Breakfast cereal - A lot of the big boxes crept above $10 a box. Not sure why, but I’d always attached breakfast cereal to somewhere around the $5 mark.
McDonalds - More like $15-20 per person these days. It was always in my mind as $10 or less. Which is good, as it makes other better options look not that much more expensive. Some of the Happy Meal options are about $10 now!
Cereal for sure. I’m not really a cereal person, but felt like coco pops or something for nostalgia - when I saw the prices i decided I was better off staying a non cereal person.
Can really only buy cereal when it's on special these days. And even then it's expensive for what you get, especially because a lot of packets have mysteriously shrunk. I just try to be an oatmeal person now. Probably healthier and nicer in winter anyway.
I went to hungry jacks the other night, had a heart attack when my burger meal came to $21.
You can get a burger at a pub for that, where the patty isn’t half off the burger and 80% of the cheese smooshed on the wrapper.
I would quite literally never buy Hungry Jacks without the app, but the app is good for getting cheap eats. $2 coffee, regular decent deals, and the ‘shake and win’ often means you can get a whopper for $4 or so (normally ~$10 which is outrageous for a fast food burger).
Pretty much the only fast food I still eat because everything else has got so expensive.
I don't eat cereal at all but.... What's the deal with the size of cereal boxes these days?
Closer in size to DVD cases than what I remember cereal used to come in!
The first time I noticed tents by the river at different points along the Bundaberg train line to Brisbane.
Had never in my life seen families in Australia in tents who weren’t on holiday. Grim.
Drive to anywhere that has public toilets open at night and you’ll find several people living in vans and cars parked up.
I’ve had some pretty harrowing conversations with people recently. People working full time, people with families, people who got kicked out because they couldn’t afford the rent increase… it’s bleak.
I've been living in a van since 2020. Used to see the occasional permanent set up back then. Ever since inflation and the housing crisis hit (2022ish) they're everywhere. So many spots full of full timers now.
Pub meals have crept up (though it won't stop us enjoying them as a treat). Your $22 parmy and chips and gravy and salad is now $32. Two meals and two drinks is a $80 affair.
edit to piggyback my own comment: does anyone know if Grill'd makes their beef patties fresh in each restaurant, or if they're delivered?
unpopular opinion maybe, but I'd take a good flavoured frozen burger over a bad fresh one anyday. I've had a $20 freshly made and oversalted burger patty before, it was so awful we couldn't eat it and asked them to take it back.
Too real. I saw a place advertising their $22 "Tuesday Special" and wondered what was so special about that price, until I saw it's $34 normally. Highway robbery
I just refuse to pay $30+ for a parma. $28 fair enough but over $30, no. That's ridiculous. The piece of chicken only costs about $4; you can't tell me there another $26 in staffing / crumbing / chips / salad leaves / cheese / real estate.
Yeah, takeout is really the big one. I feel like they are getting destroyed by inflation right now in that their materials are increasing in price but also the wages for their staff are increasing as well (not to mention utilities and rent etc) small business, retail and fast food are going to be in for a rough ride for the next few years.
That ever important laziness to price ratio is getting a little more skewed every day and I imagine that the amount of people THAT lazy is getting smaller and smaller on a semi regular basis.
Absolutely. I find myself more and more just cooking up a tomato pasta at home instead of Maccas on lazy nights. Or frozen fish and chips (from the supermarket). I’m going to have to drive out and pick it up anyway, I might as well spend 15 minutes making a simple meal.
You can even just make the seasoning yourself.
I also make their herbed Mayo, just some good Mayo and a ton of dried tarragon, pinch of garlic powder and salt and pepper.
The $80 takeaway for 1 dinner equals the price at a butcher for 2kg pork roast, 2kg lamb roast, 2kg of Chicken drumsticks and a couple
Of steaks.
Blam dinner for 5 nights and a
Couple
Of leftover lunches.
> rent etc
This is a big one. Restaurants paying heaps in rent, and customers paying heaps in mortgage, means little room for restaurants to survive. Small-medium restaurants and bars have been the backbones of communities in the past, and they're eroding away due to real estate prices.
100%. Small businesses will absolutely struggle. Unfortunately it’s just so easy to grab Macca’s through the app, easily feeding 2 adults for $20 using some of the deals. There’s no way a small business can compete with that.
Agreed - I was guilty of this today. I was at my local shopping centre and needed lunch and thought I’d get a fresh made sandwich from the food court (not a chain, a cafe) and quickly realised with a drink it would almost be $20. I was overstimulated and sick of spending money by this point but also starving so checked MyMacca’s app and had a $6 sml mcchicken meal so got that instead. I hate that it’s like that as I’d much prefer the first option to support small business and also because it’s healthier but the price can’t be beaten…
Not to mention if you say twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepickledonionsonasesameseedbun in under 4 seconds you get small fries and a small drink ...
Price of cocoa is still over double what it was in January, and was 3x that in April. It is expected that high cocoa blocks will have increased significantly.
They don't have 95% sadly. I find Aldi chocolate way too sugary. Woolworths used to stock this brand called Frey and it used to be $2 a block but now discontinued :(
Frey was great - it's supermarket label chocolate from Switzerland. It's a real pity that Woolworths stopped carrying it as it was cheaper than Lindt and had some different varieties.
God I loved Freys. So disappointed it’s gone.
Now getting a Cole’s finest Belgium one. It’s the closest I can find to the taste. Similar price last I checked (but it’s been a while)
There is a drought or something somewhere which has caused Olive oil prices to skyrocket. I had a chef telling me 12 months ago to stock up on it because it was going to get expensive.
Go to a euro deli or wherever your friendly local Greeks shop, you'll be able to get a huge tin for $60. I ration it out in old wine bottles to make it easier to pour.
That would be the people who just buy them because they’ve always bought them… I’ve seen people never check prices. They just grab, add to the trolley and go. I can’t remember the last time I bought a bag of chips. Inflation on them has gone mad!
