Usually, I go to the shops to get groceries on the weekend.
As it appears, this weekend there is industrial action going on. I've visited Coles, Woolworths, IGA, Aldi and some smaller local stores but most have little to no stock.
Where can I get food?
Will this end so I can get food soon or will it be like toilet paper situation of covid where I have to buy a bidet (in this case plant cow seeds and grow a burger)
If only there more ppl like you. Australia would be a much kinder place.
It's short for you dutto want him as PM.
I was at Marrickville Woolworths on Saturday morning 10.00am. There was no shortage of food as my $490 grocery bill and overflowing fridge, freezer and pantry will attest.
The only aisle showing some empty shelves was the soft drink area.
fruit, veg, cheese, milk, meat, canned & frozen goods, bread were all in abundance
You need to shop at your local Fruit & Vegg, butcher or even better aldi..
You need to shop at your local Fruit & Vegg, butcher or even better aldi..
I don't "need" to do anything. You have no idea where I buy fruit, veg & meat.
What's so good about Aldi? A privately owned German company that's been accused of wage theft in Australia.
OP has lost the plot. Absolute clown.
Op is a bot placed to cause fear and panic
I’m 21, I’ve never owned a plot and with current costs I won’t be able to, it’s weird not being able to afford to live in an area I’ve lived in my entire life
Why stalk?
The ones near me have mostly empty shelves. It is no longer practical for me to shop there as I cannot buy everything I need. It is quite sad really.
Personally I love free speech.
It provides the world with a running commentary on the everyday lives of ppl, broken down into nano second intervals.
I know right. Soon enough most of these jobs will be replaced by robots and AI, kinda sucks that Woolies isn't willing to pay these people what they are worth in the meantime. And they are obviously worth it, Woolworth's clearly can't conduct business without them.
Great corporate model & social license.Overcharging customers, underpaying suppliers & the staff etc who make it all work.
Sooner or later though whoever is in govt will have a shitload of unemployed humans to deal with.
Combined with the confected outrage Ruperts rag use to facilitate community unrest, and it's all looking quite Orwellian. The problem with all this social and MS media shit stirring is you can't put the Genie back in the bottle. It's all a one way process with no off switch.
@Protractor: If we had universal income then it wouldn't matter if robots took all the jobs, if we kept taxes high enough to pay for it. Australian society could just cruise along with minimal disruption if it were planned right. People would take service jobs where having a human is more luxurious than a machine to make extra money on top of their universal basic income, restaurants could thrive, staffed social clubs, life could be better for everyone. You could still get rich, you could still do full-time work to be middle income if you can find the work, you just wouldn't have to work if you were happy with a universal basic life.
@AustriaBargain: Well it's either universal income (eventually) or total mayhem. (Notice neither side wants to go there) But if you do go down that road, you need to be intelligent enough to accept capitalism has reached it's limits and so has the human population. So we either breed less, for a better more equitable society, and a livable planet, with ample resources to sustain us going fwd, or we shut up and take the inevitable existential shafting we are due.
It's hard to believe such a smart species holds on so tightly to such a flawed model.
What's that saying about ignoring shit, and getting the same shit outcome?
@Protractor: Yep, and the tech giants will have to either be nationalised, or taxed to the hilt, to pay for it all. The time to discuss that was a decade ago. The next best time to discuss it is now.
@Protractor: job will become different look after AI and looking after the system become hire still jobs
@AustriaBargain: Let's be honest here, the only people supporting this have no ambition in life and want to stay in their parents house playing videos games without the inconvenience of working.
@JIMB0: Or…people who are actually intelligent enough to see where automation is headed. But of course bogans can trot out your tried and true notions of hard work in the face of loomimg mass unemployment.
@JIMB0: Whose ambition is it to stack shelves 40 hours a week for decades on end? Or even a single day?
I complain about Adelaide's music scene being kinda sucky. No proper music hall can host a full orchestra, and not many productions can even afford to hire an orchestra in the first place. I want to live in a world where people can choose to be a full time musician and even a travelling troupe can afford to hire the orchestra for just a few nights. And theatres big enough to hold them. Capitalism kinda sucks, you end up watching the Nutcracker listening to a CD recording. All those people stacking shelves could be playing music for fun and getting paid for it instead, while the robots do all the bullshit jobs.
I suppose some would rather live in a world where those people be unemployed while we all just listen to a CD recording when at the opera like chumps. Not everyone wants to sit at home smoking weed playing games all day. I bet loads of young people would happily devote their lives to music if only they could live off it. If you already get 30k universal basic income then you just might be willing to devote your life to an orchestra for just 30k more, or whatever. Instead of devoting your life to stacking Woolworth's shelves.
