Powerdered Milk & supermarkets

Don't shop there

Coles and Woolworths are both working towards selling principally their own brands, eliminating alternative brands from their stores. Bad news for local producers and primary production across Australia as much of store brand products include ingredients sourced overseas.

When i worked at an IGA, our best competitive advantage was that we would try and get in the products the customers requested. We couldn't compete with some of Coles and Woolworths special prices as they were below what we could buy the products from the warehouse.

Motherhen

Life must be pretty good if the price of powdered milk is the only thing you have to worry about.

What can you do to make sure they dont ripp us off?? Sadly in your case not a damm thing. They have you by the short and curlies and will screw you as hard as they can while simultaneously advertising themselves and the friend and saviour of the poor consumer. IMHO, the best thing that has happened to the retail grocery market is ALDI, however this is probably not an option for you in Lismore. Coles and Woolworths have the market cornered in Food, Booze and Petrol, to say nothing of owning Big W and the Hypermarket chain here in Brisbane... it just goes on and on...

Hi roberttbruce,

I own an IGA store. Sunshine instant full cream milk powder (complete with a re-sealable plastic lid) is on our shelves and not tagged for deletion.

How many cases would you like???


Cheers
Michael

I've really want to thanks everyone for thier posts to this thread...

If the home-brand powdered milk moves up a cent in price or drops a gram in weight, ill mention it too every reply set and we will start banging some reality into the insidious creature which thinks it decides the product lineage

I wonder how many of the supermarket bashers dutifully line up with their 4c per litre fuel discount vouchers?
All this is doing is helping them to get rid of the independent operators.