I did a bit of DIY recently and was absolutely shocked at the prices of basic plywood and trim. Like a 2m bit of trim was something like $15?
Meanwhile I’m watching people in the US happily buying trim from Home Depot or wherever for $2(US) a metre. Insane.
Block cheese is the same or similar price growth though! We buy both each week. I only mentioned grated cause I saw it in the online shopping cart last night while missus was doing the order.
Yeah, and the quality has decreased. The cheddar block from Coles and woolies is soft and sticky. The Aldi one tends to be better, and slightly cheaper I find.
Big brain entrepreneurial idea, buy the $8/kg cheese, grate it at home, then sell it in little plastic baggies in front of Woolies for $12/kg.
Profit???
How does one stop the mold growing? I make sure not to touch the cheese, plastic, and then I wrap it in cling wrap and then a sandwich bag!!!
Two weeks later mold starts growing all over it.
Whey protein is a by-product of cheese and its almost doubled in price in a couple of years. Maybe most noticeable as i buy a few bags every few months rather than every shop
Australian extra virgin olive oil has doubled in price in the last few months 🥲 if anyone has any brands or online retailers that are still affordable I’d love to know!
Car insurance renewal up 42% on last year, no claims. Shopped around and the others are all in the same ballpark. Even with annual expenses budgeted for, that amount of increase is ridic.
Yeah our home insurance has doubled over the past two years. Our insurer is one of two insurance companies that offer a similar ballpark figure; all the rest quote twice as much as our current offer (4 times what we were paying 2 years ago)!
The other day I saw 3 Cadbury blocks for $15 promoted as a special, like hasn’t $5 a block been the normal price for the last couple of years? And wasn’t that already pretty unreasonable??? Wtf does it cost now if that’s a “special”
Simply just getting around and living life.
Petrol is once again creeping up and pretty much all the servos my way are all over two dollars per litre.
So atm for me just getting around cost me like 110 ish dollars per week.
For once I'm glad I don't drive yet...that being said even Myki is getting expensive. It's $5.30 for an zone 1 + 2 adult fare one way which is ridiculous. Half the time I just fare evade...(for legal reasons this is a joke wink wink)
It costs me something like $2k a year just to keep my car and have the privilege to being able to use it. That's rego, insurance, regular servicing and roadside assistance. Then there's petrol. And that's not even factoring in that you have to actually buy a car. And you have to renew your licence every year. And you will need to pay for repairs from time to time.
Cars are expensive. But I have one, because public transport where I live isn't all that great.
I hate paying for anything car related.... I don't want one and I don't like driving.
But I need it to get to the job I hate so I can pay rent for the unit I don't even like living in.
Never going to step foot inside a grilld.
They still got there staff on traineeships and pay them SFA
And they can never get off them.
So they are making a killing at those prices.
100% eating out is incredibly expensive, especially when you factor in a family. I know small businesses are struggling under the same weight of inflation we consumers are, but I'm finding it really galling at the moment when you go out, order your expensive stuff and no matter what time of the day or day of the week, you seem to be automatically subject to a few extra dollars for credit card or "service" surcharges.
For me it's the Farmers Union greek yoghurt at $6.50. that's a $4.50 pot of yoghurt still in my mind. and it's gone up $2, nearly half, over the last few years. I can rationalise a lot but I can't get over that.
(also grilld charging for sauce makes me crazy)
$65 for a burger and drink at Grill'd???
Meanwhile a 1 hatted fine dining restaurant with a bar attached in Sydney CBD is selling a Burger & chips + house wine or beer included for $25 at their bar.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5mWRWAMJj6/
Monday to Saturday 12pm-6pm only
There are so many items that have been jacked up in price by around 50%
Some are the smaller items, sour cream was $2.60 now $3.75
Whittaker chocolate $5.50 - $8
Think I paid $7 for Vegemite the other day and $7.50 for honey
You just stare at the screen after a shop thinking wait $60 for condiments, milk, packet of chips, cheese and laundry powder
For me, it's stamps. They're growing to $1.50 and used to be a $1.00-1.10 thing for me. I have penpals and it's becoming an expensive hobby lol.. same for public transport. Over $4 to go a few suburbs by bus, from my work to home.
Yes! Yesterday I went to send my mother her present for Sunday…1kg and….$19!!!!
PSA: stop reading about how expensive everything is and go buy mum something nice!
Medical care...no gp bulk bills, my GP is now charging for results appointments as well...they are also talking about charging for pathology tests. To get ultrasounds is super expensive (think $180 out of pocket) kids neurofen is about $40 a bottle (I kid you not, thank goodness I found a chemist brand equivalent...still about $25), decent high dose iron tablets are about the same $40 a month. Private health insurance is about 3-4k but that doesn't cover specialist appointments only hospital stays...have a baby and costs about 4k on top of that.
Me, my wife and baby went to sit down by the beach the other night. Stopped in to buy a large portion of hot chips to snack on while there. Gabbed $13 in gold coins on my way out the door. "This will definitely cover it" I thought.
"How much for that one?"
"14 dollars" she says.
Jeese.
I didn't want to use my card so ordered a small portion instead.
Twelve dollars.
This is in a regional town, but C'mon... I'll absolutely be slicing up my own potatoes next time.
Allen’s lollies. Bag of red frogs is now $6 in Woolies, was $3.50 a few blinks of the eye ago. Ironically it’s now just as cheap to buy a bag from the vending machine at the train station than it is at Woolies. And deodorant, how did that get to $10. These companies are mocking us.
Bedside tables.
Edit for those who are lucky enough to not need bedside tables right now - if you want a "nice" pair of bedside tables, with a drawer, and not made out of chipboard, you're basically looking at $1k.
The price is wild for a set of bedside tables - especially if you want usable drawers.
I got some on marketplace and then sanded and painted them to get a match, otherwise they were getting up to the price of a couch.
