Brickbats To Coles

[icyfroth]

Friday night I was looking to buy frozen chips. Friday night is fish n chips night, right?

I usually get either McCains or Birds Eye crinkle cut chips in an attempt to buy Australian.

So all they had in the Fridges was McCains SHOESTRING chips or Birdseye POTATO WEDGES.

All other chips, crinkle cut or straight cut, were Coles brand

So I was forced to buy Coles brand if I wanted crinkle cut. Oh it was cheap cheap at only $2 for the 1kg pack!

So manipulated.

[janeababe]

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@wilk1149 wrote:
Ha ha gotta laugh at people that eat potatoes. See them lined up at the food court for chips and gravy. All extremely fat. It's sad that fatties don't realize it's what they put in their mouths that makes them fat

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...and its sad that people dont realise that what come OUT of their mouths that make them ignorant!  ^^^^

[polksaladallie]

We were warned a few years ago that there would be a gradual replacement of known brands with generic brands.  It is happening in all areas of the supermarket.  Occasionally I come across a particular item where the well-known brands are no longer on the shelf, like your experience with chips. 

I don't know what we can do to counter this, and I suspect that most people have no time or inclination to go elsewhere.  Manipulation it is.

[pct001wine]

If this manipulation of consumers led them to choose healthier options, e.g. fresh produce, then more power to them. Sadly this is not the case.  What's so good about potatoes boiled in oil anyway ?

[polksaladallie]

Nothing.  I am not sure that oil is used, but some horrible unknown fat.  They are slimey to the touch even when cold. 

[icyfroth]

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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Get real. I finish work at 5 get into home around 7pm depending on traffic. After I've picked up a bit of shopping, like tohave dinner ready by at least 8pm. You think I'm going to stuff around peeling and chipping spuds and deep frying them while I'm crumbing and pan frying fish?

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It takes me about 10 seconds to peel a potato, and not much longer to chop it up.  Lot less time than going to supermarket and trying to find the right brand.  But  if I really could not be bothered, I would also get it from fish&chips shop  🙂

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Yeah well I don't just go the supermarket to buy the chips there are other groceries I pick up for the weekend. And you don't make a fish & chip meal for 2 with just one potato.

And that's not the point anyway. The point is how customers are funnelled into buying what the supermarket wants, not what the customer wants.

So try addressing that point if it's not too much trouble. Thank you.

[icyfroth]

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@janeababe wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

Friday night I was looking to buy frozen chips. Friday night is fish n chips night, right?

I usually get either McCains or Birds Eye crinkle cut chips in an attempt to buy Australian.

So all they had in the Fridges was McCains SHOESTRING chips or Birdseye POTATO WEDGES.

All other chips, crinkle cut or straight cut, were Coles brand

So I was forced to buy Coles brand if I wanted crinkle cut. Oh it was cheap cheap at only $2 for the 1kg pack!

So manipulated.

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I dont buy (and i rarely eat) hot chips.

What is the quality difference between McCains crinkle cut chips  and Coles crinkle cut chips? 
At the end of the day, isnt it all just chopped up potatoes?

Coles brand in other food items is not too bad i dont think. (except tin spaghetti..... *cheap* tin spaghetti in tomato sauce is erk)

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There's no difference in quality, the difference is in price.

The Coles brand is cheaper by almost a dollar. Which means the grower is being squeezed to supply their produce in order to boost Coles's profit and price war with Woolworths.

Which is a practice I don't wish to support.

If they're going to play tiddly-winks like that I'll be doing my shopping at IGA.

[icyfroth]

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@go-tazz wrote:

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@wilk1149 wrote:
Ha ha gotta laugh at people that eat potatoes. See them lined up at the food court for chips and gravy. All extremely fat. It's sad that fatties don't realize it's what they put in their mouths that makes them fat

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I've eaten spuds as a staple diet in different forms my whole life,including chips.

My weight range has always been in the healthy range so saying that potatoes make you fat is a ludicrous

statement and obviously no thought went into your post,

Millions of people eat spuds and only a percentage are overweight and it's not because they eat spuds.

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Potatos are actually very nutritious when cooked in their jackets and eaten without fatty additives like butter or mayo.

[icyfroth]

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@pct001wine wrote:

If this manipulation of consumers led them to choose healthier options, e.g. fresh produce, then more power to them. Sadly this is not the case.  What's so good about potatoes boiled in oil anyway ?

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I actually oven bake mine.

[flashie*]

Icy.............it is possible that shopping later on a Friday night that they had just ran out of stock of the particular chips you wanted.

But if Coles do no longer stock a particular brand of something that you like you can make a request to them to stock it in...............I have done this in the past for a particular diet mineral water for my husband.

[icyfroth]

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@flashie* wrote:

Icy.............it is possible that shopping later on a Friday night that they had just ran out of stock of the particular chips you wanted.

But if Coles do no longer stock a particular brand of something that you like you can make a request to them to stock it in...............I have done this in the past for a particular diet mineral water for my husband.

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Yeah I could accept that, Flashie, but it's odd that both McCains and Birdseye were not on the shelves except for the shoestring and wedges.

I suppose I could make that request but I can just go a bit further up the road and go to IGA.