Two varieties of Tim Tam available at Aldi in the current catalogue, Double Coat (200g) and Chewy Caramel (175g).
Both are $2.49, much better than the current $6 price at Coles and Woolworths.
Arnott’s Tim Tam - Double Coat 200g or Chewy Caramel 175g $2.49 @ ALDI
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Wow and Coles profits as a percent have stayed pretty flat. Blame arnotts.
Exactly! Most of the inflation these days (especially in the supermarket and at the bowser) is just greed imo, there's no way that a bag of chips has "legitimately" tripled in price over the past few years either. That's just the scummiest humans in our society trying to r@pe us and see if they can get away with it.
You got a solution?
Coles and woolies aren't really retailers. They are store fronts for all of the brands and then they clip the ticket on the way through. Force them to ditch their home brand, mid teir and brand method, force them to have more options or to select the products carried by more than maximising their margin x volume method. Does that make sense?
Force them to ditch their home brand
I'm not following your logic on this, their home brand is usually the cheapest option.
Blame brand loyal customers
Who is buying them at 6
Absolutely. Tim Tams seem to be on some sort of special price at colesworth every other week. If they're not on sale this week, they will be next week.
special price at colesworth every other week
I suspect that's their way of raising prices. If the price went from $5.50 to $6.00, you'd notice. But if it was $5.50, then on special for two weeks for $2.75, you're much less likely to notice when the next price is $6.00 - partly because you've just bought a one-month supply, and when you run out, it has been 6+ weeks since they were $5.50. They're betting the average buyer won't remember the previous price.
@Russ: That, plus the people who just don't care. What's 50c more? 'Im on min wage but it's still only 50c lol'
Always interested watching the (usually younger) people grab the bag of kettle/red rock when the other one is 1/2 price, right next to it.
The Aldi brand Divine ones are really good too and come pretty close to the OG Tim Tams. And you get more bikkies in each pack!
And you get more bikkies in each pack!
Pretty sure Original Tim Tam's and Devine both have eleven biscuits per pack
I agree 100%. I would say they are better. Made in the Netherlands. More crispy. Not as hard.
I barely made it through a pack recently, way too sweet for me sadly. Also sad when they add lactose, feels like an unnecessary middle finger to the enzymatically challenged
IIRC they were on sale at woolies this week until the specials changed over for $2.50 a packet. Minus the 4% gc, everyday rewards points, stock up at woolies.
Ps. I have been shopping a lot more at aldi however and their tim tam immitations slap pretty hard.
IGA often have on sale for $2.50.
Grab a 10% discount gift card for a better Deal.
Aldi can't match that!
These are often cheaper on sale here in NZ, even though they are made in AU lol…
Still going to Woolies? R u okay? No need to hurt yourself, I am here at Aldi for you
With all Woolies and Coles specials, loyalty program offers, discounted gift cards, I think ALDI is too expensive and boring for me. Those Tim Tams are on half price special every other week in Coles or Woollies, Not "Special Buys" once a year.
You're paying too much @Aldi!!
Seems it's affecting your thinking🤔Got 34% back in EDR points on Woolies purchases last week.
Buying cheaper on sale, with 4% discount GC or earnt points makes Woolies so much cheaper for me.
makes Woolies so much cheaper for me.
Depends where you live, and what you buy. My local Woolies is about 10% more expensive than my local Coles, across the board.
And I won't buy fresh fruit and veg from either of them, too many times I've bought apples from them and they looked fine on the outside, but were rotting from the core outwards. I reckon both Coles and Woolies keep apples in a coldroom for months before they get onto the shelves. Haven't had any rotting apples since I switched to buying from Aldi over a year ago, and their apples are usually cheaper too.
Having owned a fruit business - most apples are kept in either controlled atmosphere (low oxygen) or cold storage (just cold) most of year. Usually released from grower storage warehouses, rather than stored in supermarket distribution centres.
Local Coles & Woolies are in same shopping centres - so are competitive. Aldi is much closer, but lacks much I buy & works out dearer as lacks the discounts I use.
Its the total price at Woolies that is much cheaper - taking into account lower price of specials, discount using 4% off gift cards, & EDR points earnt on purchase (targeted 23-35% offers most weeks for me over last year).
@INFIDEL: Interesting. My local Aldi only has one or two types of apples at any given time, and the varieties change from month to month, suggesting they're following what is seasonally available.