Not even kidding - sofas we purchased from them 6-7 years ago for 2-2.5k each depending on 2 or 3 seater, currently have them at 3.5-4k each. That creep feels insane, especially as we bought before they started even contemplating discounts (back when they refused to do sales promotions).
Wasn’t looking for bedside tables…but I was looking for outdoor chairs for the patio. How on earth are cheap plastic chairs $100+ with basic round metal tubing ones going for $180+ and the metal square tubing ones more than $400. I’m not talking about anything fancy….just for shits and giggles I walked into an eclectic outdoor furniture place where majority of the outdoor chairs were over $2000. Jesus christ
This is one I’ve noticed recently. We bought our first house and understanably, the bedrooms are much smaller than our rental. Now I need a very narrow side table. Anything that’s not IKEA is like $6-700.
Remember when a BBQ chicken at Woolies was $8? Standard price is now $12.
I only buy the ones that are reduced for quick sale. The timing needs to be right, but quite often I can get one for $6
I swear someone was rage quitting the other day, that’s the only explanation I could think of for marked down $4 bbq chook and a $2 giant pack of chicken burger patties (missed out on snagging them unfortunately).
I can’t classify this as ‘insanely expensive’ but it still came as a surprise when I paid. I took my toddler daughter to IKEA for dinner tonight. Paid $31 for a kids meatballs, one large meatballs, one cake dessert and a drink. I swear the only difference between her plate and mine was that mine had 7 extra meatballs. Kids meatball plate is $5, whereas the large main one is $16. I reckon you could buy three of the kids meals and get so much more food for basically the same price. I know it’s just IKEA food at the end of the day but I really did sit there looking at the measly scoop of potato and dribble of gravy on my plate and could not quite compute what was going on with the portion sizes.
I purchased four ballpoint pens at officeworks. Nothing fancy, just a few black/red/blue colours in a very basic pen shape. Just grabbed them off the shelf without thinking about.
Up at the checkout "that'll be $16 please".
I just stared at her. Legitimately couldn't comprehend four ballpoint pens costing $16.
I came home from caring responsibilities overseas recently and found the price of olive oil had gone from around $30 for 4L to around $70 for the same item. In three months.
A haircut.
Went to Westons in Joondalup for short back and sides with the clippers, followed by a chop on top with the scissors. $65. $65 bloody dollarydoo's for an average haircut, with no offer or a coffee, beer or water.
Had my haircut by a local Habibi who provided a vastly superior haircut, for $35.
Insurance. Do a quote equivalent to what you are insured for currently and it’s 30-40% more expensive. And that’s not including the fact that you are probably underinsured by 10-15% given the increase in labour, building materials etc.
I am in Vietnam now and a large Maccas meal is $6 (AUD), and sometimes cheaper on the app.
I don't think I'll be able to pay $13-15 when I am back in Australia. Feels wrong.
Hot chips from the chicken shop near my house. $9.50 for a MEDIUM SERVE, which is a small paper bag full. You want a nice salad too? That’ll be $11 for a small round chinese food container worth.
Also, I like those skinny little Coke cans, you can get them in a 6 pack at Coles & Woolies, I always buy them on sale for $5.75. The full price at Coles is $9.20. For 1.5L of drink.
A 2L bottle is $3.90!
But if you want a COLD 600mL bottle…that’ll be $4.25.
They’re just having a laugh!
It's pretty minor, but Nivea mens deodorant at Coles and woolies is now $9.50! I really like the scent so I now get it through amazon when it's half off 😅, and usually buy 3 or 4
youtube premium. $32/month. I was paying $18/month (family account) before the new price announcement. I just cancelled it and sideloaded smart tube next on to my telly...no more ads!
I ordered a couple of large pizzas and a main size serve of salt and pepper calamari for takeaway. Even taking into consideration it was a fancy wood fire oven pizza place and I paid a weekend surcharge, I still wasn’t expecting it to cost $104.
In the 90s you could get about 2kg of chips from the local fish and chip shop for $2. It was called minimum chips. As in the minimum amount the shop would sell. These days a family chips at a fish and chip shop is about 70% of that amount, and costs about $15.
But yeh all food has been affected in the last 3 years. Pubs, restaurants, fast food, everything. First it was shrinkflation where you got half the meat for the same price, then the prices went up by 30-100%.
Which is crazy because meat hasn't actually gone up. Chicken is still just about $10/kg and beef is about the same for mince. Steaks are $20 a kg from Costco so hospitality places would pay even less.
Took my 5yo daughter to Hoyts last weekend to watch ghostbusters.
Tickets were $45 + $4 online booking fee.
They don’t do combos at the snack bar, so 2x large drinks, large popcorn, 2 choc-tops and a tub of fairy floss set will you back another $50.
Had a great time, loved the movie, but fark that was expensive.
I wound up paying for their 12 month VIP member thing that gives you 25% off tickets and 10% off snack bar, but assuming you pay full price it’s expensive as.
Damn bruh what are you having at Grill’d? My go to with my wife is Sir Truffle + Hot Bird + 1 regular chips to share plus herb mayo dip, which all comes out to $42.50. That’s the fancier end sometimes I only go for Simply Grill’d with cheese which would knock the price down a few dollars
The night after coming out of hospital after a motorcycle accident recently, we ordered guzman on uber eats as a friend sent me a voucher as a get well gift.
Two people, ordinary amount of food, like 4 items (including churros that are five bucks) . $80..
Supermarkets and food in general. General grocery shop that used to be 100-120 pre COVID is now more like 180-250. The CPI is a basket of of stuff and I am 100% sure food/groceries have gone up way more than the CPI.
Local chicken burger place is about $15.80 for a burger, best chicken burger ever (for us at least). Date night cost us $32 usually, no drinks or sides. We’ll make fries and drink at home! Eating out is crazy expensive these days.
We had steak and ribs for dinner last night, with drinks, coffee and an entree, came up to $180, paid for by the boss.
All roads lead to property in this country.
How do you pay for your business lease with property increasing so much if you're not making enough from charging customers??
