Almost half price Bananas for $6.99 kg. This is in my local paper for Gisborne, Riddells Creek and Sunbury foodworks. Being on an iPhone I can't check other stores because it don't have flash.
Finally….. Bananas are getting cheaper.
Edit: Crumpets for 99 cents is a bargain also.
Decisions Decisions do I buy a bunch of bananas or pay the mortgage for the week
A banana is a nice change from Soylent Green.
Bananas are selling for that price as they are seconds………they are all bent.
Another banana post?
what do you mean 1/2 price? in sydney, the most supermarket selling $8-9, if you go to flemington market in sydney average price $6-7/kg.
Caringbah Woolies were selling "ready to eat" (ie. brown) bananas for $11.99/kg on Monday. I got the $6.99/kg ones from Supabarn today.
My local Coles had them for $13.99/kg just 2 nights ago. So yes the OP is correct in saying half price.
wrong, two nights ago is not valid comparison, coz 1 day different can have different price. example if you buy strawbery at woolworth on sunday, they got price each punnet for $2.98, but if you buy on monday and tuesday, they have promotion where the price only $3.9 for 2. which is $1.1 cheaper
Harris Farm has 'em for $5.99 a kilo at the moment.
HF Glendale (NSW) had them for $4.99 the other day, they were tiny & green though! ;)
Cheapest I've seen in months is $11. Everyday price is $12 or $13. That is in Vic supermarkets and local green grocer
Our local Aldi sells "snack bananas" (small bananas) for $7.99/kg. I'm sure this is likely the same at all Aldi stores.
At the Vic markets on Tuesday small bananas (really small, but still good) were $2.99 a kilo.
It looks like they are really early season.
I buy fruit for our office and they were hoovered up.
LOL Price matched with the other thread
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They were $11 last week or may be older, but after the bananas coming from the places effected by Yasi, they were projected to be coming down. I saw yesterday 5.99 in the casula fruit markey in liverpool area.
i just dont get it…
banana at $12/kg…how many ppl actuallly buy it. surely no one from ozbargain.
when they ripe…they end up in the bin anyway….so guessing half or more get dumpped anyway
so why not lower the price so evrryone can still enjoy eating babnana??
You are right, but I used to buy a kilo or 2 when they were cheap. when they were expensive, we were buying them in pieces as 2-4.
Prices were up due to crops of banana destroyed by cyclone yasi. Whenever there is more demand then production, prices are going to rise.
YES bannanas finally back in season
7.99 at my local in south morang, Victoria
Here we go bananas
The most ridiculous thing is that South-East Asia and Pacific Islands would've been really happy to supply us with as much bananas as we want for just several cents a kilo, the same way as it's done all over the world.
Even in Northern Europe they sell bananas at about $2 p/kilo in winter. However, someone here doesn't allow this to happen.
And what about capsicum at up to $15 p/kg and cucumbers at $10 p/kg? What is going on? These kind of prices for vegetables and fruits in Australia, where most of the country have summer all year around, are just unacceptable.
Even in Northern Europe in winter fruits and veggies are 3 times cheaper than here.
We are just being robbed!
capsicum only $2/kg and cucumber also $2/kg last week at flemington market nsw
Think someone here is trying to support the local economy. I'm all for competition though, means the consumers win! =].
I wonder how much of these ridiculously inflated prices actually makes its way to the farmers that grow the produce? I'm kind of hoping that it's not a rhetorical question too, BTW! :)
I would say some may be doing well
see http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2011/08/05/177145_local-new…
Quote "A HANDFUL of banana growers who escaped the destruction of cyclone Yasi are now making more than $1 million a week selling their precious fruit."
Quarantine risk importing bananas.
Well it isn't the farmers who are charging those prices, from memory they get something like 7-10c for every $1 for fruit and veg sold at coles and woolies.
Local markets are the go, good prices and quality product.
If everybody stopped buying bananas the prices would soon drop. Personally I won't pay more than $4 a kilo and then it is reluctantly.
Bananas contain high levels of radiation, they are an unhealthy food for this reason. They accumulate radiation. Leave the bananas for monkeys to eat.
Can't we just eat the monkeys then? :o
These bananas are cheap as chips! Banana chips….
Lame I know…
When bananas are >$10/kg I just buy banana chips for my 'nana fix…they work out to be <$7-8/kg! I sprinkle them on my cereal! ;)
No doubt cheap compared to other current prices, but it is a sad day that banannas at 6.99kg are a bargain :)
Good post though for anyone with a craving!