@AustriaBargain: In aggregate society values people stacking shelves more than it does them playing music as evidenced by the difference in rates of pay.
@JIMB0: Perhaps we could invent a machine that is a weighted box attached to a chain and we could pay people to lift the box onto a high shelf and then put it back down on the ground again, over and over, all day. And pay them for that after the robots take all these kind of jobs.
Why don't you put a stock in it?!
Sounds a bit kinky, but if that's how you get your schlock on, fill my stocking.
Your comment has been reported for stock puppeting
Not sure if my local sells stock. Haven’t seen it in any aisles
full shelves
Lucky there are supermarkets called Coles/Aldi/IGA. FFS
That makes sense. Cheers
Aldi saves cents. Cheers
Not everyone has every supermarket near them.
It is no longer practical for me to shop there
Ok then don't, shop elsewhere that has what you want.
Maybe it's because stuff is too cheap, they should raise the prices so that less people buy it and there is stock left.
Maybe the baby formula Ninjas are stripping shelves of all and sundry.
Maybe the millions of extra migrants need to eat too?
I heard it's the elves on another thread.
Sounds like the problem is not as widespread as I thought. Must be only in small pockets of Melbourne.
Maybe don't listen too much to the news
What's wrong with the news on this situation? All reports I've read have never made the claim that shortages were widespread and gave a statement from Woolworths that said this was only affecting some stores at this stage. Both have been right, so what's the beef?
@falcine: because news, especially in australia (newscorp?) is about fearmongering, being paid to shill and just tell lies.
If all you do is listen to the nightly news and read news.com.au then your world view is very limited.
@coffeeinmyveins: There's accountability with news organisations if they get the facts wrong. People get fired, they get sued. Like how Channel 7 incorrectly named the wrong suspect during the Bondi stabbings and had to make a big payout. Yes, the news can make mistakes reporting incorrect facts, but they're corrected on it. And it happens so much less frequently than on sites like X or reddit that it makes no sense to rely just on social media for news. But to each their own I guess.
Absolutely disgraceful for those of us in the affected areas.
Are you from Melbourne OP? I heard on the news there was a strike at some of the distribution centres so that must be what you’re seeing.
Haven’t been to my local Woolies this week so don’t know if the shelves are empty. It really does show that the supply chain is extremely dependent on human labour and isn’t as resilient as some people might think it is.
What it shows is how desperately needy the human race is when a tiny and temporary hiccup occurs. This 3 day (at most) hiccup will now justify the duopolies further gouging based on the squealing from the squeaky wheels.It's like when the web goes offline for 5 mins and ppl fall apart.
No, in VIC - they started running low on things on Thursday I noticed
Shelves low in Hamilton VIC
hobbits live in your town?
I see what you did there
Sounds like a disruption just for wherever trolls shop…..
Deserved
Where can I get food?
Yesterday night I watched Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End and now this …
OP, your post is very, extremely disturbing.
Use it as an excuse to get some take out.
But really this is a symptom of a larger issue. More and more people across all industries are complaining about their pay more because housing costs have gone up so much. Expect more and more of this kind disruption in the coming years, e.g. teacher strike, transport workers strike (or threats at least), nurses protesting, police writing stuff on their car windows etc.
We’re going backwards as a nation even if people don’t want to believe it. Yours is the second thread on this topic, I should saunter down to my local Woolies and see what the fuss is all about.
Edit: a few bare shelves in east Melb but I’d say that 95% of things are in stock. Soft drink, bottled water, pasta and juice is low but plenty of everything else.
Would love to get takeout buuuut alas, I’m an ozbargain user because I’m perpetually broke.
Not because I like bargains, because I need them, especially in our current climate.
Shopping at Colesworth or Aldi is what I have to do, I can’t afford bougee fresh food stores or butchers meats
Also a victim of low wage and not able to make ends meet, I just wish I knew about the strikes before this happened so I could’ve prepared better
There was news about people striking on Thursday or Friday I think. How many Woolies did you check? My local had plenty of food in the produce and meat sections.
21, don’t read the paper, wasn’t aware they made them still
Or people should just go on a shallow diet. Does well for all of society.
I think the middle class will get hollowed out in time. Disposable income will tighten further. Basic food prices will drop as wages continue to stagnate.
I think the middle class will get hollowed out in time. Disposable income will tighten further.