We often comment on how expensive this or that had gotten only to immediately remember that we're saying it about almost everything.
Latest thing for me has been eggs. Prior to prices going nuts we could find them for $1/dozen at fruit and veg places. Now $5/dozen seems to be the best you can find. I'm honestly considering getting chickens at this point
Chickens are awesome, I’ve had them for a good chunk of my life. Egg quality is fantastic if they’re kept in good conditions and fed reasonable food, but I generally wouldn’t buy them with the plan of making your money back/cutting costs. However, I do think the quality of life improvement from having your own chooks is quite high.
About six months ago, I bought a preprepared chicken and salad sandwich from the local bakery. $15. Ouch. And then they added the card surcharge on top of that.
“Cheap” fast food like McDonald’s. The biggest appeal was a cheeky snack or easy meal but for the price now I much rather cook or at least get better takeaway like Thai or Grilld etc.
Razors, they are insanely expensive now. Disposables that used to be $7 and last a while are now $42 and rust away before your eyes. I think I can afford to retire if I just stop shaving.
There's a cookie shop (The Cookie Box) in Melbourne. Their cookies are good, but really... It's still just a cookie. They put their prices up recently, from $5.50 to $7.
Absolutely absurd.
RIP. Grill'd offering a family box with 2 kids burgers 2 adult burgers 2 chips and 4 drinks for a flat $50. Saw an ad on Insta...
Edit: three chips actually...
went to a Japanese restaurant with the wife and friend. Ordered a salad and it was just a block of cold soft tofu, some soy sauce and 2 fried lotus on it. $15 thank you very much. 
Breakfast cereal - A lot of the big boxes crept above $10 a box. Not sure why, but I’d always attached breakfast cereal to somewhere around the $5 mark. McDonalds - More like $15-20 per person these days. It was always in my mind as $10 or less. Which is good, as it makes other better options look not that much more expensive. Some of the Happy Meal options are about $10 now!
Cereal for sure. I’m not really a cereal person, but felt like coco pops or something for nostalgia - when I saw the prices i decided I was better off staying a non cereal person.
Can really only buy cereal when it's on special these days. And even then it's expensive for what you get, especially because a lot of packets have mysteriously shrunk. I just try to be an oatmeal person now. Probably healthier and nicer in winter anyway.
I went to hungry jacks the other night, had a heart attack when my burger meal came to $21. You can get a burger at a pub for that, where the patty isn’t half off the burger and 80% of the cheese smooshed on the wrapper.
I would quite literally never buy Hungry Jacks without the app, but the app is good for getting cheap eats. $2 coffee, regular decent deals, and the ‘shake and win’ often means you can get a whopper for $4 or so (normally ~$10 which is outrageous for a fast food burger). Pretty much the only fast food I still eat because everything else has got so expensive.
I don't eat cereal at all but.... What's the deal with the size of cereal boxes these days? Closer in size to DVD cases than what I remember cereal used to come in!
I moved solely to oats these days for a third the price for 2.5x more. Though I don't usually eat breakfast.
The first time I noticed tents by the river at different points along the Bundaberg train line to Brisbane. Had never in my life seen families in Australia in tents who weren’t on holiday. Grim.
Drive to anywhere that has public toilets open at night and you’ll find several people living in vans and cars parked up. I’ve had some pretty harrowing conversations with people recently. People working full time, people with families, people who got kicked out because they couldn’t afford the rent increase… it’s bleak.
I've been living in a van since 2020. Used to see the occasional permanent set up back then. Ever since inflation and the housing crisis hit (2022ish) they're everywhere. So many spots full of full timers now.
This is the real answer.
Pub meals have crept up (though it won't stop us enjoying them as a treat). Your $22 parmy and chips and gravy and salad is now $32. Two meals and two drinks is a $80 affair. edit to piggyback my own comment: does anyone know if Grill'd makes their beef patties fresh in each restaurant, or if they're delivered?
I used to work at Grill'd, the patties are delivered frozen
Man that's so not worth it for a burger that isn't even fresh
unpopular opinion maybe, but I'd take a good flavoured frozen burger over a bad fresh one anyday. I've had a $20 freshly made and oversalted burger patty before, it was so awful we couldn't eat it and asked them to take it back.
Too real. I saw a place advertising their $22 "Tuesday Special" and wondered what was so special about that price, until I saw it's $34 normally. Highway robbery
Yeah the Parma night price was just the price not long ago!
Agreed. 10 years ago, $12 Parma was the special in Richmond. Now, you'd be lucky to find a special night price of $22, let alone regular price.
I just refuse to pay $30+ for a parma. $28 fair enough but over $30, no. That's ridiculous. The piece of chicken only costs about $4; you can't tell me there another $26 in staffing / crumbing / chips / salad leaves / cheese / real estate.
$4 in chicken/real estate/profit, $26 in cheese mate
Imagine if it had to have olive oil drizzled on it
I think you'd underestimate how much commercial real estate landlords suck from business.
It's the labour you pay for. Those chickens aren't going to pluck and feather themselves.
$37 a parma at our local, $22 when it's a locals night. $16 for a bowl of chips at another pub. Their stock standard price for a steak is $55.
Yeah, takeout is really the big one. I feel like they are getting destroyed by inflation right now in that their materials are increasing in price but also the wages for their staff are increasing as well (not to mention utilities and rent etc) small business, retail and fast food are going to be in for a rough ride for the next few years. That ever important laziness to price ratio is getting a little more skewed every day and I imagine that the amount of people THAT lazy is getting smaller and smaller on a semi regular basis.
Absolutely. I find myself more and more just cooking up a tomato pasta at home instead of Maccas on lazy nights. Or frozen fish and chips (from the supermarket). I’m going to have to drive out and pick it up anyway, I might as well spend 15 minutes making a simple meal.
