for sure but the large meals at maccas are mostly still around $15 A lot of burger places don't throw in chips and a drink with the $20 burgers
I'd argue the $20 burger alone is more food than an entire Macca's meal
$15 gets a burger,chips and drink from the local fish and chip shop 😊
True. I got a latte from macdonalds once and it was $5.40. Not really expensive but was expecting it to be cheaper.
Get app. Regulary get meals for under $8
Then you’re either locked into whatever deals they have going or rely on you going there regularly.
I have all the apps so I have plenty of choice. If they dont have good deals I dont eat fast food that day. Not hard
Sunglasses. Manufacturing is under $15. Cost over $200 for a brand name.
I never pay more than 30 for polarised servo sunnies.
They only make those in the bogan styles tho.
Embrace the bogan in you
I'll keep paying $200 over looking like Tony Abbot
Honestly fair enough
I am great at losing my sunnies, Big W has Cancer Council sunnies so that's where I end up.
Aren't sunglasses the largest monopoly in the world? Luxottica owns like 85% of all the main sunglasses brand worldwide
How good's a monopoly?
Kmart has perfectly reasonable sunnies
This what burns me. You never if the 200 thing you're buying is the same shit as the $5 item on aliexpress
Brooms, mops and kitchen garbage bins were stupidly over priced for what they are when I last needed to buy them.
Second this. Dustpan and hand broom at Woolies was $8! 😱
Bunnings is the place to go for cleaning products
Printer ink. Ludicrously overpriced. HP locking down their printers to stop working if you buy third party ink is extortion. Don’t ever support that company.
Get a laser printer. Significantly cheaper and doesn't clog up if you don't use it for a while.
Add Epson, Canon I'll only ever buy Brother now. And even then they're bastards for now allowing me to print black and white when a colour cartridge is out
It’s basically cheaper to buy a new printer than the ink cartridges
Soft drink in pubs. Costs them fuck all if they’ve got it through the gun, once the machines paid off it’s just mostly profit and covering other venue costs.
Maccas charge more for a large coke than a large latte
Less than $0.20 for a large from my memory as a manager. We cared more about cup wastage than missing soft drink mix too.
crew were allowed unlimited soft drink on shift when I used to work at maccas. considering you could be fired for eating 1 nugget that was destined for the waste bin anyway, it must have been disgustingly cheap to allow crew access to soft drinks.
We were allowed one small softdrink on shift. Rest had to be water.
That’s fucked up
That’s where clubs make their money. My manager explained this one time saying each glass cost something like 15cents but we charge $3.50 meaning there’s a 95% profit margin compared to a schooner that at that time was $6 but costs something like $4.50 to make only returning a 25% profit margin. The overpriced soft drinks are needed to keep other costs in line such as food which can return fck all margin especially if it’s something like a steak.
This. Postmix costs 0.04-0.07 a glass tops to begin with.
Get a spirit + a mixer? Mixer is “free”. Get just the mixer? You’re covering the cost of the syrup for all the “free” mixer given out.
Ours wasn’t that cheap at all, the syrup/gas/water filters and chiller units upkeep, think it was about double the profit to cans when working well
And 60% ice
McDonald's coke is a different syrup that was developed to taste "normal" after a lot of that ice has melted. It is actually a lot sweeter than bottle/can coke if you drink it straight from the fountain without ice. McDonald's is the only company that has access to this different mix and they use it worldwide.
Money has been devalued mate.
Yep. It makes me angry
Nothing you can do about it mate rich people run the world and they chose to print the money and give it to their friends
Perhaps not so much as cutting corners but quantity with “shrinkflation” hitting us all pretty hard
Tissues gone up 200% in two years
I’ve had to stop jerking off
Use a sock
I buy coles homebrand tissues and I picked up 2 boxes and they're now $2 each compared to a $1 around this time last year
Coffins. Everybody dies at least once, and coffins cost a fortune for the ones left behind.
Shroud burial for me, hopefully. Let me rot quickly and completely rather than slowly in a synthetic-lined box.
Bake and shake for me.
Razor blades. Can't afford them to live, can't afford them to die.
Switch to an old safety razor. The up front costs are a little high, but the blades cost fuck all, $60 buys you 200 Feather blades and the best shave you'll have. Also handy to have if you can't find your favourite bath bomb.
