See Coles have started there big discounts on fuel if you spend over certain amounts .  Also noticed over the last few weeks before the big anouncement that prices have increased across the board on a lot of their main items,  2 cents here 4 cents there.

Why not a discout on fuel for each 30 Dollars hence $90 gets you 12 Cents P/ L off   you  spend $90 and still only get four cents off .

Anyone noticed what appear to be  insigificant at first glance price increases in there local area Coles  to cover the discounts at the bowser  .

Not sure if  Big W  or Woolies are planing the same fuel discount war strategy  but have noticed some items head up in price in their outlets

I heard today that this is under examination from the ACCCCCCCCCCC......

I found that if I buy my groceries on Wednesday at my local IGA I get a 5% pensioner discount which is better than 4 cpl, then even better if I shop at ALDI which is just around the corner now I save about $40 per trolley over either of Coles or Woolies....

This is yet another marketing scheme to try and maintain the cartel.

Went shopping for our Christmas in July party at Coles this arvi.

Total of the tape = $152.80

Fuel voucher = 10 cents pl off.

Ma

It's all a big con job. The 2 biggies have been "saving up" with their price hikes for weeks. I'm sure it looks good from this end to the unwise, but these blokes never give anything away. Everything they do is always, repeat, always in their favour, and in the favour of the shareholders. The customers and the humble, but oh so necessary front of store staff don't rate very highly as recipients of any benefits. And as for their 2 for $4, but you pay $3 for one is crooked too. If 2 are $4, 2 should be $2, shouldn't it? Maths was not my strong point, but this is pretty basic. Somehow I wonder if this "2 for" vs the price for 1 is even legal. No one seems to question the big 2. I think the IGA idea is getting more attractive all the time. I don't like Aldi because they don't stock what I want and I hate chasing shops. I use more fuel chasing around than I save in the shops. We all have to smarten and get wise to these companies making something look good to the consumer when it really isn't all that advantagous to the consumer. Don't get sucked in. Cheers Chris

Talk about good timing. . . I stock up with my groceries and meat (and the occasional bottle of the good stuff) when I get to large cities so as to avoid the exorbitant prices in the little towns. I split up my shopping today and got 2x 40c vouchers. Used one to fill up the car (80 litres) and will use the other to fill the car and 4x 20L jerries next week when I leave Darwin. I figure $70.00 discount altogether from shopping that I had to do anyway. I know there are all sorts of arguments about this current promotion, but 70 bucks in my pocket instead of the fuel companies has got to be a good thing. Incidentally, I seem to remember many, many years ago when these shopper discount first came out, they actually were graduated - I thing 2c for every $30 up to a maximum of 8 cents a litre - and that was when petrol was about 75c a litre.

I tend to agree with you Mike .. I'm still in a static position here and I probably have a better opportunity than you to shop around.

The use of 'pay-dockets' was prohibited some years ago .. but the 'big 2' were granted exceptions and they now use that facility to its maximise their capital growth interests !

There are a couple of 'newer' players in the market (who will currently stay un-named) that I hope will have a significant impact against the duopoly that we now see ..

We're not getting much help from anywhere else .. be it State or Federal intervention ..

Jon

We only shop in Coles if we cannot get something in Aldi, different brands but much cheaper. Try em all once and it they dont suit dont buy again. I think Coles and Woolies dominate the market to such a degree its ridiculous. I make a point of never buying my newspaper in the supermarket and always getting my prescriptions made up at a small chemist, otherwise eventually these small shops will be wiped out. It was not that long ago that every rank of shops had a hardware store....where are they now, and we beleived at the time that all these big new stores were wonderful. What a mistake... Keith