This looks like a good deal.
60 pack /1140g for $21.99.
• This 60pk includes 15 x Crinkle Cut Original 19g, 15 x Crinkle Cut Cheese & Onion 19g, 15 x Doritos Cheese Supreme 19g and 15 x Cheese Twisties 19g
Aldi.Good.Different.
Smith’s Mega Mix 60pk/1140g $21.99 @ Aldi
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You’re paying for the convenience/single serve. Good for lunches when you’re away from home etc
What I was amazed at (besides the pricing and the tiny 19g) was that the big pack was similar price to the 20pk. Didn't realise that people were so fond of paying over $22/kg for potato.
With the 2 for $15 apparently being a recurring special too this makes it cheaper than the family bag size… The supermarkets here as so backwards lol.
Ah I see! Fair enough, thanks for replying.
Yeah, this is a rip.
Needs to be a cent a gram to be a deal.
That used to be my baseline. Shrinkflation and inflation have killed it so I'm usually in saveflation mode in that aisle.
The regular 2 for $15 (2 x 20pk) sales at Colesworth comes to 37c each.
This deal is 36.65c
A very slight discount, but you get more variety at Colesworth (as long as they have stock)
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/245856/smi…
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/79914/smit…
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/79773/smit…Most people here are paying with 4% off at either coles ot woolies id imagine. Plus reward points.
I don't think this nets cheaper
Still cheaper for the Mrs to go to aldi and not worry about prices
You also need to keep an eye on Amazon as the below 20 pack got down to $5.25 late last month and it also had S&S available so it came down even further to $4.72
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B085BJ5W6B
The drop was only for a day or 2, but was the cheapest by far.
Cheese & Onion
Yeah nah.
Yes please.
Nah yeah.
Nah yeah. No nah. Big yeah.
كلا و نعم
Pre covid Costco would have the 66pack for around $14. These days it's around $22
Cheese & Onion is godtear you heathen.
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God crying that you misspelt God tier :*/
These packets have shit loads of sodium
Same as all chips, popcorn and basically all savoury snacks
Same as seasalt
That's why people like them !
F ColesWorth
Boycott then
These are just pure laziness, I get the standard size packets which is what 175g or so when they are 1/2 price, bulk up on them and my kids just grab a ziploc bag and grab what they need.
Bingo. And not so harmful to the environment
Because you use less bags?
Of course. Who doesn't reuse zip lock bags, especially when reusing due the same thing.
They can easily be washed out with a drop of dishwashing liquid.
These are just pure laziness
They have their place. Some workplaces have the individual bags at a snack bar for 50c each, and the profit goes to charity.
Yeah, let's add some extra pollution to the planet for charity!
My use case for individual bags is to have them on hand for outings with the child and to send to kindy for afternoon snack (popcorn and pea snaps etc). Reason being that sometimes the snack is not needed either on the outing, or we pick up the kid before snack time. They stay fresh. We also sometimes use a container from a bigger pack but in reality they don’t stay crispy as long once transferred to a container or ziplock bag.
I thought Aldi claimed to have no artificial colours in their store, but their current statement on this is "ALDI exclusive brands … contain no artificial colours". Doritos have artificial colour.
Is this how it always was, or did Aldi change?
I found their current statement here: https://www.aldi.com.au/sustainability/good-health/
Read the statement again. "Aldi exclusive brands". Smiths is not an Aldi exclusive brand.
If you read my question again, I'm asking if Aldi have changed their stance. I'm pretty sure some of their advertisements used to say "No artificial colours in our store".
Edit: indeed they did change their stance, this Google search finds loads of Aldi Australia ads saying "No artificial colours storewide": https://www.google.com.au/search?q=aldi+%22no+artificial+col…
And here's their press release trumpeting their choice to have "no artificial colours storewide": https://corporate.aldi.com.au/fileadmin/fm-dam/pdf/Press_Rel…
The very first sentence of the press release specifically names the artificial colour that is in Doritos, Sunset Yellow, also known as the artificial colour 110.
No, what is with your fake outrage.
It has always been their policy for Aldi exclusive brands.@Jessie Ryder: It used to be their policy for everything in the store, not just their own brands. As shown by the links I gave. They've watered that down, so now it only covers their own brands.
what is with your fake outrage
Outrage? I asked a simple question, because I thought they had changed something. And yes, they did change something.
