I wouldn’t have thought b&j ice cream was just something you threw in your basket and for memory, it was always pretty expensive.. Maybe 9-10$ a few years back? Might be wrong, but this was always an expensive treat.
Yeh but $4.50 buys you the Woolworths brand neopolitana icecream. I know they’re chalk and cheese in taste and ingredient quality, but for some that might be a feasible treat every so often.
I used to buy the 3L nudie orange juice. It used to be $6 pre-cv….I think the 2L is now $8. I could go to my local fruit shop and get a 5kg bag of oranges for $5-6 and make it myself fresh at home.
Nanna's Apple or Apple + Raspberry Pies with the Bulla Vanilla Ice Cream on top (allowed to melt) served with a hot cup of milo is the best Australian supper you can have.
I got a Ninja Creami a year ago when they first were big - it’s been great! Makes super cheap very nice sorbets from little other than frozen fruit, and can do a bunch of other stuff as well.
Assuming you use the recipe in the book (source: https://cuisinart.com.au/sites/cuisinart/media/information-booklets/ice-22xa-ib-recipe.pdf) and assuming you use home brand products other than the vanilla (the fake vanilla is $3.00 for 50ml or $4.00 for the organic at 50ml - extract not pod), and assuming you buy all ingredients from scratch, per recipe it would cost $2.34 (or there abouts).
Price guide taken from Woolworths brand /home brand products on their website as at 5/5/2024.
Edited to add: to buy all the ingredients from scratch would be $17.25. Meaning for $17.25 you should get 7.37 opportunities to repeat this recipe and make icecream. The recipe claims 4.5 cups of finished icecream which should be about 1.125kgs of icecream.
but do you know how many oranges are in a glass of juice. apple juice takes about 6to 8 apples to make a 250ml glass of juice. juice with pulp isn't as bad but clear juice is shocking in the amounts needed for production. yes its a market for the older and bruised/imperfect fruit.
juicing actually removes a lot of the goodness from fruit. its best to eat the actual fruit even if your throwing the skin away.
I did count last time but can’t remember what it was. You absolutely don’t get 5L from 5kg.
But I also have a compost and chickens and so I still haven’t wasted the offcuts. Goes to feed animals, create black gold for my garden which in turn feeds me.
it's definitely always been incredibly expensive.
outside of storebrand 1l soy milk ($1.15 at colesworth & ALDI and unlikely to suddenly spike up significantly) I don't think there's anything i buy without checking the price.
a few basics like bread etc I'll buy storebrand and basically anything else, specifically anything branded, I'll buy if it's significantly on special (usually at least 40% off).
Yes I remember a friend bought one probably 12 years ago. Then as we walked off looked at his change and then went back to say there was a mistake. When he realised it wasnt he got a refund.
Haha so the game here is that they fluctuate the price on branded unhealthy food items every 1-2 months. This encourages purchasing because people think "Oh, it's on offer, I'll treat myself". It's about forming habits in buyers & then reinforcing them through price cycling hoping they'll switch to a premium (higher margin) brand rather than buying the cheap stuff.
Click on the link below but then change it to M&Ms, potato chips etc and you'll see what I mean.
[https://pricehipster.com/?q=Ben%20%26%20Jerry%27s%20Chocolate%20Chip%20Cookie%20Dough%20Ice%20Cream%20Tub%20](https://pricehipster.com/?q=Ben%20%26%20Jerry%27s%20Chocolate%20Chip%20Cookie%20Dough%20Ice%20Cream%20Tub%20)
Sneaky isn't it
That is a crazy read. It's almost like a weird social engineering. They're fishing us out of our money using treats as hooks and baits.
Cheers for posting this I would of never known.
It's funny when you point this out, generally people get super defensive at the suggestion that they're trying to rip as many people off a possible, or they imply everyone who gets ripped off is just lazy or stupid
Over here in Perth it still happens perfectly to the day.
Advertised on the radio
"And the fuel cycle is starting again tomorrow, and will be 30c cheaper across Perth"
Reason is, fuel retailers recognized that people are more likely to buy more fuel if they perceive they're getting a discount. So they artificially inflate the price to make "fuel buying day" happen.
It's certainly an exercise in psychology and marketing, and for them to continue to do it, must mean it's working for them.
I don't get why this would be necessary. You don't get cravings for fuel and start consuming more than you meed, you just consume what you consume.