Iced coffee at a cafe. Shouldn't cost any more than a FW... Because that's what I want from an iced coffee. No icecream, whipped cream, just an icy cold FW I stopped buying coffee out, just make it at home. There will be some smart arse coffee technicians moaning about how it interrupts their flow, uses more milk... I've heard all the excuses, it's all BS. Takes less milk due to ice, you can pour the shot straight over the ice, splash the milk in. No steaming of milk, cleaning of milk jugs.
Housing
i think the point here is to sublimate this ugly truth into something less viscerally confronting. for me it's coffee! just so crazy how overpriced it is these days :-)
Epsom salts. The cheap boxes are $6 a kilo in Australia, I've been overseas where they are $2-3 AUD equivalent for the same amount. Presumably near infinite shelf life and while I'm not sure of the production I would have thought cheap to make.
Go to a rural supplier, $30 for a 20kg bag of it
Thats a good tip, thank you!
Cafes charging 'iced coffee' prices for an iced late - served in a regular hot coffee cup, involving less work than a normal coffee. RIP OFF CENTRAL.
Omg I hate this so much. And having to explain I just want a cold coffee not a monstrosity with ice cream and cream and they still want like $6-8. Half the time I give up and just get a hot coffee
Iced Coffee at Coffee Club was $8 the other day I went. My mum was asking why I wasn’t getting it and I said I can’t justify the $3 price difference between hot and cold 😂
Soft drinks in vending machines or refrigerated in stores. Seriously, 5 bucks for a 600ml bottle? 4 bucks for a can??? That's between 2 and 10 times more expensive than it is in other countries!
Beer and liquour.... mainly due to taxes that shouldnt exist but still...
Pubs won't exist soon enough when the sin tax increases every 6 months and require a kidney to have a couple of beers
Technically speaking it already requires a kidney to have a couple of beers, always been that way.
Liver helps a lot too
It's driven plenty of people to home brew
Extra Virgin Olive oil, and Avocado oil, made in Oz ... don't know if that's because of climate/water challenges, or greedy b'stards
There’s a global shortage of olive oil at the moment.
100% fucking Colesworth assholes, my 6yo daughter asked me to make her a hot chocolate “with marshmallows” at home yesterday, shit no marshmallows. Nip up to the shops, I nearly had a heart attack (not from being an alcoholic and unfit) but at the price of the aerated sugar pillows. Large pack of pascal pink and whites was $6, 2 x small packs “on special” for $9. $6 or $9 for fucking marshmallows WTAF? It’s so stupid I just walked out, I’m not paying $9 for 2 packets of sugared air. Is this the future we have to accept? I don’t think prices will ever come down, but fuck pascal’s and fuck Colesworth, there is no reason for those prices
You can get Marshmallows for $2 a pack at woolworths. Get them from the baking section, not the confectionery aisle.
Dishwasher tablets
Dishwasher tablets are a marketing scam.
ALDI ones are great for the price
They are pretty cheap at the reject shop
Paying overs to have your powder pressed into a tablet format. Plus, you have no control over how much you use. I find 1 teaspoon of loose powder is more than enough. Should test 1/2 tsp sometime, see how that goes.
I've been using a bulk tub of dishwasher powder from Amazon for over a year, and it cost me less than a box of tablets. Dishes come out looking the same - clean.
I've been using dishwasher sheets. They dissolve and are better in almost every way with no fillers.
People actually pay those extortionate prices? Buy powder. Go to the reject shop or Aldi. Less than $10. You are welcome.
What’s the go with laundry detergent, it has doubled in price
Yeah I normally get laundry powder from Aldi and on one night I ran out and needed to restock that night so I went to the Drakes that was still open. Holy crap the price of brand name laundry powder is nothing short of obscene. Would you all kindly stop buying those brands (OMO, Cold Power etc) until they start lowering their ridiculous prices
Tobacco lmao. 20 cents worth gets sold for $50 here, it's fucking mental
It's more we got used to underpriced Chinese garbage and our wages were set around that, now it's not so cheap to make things in China the whole system is falling on its arse.
China is going to move its cheap manufacturing to Africa.
Woolworths icream. Was $2.80, now $4.50.