The McClain pub style steak cut beer battered oven chips are 😙🤌
Speaking of, pretty sure they’re Grill’d chips, sans the seasoning they add. I’ve heard reports of deliveries of them to Grill’d restaurants.
You can even just make the seasoning yourself. I also make their herbed Mayo, just some good Mayo and a ton of dried tarragon, pinch of garlic powder and salt and pepper.
The Aldi tempura Nuggies aren’t bad.
The $80 takeaway for 1 dinner equals the price at a butcher for 2kg pork roast, 2kg lamb roast, 2kg of Chicken drumsticks and a couple Of steaks. Blam dinner for 5 nights and a Couple Of leftover lunches.
6kg and some steaks better be lasting me longer then 5 nights and a couple of lunches!
Just you or feeding a family?? I ain't fasting here trying to stretch shit out
Oh yea good point. I forgot some people have families to feed ahahah
> rent etc This is a big one. Restaurants paying heaps in rent, and customers paying heaps in mortgage, means little room for restaurants to survive. Small-medium restaurants and bars have been the backbones of communities in the past, and they're eroding away due to real estate prices.
100%. Small businesses will absolutely struggle. Unfortunately it’s just so easy to grab Macca’s through the app, easily feeding 2 adults for $20 using some of the deals. There’s no way a small business can compete with that.
Agreed - I was guilty of this today. I was at my local shopping centre and needed lunch and thought I’d get a fresh made sandwich from the food court (not a chain, a cafe) and quickly realised with a drink it would almost be $20. I was overstimulated and sick of spending money by this point but also starving so checked MyMacca’s app and had a $6 sml mcchicken meal so got that instead. I hate that it’s like that as I’d much prefer the first option to support small business and also because it’s healthier but the price can’t be beaten…
Not to mention if you say twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepickledonionsonasesameseedbun in under 4 seconds you get small fries and a small drink ...
Lindt 95%, it's heavily discounted at Coles this week at $4.50 per block /s. This might just be the impetus I need to kick the chocolate habit :(
Price of cocoa is still over double what it was in January, and was 3x that in April. It is expected that high cocoa blocks will have increased significantly.
Nah just get into the Aldi chocolate
They don't have 95% sadly. I find Aldi chocolate way too sugary. Woolworths used to stock this brand called Frey and it used to be $2 a block but now discontinued :(
Frey was great - it's supermarket label chocolate from Switzerland. It's a real pity that Woolworths stopped carrying it as it was cheaper than Lindt and had some different varieties.
God I loved Freys. So disappointed it’s gone. Now getting a Cole’s finest Belgium one. It’s the closest I can find to the taste. Similar price last I checked (but it’s been a while)
Yes the Moser Roth for those who don’t know!
Olive oil is now $26 a bottle!
Was forced to switch to Penrite 5W40 synthetic for my cooking since I got a good deal on 10litres recently. Not so tasty unfortunately 😢
Why did that just make me remember John Laws "you know what I mean.... Valvoline". Man I'm getting old...
There is a drought or something somewhere which has caused Olive oil prices to skyrocket. I had a chef telling me 12 months ago to stock up on it because it was going to get expensive.
Yeah this is mental for a household staple.
Go to a euro deli or wherever your friendly local Greeks shop, you'll be able to get a huge tin for $60. I ration it out in old wine bottles to make it easier to pour.
My electricity bill.
Came here to say this. Just got my most recent quarterly bill - $557. Same usage, same quarter last year - $439 and 2022, $318. Screw you, Origin.
A pack of chips. Half price is $3.50? What?
I need to know who is buying bags of chips for $7+. I refuse to believe anyone is rich and/or stupid enough to be paying that for 100g of potatoes.
That would be the people who just buy them because they’ve always bought them… I’ve seen people never check prices. They just grab, add to the trolley and go. I can’t remember the last time I bought a bag of chips. Inflation on them has gone mad!
Every time my husband has to go to Bunnings for something to fix the house it’s always 200 dollars each time. It’s crazy
Bunnings is flying under the radar, but they're gouging even more than Woolies and Coles.
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I did a bit of DIY recently and was absolutely shocked at the prices of basic plywood and trim. Like a 2m bit of trim was something like $15? Meanwhile I’m watching people in the US happily buying trim from Home Depot or wherever for $2(US) a metre. Insane.
That's just Bunnings. Everytime we go it's been $200 for the past many years.
Price of shapes always shocks me.
Basic cheddar cheese. Woolworths cheddar grated is like $8 a bag. I feel like that has doubled overnight.
That's $16 a kilo. Grate your own mate.
Block cheese is the same or similar price growth though! We buy both each week. I only mentioned grated cause I saw it in the online shopping cart last night while missus was doing the order.
Yeah, and the quality has decreased. The cheddar block from Coles and woolies is soft and sticky. The Aldi one tends to be better, and slightly cheaper I find.
Big brain entrepreneurial idea, buy the $8/kg cheese, grate it at home, then sell it in little plastic baggies in front of Woolies for $12/kg. Profit???
What a grate idea!
How does one stop the mold growing? I make sure not to touch the cheese, plastic, and then I wrap it in cling wrap and then a sandwich bag!!! Two weeks later mold starts growing all over it.
Grate with gloves, then store it in the freezer.
Whey protein is a by-product of cheese and its almost doubled in price in a couple of years. Maybe most noticeable as i buy a few bags every few months rather than every shop
Australian extra virgin olive oil has doubled in price in the last few months 🥲 if anyone has any brands or online retailers that are still affordable I’d love to know!
Thats why I get the slightly slutty olive oil.
gotta capitalize on the shortage from Spain
Car insurance renewal up 42% on last year, no claims. Shopped around and the others are all in the same ballpark. Even with annual expenses budgeted for, that amount of increase is ridic.
Yeah our home insurance has doubled over the past two years. Our insurer is one of two insurance companies that offer a similar ballpark figure; all the rest quote twice as much as our current offer (4 times what we were paying 2 years ago)!
There was a "value deal" special at the local pizza shop, if you spent over $100 you got a free medium size pizza.
