Woolworths Food price inflation from 2022 and 2023

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Woolworths Food price inflation from 2022 and 2023

An analysis by Daily Investor revealed that Woolworths Food prices increased by just under 12% between January 2022 and January 2023 — lower than South Africa’s food inflation.

For this analysis, we tracked the prices of 33 Woolworths Food products in multiple categories over the last year.

[Daily Investor]
 
yet people will still flock to woolies
well yeah, depending on your region many times, you'd find Woolies to offer similar-to-more expensive (and for essentials, actually cheaper according to The Outlier) groceries but at vastly better quality.

I can't even recall how many times I had to throw away day old veggies, milk, fish and meat cuts because of their grading being severely off date, just to save a bit but ending up spending double anyway.

While I've definitely heard valid stories of the opposite being true in other regions, my experience in four different provinces has been similar unfortunately, and I'm just talking supermarkets. Not every place will have a good local deli or farmer market to supercede that.
 
well yeah, depending on your region many times, you'd find Woolies to offer similar-to-more expensive (and for essentials, actually cheaper according to The Outlier) groceries but at vastly better quality.

I can't even recall how many times I had to throw away day old veggies, milk, fish and meat cuts because of their grading being severely off date, just to save a bit but ending up spending double anyway.

While I've definitely heard valid stories of the opposite being true in other regions, my experience in four different provinces has been similar unfortunately, and I'm just talking supermarkets. Not every place will have a good local deli or farmer market to supercede that.
When you do not buy at Woolies, you need to buy at better retailers than some shop on the corner of a street. Pick n Pay and Checkers products are very good and when you check the dates on the product, you should not buy expired products and expect them to last a month.
 
well yeah, depending on your region many times, you'd find Woolies to offer similar-to-more expensive (and for essentials, actually cheaper according to The Outlier) groceries but at vastly better quality.

I can't even recall how many times I had to throw away day old veggies, milk, fish and meat cuts because of their grading being severely off date, just to save a bit but ending up spending double anyway.

While I've definitely heard valid stories of the opposite being true in other regions, my experience in four different provinces has been similar unfortunately, and I'm just talking supermarkets. Not every place will have a good local deli or farmer market to supercede that.

The quality difference is little more than a perceived fallacy due to price in most cases.

If anything the biggest problem with Woolworths is that they have such a small range of goods you need to shop at the others anyway…so why not just start there.

Checkers blows Woolworths out of the water for value and quality now.
 
So everyone at home throws all their food away when the fridge goes off for 4.5hours?

What a load of fabricated kak.
I would be careful of buying meat these days...Especially the 'marinaded' stuff....Only 7 warm days old...
:ROFL:
 
Yep indeed...that is NOT how it works. All that food was sold to staff at staff discount. Nothing went to waste.
You are referring to Woolies "waste" whereby they sell just expired food & items to the Staff for cheap. How sure are you in this different instance that is applied as well?

That's before we talk about the supposed value in this example is big leagues.
 
So everyone at home throws all their food away when the fridge goes off for 4.5hours?

What a load of fabricated kak.
Or they just moved the stock back into the cold room.

Qn - if their generator failed why are all the lights still on?
 
Or they just moved the stock back into the cold room.

Qn - if their generator failed why are all the lights still on?

Exactly.

Taking it off the shelves sure. Throwing it away? Not a chance.
 
When you do not buy at Woolies, you need to buy at better retailers than some shop on the corner of a street. Pick n Pay and Checkers products are very good and when you check the dates on the product, you should not buy expired products and expect them to last a month.

The quality difference is little more than a perceived fallacy due to price in most cases.

If anything the biggest problem with Woolworths is that they have such a small range of goods you need to shop at the others anyway…so why not just start there.

Checkers blows Woolworths out of the water for value and quality now.

yep! I mostly shop Checkers as the alternative, and in 3/4 cases I've had a bad experience with inferior quality in-house groceries, I don't even bother with anything else these days really after moving from the North West.

Everything I bought was in line with the expiry date, and this continues to happen in my region. Prices aren't even far off these days too, I definitely wouldn't call it 'blowing out if the water' (except the brand availability, that is true), but this is my experience and vastly differs from place to place, so I'm not arguing for or against this.

One thing I definitely agree on is the delivery service, Woolies still has a far way to go, and Checkers knocked it out of the park from the start.
 
Increases will be higher/more frequent if examples like this becomes regular:


Millions of rands? Bullsh*t. That guy is talking kak.
Probably a couple of tens of thousands at best. There isn't millions of rands of food in any fridge at any Woolworths. You'd need a massive warehouse for that figure.

Also they probably just moved the food to their cold store room at the back.
 
The quality difference is little more than a perceived fallacy due to price in most cases.

If anything the biggest problem with Woolworths is that they have such a small range of goods you need to shop at the others anyway…so why not just start there.

Checkers blows Woolworths out of the water for value and quality now.
We have two Checkers stores within easy reach. I don’t see value in either. Both stores look dirty and unkempt.
 
The quality difference is little more than a perceived fallacy due to price in most cases.

If anything the biggest problem with Woolworths is that they have such a small range of goods you need to shop at the others anyway…so why not just start there.

Checkers blows Woolworths out of the water for value and quality now.
At our local centre the Woolies and Checkers are 50m apart (and Spar across the road). We buy hardly anything at the Woolies.
 
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