Usually $7 elsewhere. If you have kids around that just love drawing….
80g/m2. 500 x A4
Nevia A4 Copy Paper 500 Sheets, $4.25 @ Coles
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Good? Bad? I don't know. Compared to reflex?
Reflex premium is 145.
Reflex recycled is 155.
Reflex ultra white is 165.Not bad at all by comparison!
Do you work for Dunder Mifflin?
We have AA Paper in the office which I find very good. CIE Whiteness is 150.
So hopefully this will be equal or better in the real world. I'll stock up on this.
I'm not a fan of Reflex, and the home brand Kmart/Coles is rubbish.
Price of paper shot up like all other commodities.
Great price if you are not a business user
Shot up because we don't manufacture any paper onshore anymore (despite being a timber exporter). Sad.
Even at $8 a ream is still cheap.
I remember buying reams of reflex 30 years ago and it was $5-6.
And these days you print bugger all.
Nevia again !!!
What is the country of origin here?
Wont be Australia. Australia's last white paper pulp mill shut down in 2023. You can google the reasons why.
It got me excited for a second. I thought they had come to their senses and reopen the mill. If forestry/lodging deem an unrenewable industry then so should be career politicians
why don't companies just grow trees on farms to use for paper? how long could it possibly take to grow a tree?
They did. Except some random possums moved into the plantations, so the greenies managed to get the logging stopped! This was land leased from the government too for the sole purpose of platation trees. Seriously….only in Victoria
@Sammyboy: The possum issue was affecting a small area of the plantations and not all of it and was not the sole reason for stopping logging.
Logging and milling costs a lot more than it used to and uses a lot of resources are needed including water and energy to make paper. Both of which are a commodity in Australia and better off going to the public. Plus creating white business paper uses chemicals to bleach it all of which we have to deal with.
Australia still logs and manufactures cardboards and brown packaging materials.
Logging was never a lucrative business and didn't generate as much income for the country or hire many people due to its automation just like mining etc. only a couple of hundred people.
Stopping the mills was such a small impact the most people don't even know we made paper or that anything has changed
@Windows98: The price of a ream paper jumped to $7 over night from about $3.50. It was the last white paper producing mill for the whole of Australia. This is the first time I've seen it this low since the mill was closed. It had a big impact on people wallets, just that most people didn't know the cause of the price jump
@Sammyboy: Exactly. Maryvale was producing white paper, and forced to shut down by an idiot who found that killing whole towns was easier.
Immediately, the imported paper went fro 80GSM to 70GSM and the price skyrocketed.
But apparently it saved some trees@Sammyboy: Prices were not $3.50
Australian made reflex was $5 on special which would suggest standard price would be $6 or higher. So not much difference to now. If prices are higher now, it would be due to regular inflation and corporate greed.
Good quality paper can still be bought outside of Officeworks for cheaper. It's Officeworks that Jack up the prices
Demand for copy paper has been dropping since the internet and even faster with mobile devices. Covid rapidly dropped the need for generic offices to need printers and even businesses that previously were forced to have hard copies like lawyers and medical offices are going to move to DocuSign.
https://industryedge.com.au/falling-demand-and-end-of-produc…
If a business is not viable. They will shut down and blame everyone but themselves to save facr and use the media to spread that message.
Also, no one 'stopped logging" in Australia. It's still legal to do it. Changes in legislation were put into place to protect the environment and the local companies used that as their excuse along with drops in demand to shut down local plants.
Opal (paper mill) themselves admitted that drops in demand and cheaper international alternatives were factors that lead to the decision to shut down.
@Windows98: Well now the white reams of paper are coming from China. Do you really think the Chinese factories are buying their pulp only from verfied companies that are supplying pulp from plantation trees. Of course there are no checks. Some of that pupl will be coming from illegal logging and deforestation of rain forest areas. All that extra carbon generated. Also who know how underpaid those workers are too from the loggers in what ever country its coming from to the factory in China and the conditions they have to work in. These factories tare using energy supplied from coal. Lots and lots of coal. Its then got to be transported to the port and has to be shipped over to Australia. Lots of fossil fuels used in logistics from trucks to ships to get that paper to Australia. Its then got to be transported to warehouses from the port.