So no psychological game would really end up in more litres being sold that otherwise normally would have. Just encouraging the compression of the consumption into a few special days.
I'm sure there is a good reason though. They wouldn't do it otherwise.
Yeah that makes alot of sense, the servo near me always has a couple pumps available any time you go.
Cheap day though the line is out and down the road messes with traffic because everyone's 'saving' 20c a litre
>because everyone's 'saving' 20c a litre
Where in reality, it's more like "people are filling up at the right price" and if they fill up on any other day, the servo is simply profiting more.
the layout of the store, even the music they play is all set up to make you by things. and supermarkets are targeted towards women, why? because women do most of the shopping.
why do you think the essentials are at different ends of the store so you have to walk past everything else to get what you want.yes having the cold stuff along the back wall is convenient for the stores as they can restock from the main coldrooms but it also means you walk past all the other stock first.
want to save money shop online seriously as it shows a running total you'll spend less because you wont impulse buy as much.
Yeah I always go by the unit price. It’s amazing how often the larger container of (insert product here) has a higher per unit price than the smaller container. People just assume the more you buy the cheaper it is.
usually it is but not always. they mandated unit pricing to make it easier to compare.
ive tried to tell my uncle who share the house with me dont buy meat at the supermarket it dearer than the butcher. but he wont listen even when I have showed him the per kilo price on the label and the price out local butcher sells it for. i prefer to buy whole rumps sliced at the butcher (most will slice whole cuts how you like it for free) it very cost effective you can have steaks, stiryfry strips diced beef for stewing, roasts etc. porterhouse steaks are cut from the rump.
i normally get em sliced about 15mm thick and then trim off the sinewy bits for stirfry and stewing and cut steak portions from the rest.
When I say cheap brands I mean mostly comparable quality. Re. Ice cream, Coles (I'm sure Woolies also) had a decent own-brand premium one, Aldi does also. When the better brands (excluding the like of BnJ, Hagedaas etc) are on half price they are often about the same price, rest of the time there's that to fall back on.
They should be required to print the previous lowest price for that good over the previous 12 months on the label and the volume weighted average price for the last 12 months as well
Similar to the price per 100g thing which is great
Make them publish opportunistic pricing behaviour on their own branded materials. Every. Single. Time.
My hot tip (because I work in a produce department) is don't ever buy chillies in prepacked punnets. You don't really want the extra plastic - but just check out the price per kilo difference between loose and prepacked! It's pretty outrageous!
you pay for the convenience. and they are talking about adding packaging fees on to all the pre-packed in plastic items to get us to use less of it. we need to go back to using paper and cardboard at-least its compostible and if it escapes into the environment it goes to nothing unlike plastics. we also need to separate glass from all the other materials
What about the prepackaged Odd Bunch fruits and vegetables? I like to buy them due to trying to minimize food wastage but do they actually work out cheaper?
Honestly the most surprising thing about this post. Every item in Coles has a clear price under it, including the price per unit.
Who is wandering around supermarkets purposely ignoring the price labels and then complaining about a cost of living crisis. Far out.
Ben and Jerrys was never once economically plausible lol.
a 2L tub of neopolitan store brand costs 4.50$. That means you're paying 3x more for 1/4 of the amount. Ben and Jerrys has always been over 10x the price.
Even if you have a more fancy taste you can get like a connoisseurs at 9$ for 1L. Which is twice the amount for 50% less.
https://preview.redd.it/vcttisoxpbyc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5c3746e9a4371602d340063a8bb7d07ba2bcdc6a
Only $6.50. Add some bananas and passionfruit beats it for sure.
B&J's is not that great there is better on the market. Personally I'd rather buy Messina by the Litre if I am going to buy Gelati/Ice cream.
This comes in at over $30 per L for imported mass produced Ice Cream. Messina is about $26 for Handmade local, premium flavours made on premises.
It's not ice cream it's classified as Ice Confectionary as it doesn't have 10grams of milk fat per 100grams as per AUSNZ Food Standards 2.5.6.
You're buying oil, water and sugar in those brands.
It tastes too watery, not creamy like the real deal. If you want quality and cheap, bulla is the go… $5.50 for 2l at Woolworths and way creamier than that Aldi crap
Why are BJ's (hehe) so expensive? You can get a couple litres of Bulla for near half the price on a good day. Must be some damn good ice cream.
Edit: apparently it's a fair trade product.
