Coles have dropped their price on selected cheese blocks by $4.40.
Source news.com.au so not sure if this is deal worthy. It's a 12 week special apparently.
Coles Light Tasty Cheddar Block 1kg and Coles Colby Cheese Block 1kg are also reduced to the same price. Coles Simply Cheddar Cheese Block 1kg is reduced from $9.90 to $9.
what kind of cheese do you make?
Fromunda
Make your own…
Please let us know if yours is ready so you can share it to us
Just leave milk out to spoil (ferment) and you've pretty much got cheese.
I remember they were $9 back in early 2023. Then went up to $10/$11 -> $13.90 since.
How does the taste compare?
it doesn't. the coles cheese is a crazy good cheese even at the inflated price
My personal opinion: Bega>Coles>ALDI>>>WWS (Hillview)
The coles one is probably Bega anyway
@doobey1231: Coles cheese has been made by most majors in the past including Bega. In Feb 2024 Murray Goulburn (Devondale brand) who already supplies Cole’s milk, won the cheese contract for 5 years. Not sure when it starts from they usually need lead time
@Wiadro: It’s technically Saputo Dairy now my bad. They also make Devondale and Cheer and Cracker Barrel. You can find a story on News.com.au about the price drop at Saputo is at the bottom of the story .
@bboz: It’s Saputo dairy now, but they do make Devondale, Cheer and Cracker barrel, see news.com.au story at bottom of article
@doobey1231: Coles ones have normal sized slices (12 slices per), unlike the thinner Bega ones (16 slices per) for the same weight.
and costco cheese?
not really fair to chuck bega in there, the coles cheeses are obv house branded
@0jay: Fair enough. I only included it in there cause at one point (last year) the Bega was similar price compared to the home-brands.
Many years since we've bought Bega block cheddar but unless they've changed their formula I'd agree with that assessment RL. Coles Tasty is a middling cheddar taste-wise but a step up from the "standard" Coles, Aldi and Ww. Aldi has some 500g Vintage tasty cheddar if you want more flavour. No longer a member but Costco has some very good English vintage "cracker-worthy" cheddars.
Coles cheese is so good. Beats out a lot of the name brands.
'gree
I can't believe they're charging almost $14 for home brand cheese.
Can we even call that Cheese?
Legally, yes.
Okay for toasties, grilled cheese, grating in/on food etc.
Actual cheese (not that plastic singles crap) is expensive in general, $10/kg is about right.
It's not their 'home brand', this one is their home brand
https://www.coles.com.au/product/coles-simply-cheddar-cheese…
You can always rely on aldi not to rip you off
Be great if they dropped the vintage too which is great cheese
woolies' version sucks hard in comparison imo (aldi's not great either)
Grate cheese is great cheese
great cheese can be grated, garbage cheese grated'll never be great
Are you rating the grating or setting a grate rating ?
The Coles vintage cheese is even better than Cracker Barrel. It's so sharp it's basically parmesan.
wayback machine shows $6.90 in 2019, prices are actually wild now.
That alone is pure madness.
Cows are being paid more nowadays - so costs have risen.
cow union's been making strides
progress at a trot
Fertiliser Fuel Power Rises affect farm gate prices but supermarket greed adds more .
Did you have a link please? I couldn't find it.
Woolworths have Hillview cheese block $9.90 all day every day. Yes it's more expensive but not much more
Coles has a cheap awful block of cheese for the same price. This is a decent cheddar.
Half-decent
NZ cheese vs. Australian. Hillview is a NZ sourced product packed in Australia
We tried hillview and it was crap. You couldn't slice is properly without it all crumbling and falling apart. Never again!
Thanks for sharing. In today's world, $9.50 for 1kg of cheese it's reasonable.
Yea basically $10 a kilo for cheese is my cut off point; even for boosie cheeses I just wait until they go 80% off (happens a lot at my coles).
Wow,this is the best cheese for me. Better than woolies or aldis. Actually had a bit of a kick to it. I hope they did not change the recipe.
Let me translate this for everyone watching at home
We tried to extort our customers and noticed that the overall profits for this item dropped following the price increase. Hence we are reducing it back to what it reasonably should've been priced at from the start for 12 weeks to collect data on how we can min-max the price.
Let's also not mention the multi-faceted government scrutiny we are under.
My boy Curtis ‘feed the family for $10’ Stone real quiet these days
1kg of cheese would feed the average family for one meal plus 50c change.
Oink.
My lactose intolerance: AYO
and everyone else wouldn't sh!t for a month
Majority of the things atm are 100% up
Except my SHIB holdings…
🥲
HODL homes.. There will come a time
I shoulda just copped it and swapped to pepe fml
If this ever goes to $1, ill have F U Money.
Bruh
Don’t think this is a deal, just a price change
Price reduction ⬇️ = Save 💲
Normal price ≠ Bargain
This is quite obviousoy not their normal price.
@jv: In what world? It's a massive price drop for 3 months, something we'll certainly be taking advantage of.
@Igaf: If I can buy it for the same price every day for the next three months, it is the normal price.
@jv: This deal involves a significant price reduction off their (inflated) "normal" price, something anyone who buys the product will know. To make it easy for you, think of it as a supermarket special with a 3 month rather than 1 week discount period. Simple enough concept.
This deal involves a significant price reduction off their (inflated) "normal" price
Nah, it's just going back to what the normal price should be.
@jv: How do you know what their normal price should be? Ouija board or cheese wheel dartboard and a blindfold?
How do you know what their normal price should be?
It's any price they sell something for, for more than a couple of weeks…
@beltdrive: under your definition, everything is a 'temporary' price change.
That's not how it works…
@jv: Coles has stated it's a price reduction for 12 weeks - the implication being that the price will return to $13.90 after the duration of the deal.
This is a deal.
You believe a deal cannot be more than two weeks. Why not two weeks and a day? Why not three weeks?
Coles has stated it's a price reduction for 12 weeks
They can state whatever they like, unless it's a one week sale, then that is the normal price going forward.
After 12 weeks, they may or may not increase the price.
@beltdrive: Sales are usually one week… So after two weeks at the same price, reasonable people would consider that is the normal price.
interesting that you would say this
I've seen sales sometimes go for two weeks, but very rarely.
Cheese is without a doubt my biggest gripe with the inflation of prices in the current year, it is consistently the most expensive product I buy that isn't meat.
Not buying EV olive oil then? :D
Servings per package: 40
Righto, more like 10 in my household!
Probably have a glut of cheese because nobody's buying it at that price
We've all had one of those situations. You got swept away one night with friends, plan something crazy, then you reflect "haha yeah that was a bit wild and ambitious ay". Like when you piggy back on an inflation crisis and double the price of a 1kg block of cheese, and then reflect like "haha yeah that was a bit cheeky of us. Swept up in the moment".
This story needs to happen with cooking oil.
How does coles tasty cheese compare with coles simply cheddar cheese?
Cheddar is the variety of cheese, “tasty” is the term to describe the age, texture and flavour.
Woolies will match the price in 5..4..3..2..1.. #duopoly