If things get really bad I agree. The middle class sits on a ladder, there are people who are closer to the lower class, those who are really around the middle and those who are close to becoming upper class. As costs go up the ones lower on the ladder will fall off first. But who knows, maybe only the upper class and lower class exists, and the middle class is actually an illusion fed to people so they work harder because hard workers make rich people richer. People who sit in the middle class who think that they can be rewarded through hard work are rich people's wet dream because they'd be the least likely to revolt.
Basic food prices will drop
Do you mean increase? I only see food prices getting worse in the future with climate change. It's happening with chocolate now (cafes are also experiencing issues with coffee beans from Brazil I think), either chocolate quality is decreasing due to manufacturers using less cocoa or it's becoming more expensive to maintain the same quality or it's shrinkflation.
I’m no economist but I think staple foods in supermarkets will have to drop in price. They’re far too expensive. People need to eat after all. We need better access to local fresh seasonal food. For example, I bought 10kg of freshly dug potatoes for $13 last week. They were dug on the previous Wednesday. Cabbage is not in season so I don’t buy it now for $3 a quarter. These local farm businesses surround our cities (save from urban sprawl which is a serious problem), and should be able to drive down prices once money gets seriously tight.
Just my speculation anyway.
Wow. Without them these employees we would starve, proving how essential they are!
Give them a 1000% pay rise
Yes, please, for the love of god, give them that so I can buy food
if they gave them that you would not be able to afford the food.
How so? Record profit margins, mostly automated warehouse and checkouts
@Darude Sandstorm: Soooo you reckon paying 1500 people 10 times their wages will have no affect on prices. It would be big price hikes.
I am surprised no one mention shortage of Eggs in Victoria?
It's being going on for a while and not related to industrial strike now isn't it.
Why? Did the chickens cross the road picket line?
I believe because of bird flu.
@haemolysis: Well that's only going to get worse. Looking fwd to watching ppl hoarding eggs like spawning salmon. This could get smelly.
Once the flu is here for real, chicken prices will rise too.
Hallowe'en
This is getting serious now. I went to claim my free Aperol Spritz 200ml from BWS and they were out of stock.
Yesterday I got all free 8 bottles of Aperol Spritz and 10 cans of Kirin Hyoketsu vodka soda pineapple, peach, and lemon in BWS Haymarket, Sydney. I shared them all today during Ozb meetup in Hyde Park, so we can drink together along with other beverages and had meals and good conversations there ;-)
Hmm so this is why… Was wondering why my local woolies looked like ransacked by the covid mob this weekend… Surprisingly thought coles seemed quite alright.
The only official industrial action I'm aware of is Woolies, but then subsequently there are a lot of people who would normally shop at Woolies have moved to other stores, which in some instances haven't been able to keep up with the demand.
Ding-Ding-Ding, congratulations, the one commenter whose reality is grounded and is speaking what others cannot fathom.
It’s completely ineffable to the others here that because 1 major supermarket is effectively offline in certain areas that the others are struggling due to the increased demand.
My wife works for Coles, so has seen a huge uptick in demand in the last week and is expected to continue for a while yet.
without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?
Would not recommend that diet in the Western World. You'd get fecal contamination.
GO to your nearest Asian suburbs and shop at Asian grocers, Asian are rarely on strike!
I feel bad for the suppliers as well not being able to sell their goods.
Always ways. It is just people have paid for convenience of the big chains.
Asians have always gone to lower price options.
Go to your local green grocers and try to eat fresh in season food.
Too expensive, if I had money I wouldn’t be an OzBargainer
Local green grocer doing 1.99kg for zucchini and 6.99kg for ginger. Non cheap boxed mangos are like 1.99kg.
When it comes to fresh produce, Colesworth are much more expensive than local green grocers.
This kind of sh1t is to be expected in the Socialist Republic of Victoria
I heard today the median house price in Vic is 14% less than Brisbane. Going to be state full of pensioners who can't escape to QLD anymore.
If a man who went through plandemic and doesn't has enough food for his household for at least 3month. He is doing smth wrong. Neg me. I have enough for 6months, and keep stocking
I’m in a nutslocked position.
I have a job that pays enough for me to live, somewhere actually affordable is 1.5+ hours away and doesn’t have jobs I am qualified in + I’d then be up moving costs.
I was fine precovid, my rent has gone from $300 to $620 (same house and now a kid).
My nuts are locked, in a vice grip.
I feels you, I have 3 myself, my rent gone from 230 to 390 now. Poverty is a death of 1000s cut, and the politicians have delivered that perfectly. Keep grinding champ.
Who’s dutto