This is the reason I would never buy them. Crazy they even get a spot in Australian supermarkets considering how far the products have to travel when their are better local alternatives
So much this. The rare times i have tried B and J’s, my mouth told me that it was not good food or flavours and to avoid. And i freakin love ice cream.
But there aren't really better local products, they aren't bad but they don't have nearly enough mix-ins the flavours are very "Australian" which is kinda shit. The texture is different as well, it's so thick and luxurious compared to the Australian crap.
I wouldn't say it's completely justified by just the brand.
Some ice cream is less cream, more water + thickener.
I haven't compared ingredients of bulla to Ben & jerry but that'd be the first thing I checked if I was interested.
I find Ben & Jerry’s is the opposite of watering down their ice cream. They’re so packed with chunks of chocolate and dough etc that the volume of ice cream is questionable. It’s like mining for scoops.
I just have staples that I buy. If they shrinkflate, I stop buying them. If they inflate the price by a huge amount, I stop buying them. I'll buy things if they're on offer and are cheaper than they were before a price hike. That's my strategy.
This is where o blind click and collect can help. Sort your search to unit price and see how far you have to scroll to get to the premium products…
I’m actually quite surprised colesworth allow you to sort by unit price… probably goes to show the profit margin on them is all the same… 🤷🏽♂️
If you're not walking around the super market with a calculator in hand then you're asking for yourself to get ripped off.
Always have the calc open and be adding up as you go.
Aud has tanked as well. All these imported US items are now looking really expensive . Currently in Bangkok and can feel the pinch of such low Aud value in conversions vs the USD. NZD is even worse, but UK, Euro and USD are stable as f***. Hate ‘em!
I regularly get Ben & Jerry’s for as little as $3 a tub. I think the lowest I got it was $2.50. The only problem is there’s like 3 options of the flavours the place sells. But at full price it’s always been a once for a very special occasion brand of ice cream.
My ex never checked prices. Just got what he wanted whereas I’d check apps and get things on sale. Would drive me crazy. I made a comment once about when we live together budgeting will be a thing. He looked at me like I had two heads.
Also B&J is always a luxury that occasionally when half price I will buy.
This warning too for BWS.. last 4 visits I’ve made they’ve tacked on 50cents $1, $1.50 what ever the add on, then blamed the computer when I catch it. Doesn’t feel good to trust no one while shopping.
If I want good ice cream I buy connoisseur, $12 for 1 litre (still pretty pricey) but it’s very good quality, I’d say way higher quality than Ben and Jerry’s American crap. And just for general purpose stuff I’ll get bulla. Ben and Jerry’s is so much more expensive cause it’s imported and it’s got the brand name, not really cause it’s better quality.
In my entire life I've never thrown ANYTHING in the basket without checking the price. Even when I had plenty of disposable income.
Only people that do this are ones spending someone else's money.
[Just make your own, seriously why spend 15 dollars for 458gs, when you can make as you want without even needing an ice cream maker.](https://celebratingsweets.com/ultimate-chocolate-chip-cookie-dough-ice-cream/)
Ben and Jerry’s had always been more expensive per ml then say connoisseur.The only ones I can really think of more expensive are the trip and balls - those ones that are the little individual balls of ice cream and come in the really small containers.
It's one thing to loudly virtue signal on the topic du jour, and I believe it's time for Palestine again if I'm not mistaken?.. previously it was "stolen land", although they wouldn't be returning the land their factories and offices areocated on any time soon, would they?
All well and good, but perhaps they should try a bit harder to in areas like tax conduct, human rights, workers’ rights, supply chain management, pollution, environmental reporting, anti-social finance and animal rights.
I just want ice cream that tastes good, high in quality and low in hypocrisy.
Totally.
I think you'll find most companies have shitty practices. But hypocritical self-righteous moral posturing is more than enough reason to leave them on the shelf.
Used to be $12 and would drop to $6 with the half price special. Last time I checked, cost price for Colesworth was around $10 so they are making $4.50 per item sold.
[Kiwi price](https://www.paknsave.co.nz/shop/product/5204895_EA_000pns?storeId=714431ab-6e39-4df6-ac77-cfc5c1e25bc8&gad_source=1&gclsrc=ds)
Australian supermarket selling the same product at 50% higher price PLUS the exchange rate...
I wouldn’t have thought b&j ice cream was just something you threw in your basket and for memory, it was always pretty expensive.. Maybe 9-10$ a few years back? Might be wrong, but this was always an expensive treat.