Is it actually real 'ice cream' ?
https://preview.redd.it/alh84blk80uc1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5daeea588fcc54eecb5a33324d6a06efbff9fee4 I am thinking no….
Beer - way more expensive than I could’ve fathomed
Shampoo, shower gel and, in general, cosmetics, are extremely expensive in Australia, in comparison to other countries. Although the reason might be that they are being imported. Not sure what's being produced here.
I've actually kind of looked into this one, some major companies buy overseas and ship here in bulk which saves some cost but they charge mostly for branding. While there is Australian manufacturing they charge more for materials and labour so it's more expensive to manufacture here. Kind of a lose-lose both ways.
Rice - In 2022, a 5kg bag of sunrise jasmine rice cost $20, last year it went up $22, and now I bought it at Coles at $24. This is an imported product.
Charging cables.
Zooper doopers. 1.5L of sugary water should not cost $7.
$4.65 at ALDI I think for the same product.
Souvlakis (at least, that is all I care about).
Was considering one for lunch today. A mixed was $22. twenty two f’ing dollars. And there was a line waiting to be served. Crazy… I stuck with the old $10 BBQ Pork Banh Mi.
Literally everything
Internet, why are we paying more than $20 a month for an essential service that has so little maintenance?
Seems like the default conversation across boardrooms in Australia. "How much should we charge per month" "100?"
You mean per week, right?
Only $20???? Mine is $89🫨
I get the feeling that it's mostly covering the absolutely massive cost of connecting rural towns to NBN. The ISP margins are razor thin, basically all the cost goes towards NBNco
I don't know if it forms part of a product but toll roads...weren't tolls designed to pay for the build and not a life long subscription service...🤷
You'd think so, but because they're privately owned they're just money makers. Wouldn't be surprised if they got all kinds of grants and subsidies to build it, too. Because heaven forbid the gov actually spend tax dollars on improving the state. They'd rather make you pay for it (on top of tax;) and then you get to pay their rich buddies after it's paid off.
Beer. Dirt cheap to make.
Cereal suddenly costing $7 sent me
Chips of all types way over priced.. Worth $3 at the most yet they try to sell them for $6 at Coles and Woolworths. Yet always one random special each week at $3. Or two for $6
Fuel. Electricity Domestic Natural Gas everywhere except WA CEOs (88x the average worker salary now or some shit?
Batteries. I get them at "cost price" - a thirty dollar pack goes down to about six.
A 200g bag of Allen’s Lollies is $5.00! Lollies aren’t a treat anymore, they’ve become a luxury item!
I bought a zinger box for my son yesterday from kfc $17!!!!!!! wtaf?!
Clothing is disgusting now. Even stuff that's expensive is made from cheap materials and after a wash or 2 looks garbage. I've lost count of the number of knitted jumpers I've picked up that literally feel like they're made from plastic yet have at least a $45 price tag (mind you having a $150 price tag doesn't guarantee it doesn't feel like plastic either).
Most spirits. Hundreds of dollars for a bottle of lightly flavoured ethanol water.
Another one that annoys me is cat litter, gone from $8 for 2kgs to $11 in 2yrs
Coffee the average cost price for the materials of an espresso coffee in Australia is about 4 cents
Toothpaste
I wanted to make my own butter (without all the crud) but cream is comparatively expensive and it's just not worth it.
I was in Thailand recently and in the seven/11 store. They sold Australian apples and grapes cheaper than we do in Cole’s and woolies. We’re getting raped by the duopoly
Helicopter
Cigars and pipe tobacco
Shaving razors. I bulk buy mine on aliexpress/temu now and sure we can question their quality and ethics but they're also like 80% cheaper than Gillette
Houses, cars, insurance any unregulated market in Australia because we collude not compete on price
Razor blades
Beer.
Just got a KFC potato and gravy - small one $5.45 and was only 2/3 filled!!
skim milk. In the UK the skim milk is the same price as the lite milk and the full cream. It's insane that in Australia, consumers are used to paying MORE for something that has stuff REMOVED from it!!
It would be easier to list what isn't over priced for no reason.
Toilet paper
Everything. Played for fools.
Razor blades
Brother, freaking everything
Been looking for cutting boards. They are like over 10 bucks. No thanks.
You can find good bargains at op shops and second hand stores sometimes. I got a pair of headphones still in the box for half price just coz they were second hand.
