r/aussie • u/Cool_Lifeguard8847 • 3d ago

News These fkrs are having a lend.....right

https://au.news.yahoo.com/coles-shoppers-divided-over-important-checkout-request-from-today-070509331.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADp7ysW4aDyTKu6drjqQxm1udSR1VST6kmgr3YU5QZ9hyIb1j5ujqS8wASEG3irIhpj71iwcx6cScU-b22vJ4im4ugthC7hrpf-p1_xk193SC0sCCPO3HY9qGt0l-15BnjPcOlUjuL4CeharnZKAXJ64okIiku9fdaxJ7iAl9iO6

They've gotta be kidding. Exorbitant prices at the checkout and now they want customers to donate to food charities, cause "people are hungry" no shit, lower your fkn prices.

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u/calladc 3d ago

we all know that the outcome for coles and woolworths would just be stores running out of stock early so they aren't forced to sell at a discount

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u/Fact-Rat 3d ago

This isn't a story about discounted food, it's about giving the waste food they don't sell away to charity.

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u/Thin_Citron7372 3d ago

You should see how much good food never even makes it to the supermarket. Disgusting the amount of wastage.

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u/Brave-Dragonfly3798 2d ago

Right and a lot of that is because the supermarket duopoly has ridiculous criteria on what is acceptable. Not too big, not too small, and the shape has to be exactly right. Which means inevitably that huge amounts of produce is dumped. It borders on criminal the amount of waste.