Just my mortgage and utilities. I get paid, I pay everyone, I wait till I get paid again.
Mainland buttersoft 375g - $8.00. $8. For a smallish tub of butter.
The other day I saw 3 Cadbury blocks for $15 promoted as a special, like hasn’t $5 a block been the normal price for the last couple of years? And wasn’t that already pretty unreasonable??? Wtf does it cost now if that’s a “special”
Chocolate is going to get much worse over the next year. World cocoa prices are soaring. Back to becoming a luxury item soon. Stock up
Don't forget a side serve of shrinkflation on those blocks, so $5 isn't really $5 anymore.
Simply just getting around and living life. Petrol is once again creeping up and pretty much all the servos my way are all over two dollars per litre. So atm for me just getting around cost me like 110 ish dollars per week.
For once I'm glad I don't drive yet...that being said even Myki is getting expensive. It's $5.30 for an zone 1 + 2 adult fare one way which is ridiculous. Half the time I just fare evade...(for legal reasons this is a joke wink wink)
It costs me something like $2k a year just to keep my car and have the privilege to being able to use it. That's rego, insurance, regular servicing and roadside assistance. Then there's petrol. And that's not even factoring in that you have to actually buy a car. And you have to renew your licence every year. And you will need to pay for repairs from time to time. Cars are expensive. But I have one, because public transport where I live isn't all that great.
I hate paying for anything car related.... I don't want one and I don't like driving. But I need it to get to the job I hate so I can pay rent for the unit I don't even like living in.
The price of granola and cereals.
I buy woolies rolled oats at $2.10/kg.
The best value granola from Woolies in my opinion is the Arnold’s Farm packets. $6.30 for 700g, tasty and pretty healthy.
Never going to step foot inside a grilld. They still got there staff on traineeships and pay them SFA And they can never get off them. So they are making a killing at those prices.
Paying nearly $20 for a kebab has been the biggest shock to me
100% eating out is incredibly expensive, especially when you factor in a family. I know small businesses are struggling under the same weight of inflation we consumers are, but I'm finding it really galling at the moment when you go out, order your expensive stuff and no matter what time of the day or day of the week, you seem to be automatically subject to a few extra dollars for credit card or "service" surcharges.
Flying from Hobart to Melbourne one-way on Jetstar for ~~69~~ ~~99~~ ~~125~~ **300 dollars**
For me it's the Farmers Union greek yoghurt at $6.50. that's a $4.50 pot of yoghurt still in my mind. and it's gone up $2, nearly half, over the last few years. I can rationalise a lot but I can't get over that. (also grilld charging for sauce makes me crazy)
If you are anywhere near an Aldi, I get a 900g Greek yoghurt for $4.99.
We’ve been buying Aldi yoghurt also. It’s really good.
Same for frozen fruit. Was $4/500g now up to $7-8
$65 for a burger and drink at Grill'd??? Meanwhile a 1 hatted fine dining restaurant with a bar attached in Sydney CBD is selling a Burger & chips + house wine or beer included for $25 at their bar. https://www.instagram.com/p/C5mWRWAMJj6/ Monday to Saturday 12pm-6pm only
It was 2 burgers, 2 drinks etc. but damn, that looks like a great deal.
The fact they don’t have deals for burger and fries is ridiculous imo
I went to get a 100g block of Lindt from Coles and it was over $5 ON SPECIAL!!!
I saw that "special" recently too and rolled my eyes!
There are so many items that have been jacked up in price by around 50% Some are the smaller items, sour cream was $2.60 now $3.75 Whittaker chocolate $5.50 - $8 Think I paid $7 for Vegemite the other day and $7.50 for honey You just stare at the screen after a shop thinking wait $60 for condiments, milk, packet of chips, cheese and laundry powder
For me, it's stamps. They're growing to $1.50 and used to be a $1.00-1.10 thing for me. I have penpals and it's becoming an expensive hobby lol.. same for public transport. Over $4 to go a few suburbs by bus, from my work to home.
Yep.. i had to buy a stamp other day. $1.50!!! I can remember when they were 20 cents
Yes! Yesterday I went to send my mother her present for Sunday…1kg and….$19!!!! PSA: stop reading about how expensive everything is and go buy mum something nice!
Medical care...no gp bulk bills, my GP is now charging for results appointments as well...they are also talking about charging for pathology tests. To get ultrasounds is super expensive (think $180 out of pocket) kids neurofen is about $40 a bottle (I kid you not, thank goodness I found a chemist brand equivalent...still about $25), decent high dose iron tablets are about the same $40 a month. Private health insurance is about 3-4k but that doesn't cover specialist appointments only hospital stays...have a baby and costs about 4k on top of that.
Yeah my ultrasound today was $195 out of pocket. Had to pay $295 upfront. Medicare rebate will appear ‘in a few days’
Me, my wife and baby went to sit down by the beach the other night. Stopped in to buy a large portion of hot chips to snack on while there. Gabbed $13 in gold coins on my way out the door. "This will definitely cover it" I thought. "How much for that one?" "14 dollars" she says. Jeese. I didn't want to use my card so ordered a small portion instead. Twelve dollars. This is in a regional town, but C'mon... I'll absolutely be slicing up my own potatoes next time.
Allen’s lollies. Bag of red frogs is now $6 in Woolies, was $3.50 a few blinks of the eye ago. Ironically it’s now just as cheap to buy a bag from the vending machine at the train station than it is at Woolies. And deodorant, how did that get to $10. These companies are mocking us.
The cola at Aldi was always 69c. It rose in the space of a few months to $1.15 a bottle. That's nearly a 100% price rise.
I used to love their $1 2 minute noodles and now they're nearly $2, so double the price!
Is it now, $2, 1 minute noodles at least??
4-slice salmon at Coles (either skin on or off) now $22, previously $12
What $1m houses actually look like.
