After friends come to Australia, do you think all kinds of daily necessities sold in Australian supermarkets are really too expensive? buy rolls of toilet paper are only rare use.
Don't worry, it doesn't mean you're poor.
Even Coles's boss said this week that prices in Australia are "crazy" compared to the rest of the world!
At a conference at Westfarmers Limited, Coles's parent company, the president of Coles told analysts that Australia's commodity market was completely overpriced.
"I've been saying this for nine years." He said。
"I'm still looking at products that are made overseas but are overpriced."
Because the prices of these products are too high, Durkan said he believes Coles's home-grown discount brand should have a lot of advantages.
According to comparemarket.com.au, food in the United States is 24.85 percent cheaper than in Australia, 12.25 percent in the UK, 18.52 percent in Singapore and 9.67 percent in France.
According to a new survey by Australia's CHOICE, Aldi is the cheapest supermarket in Australia and has a stronger price advantage than its main competitors, Coles and Woolworths.
The survey counted the prices of 33 hot goods in 110 supermarkets across Australia, including Coles,Woolworths and Aldi. These items include Nutri-grain,OMO detergent, Tim Tam, Coke, Dairy Farmers's milk and five kinds of fresh fruit and vegetables.
Among them, Coles was rated the most expensive supermarket ($170.54), slightly higher than Woolworths ($168.74).
But similar items are available at the Aldi supermarket for only $91.76.
"although big supermarkets often claim the quality of their products, it is clear that Aldi is the cheapest supermarket in Australia, which has forced two of its biggest competitors to compete for price," said Tom Godfrey, a spokesman for CHOICE.
"when you look at the prices of all Australian supermarkets, the price of Aldi is the cheapest of all supermarkets." He said。
In recent years, he said, customers have become increasingly concerned about the prices they buy for their daily use in supermarkets and the extent of price increases. There was no doubt that the budget for household spending was under multiple pressures, and he was somewhat surprised that the price of the product was the determining factor in which customers decided what to buy and where to buy.
But despite the price advantage, Aldi lags far behind the other two supermarkets in terms of the number of products made from Australian raw materials.
Of the 28 products selected in the survey, 22 were Coles containing Australian raw materials, 21 were Woolworths, and 17 were Aldi.