So yes you can feel good for the environment for shutting down plantation forests in Australia, but turn a blind eye to where its coming from overseas and the impact it has on the environment from being made overseas. Also 1000s of jobs were lost due to this. Pretty much the whole town of Maryville was impacted.
Hard copy documents are still required in many circumstances such as contracts and loan documents. Most of these are many pages long. My ones recently have been over 50 pages and printed in triplicate. Paper hard copies will be around for a long time
@Sammyboy: except you forget the inconvenience truth that Australia supply those coal to China to make paper.
@lgacb08: Thats fine by me. Australia needs to export as much of it as possible. Point being that shutting down the mill here isnt going to make 1 iota of difference in saving the environment. In fact its probably worse for the environment getting the import paper.
@Sammyboy: A serious question, do you care that everything we buy today is disposable and cheap. barbecues are made of cheap metal clothes are made of cheap cotton nothing is designed to last. Specifically companies like Dyson and everyone else spend a lot of money researching how to ensure that their appliances break just after a warranty period ends. It doesn’t bother bother you that Rice cookers don’t sell replacement nonstick bowls and we have to throw away the entire unit or do you only care about this stuff? You don’t care to object to any of the stuff I talk about?
@grasstown: What tangent have you jumped to? Im supporting the fact that white paper was actually manufactured in Australia, supporting australian jobs and the economy, regulated into how it was processed (no banned chemicals etc), and was much better quality (in my opinion) than the imported paper we are now getting and paying more for. The local paper was actually cheaper at non sale pricing.
Unfortunately thats the way the world works regardless if we like it or not. Its cheaper to replace than to repair. Companies want to make money making you buy new things. Social media has driven the current generation to upgrade, upgrade, upgrade. Potentially a company isn't going to want to produce a rice cooker model and keep that model for 10 years and then just sell replacement bowls for the next 10 years. They would go broke. Furthermore they aren't going to stock pile bowls, to then change the model the following year and then warehouse all these spare bowls for the next 3 years for warranty purposes. Just say they do that and have 100000 bowls stored. 10 years down the track there are still 50000 bowls and a lot of people would have changed their rice cookers. So the company ends up throwing away 50000 rice bowls. now that would be a waste.
I bet Indonesia
China
I think I remember seeing it being made in China when I was considering paper the other day in store.
Pair it with a crayon special and you have a certified ozbargainer artwork kit.
Mspaint approved for power outages
Did you mean: Nivea
Most boring book I've ever read.
I actually lol'd
I exhaled amusedly through my nostrils
through my nostrils
Did the boogers come out? Asking for a kid..
Always rely on Reflex
Great ads!
Coles not only dropped the price to their ATL but it's cheaper than others when comparing the same thing (A4 80GSM 500 Sheet Reem)….. Are my eyes deceiving me? Did hell freeze over?
No, and that's why it's OOS in almost all Coles
Where's that chart from?
OOS in the few Coles around me.
Bonus: If you cut out and frame the slogan from the packaging, you can hang it on the toilet door as an inspirational quote.
Not available online. Cheaper per page than a notebook.
Tried my luck when walking past Coles and saw the guy restocking. Grabbed the whole box of 5 packs. 2025 A4 paper sorted.
Finally sub $5 paper
Anyone remember buying boxes of paper from staple when they just started operating in Australia. I member and still using the paper today
I'm a 90g kind of guy
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Thanks. Nice find.
Coles Chastone village got 3 packs on shelf.
If it is on catalogue you can get a raincheck voucher.I did a click/collect for 12 reams. Picked it up this morning directly to the car boot. I go through about 5 reams per yr so should be sorted for 2-3 yrs.
Back to $8.50 today and only realised when at the check out 😕
you snooze you lose :(
161 CIE Whiteness for anyone wondering.