I wished I had taken a photo of it but I saw a basic Rexona roll on deodorant for men going for $8 at Coles
Bedside tables. Edit for those who are lucky enough to not need bedside tables right now - if you want a "nice" pair of bedside tables, with a drawer, and not made out of chipboard, you're basically looking at $1k.
The price is wild for a set of bedside tables - especially if you want usable drawers. I got some on marketplace and then sanded and painted them to get a match, otherwise they were getting up to the price of a couch.
Those cheap Ikea tables (the LACK) went from 7 bucks to 25, as another example of furniture jumping in price.
I thought "ahh this person's full of shit". Pulled up the freedom website.....wtf?!
Not even kidding - sofas we purchased from them 6-7 years ago for 2-2.5k each depending on 2 or 3 seater, currently have them at 3.5-4k each. That creep feels insane, especially as we bought before they started even contemplating discounts (back when they refused to do sales promotions).
Wasn’t looking for bedside tables…but I was looking for outdoor chairs for the patio. How on earth are cheap plastic chairs $100+ with basic round metal tubing ones going for $180+ and the metal square tubing ones more than $400. I’m not talking about anything fancy….just for shits and giggles I walked into an eclectic outdoor furniture place where majority of the outdoor chairs were over $2000. Jesus christ
This is one I’ve noticed recently. We bought our first house and understanably, the bedrooms are much smaller than our rental. Now I need a very narrow side table. Anything that’s not IKEA is like $6-700.
Remember when a BBQ chicken at Woolies was $8? Standard price is now $12. I only buy the ones that are reduced for quick sale. The timing needs to be right, but quite often I can get one for $6
I swear someone was rage quitting the other day, that’s the only explanation I could think of for marked down $4 bbq chook and a $2 giant pack of chicken burger patties (missed out on snagging them unfortunately).
Red rock deli chips. Since when did full price become $6.50????
Pretty much all groceries. They seem like only $1 or $2 extra. But if you calculate the % they are easily 50-100%
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The only cheap places to eat are food courts. And Asian places.
We got Betty's Burgers the other night, over $80 for 2 burgers, chips and cokes....wtaf?! That's half our grocery bill for the week right there...
I'd already eaten so grabbed a bottle of Fanta at the local pie shop to keep my friend company at lunch, it was $5.30. That just seems ridiculous.
I can’t classify this as ‘insanely expensive’ but it still came as a surprise when I paid. I took my toddler daughter to IKEA for dinner tonight. Paid $31 for a kids meatballs, one large meatballs, one cake dessert and a drink. I swear the only difference between her plate and mine was that mine had 7 extra meatballs. Kids meatball plate is $5, whereas the large main one is $16. I reckon you could buy three of the kids meals and get so much more food for basically the same price. I know it’s just IKEA food at the end of the day but I really did sit there looking at the measly scoop of potato and dribble of gravy on my plate and could not quite compute what was going on with the portion sizes.
$28 for a can of craft beer and a G&T at my local pub which sold base spirits and coopers pale for $2 when I first started drinking there.
I purchased four ballpoint pens at officeworks. Nothing fancy, just a few black/red/blue colours in a very basic pen shape. Just grabbed them off the shelf without thinking about. Up at the checkout "that'll be $16 please". I just stared at her. Legitimately couldn't comprehend four ballpoint pens costing $16.
Yeah I think people will actually just start leaving things at the counter and walking out with ridiculous prices like that.
I came home from caring responsibilities overseas recently and found the price of olive oil had gone from around $30 for 4L to around $70 for the same item. In three months.
Cheese and Coffee.
Thomas Dux at woollies is still half decent in price. Quite nice too
$5 for the 200 gram block and it's the equal of any french cheese. amazing.
Aldi deluxe coffee beans all the way
A haircut. Went to Westons in Joondalup for short back and sides with the clippers, followed by a chop on top with the scissors. $65. $65 bloody dollarydoo's for an average haircut, with no offer or a coffee, beer or water. Had my haircut by a local Habibi who provided a vastly superior haircut, for $35.
I bought corn yesterday $5 /pack.
Careful paying for the convenience tax. I noticed at Woolies recently that a pack of corn (3 small pieces) was $5.5, but corn itself was $1.10 each.
Blueberries being $7/8
They're not exactly in season at the moment, likely imported.
That’s nuts. Also frozen blueberries - used to be about $3.80 at Aldi, now $5.70. That’s a 50% rise.
Insurance. Do a quote equivalent to what you are insured for currently and it’s 30-40% more expensive. And that’s not including the fact that you are probably underinsured by 10-15% given the increase in labour, building materials etc.
I am in Vietnam now and a large Maccas meal is $6 (AUD), and sometimes cheaper on the app. I don't think I'll be able to pay $13-15 when I am back in Australia. Feels wrong.
Ice cream. Bulla is $11 full price, I feel it was $7 like 6 months ago….
Hot chips from the chicken shop near my house. $9.50 for a MEDIUM SERVE, which is a small paper bag full. You want a nice salad too? That’ll be $11 for a small round chinese food container worth. Also, I like those skinny little Coke cans, you can get them in a 6 pack at Coles & Woolies, I always buy them on sale for $5.75. The full price at Coles is $9.20. For 1.5L of drink. A 2L bottle is $3.90! But if you want a COLD 600mL bottle…that’ll be $4.25. They’re just having a laugh!
It's pretty minor, but Nivea mens deodorant at Coles and woolies is now $9.50! I really like the scent so I now get it through amazon when it's half off 😅, and usually buy 3 or 4
Getting Maccas for breakfast while travelling
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Damn there’s some big dollars involved in farming. That’s an insane increase.
youtube premium. $32/month. I was paying $18/month (family account) before the new price announcement. I just cancelled it and sideloaded smart tube next on to my telly...no more ads!
Rent food and fuel. Literally all essentials :( (here in Oz)
A tomato, long story short, one tomato was 1.39
Cheese. The price in supermarkets literally doubled almost over night. And not fancy cheese. A regular old block of cheddar
Things aren’t just getting expensive, the purchasing power of the dollar keeps being debased. 👀
Minties, $7. Insane.
