Which one wins this week's price matching competition: Aldi or Bunnings?
AdventureRidge Camp Axe $9.99 @ ALDI
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cash or digital, both prices get rounded up!
no bunnings wont round up any purchase by VISA/MASTERCARD/EFTPOS card, ALDI will however round up if you are not paying with EFTPOS card.
Instead ALDI will round it up to $10 something if you are paying with Mastercard/Visa/Credit option.
ALDI also have a card surcharge do they not?
I knew about Aldi, but not about Bunnings.
Thanks for your reply!
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Is that a throwing axe? My enemies list is growing.
Hey wait a minute! This is Richard Nixon's enemies list! You just crossed out his name and wrote yours!
Imagine if Kaufland actually didn't abandon their plans to open shops in Australia. That would be a game changer if they came to Australia. We want more competition. That will drop the prices.
Mmm, it's not that simple. If Kaufland did seem to be threat then Aldi could just lower their prices to choke them out until they need to withdraw from the country, Colesworth too. Aldi in Australia is very different to European Aldi. Here it's like a normal supermarket, except the checkout person sits down and doesn't bag your shit. In Europe Aldi is actually cheap, the store has very few workers, it's often dusty like a warehouse, they don't stack everything on shelves they bring out pallets and you pick straight form the pallet. But here Aldi seems to think Australian's expect and demand the stores be spotlessly clean, that everything be neatly stacked on shelves, and that prices are basically just as high as anywhere else. But Aldi could lower their prices for a few years if they needed to keep Kaufland from catching on.
I disagree. I have lived in Europe. The Aldi concept here in Australia it's almost identical to the ones in Europe. Kaufland it's a much larger version of Aldi were it sells everything you can think of in one stop. That would force Supermarkets but also other shops like Bunnings to drop prices to be more competitive with the market. Now who would win , that we will never know. Certainly not us the consumers, we missed out. I think Covid had a huge part in their decision to abandon ship. They already bought blocks of land to build and had all plans in place. But Covid hit, and in my opinion that was the deciding factor.
Correct, Aldi Australia runs at a significantly higher operating margin than Aldi across Europe. Apples and Oranges, I know, but that clearly means that they know how to run frugally, if the need arises.
Used to be that way at my local ones. Eg, staff mostly brought stock in the middle on pallets. Few shelves around that area with only aldi brand products. It wasn't catching on, so they adapted.
Yeah I kinda remember Melbroune Aldi's being a bit grungier. Aldi in Adelaide is a bit of a newer concept, we got in late.
Colesworth are a premium Aldi, better service for slightly higher cost.
I'm happy to pay the higher costs to keep checkout chicks in jobs and bag myself some good old fashioned service.
It is nice to have someone bag your stuff for you. Once the owner of my local IGA didn't bag for me, just handed me the bag. I guess he wasn't in the mood to bag my shit, haha
@AustriaBargain: I'd leave my groceries on his treadmill and never go back. That's real strange, I find IGA to be very good usually.
@[Deactivated]: He's owned the store for decades and is an older man now. I think I can understand why he feels the way he does, the world changing around him, the promises of owning you own supermarket not really panning out to the riches he thought it might when he bought it. But yeah I try not to shop there anymore.
@AustriaBargain: It's hard everywhere, my small business is turning over 25% if what it did 3 years ago and looks like it's only going to get worse.
But colesworth have self checkouts, aldi don't. Think how many jobs those replaced.
Worse still, the jobs have not actually been removed / replaced by automation, simply been thrown onto the customers, for no discount.
Always go to attended checkouts if you care about the jobs.
@fantombloo: ALDI has self-checkout in some stores. Agree with your comment. I don't need someone to pack my bags - some people do - but I'll "always" go to a human operator in preference. Have walked out of Coles twice because of their lack of checkout service.
@Igaf: Ok, not seen that yet.
If there are no attended checkouts, like late at night, I'll ask for one. Sometimes they get a bit pissed off but I'll help with the bagging and have a little convo, tell them why - they usually come good and actually say thanks at the end.
Also can't understand why people expect the checkout staff to always bag on their own, or even expect them to stand. They can do their job fine on their arses, so why would we expect more?
@Igaf: LoL and I am here waiting for Amazon to jump in with their auto detection technology (one where you never need to scan an item, just pick and put in trolley, their store camera capture you taking an item or putting item back on shelf, and charge you automatically when you leave store).
Coles in Belconnen Mall Canberra must be the exception. At times you're lucky if you can find more than one checkout using a human. Coles esp is moving to self checkout - by not having staff on normal checkouts - so I'll be shopping there even less than I do now. Ww has self checkout but usually has other options open. Local ALDI is a bit slack with queues lately but previously were quick to open checkouts when queues formed.
The Coles stores around in my area have converted almost all belts to self serves and have maximum 1 person on checkout.
