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[Fred123]

@Fred123

They also do a further markdown of dairy, deli and ready meal items already marked by 30% to up to 90% or greater of the original price on the day before the Use By date and put them in the milk aisle.

@Fred123

When I went to our local Coles yesterday, they had marked down all the Garlo’s pies on the top shelf which were Use By 04.01.2020 but had missed the pack of Garlo’s mini sausage rolls and packs of Garlo’s mini pies which were on a lower shelf and were also Use By 04.01.2020.

After I finished my “shopping experience” at Woollies this afternoon, I had a look in Coles.

All the marked down Garlo’s pies were gone except for a couple of their vegeterian pies which were marked down from $4.50 to 50 cents each, so almost a 90% markdown off the original price.

Coles recently had a pack of Garlo’s mini sausage rolls with a Use By date of the next day, so I asked a staff member about marking them down.

He returned the pack shortly after with the price marked down from $9.85 to $2.00.

“Ask and thou shalt receive”?

[Fred123]

@Fred123

Coles actually do a second markdown in the afternoon of any remaining meat department items which have not sold on the actual date, reducing them by as much as 90% of the original price.

When I was at our local Coles this afternoon, they had marked the raw Banana Prawns down from $20/kg to a mere $8.25/kg, and the Australian scallop meat from $42/kg to just $10/kg.

I grabbed 2kg of the prawns and the kilo of scallop meat.

Happy days.

[evanstrish3]

@Fred123

Coles actually do a second markdown in the afternoon of any remaining meat department items which have not sold on the actual date, reducing them by as much as 90% of the original price.

I try to avoid going to the regional town, where Coles & Woolies ‘live’, more often than weekly - prefer fortnightly, but am now noting expiry/use by dates on expensive items (which don’t fit into my budget), and adjusting the day I go to take a (possible) advantage on big markdowns: will now shop later in the day… Thanks Fred!!
PS. A great score on the seafood!

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@evanstrish3

will now shop later in the day

Our local Woollies in regional Tasmania alternates between early morning markdowns and late afternoon/evening markdowns. It is random to when the markdown occurs and suspect that they regularly change when they markdown fresh products to reduce the potential for shoppers to target the supermarket at the same time to do their shop.

[Fred123]

@Fred123

Coles actually do a second markdown in the afternoon of any remaining meat department items which have not sold on the actual date, reducing them by as much as 90% of the original price.

When I visited our local Coles this afternoon to grab some bread, as I walked past the meat section, I saw this pack of pork ribs.marked down for the third time to a mere $3.72, save $21.12.

If there is one thing that tastes better than pork ribs, it is pork ribs for a mere $3 a kilo.

Just a matter of happening to be there at the right time and keeping a sharp eye out for bargains.

[pjturner2008]

Woollies donate a huge amount of this food to community organisations like Oz Harvest. I know this from my own experience providing community meals in a local community organization. It was not uncommon to get good food that was at it’s “use by” date.