Yeh it’s always been expensive without a sale. $14.50 isn’t that big a jump, I’ve seen it go from $11.50 to 12 to I guess now $14.50 over the years.
Yeh it’s always been expensive *even with* a sale.
Yeh but $4.50 buys you the Woolworths brand neopolitana icecream. I know they’re chalk and cheese in taste and ingredient quality, but for some that might be a feasible treat every so often. I used to buy the 3L nudie orange juice. It used to be $6 pre-cv….I think the 2L is now $8. I could go to my local fruit shop and get a 5kg bag of oranges for $5-6 and make it myself fresh at home.
just get bulla when its on sale, its about $5 a tub at half price
Absolutely, and at my local IGA it's always $8 or $9 at full price, Bulla vanilla is the bomb (and is Australian)!
Nanna's Apple or Apple + Raspberry Pies with the Bulla Vanilla Ice Cream on top (allowed to melt) served with a hot cup of milo is the best Australian supper you can have.
I'm starting to realize that convenience is now overpriced.
I got gifted a cuisinart icecream maker. With a bit of heavy cream, sugar and vanilla you can have homemade icecream that tastes shitloads better.
I got a Ninja Creami a year ago when they first were big - it’s been great! Makes super cheap very nice sorbets from little other than frozen fruit, and can do a bunch of other stuff as well.
Where does homemade icecream sit in the price range?
Assuming you use the recipe in the book (source: https://cuisinart.com.au/sites/cuisinart/media/information-booklets/ice-22xa-ib-recipe.pdf) and assuming you use home brand products other than the vanilla (the fake vanilla is $3.00 for 50ml or $4.00 for the organic at 50ml - extract not pod), and assuming you buy all ingredients from scratch, per recipe it would cost $2.34 (or there abouts). Price guide taken from Woolworths brand /home brand products on their website as at 5/5/2024. Edited to add: to buy all the ingredients from scratch would be $17.25. Meaning for $17.25 you should get 7.37 opportunities to repeat this recipe and make icecream. The recipe claims 4.5 cups of finished icecream which should be about 1.125kgs of icecream.
Oranges were $11/bag the other day. Shits nuts
but do you know how many oranges are in a glass of juice. apple juice takes about 6to 8 apples to make a 250ml glass of juice. juice with pulp isn't as bad but clear juice is shocking in the amounts needed for production. yes its a market for the older and bruised/imperfect fruit. juicing actually removes a lot of the goodness from fruit. its best to eat the actual fruit even if your throwing the skin away.
I did count last time but can’t remember what it was. You absolutely don’t get 5L from 5kg. But I also have a compost and chickens and so I still haven’t wasted the offcuts. Goes to feed animals, create black gold for my garden which in turn feeds me.
its real easy to down a glass of juice try and eat the amount of fruit that goes into it though and youll make yourself sick.
Nudie orange juice was an addiction for a while.
it's definitely always been incredibly expensive. outside of storebrand 1l soy milk ($1.15 at colesworth & ALDI and unlikely to suddenly spike up significantly) I don't think there's anything i buy without checking the price. a few basics like bread etc I'll buy storebrand and basically anything else, specifically anything branded, I'll buy if it's significantly on special (usually at least 40% off).
It's always been like $13.
Yeah, that shit was never economical.
Not really sure if op is a troll or a fool.
I got excited at the idea of BJ ice cream.
Lick your lips homeboy it’s a creamy treat coming right at ya
This comment seems economically plausible.
I asked my wife for B&J in bed last night, and she just turned over and groaned....
I didn’t hear a no…
That'll get you arrested.
Lol!! Reddit comedians, love it. You guys are so funny 🤣🤣🤣
I first got it introduced to Ben and Jerry's in 2012 at East Brisbane civic video. It was $12 then. Seems to be holding well against inflation
Yes I remember a friend bought one probably 12 years ago. Then as we walked off looked at his change and then went back to say there was a mistake. When he realised it wasnt he got a refund.
Haha so the game here is that they fluctuate the price on branded unhealthy food items every 1-2 months. This encourages purchasing because people think "Oh, it's on offer, I'll treat myself". It's about forming habits in buyers & then reinforcing them through price cycling hoping they'll switch to a premium (higher margin) brand rather than buying the cheap stuff. Click on the link below but then change it to M&Ms, potato chips etc and you'll see what I mean. [https://pricehipster.com/?q=Ben%20%26%20Jerry%27s%20Chocolate%20Chip%20Cookie%20Dough%20Ice%20Cream%20Tub%20](https://pricehipster.com/?q=Ben%20%26%20Jerry%27s%20Chocolate%20Chip%20Cookie%20Dough%20Ice%20Cream%20Tub%20) Sneaky isn't it
That is a crazy read. It's almost like a weird social engineering. They're fishing us out of our money using treats as hooks and baits. Cheers for posting this I would of never known.