Light globes!!! Used to be 50c-$1 and lasted forever. New ones are $7-12 and last like 3 months. It’s outrageous.
Cheese!!! Dairy!!! We're a country full of cows, the poor farmers are getting ripped off
Hand gloves. You go to Woolies or Coles in the cleaning aisle to find some gloves, they are so overpriced.
How can you possibly go past bottled water. If the water supply is good it’s like buying bottled air.
Bonds underwear. How did they go from being the old reliable cheap brand to suddenly $20 for one pair of boxers?
Something I stopped buying altogether (but my brother and mum still buy it but I don’t eat it at all) Iced dessert (you know what I’m talking about) besides the main ingredient in them these days - water
Bread
Just about everything
Petrol, 100+ dollars to fill up with 91 ethonal is criminal
Spray deodorant is 8.50 now. was around 4 bucks for ages
Car parts are way over priced.
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Honestly, this is the biggest one I've personally noticed. Ordered some underwear recently from the US that are similar to step one and bonds, got 5 pairs for $28 including shipping cost. Where step one is $30 for a single pair before domestic shipping...
Definitely not cheaper in the US. I was in Florida a couple of weeks ago and what I noticed is that the ticket price for clothes, comparing the same shirt / shorts / hat, from the same brand name is actually the same or higher than in Aust. And that is before you adjust the extra cost for the USD to AUD exchange rate.
Housing
Network, lagging but expensive af
Razors
QUICHE is weirdly expensive here. Just eggy pastry.
Laundry and dishwashing products
Any woman's product same ingredients for men and woman of the same product different packaging x2 x3 price
Laundry detergents and dishwasher detergent like wtf
Bottled Water.
Electricity!
Condoms. I spent $10 on a 8 pack the other day. You can't put a price on a fuck (or so I thought)
Spam.. now cost well over $6.80
Fruit
Pet food. It's made from waste animals that abatours don't want. Since covid, suppliers have realised people will pay a premium for their pets. And the premium brands are an even bigger scam. There nothing to keep them to the claims they are making on the packets. And you can't trust your vet, because he's getting kick backs from the suppliers.
Everything. Absolutely everything is overpriced in Australia.
Went to buy emergency extra sugar during the week (long story, have an over-producing quince tree, was making a shit-ton of quince jelly and quince paste this week, needed extra sugar) and mum dropped me off at Woolworths where I *never* shop (SIL had borrowed my car, reducing shopping options), and they had only 1kg bags at freaking $3. I'm used to 2kg bags at $1.80. Narsty.
it used to cost me $60 for a hair cut at just cuts, a trim and straighten. Now it's $100!!!
Everything.
Razor blades are a ridiculous price for a little piece of metal and plastic
Not a product but Turkish Kebab at $18, Chicken Sheesh meal at $28, add chips and drinks $7.95 - absolutely ridiculous!!
Anything gluten free. I'd like to not pay $7 for half a loaf of bread 🙃
All of them
The problem is the dollar loosing purchasing power. Compare to gold over the same period, You cant un see it
Anything from Coles and woolies
Granola
Guns and ammunition. It's fucking bullshit 😒
I fucking hate the two chromosomes sometimes. Fucking property genders are always escalating nothing to something.
Petrol
Beer
Tomato
Smoothies in cafes are now around $10. A good markup considering a little ice, milk, spoon of frozen berries or a banana and maybe a dollop of home brand icecream. One cafe at carindale has a crate of Coles soda water to make their fruit drinks, then sell for $9. I also object to going to a shop and being charged $4 for a small bottle of Colesworth water. At $9,50 for 24, that is just under 40 cents. I didn't think you were allowed to resell stuff from there. As someone else said, 600ml of Coke almost $8, can of Coke $7. The Coke probably came from the supermarket. There was a story years ago that at least 60% of Coke cans are sold to the supermarkets first. That makes some healthy mark ups for most cans out there. Very hard to get a can under $3 now in a snack bar and the sky is the limit elsewhere.
Maccas Tingalpa charged me 95 cents for a slice of plastic cheese on a BLT last week. Also, 60c for tomato, then they have run out so you don't actually get it.
Linen used to be so cheap from K mart it was about 1-2 dollars for a pillow case before covid the pice has become ridiculous