At both Woolies and Colies, quite a jump.
Pretty sure it just happened as I think I bought a pack last week.
Bit of a favourite. Hope it will go on special but these large bulk bags never did.
Twisties Party Size Bags Now $4.80, up from $3! Wow...
TransportPosters on 06/08/2022 - 17:10
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but but I eat them myself usually…. party for 1
Price inflation, party deflation.
Pretty much everything on "special" at Coles seems to be at the old normal price.
Laundry detergent on 1/2 price specials are now $12 instead of $10 last year, so 20% increase.
Yep, looks like they shot up in price on 03/08/2022:
https://i.postimg.cc/qvt6HwZh/Twistt.jpghttps://pricehipster.com/?q=Twisties%20Party%20Size&stores=B…
(lol, they'll probably be on special for "1/2" price next week, $2.40)
Ok this is a bloody outrage I’m taking this all the way to me prime minister
Hey! Mr Prime Minister! Andy!
Oi mates! What's the good word? holds up Fosters can
Correct me if I'm wrong, however I know in outlets such as IGA's & Foodlands, despite them always being $3, and is an 'Everyday Special Price', and the regular price is normally $5.80.
I'd speculate the same as another user.. they've probably just upped the price to knock it back down again to appear as a better saving.
This is the process.
Chips were $2 for 200g, and twisties were a bit cheaper.
Then they make reduced the pack size to 170g, and have continually been bumping up the price, so now even at 50% you can rarely get chips for $1/100g (max I'm willing to pay).Is anybody actually paying full price? Do they think we're morons? Or are there enough people out there that just don't care what things they pay?
I don't know about twisties, but the giant salt n vinegar packs go below $1/100g occasionally.
At both Woolies and Colies, quite a jump.
60% is nothing compared to the 95% increase in the Smith's Thinly Cut 175g bags.
Previously $2.20 at both Woolies and Coles, now $4.30!
Interesting, it looks like a lot the Smiths products jumped up in price on the 3rd, including things like Doritos & Doritos Salsa, Burger Rings, Sakata Rice Crackers, and the likes… They own Nobbys and Cheetos also, it appears they didn't go up..
Burgerman and Toobs Party Size were $3.00. Now they're $4.30 and $4.80…
Went through too many packs of Toobs when they were 99c at Spudshed a while back…
Don't worry. They'll be down down to $3.50 or $4 soon
Oh no not twisties!!!!!
12 for $32.40 and hope they have a long expiry date?
6 pack sure but 12 in a few months seems a lot
Life’s pretty straight without twisties
IM going to wave a fist at a cloud…
Are you having weekly parties?
I remember the $3 price, but I swear it was an 'Everyday Low Price'… sort of like how Kirks 12 pack sodas were $5 'Everyday Low Price' for 18 months and once that finished they went up to $12 - never even looked at them since!
When nobody buys them the price will go down!
People complaining about the increase of prices in junk food. Wow!!
20 to 30% price increases seems to be common across a lot of products. Hardly inflation rates.
Let's not forget the big supermarkets have been making record profits throughout. Me thinks testing the market, how high can they go. Then they can reduce the price 5% and say look, we're giving you cheaper prices..
If you can live without it, dont buy it. A decrease in sales is the only thing that will make a difference.
OP … maybe time to look to Costco (hey, even do the OZb thing and share a yearly subscription with family members).
630g pack of twisties for around $5 mark.
Certainly beats any of Coles/WW efforts.And, are yeah … a pack that size - you can share with others - as certainly too big for 1 sitting.
Looks like they still $3.50 at K-Mart (for now…)
https://www.kmart.com.au/product/twisties-cheese-270g-425930…
Too many realised buying the smaller packs was dumb?
3 bucks at Reject shop.
Life’s gonna get pretty straight for the tight arses
Everything has gone up. 750ml sunflower oil went from $6 to $7.50 overnight.
I noticed today the the party size Twisties are now $5.30 at Coles after having dropped to $3.50 for weeks.
This must be part of how they cover the cost of "locking in" low prices in everyday essentials, by quietly raising the price on non-essential items for a period.
Similar jumps noted by news stories this week:
Coco Pops 650g box was $7.50 now $9.50.
Nutri Grain 435g box was $6.00 now $8.50.
Supermarket mud cake $4.80 now $5.75.
My theory was in the news yesterday. Seems hundreds of other shoppers have also worked out what they're doing with the price system.
Party pack (270g) of twisties just went up another 51% from $3.50 to $5.30! Ridiculous at this price, I will stop buying them
https://i.imgur.com/Z95LwRJ.jpgI posted about that change just above on 2 Feb.
oh i didn't see your post.. I don't know why your Coles first started charging $5.30 on Feb 2 because i definitely paid $3.50 on 2 occassions for bags of these between Feb 2-11 at my local Coles. I first noticed the price increase when i toook that pic on Feb 14, a few days after i last paid $3.50
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-23/supermarket-profits-s…
Coles Group increased its net profit by 17.1 per cent to $643 million off the back of a much more modest 4.1 per cent increase in sales.
Woolworths' net profit after tax (excluding major one-offs) was up 14 per cent to $907 million on a 4 per cent sales increase.In the story they say 7.7% inflation increase, maybe that's the average at the moment but it seems every day there's another product that gets bumped up and it's never by 7.7%
A few recent ones that come to mind Woolies pasta up 25% to $1.25, Pane di Casa up 25% to $5 and it seems to be the norm, not modest increases but at least 25%.
Inflation means you'll have to throw smaller parties