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Today Tonight
Topic Started: Jun 28 2011, 03:30:09 PM (739 Views)
ABCDiamond
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There is a story on Today Tonight, today (Tuesday 28th June) I think, about food prices in Aus, UK, NZ and USA.

I was contacted by Today Tonight, this morning, to provide some info, re my www.britzinoz.com website, but didn't answer them in time to answer more questions, and I said I didn't fancy talking about it (the thought of talking on air gives me the shivers).

I'll be watching this episode to see what is said about the differences in prices.
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catgirl
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they do this evey so often don't they - when I was last in oz 2 years ago it was on Today Tonight about food prices and the comparisons in oz vs UK
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catgirl
Jun 28 2011, 04:22:40 PM
they do this evey so often don't they - when I was last in oz 2 years ago it was on Today Tonight about food prices and the comparisons in oz vs UK
They do seem to repeat many stories, I suppose to catch the new viewers.

I'll be interested to compare their cost of Australian food, to the price of Australian food that I buy :D

I have no real idea now of the cost of UK food, other than what I see on supermarket websites.
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The comparisons were:

Bread
$3.29 Australia
$1.30 New Zealand
$0.72 UK
$1.04 USA


Coke 2L
$3.92 Australia (Woolworths: Coca Cola Bottle 2L $3.72)
$2.87 New Zealand
$2.71 UK (Tesco: £1.78 Coca Cola Regular 2 Litre Bottle (£0.09/100ml)
$1.71 USA

Middle Bacon
$3.49 Australia
$4.52 New Zealand
$2.86 UK
$5.25 USA
(The Middle bacon on the websites was: $9.66 Aussie Farmers Choice Middle Bacon Rashers 750g ($12.88/kg)
$8.05 Homebrand Bacon Middle Rashers 1kg ($8.05/kg)
£2.00 Tesco Finest Unsmoked Middle Bacon 220G ( (£9.10/kg)
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Milk 2L
$3.69 Australia
$3.19 New Zealand
$2.01 UK
$2.48 USA

6 Eggs
$5.29 Australia
$4.74 New Zealand
$4.58 UK
$4.78 USA


1kg Rice (Not sure about the accuracy of this one)
$4.95 Australia (I always pay $1.50 kg, although I did get 10kg at $1.25 kg this week)
$4.61 New Zealand
$3.80 UK (£0.49 Tesco Value Long Grain Rice 1Kg (£0.49/kg0
$3.44 USA
(The Australian rice pictured in the program, was this one:
$3.00 Sunrice Rice White Premium Long Grain 1kg) Not sure where the $4.95 came from, nor the UK price



2L Orange Juice
$5.79 Australia
$3.08 New Zealand
$2.72 UK
$2.68 USA

Total
$30.42 Australia
$24.31 New Zealand
$19.40 UK
$21.38 USA



Now I am confused about the accuracy of this...


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bread is about £1.20 for a bog standard white loaf or 50/50 bread, sometimes get 2 for £2.00

coke is £1.78 - always an offer on like 2 for £3.00, buy 2 get one free etc

bacon is £2.00 - on offer with 79p off at moment in Sainsbury that's their butchers choice bacon or
£2.48 for 10 slices (300g) unsmoked bog standard brand with offer of buy 2 for £4.00

milk 2 L is £1.49

eggs range in price depending on if you buy caged or organic free range but price range is 69p for 6 basic range eggs to £1.99

rice 1K long grain rice £1.24

sainsbury own brand OJ 1.75 L is £2.36
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catgirl
Jun 29 2011, 06:26:35 AM
milk 2 L is £1.49
The prices that are often quoted in many of these surveys often has me puzzled.

Take Milk for example:
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Milk 2L
$3.69 Australia
$3.19 New Zealand
$2.01 UK
$2.48 USA


You say you pay £1.49 for 2 litres, presumably that is just normal milk ?

We pay from $1.99 to $2.09 for 2 litres, and this has been the same now for about a year, with no change, other than Woolworths and Coles recently dropping their price to the same as everyone else.

That $3.69 for 2 litres is a price that horrifies me, but I did just try to see what it might actually be:

These are the closest options I can see at Woolworths today:
$3.57 Pauls Milk Smarter White Bottle 2L
$3.56 Pauls Trim Milk Reduced Fat Bottle 2L
$3.57 Dairy Farmers Milk Shape No Fat Bottle 2L
$3.72 Physical Milk Low Fat Vitamin D Bottle 2L

I wonder if they do compare like to like ?

This is the one I buy at Woolworths:
$2.00 Homebrand Milk Whole Bottle 2L
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Anne
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Really! We pay a dollar per litre here for milk. So a 3 ltr bottle of milk is $3 :) And then there are still often offer lower than that.
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Milk has just gone up. That price was for semi skimmed milk

I don't usually go to supermarket to buy milk, it's only if we need extra as I have a milkman (and pay slightly more but I like having milk delivered). I have just gone to Tesco Express for millk (no delivery today and boys have gone mad on milk lately). I have paid £1.10 for 2 L of SS Organic milk. So Sainsbury's is a rip off !
Edited by catgirl, Jun 29 2011, 03:28:55 PM.
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there was an article on the news recently about the price of milk here (thats all well and good, but what about the price of lettuce!!???? :lol: ),
and the reason why milk is so expensive in supermarkets is because its the mark up they put on it to make a profit. the farmer only gets a minimal amount per litre, according to the news was just enough to cover the cost of production! when you think that the farmer gets something like 40p/L, the supermarkets make about 70-80p/L!!!!

I buy locally produced milk at about £1/L and the majority of the money goes to the farmer - the shop gets about 10p/L.

I also buy most of my food from an outlet ... so i pay about 75% less anyway !!!! :thumbsup:
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I'd love one of those co-op type places around here like the one that was on the tv programme a short while ago, less choice but cheaper and as much locally grown/sourced products as possible. I have a veggie box delivered now which supplies more than enough each week. I get 2 fruit - yep sometimes its imported but look at our climate ! and 5 types of veg, during winter i admit it was getting repetitive at times but was ok. They try to source as much from local farmers as possible.
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Well I pay 99c for a loaf of bread and $1.79 for 2l of milk !
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ohippy
Jun 30 2011, 04:48:47 PM
Well I pay 99c for a loaf of bread and $1.79 for 2l of milk !
I'm jealous, that's a total of 30 cents less than me, I think I had better shop around again :lol:

Actually I just bought milk and bread at Woolworths, for convenience. (1.29c for the loaf of bread and $2.00 for the 2L of milk). That's a whole 18% higher than yours, and 7% higher than my normal price..
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Hehe well that's the price at the spud shed. The bread has always been that price but the milk dropped when the supermarkets went to $2. The milk is now being advertised as $1.69 too
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I got bread at the Butchers today for 99 cents, milk for $1.99 and a Beef rump (sliced for free) at $4.99 kg. :thumbsup:

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