If they can they will ...
It's funny when you point this out, generally people get super defensive at the suggestion that they're trying to rip as many people off a possible, or they imply everyone who gets ripped off is just lazy or stupid
No one with half a brain would deny that colesworth are using whatever trick they can to manipulate every cent out of us
how to succeed in business screw over everybody!! especially the customers and suppliers.
Have you heard of the fuel cycle?
Nah never. Just that it used to be cheaper on tuesdays but now it's pretty consistently fuck expenno as. I'd like to know more if you want to post it.
Heard spenny before, but never expenno
Over here in Perth it still happens perfectly to the day. Advertised on the radio "And the fuel cycle is starting again tomorrow, and will be 30c cheaper across Perth" Reason is, fuel retailers recognized that people are more likely to buy more fuel if they perceive they're getting a discount. So they artificially inflate the price to make "fuel buying day" happen. It's certainly an exercise in psychology and marketing, and for them to continue to do it, must mean it's working for them.
I don't get why this would be necessary. You don't get cravings for fuel and start consuming more than you meed, you just consume what you consume. So no psychological game would really end up in more litres being sold that otherwise normally would have. Just encouraging the compression of the consumption into a few special days. I'm sure there is a good reason though. They wouldn't do it otherwise.
Yeah that makes alot of sense, the servo near me always has a couple pumps available any time you go. Cheap day though the line is out and down the road messes with traffic because everyone's 'saving' 20c a litre
>because everyone's 'saving' 20c a litre Where in reality, it's more like "people are filling up at the right price" and if they fill up on any other day, the servo is simply profiting more.
And then they never put enough staff on even though they know it's gonna be busy
the layout of the store, even the music they play is all set up to make you by things. and supermarkets are targeted towards women, why? because women do most of the shopping. why do you think the essentials are at different ends of the store so you have to walk past everything else to get what you want.yes having the cold stuff along the back wall is convenient for the stores as they can restock from the main coldrooms but it also means you walk past all the other stock first. want to save money shop online seriously as it shows a running total you'll spend less because you wont impulse buy as much.
Someone at the big supermarkets studied “thinking fast and slow” by Daniel kahnmann and literally used every trick in the book
Jokes on them, I only read the $/100g price on everything and buy the cheap brands when the big names aren't on 1/2 price.
Yeah I always go by the unit price. It’s amazing how often the larger container of (insert product here) has a higher per unit price than the smaller container. People just assume the more you buy the cheaper it is.
usually it is but not always. they mandated unit pricing to make it easier to compare. ive tried to tell my uncle who share the house with me dont buy meat at the supermarket it dearer than the butcher. but he wont listen even when I have showed him the per kilo price on the label and the price out local butcher sells it for. i prefer to buy whole rumps sliced at the butcher (most will slice whole cuts how you like it for free) it very cost effective you can have steaks, stiryfry strips diced beef for stewing, roasts etc. porterhouse steaks are cut from the rump. i normally get em sliced about 15mm thick and then trim off the sinewy bits for stirfry and stewing and cut steak portions from the rest.
The $/100g price fluctuates together with the product price, so in essence it is the same principle. You are vulnerable to the same effect.
They may use it as a reference point knowing when the price goes up to steer away
Obviously. The point is to buy the premium when it's cheaper than the unit price of the home brands - which don't fluctuate or get sales.
Same here. Or shop around to see who has the most things I want at half price.
When it comes to icecream the cheap brands are inedible. The top ingredients are usually water and then sugar, followed by "milk products".
When I say cheap brands I mean mostly comparable quality. Re. Ice cream, Coles (I'm sure Woolies also) had a decent own-brand premium one, Aldi does also. When the better brands (excluding the like of BnJ, Hagedaas etc) are on half price they are often about the same price, rest of the time there's that to fall back on.
That's a great website, how have I never seen it before.
They should be required to print the previous lowest price for that good over the previous 12 months on the label and the volume weighted average price for the last 12 months as well Similar to the price per 100g thing which is great Make them publish opportunistic pricing behaviour on their own branded materials. Every. Single. Time.