@Russ: From your link
*All ALDI exclusive and branded food products across its every day, seasonal and Special Buys categories
@onetwothreefour: Wow, that is there, right at the end, and disagrees with just about everything else in the press release.
For example, the entire third paragraph of the press release:
“Shoppers won’t find a single trace of artificial colours in food products sold at ALDI,” an ALDI Australia spokesperson said. “They don’t have to trawl through food labels looking for these ingredients – instead they can have complete confidence that whenever and wherever they walk into an ALDI Australia store, artificial colours have been banished from the shelves.”
Nothing in that paragraph has an asterisk, and they aren't limiting that statement to their own brands.
Nothing in that paragraph has an asterisk, and they aren't limiting that statement to their own brands.
The * is at the end of the heading at the top, which covers the entire document.
For what its worth, when Aldi first opened & for a very long time afterward, I recall not seeing one single well known branded product in their stores. No Kellogg, Kraft, Vegemite, Sanitarium, Lever Rexona, Nestle or other such well known items. They only had Aldi "generic" products, but given fancy sounding names like Brooklea etc. It was a brilliant stroke of marketing genius. And from what I've heard from others, the actual suppliers of these products liked dealing with Aldi because they were much fairer to deal with than the Coles/WW buyers. It wouldn't surprise me if the power of the duopoly threatened their own major suppliers if they started supplying Aldi with products found in Coles/WW.
Anyway, years later & there started to appear trickles of the major suppliers products into Aldi aisles. Nowadays they routinely stock major brand products that will typically match the majors during their continual rotating specials. eg Aldi get the large Moconna clear jar coffee product in every now & then for sale just under $20 where the majors have it available all the time at the non special price of $28 which when on special they sometimes drop to below the aldi normal price in order to beat them. But interestingly Aldi also have a permanent smaller Moconna clear jar coffee permanently on their shelves, the difference being the aldi size is not the same as the size in Coles/WW.
@mrdean: Out of interest, what makes you think Aldi suppliers don't include big brand makers - just as some some Colesworth home brand products are/were?
you think Aldi suppliers don't include big brand makers
They do.
There has been major consolidation over the last 20 years in virtually all of the primary grocery lines. Dairy, meat, bread, tinned fruit etc.
What happened to Goulburn Valley/SpC & the CCA takeover was a tragedy. Now it's been sold off in a complex arrangement with an investment firm & private equity company. Who controls them? The public relations around this is that the company will remain in Australian ownership. This is nonsense but it makes for good copy.What once may have been supplied from co-ops like the original GV/SPC, is now in the hands of global finance. I suppose the agreements/contracts between Aldi/Colesworth & their suppliers are the key. There's a key truth in the ruthless retail side of business; it's not the price you sell at that matters most, it's the price you buy at that does. Colesworth may take that to an extreme, but Aldi have something on them they cannot yet match; efficiency in store operations & logistics. That cuts their workforce costs by a large margin.
The * is at the end of the heading at the top, which covers the entire document.
That would be a very unusual scope for a footnote, which normally only covers the sentence that is marked, or a part of the sentence that is marked.
I've looked in several style guides, and none give any indication that a footnote can cover anything that is after its index mark. Perhaps you can point me to such a guide?
I've looked in several style guides, and none give any indication that a footnote can cover anything that is after its index mark. Perhaps you can point me to such a guide?
This would be a good thing to point out to Aldi HQ & get clarification in regards to that document.
Let us know if you get a response.
@mrdean: Ime Aldi doesn't respond to anything.
Asterixes are qualifiers/explanations as we all know. They should and usually do apply to the word/sentence/paragraph in which they appear. I this case the asterix qualifies the abbreviated (misleading) heading and should have appeared right under the heading, but marketers love to play games knowing that most people dont read the "fine print."
That said, it's a good thing that they try to keep artifical colouring out of their products.
For the extra convenience, more plastics are used to pack the 60 servings.
Please do not buy Australian from Australian supermarkets.
Go to the Germans instead……I used to think this way until I realised Coles/WW are essentially controlled by major institutional investors that are in essence the "cabal" that is strangling humanity. Aldi is private & the money is funneled back into their families' foundations. They're probably part of the "cabal" too, but "meh".
Googled the 20 pack out of interest and it's nearly $9?! Then looked at what it would be to buy a pack of 380g size (20x19g) and it's $8.50.
Are people honestly still buying at these prices?