A Current Affair - Australia's Supermarket Whistleblower

forumninja on 23/03/2015 - 20:15
Last edited 23/03/2015 - 20:57

For a good laugh, here's another ACA story on another "bargain hunter" today:

http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/article/8970023/australias-superma…

Australia's Supermarket Whistleblower
For more than two decades mum Cath Armstrong has been beating the supermarket giants at their own game. She's written budget books, set-up a savings club and inspired thousands of shoppers with her simple but effective tips. On A Current Affair, her ultimate guide to slashing your grocery bill.

She advertises her website which offers money savings tips which I won't link here, but it costs $36.50 to join! A fool and their money are soon parted.

Credits to her though, she buys a whole lot of 500mL Palmolive Naturals Shower Gel for $2.69, which is one of the cheapest it's been on OzBargain (cheapest so far is $2.66).
Certainly doing better than Australia's Tightest Family.

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  • dylanando on 23/03/2015 - 20:36
    +1

    Haha thanks for this forumninja. Always love these kinds of ACA stories!

  • RockyRaccoon on 23/03/2015 - 20:38

    Now for something completely different - an ACA whistleblower. Guess I am dreaming… :)

  • Ughhh on 23/03/2015 - 20:38
    +4

    Also saw the 'cut-price' cosmetics report. That was basically a big ad for Designer Brands makeup. Same factory doesn't necessarily mean same quality control and same ingredients doesn't necessarily mean the end result is the same if the procedure is different.

  • Davo1111 on 23/03/2015 - 21:44
    +1

    $36.50? yo scotty! get that paywall up! ;)

  • Mad Max on 23/03/2015 - 21:55
    +2

    I think I can run rings around her cheepskate tips and some people here on Ozbargain are definitely in another league…
    Most people on TV would not even understand the heroic level ozbargainers can reach ;-)
    But good on her…she had the idea and she is making money out of it!
    I wish I thought about it first!

  • conder4935 on 23/03/2015 - 23:20

    have you noticed that when aca gets their shopper for prices they do not tell you when the shopper compared the prices,aldi has their specials on wednesday and new ones on saturday,woolworths and coles have their deals starting on wednesday until the following tuesday and by the time it goes on air most specials are a week old so to take the special prices you had to be there over a week prior to the broardcast

  • [Deactivated] on 24/03/2015 - 13:23

    I didn't learn anything new from the segment. I'm already using some of her strategies, like keeping track of how often goods go on half price special and stockpiling non perishable and frozen goods. Some of her other strategies won't work for my lifestyle. They might save me money but I'd lose too much time over them. I don't have enough time as it is.

    The "secrets" revealed about Aldi and Costco I already knew.

  • tebbybabes on 24/03/2015 - 14:18

    :) Ditto on running rings around her strategies. But hats off to a fellow bargain-hunter.

  • honkyb on 24/03/2015 - 18:02

    seriously ACA have shown this women 333333 times

  • Mad Max on 24/03/2015 - 18:59

    She gets paid every time they show her…laughing all the way to the bank

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