"Checkout chicks" aren't getting fired, they're becoming "online order fulfillment chicks" and "stock replenishment chicks". Grocery stores are adapting to the changing needs of consumers who are increasingly using online services.
If there was a designated cashier and bagger like America there might be job loss but here people are employed as team members meaning they fill whatever gaps necessary.
@pennypincher98: Local Ww has many more staff doing online shopping tasks since covid but unlike Coles it isn't usually at the expense of in-store services, which is still by far the largest component of supermarket sales afaik. That Coles service mismatch probably differs from store to store and region to region.
Disagree. Aldi in Europe is very similar, store-wise. Other very similar stores include Lidl and Penny Merket, to name two. These stores all have the same type of store layout.
I was speaking of experience in the UK really, so not really mainland Europe. And the experience may have been just how stores operate in the area I lived in. But that's how it was, all those chain discount stores were basically the same. Cheap and dusty, with cheap stuff imported from all over Europe. One pound pizzas from Italy, 30p mangos from Egypt, etc.
@AustriaBargain: Cool. I remember those little Tesco Express (or whatever they are called) stores in the city centres.
@bboz: Yeah, they even had them in little towns. Was always a bit expensive for me. I was kind of poor when I was over there. Poorer. Got well acquainted with the cheapest version of everything, though did most of my shopping at the big Tesco anyway.
@AustriaBargain: That makes a bit more sense then. How long ago was this ?
German Aldi is practically premium - at least compared to Lidl, Penny etc.
Yep, we could have had this axe for $9.97!!!!
Amazon has killed that idea.
Costs per capita are our biggest problem.
Govt is happy with the tri-opoloy +IGA. Can't see it happening.
Now, what would be a game changer is if the ACCC behaved like the ACCC and not like a retirement village for commercial ripoff enablers.
These companies just claim there's a reason for a price spike, and run with it (or milk it to death) with no real world analysis or oversight. There's no meaningful repercussions for screwing over consumers.
You only have to look at how long the ACCC has wheeled out excuses to defend fuel cartels to know they are farts in the breeze.
If you were on a politician’s salary plus perks you could not care less about the price of supermarket food. If you ever bought there.
See also energy, water, rates.Salaries are the least of the polis' income.
If ppl used their brains when they voted all that changes
Thanks OP, bought 2. Birthday gifts for 4yo nephews sorted!
this is 150 iq play… next year it'll probably be no gifts needed
Sharp idea
Do they call you Uncle Chop Chop?
OP has an hatchet/axe fettish so this is for you, whoop whoop!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCSvPKjMHME
i didn't know i needed an axe, now i have 2 choices between aldi and bunnings. which one do i buy?
You know the answer already, but here's the independent confirmation you're after:
Buy both.
damn you. i never needed 1. now have 2. FML
Buy a real axe hatchets really aren't that useful
Yep. And buy a quality axe at that.
a choppin good discount.
prices are down down… slashed.
The prices have dropped and so will your enemies
My enemies will be crushed and I will see them driven before me and I will hear the lamentations of their women…
…speaking of which, any good deals on hearing aids?
I remember Ozbargain when though a 'knives' period where there was loads of deals for knife sets
is now the time for the axe?
don't come to the knife fight without a good axe…
I got this. These aren't good. Extremely blunt. not 100% sure how to sharpen these efficiently.
Grinder probably.
Yep lots of blokes on there, shouldn't be too hard to find one that knows how to sharpen an axe.
Username checks out and match making confirmed
Well, it IS a 'camp' axe after all
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Damn good price! Now just need a rope and a predator…
Is that you Chris Hansen?
I think we should have whole Ozbargain front page covered with axe deals. add 4 more please!
Need a pick axe for real life Minecraft
Jason approves the deal
Cough up for a Fiskars that will last you forever and save the landfill, or, buy a used older style example ro restore for next to nothing.
Both those options in the long term are cheaper.
Someone axed the question if we need axes…
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Axes are priced
..any my axe!
Damn it beat me by 4 minutes!!
Take my upvote.
Dougy Hawkins is here to do a spell check
Anyone interested to join my Axe gang?
which 1 axes/chopping better aldi or bunnings?
Is it legal to permanently keep one of these as a defensive weapon inside your car?
Good luck arguing a tomohawk is a defensive weapon.
https://www.armstronglegal.com.au/criminal-law/nsw/offences/…
In most states – including New South Wales, Victoria, Northern Territory, and South Australia – it is illegal to carry a weapon, even for self-defense. This includes knives, which states consider dangerous articles or prohibited weapons. (New Idea)
The New Idea? Lol. There's a blast from the past. How did they manage to link the issue to a celebrity wedding/birth/scandal/the "royals"?
Which of the two would be better for burying?
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I have last year's version of this and it has been insanely durable. Great size for general camping duties.
ooh i don't have this colour yet!
Bunnings is in the lead by 1 cent.