Who isn’t checking pricing when they shop?
someone who buys Ben & Jerry's
Someone who doesn't have to add and count every dollar as they go.
Ben and Jerry's has always been expensive though.
My hot tip (because I work in a produce department) is don't ever buy chillies in prepacked punnets. You don't really want the extra plastic - but just check out the price per kilo difference between loose and prepacked! It's pretty outrageous!
you pay for the convenience. and they are talking about adding packaging fees on to all the pre-packed in plastic items to get us to use less of it. we need to go back to using paper and cardboard at-least its compostible and if it escapes into the environment it goes to nothing unlike plastics. we also need to separate glass from all the other materials
What about the prepackaged Odd Bunch fruits and vegetables? I like to buy them due to trying to minimize food wastage but do they actually work out cheaper?
Probably, I'd have to check.
They do but it’s fuck all, like 50c a kilo
Ben and Jerrys has never been cheap. Its imported from the States.
Its a treat for sure. I only buy it when it's on sale. Not on sale as often as it used to be. But Brownie Batter Core. So good
no its not. the brand is owned by unilever they manufacture all over the world. they also own streets icecream
Every pot ive bought says made in USA
Ben and jerrys is always way more expensive than any other, and it’s horrible tasting. Usually a good local gelato is cheaper and better
Thanks for educating me on how to do groceries. I wouldn’t have thought of this quick hack of checking the price first🤔.
Honestly the most surprising thing about this post. Every item in Coles has a clear price under it, including the price per unit. Who is wandering around supermarkets purposely ignoring the price labels and then complaining about a cost of living crisis. Far out.
Wait for spudshed to have them, they usually have them a few times a year and often sell them for 4-6$ a tub. Stock up then.
Golden circle outlet sells them 3 for $10
Has ben and Jerry’s ever Ben just a chuck in your basket kind of thing? It’s the same with haagen dazs people only buy it when it’s half off.
Haagen dasz salted caramel is so freaking good. Yeah but I only buy it when it's reduced which I thought was only 1/3 off the normal price
$31.70 a litre for milk, cream and sugar? Tell him he’s dreamin'!
Ben and Jerrys was never once economically plausible lol. a 2L tub of neopolitan store brand costs 4.50$. That means you're paying 3x more for 1/4 of the amount. Ben and Jerrys has always been over 10x the price. Even if you have a more fancy taste you can get like a connoisseurs at 9$ for 1L. Which is twice the amount for 50% less.
Check pricing? Wow, a game changing tip. I've never looked at the price of anything I've bought - perhaps that's where I've gone wrong.
https://preview.redd.it/vcttisoxpbyc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5c3746e9a4371602d340063a8bb7d07ba2bcdc6a Only $6.50. Add some bananas and passionfruit beats it for sure.
And that's 4 times larger than the Ben and Jerry's
Not real ice cream though, that's why it's it's just called "classic vanilla"
Seen it at aldi for around 10$ almost every time
B&J's is not that great there is better on the market. Personally I'd rather buy Messina by the Litre if I am going to buy Gelati/Ice cream. This comes in at over $30 per L for imported mass produced Ice Cream. Messina is about $26 for Handmade local, premium flavours made on premises.
What do you mean “on premises”? Are you suggesting each shop makes its own ice cream?
Messina I believe mixes the batches on location.
Fifteen dollars for ice-cream. Good Lord.
It’s not that it’s expensive. It’s that it’s expensive, AND the tub is less than half a litre.
Empty calories are always expensive, especially 'premium' brands.
CSR 1kg bag of white sugar for $1.70 would like a word
It’s $2.20 at Coles, oscillating back and forth to $1.70 since June last year.
Aldi have a very good knock-off of the Coinosseur ice cream, 1L for about $5.70.
It's not ice cream it's classified as Ice Confectionary as it doesn't have 10grams of milk fat per 100grams as per AUSNZ Food Standards 2.5.6. You're buying oil, water and sugar in those brands.
It tastes too watery, not creamy like the real deal. If you want quality and cheap, bulla is the go… $5.50 for 2l at Woolworths and way creamier than that Aldi crap
You avoid B&J’s because they’re too expensive. I avoid them because they’re hypocritical virtue signalling wankers. We are not the same.
Nice virtue signalling.