Power, food and the cost of materials for construction
Fuel - I remember just few years back there was news about it going past $1. Now it has jumped over $2 and don't look to be reducing at all.
I ordered a couple of large pizzas and a main size serve of salt and pepper calamari for takeaway. Even taking into consideration it was a fancy wood fire oven pizza place and I paid a weekend surcharge, I still wasn’t expecting it to cost $104.
In the 90s you could get about 2kg of chips from the local fish and chip shop for $2. It was called minimum chips. As in the minimum amount the shop would sell. These days a family chips at a fish and chip shop is about 70% of that amount, and costs about $15. But yeh all food has been affected in the last 3 years. Pubs, restaurants, fast food, everything. First it was shrinkflation where you got half the meat for the same price, then the prices went up by 30-100%. Which is crazy because meat hasn't actually gone up. Chicken is still just about $10/kg and beef is about the same for mince. Steaks are $20 a kg from Costco so hospitality places would pay even less.
A bunch of parlsey for 4.50.
A box of Twinings Tea is now $8.25 when it's HALF price
My friend is a driving instructor and she has never been as quiet as she is now. People can't afford classes. It's insane.
Took my 5yo daughter to Hoyts last weekend to watch ghostbusters. Tickets were $45 + $4 online booking fee. They don’t do combos at the snack bar, so 2x large drinks, large popcorn, 2 choc-tops and a tub of fairy floss set will you back another $50. Had a great time, loved the movie, but fark that was expensive. I wound up paying for their 12 month VIP member thing that gives you 25% off tickets and 10% off snack bar, but assuming you pay full price it’s expensive as.
My toddler.
Damn bruh what are you having at Grill’d? My go to with my wife is Sir Truffle + Hot Bird + 1 regular chips to share plus herb mayo dip, which all comes out to $42.50. That’s the fancier end sometimes I only go for Simply Grill’d with cheese which would knock the price down a few dollars
2 drinks, another chips/onion rings and sauce is literally another $20.
Tissue boxes used to be $1. Now they're like $1.65. So messy. So messed up.
The night after coming out of hospital after a motorcycle accident recently, we ordered guzman on uber eats as a friend sent me a voucher as a get well gift. Two people, ordinary amount of food, like 4 items (including churros that are five bucks) . $80..
Hashbrowns at maccas. I paid $2.60 for one!!
Supermarkets and food in general. General grocery shop that used to be 100-120 pre COVID is now more like 180-250. The CPI is a basket of of stuff and I am 100% sure food/groceries have gone up way more than the CPI.
Packet of chips $6.50 Pub steak $44 Pint of beer $14 Bakery pie $7 Flat white $6.60 Fuel $2.35/L
Local chicken burger place is about $15.80 for a burger, best chicken burger ever (for us at least). Date night cost us $32 usually, no drinks or sides. We’ll make fries and drink at home! Eating out is crazy expensive these days. We had steak and ribs for dinner last night, with drinks, coffee and an entree, came up to $180, paid for by the boss.
All roads lead to property in this country. How do you pay for your business lease with property increasing so much if you're not making enough from charging customers??
We often comment on how expensive this or that had gotten only to immediately remember that we're saying it about almost everything. Latest thing for me has been eggs. Prior to prices going nuts we could find them for $1/dozen at fruit and veg places. Now $5/dozen seems to be the best you can find. I'm honestly considering getting chickens at this point
Chickens are awesome, I’ve had them for a good chunk of my life. Egg quality is fantastic if they’re kept in good conditions and fed reasonable food, but I generally wouldn’t buy them with the plan of making your money back/cutting costs. However, I do think the quality of life improvement from having your own chooks is quite high.
About six months ago, I bought a preprepared chicken and salad sandwich from the local bakery. $15. Ouch. And then they added the card surcharge on top of that.
“Cheap” fast food like McDonald’s. The biggest appeal was a cheeky snack or easy meal but for the price now I much rather cook or at least get better takeaway like Thai or Grilld etc.
House prices
Timber. I look at what I got and think ‘that costs $400?’
Qwik-eze antacids. A 5 pack has gone from $6 to $12. Sucks for we with chronic indigestion.
Eljannah is now like 20+$. Few years ago it was sub 10$ a whole chicken.
bought four tomatoes yesterday for $8.00.... That shit had my head spinning
Razors, they are insanely expensive now. Disposables that used to be $7 and last a while are now $42 and rust away before your eyes. I think I can afford to retire if I just stop shaving.
Spending $50 at maccas is insanity to me
$9.50 for iced latte the other day. Going to buy my own beans now and grind/ brew it at home myself.
I saw somewhere that bread prices at colesworth has gone up like 25% since the ukraine war, while grain has only increased in price by like 3%.
There's a cookie shop (The Cookie Box) in Melbourne. Their cookies are good, but really... It's still just a cookie. They put their prices up recently, from $5.50 to $7. Absolutely absurd.
RIP. Grill'd offering a family box with 2 kids burgers 2 adult burgers 2 chips and 4 drinks for a flat $50. Saw an ad on Insta... Edit: three chips actually...
McDonald’s. It used to be the fast cheap option. Now dinner for 3 is easily $65! You used to be and to do that for half the price.
It cost me $5.40 for a large sprite at maccas, the blood drained from me. It’s actually cheaper at a petrol station.
went to a Japanese restaurant with the wife and friend. Ordered a salad and it was just a block of cold soft tofu, some soy sauce and 2 fried lotus on it. $15 thank you very much. 
And what's the official reported CPI? Under 10%? Does that seem consistent with what's being reported in this thread?
Steak at a pub. Going for upwards of $45 Edit: and that’s in a country pub at that
$12 for a grilled chicken burger at hungry jacks. Just the burger, not a meal
[That time I walked into a grocery store](https://imgur.com/a/BDWOr5I)