Or perhaps Aldi keep a closer watch on spoilage, because if anything goes bad, you can easily return it for a full refund. While you may be able to do the same with Coles and Woolies, it's not something they advertise, and I'll bet it's not as easy to get a refund.
@Russ: Cold storage can result in good looking but rotten apples!
Apples are often moved from more expensive to operate controlled atmosphere (CA) to cheaper cold storage before sold. Quality declines with length of time in cold storage.
I bought CA Apples when possible. Better for eating but more expensive.
Don't see there would be any difference in supplies to Aldi.
But purchase at different times of year will mean longer kept in storage & different quality fruit.
So comparing purchase at different time between stores would expect to show difference in quality - just because of different storage times. Plus difference in Apple variety available.Apples in SE QLD are sourced from Granite Belt (Stanthorpe region). Harvested around Feb to April. Outside the season - apples can be in storage close to a year before sale.
@Russ: I've returned fruit & veg without any hassle. Especially to Coles - so stopped buying there. Experience will vary with each store / region.
Aldi have a much smaller selection of fruit & veg. That way it's easier to control stock. But I've seen some dodgie quality stock at Aldi. As there is a good fruit shop across the road - I shop there instead.
In selling fruit, found people didnt want to complain. Despite my 200% refund policy (money back + free fruit).
Once was supplied with 450kg bins of rotten Oranges. Only found out after sold.
People stopped buying after that 1 bad experience. Had to convince people to take free fruit & money!
ah.. the days when they would be on 'special' for $2… now it's 2.50
Will be $3 now soon with 1/2 off $6.
Both are $2.50, much better than the current $6 price at Coles and Woolworths.
That's what they were at Safeway a couple days ago. It's a pretty frequent special at both the big boys.
Gonna need a lot more than that to get me into Aldi.
Aint nobody payin six bucks for no pack of Tim Tams!
Nutritional table reckons one serving is a single Tim Tam… yeah right
Going to need at least a pack to get my calorie intake right
Woolies has Arnotts Gainty for $2.50 this week
These have been $2 3 weeks ago at Coles.
Just wait for next round of promos and stock upLet me just hop into the Delorean.
When I went to Japan in 2012 they were 420 yen (about $5.50 at the time). I laughed and thought, 'they'll never be that expensive back home.' I was also getting them regularly on special at the local Coles for $1.25.
Having been used to those prices, I still find them delicious. But not $6 a pack delicious.
Prices are even worse for Aussies living in the UK, have a look at Amazon UK prices:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=tim+tams
Average price is around 5GBP, about $9.50 Australian per pack.
I have a relative who lives over there. Whenever they visit Australia, they return with a suitcase full of Tim Tams and other Australian foods.
20kg of Tim Tams = 100 packs = $700 savings.
Tim Tam better than McVitie's Penguins in UK? I haven't tried McVitie's Penguins …
Penguins are not as good as Tim Tams, though they are individually wrapped which means you don’t feel compelled to finish an entire packet when you open them :D
@stirlo: Some Brits prefer the Penguins, possibly because chocolate is different in England, and apparently has a different flavour.
English chocolate has vegetable fat replacing some of the cocoa butter in chocolate. The details are here:
This is wrong. Tam Tims have now in the last few months become available from Tesco and Waitrose supermarkets in the UK for £2.50 ($4.88) so the UK price is now officially less than the Australian one!!! Vegemite is also cheaper in the UK than Australia too.
If you want to bring gifts for your UK based family members there’s no local supply of Shapes or Darrell Lea chocolates so bring them not Tim Tams or Vegemite.
Thanks for that info, I'll let my relatives know. No Tesco nor Waitrose in the tiny town where they live, but there's one not too far away.
If you want to bring gifts for your UK based family members
You've read that the wrong way around. We don't visit the UK, our UK relatives visit Australia.
It's curious that the Amazon UK prices have remained so high, given that Waitrose lists them at 2GBP.
I have seen them recently from 350-550yen depending on supermarket and specials.
Indeed, here's four packs for 2171JPY (~23AUD) at Amazon Japan, with free delivery if you have the Japanese version of Prime:
https://www.amazon.co.jp/Arnotts-Timtam-Classic-Sheets-Count…
Is it just me or are Tim Tams one of the most overrated things ever? What's so good about them?
$6 for a pack of tim tams? jesus christ. i doubt woolworths and coles can blame anything other than corporate greed for that type of 'inflation'.