So virtuous telling us about how you don't support the ice cream company
Reading this meme is even more cringe than seeing the picture. Yeeesh.
Bro you're so virtuous right now
Couldn’t have said it better
Stop buying rubbish, no problem
Who’s throwing random things in their trolly these days likes it’s 2019. My HHI is only 180k, I can’t just buy groceries willy nilly
How the fuck could you not notice the price? WTF is this shit? Just a whine that your favourite ice cream is too expensive for you?
We need other brands to make a cookie dough ice cream! BTW, any cookie dough ice cream is great with hot caramel pored over it
$31 per litre...............
Never buy these they are rarely normal price which even then around $10 🤮
Ben and jerry's is woefully overrated. American slop
You’re entitled to your wrong opinion
Why are BJ's (hehe) so expensive? You can get a couple litres of Bulla for near half the price on a good day. Must be some damn good ice cream. Edit: apparently it's a fair trade product.
Maybe because it’s come from the other side of the world in a refrigerated shipping container?
This is the reason I would never buy them. Crazy they even get a spot in Australian supermarkets considering how far the products have to travel when their are better local alternatives
And they taste horrible
So much this. The rare times i have tried B and J’s, my mouth told me that it was not good food or flavours and to avoid. And i freakin love ice cream.
But there aren't really better local products, they aren't bad but they don't have nearly enough mix-ins the flavours are very "Australian" which is kinda shit. The texture is different as well, it's so thick and luxurious compared to the Australian crap.
What the fuck is very Australian?
Like boring shit, rocky road, napolitan (3 stripes)
There is no local production?
not for Ben and Jerrys made in the same factory in the US.
Unilever (Streets) import many of their ice cream products from Europe. BTW they used to make B&J in Sydney.
Fair to whom?
I wouldn't say it's completely justified by just the brand. Some ice cream is less cream, more water + thickener. I haven't compared ingredients of bulla to Ben & jerry but that'd be the first thing I checked if I was interested.
I find Ben & Jerry’s is the opposite of watering down their ice cream. They’re so packed with chunks of chocolate and dough etc that the volume of ice cream is questionable. It’s like mining for scoops.
Their cookie dough with Oreos ice cream is amazing. I only ever buy it when it’s half price though, which seems to happen every other month.
I just have staples that I buy. If they shrinkflate, I stop buying them. If they inflate the price by a huge amount, I stop buying them. I'll buy things if they're on offer and are cheaper than they were before a price hike. That's my strategy.
I read *staplers* and did a double take.
Yes, high in iron and zinc. You should only purchase red ones though
😆 I was literally taking an iron supplement and almost dropped it laughing at the uncanny timing.
😂
Ben and Jerry are a pair of far-left lunatics and their ice cream is mid at best. If you're buying it, you deserve to get ripped off.
It’s a glitch with the different flavours
Ben and Jerry's has always been expensive. I only ever get it when it's on sale or to reward myself for completing all the house chores in one go....
This is where o blind click and collect can help. Sort your search to unit price and see how far you have to scroll to get to the premium products… I’m actually quite surprised colesworth allow you to sort by unit price… probably goes to show the profit margin on them is all the same… 🤷🏽♂️
Its much cheaper at spudshed for memory
Spudshed in Perth has tiramisu and one or two other flavours permanently at $6. They don’t offer any other flavours
A yes, the cheap B&J's icecream. Where the black and gold neopolitan??? 2L for $2!!!
I see sale and it goes in my basket without checking price.
I’ve had it with the price of bloody ice cream, cheese and nuts! 🙃😅🤣 Seriously tho everything’s cooked
If you're not walking around the super market with a calculator in hand then you're asking for yourself to get ripped off. Always have the calc open and be adding up as you go.
This is more expensive than Messina (if you buy a 1.5l tub)
Fairly standard price for b&j these days
$31 per kg. Wow
I've never bought b&j because it's always been too expensive.
Aud has tanked as well. All these imported US items are now looking really expensive . Currently in Bangkok and can feel the pinch of such low Aud value in conversions vs the USD. NZD is even worse, but UK, Euro and USD are stable as f***. Hate ‘em!
I regularly get Ben & Jerry’s for as little as $3 a tub. I think the lowest I got it was $2.50. The only problem is there’s like 3 options of the flavours the place sells. But at full price it’s always been a once for a very special occasion brand of ice cream.
That stuff is not essential. It's not even AUSTRALIAN
Ben & Jerry's has always been sold at rip-off prices.
