At the risk of stating the obvious supermarket price change all the time and you can choose to buy when the price suits you or not, so what is the point of complaining every time it happens? You may as well complain that you don’t like the colour of the sky.
That is the first time you have supplied that datum so no I didn’t get that nor did I relate it to the Kogan case because you hadn’t mentioned that either until now.
Now that you have brought it up I see only a very distant relationship. I do not expect to see any supermarket in court defending their changes of price for fresh produce nor their use of the word ‘special’.
The reasons are that it is just puffery and whether we like it or not that is accepted and secondly produce prices change in response to season and availability. You could have the situation where compared to the market the previously lower price was actually not a bargain and the now higher price is.
Coles 3rd July 2023 - messed up pricing, discount, product placement etc. I went to the big smoke to get my Choice recommended tea and was amused at what I found - however I wanted 2 of each so I tried it to see how it worked out. The Special was 10% off $6.30 which is $5.67, not $5.60, and it was in front of the wrong shelf label, as all of them were. Had they moved the Gold to the other end and pushed them all up, it would have been right. Eg Proper Strong, Yorkshire Red, Gold.
At the checkout - Yorkshire Gold $8.00 ($6.30 on shelf), Yorkshire Red $5.60 on shelf ($8 on shelf), Proper Strong Brown $7.50 ($5.60 on shelf). So I wasn’t out of pocket, but you would have been if you just bought Yorkshire Gold with a shelf price of $6.30 to be charged $8 at the checkout. Part of the problem is all three are “Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire …”