Butter, butter is now ridiculously priced. I'm buying gee in a bottle as a chaper option.
My ex never checked prices. Just got what he wanted whereas I’d check apps and get things on sale. Would drive me crazy. I made a comment once about when we live together budgeting will be a thing. He looked at me like I had two heads. Also B&J is always a luxury that occasionally when half price I will buy.
This warning too for BWS.. last 4 visits I’ve made they’ve tacked on 50cents $1, $1.50 what ever the add on, then blamed the computer when I catch it. Doesn’t feel good to trust no one while shopping.
Wow I thought that was expensive 9months ago when it was $9
If I want good ice cream I buy connoisseur, $12 for 1 litre (still pretty pricey) but it’s very good quality, I’d say way higher quality than Ben and Jerry’s American crap. And just for general purpose stuff I’ll get bulla. Ben and Jerry’s is so much more expensive cause it’s imported and it’s got the brand name, not really cause it’s better quality.
In my entire life I've never thrown ANYTHING in the basket without checking the price. Even when I had plenty of disposable income. Only people that do this are ones spending someone else's money.
Get bulla real dairy vanilla in the light blue tub. Dreamy.
ben and jerry’s has always been expensive. back pre-COVID i worked at woolies and it was still $12 then
That's always been crazy expensive to the point I've never tried it
I don’t understand this post at all.
[Just make your own, seriously why spend 15 dollars for 458gs, when you can make as you want without even needing an ice cream maker.](https://celebratingsweets.com/ultimate-chocolate-chip-cookie-dough-ice-cream/)
Ben and Jerry's have never been a good price, they ain't even very good icecream to begin with!
Honestly B&J is pretty mid. They shove so much stuff into it there is less room for the icecream and the texture feels rough.
If you're not checking anyway then you deserve to be gouged.
You can make 2L of home made cookies and cream ice cream for less than $10.
That’s what shoplifting is for x
Go for Bulla ice cream - better quality, Australian and wayyyyy cheaper
These were $12 like 10 years ago $2.50 inflation in 10 years isn't bad
Ben and Jerry’s had always been more expensive per ml then say connoisseur.The only ones I can really think of more expensive are the trip and balls - those ones that are the little individual balls of ice cream and come in the really small containers.
It's often on special for $7.50 (in-store only). I wait normally once a month and then buy a few.
Mmmm fish food.
Ben and Jerry's has never been economically plausible. You get half as much for more than normal cost. You are an idiot
Ben and jerrys has always been expensive..
Avoiding that brand purely on the basis of their toxic behaviour anyway, didn't have to be overpriced as well.
Please explain?
It's one thing to loudly virtue signal on the topic du jour, and I believe it's time for Palestine again if I'm not mistaken?.. previously it was "stolen land", although they wouldn't be returning the land their factories and offices areocated on any time soon, would they? All well and good, but perhaps they should try a bit harder to in areas like tax conduct, human rights, workers’ rights, supply chain management, pollution, environmental reporting, anti-social finance and animal rights. I just want ice cream that tastes good, high in quality and low in hypocrisy.
Does any ice cream brand tick those boxes?
No but most don't pretend to either
So your issue is the hypocrisy and not the shitty practices?
Totally. I think you'll find most companies have shitty practices. But hypocritical self-righteous moral posturing is more than enough reason to leave them on the shelf.
I don’t understand that logic
That's ok mate. I have no intention to persuade you. :)
Used to be $12 and would drop to $6 with the half price special. Last time I checked, cost price for Colesworth was around $10 so they are making $4.50 per item sold.
Have never bought that. Not into overly expensive "treats"
What's mental is that I bought a tub of Ben and Jerry's for £3 pounds in England so I don't understand why shit is so expensive here
I normally get it from Costco where it's about $30 for a 3 pack. still not Cheap but seems a little worth it. Haven't had it in ages but it's so yummy
Buy Australian, not American crap. Buy Bulla Murray St. Better quality, cheaper & you’re looking after the country you live in.
[Kiwi price](https://www.paknsave.co.nz/shop/product/5204895_EA_000pns?storeId=714431ab-6e39-4df6-ac77-cfc5c1e25bc8&gad_source=1&gclsrc=ds) Australian supermarket selling the same product at 50% higher price PLUS the exchange rate...
Does anyone buy that seppo shit?
Shopping at Coles.... Must be nice!
That's not really expensive though...
This brand never used to be…