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@nope1083

3 ай бұрын

Can I Rock up for free?

@YeetThyBaby

3 ай бұрын

Lismore? Fuck. Unlucky mate. Didn't know the channel had gone that far downhill.

@ironclay3939

3 ай бұрын

Good on you that was a wonderful presentation, Well worth making a donation! but I don't even pay tax or talk to them but I'm talking to you bro, Good on ya, You're Doing godz Work!! K1VV1

@officialknuckle4433

3 ай бұрын

Love you so much also hate from Slovakia Btw this a joke please don’t take it seriously!!!!

@LilGhost14

3 ай бұрын

Yay i cant wait till i get a job at one of these slimy greedy corporations controlled by a government that only wats controll and money!

Coles employee here. I'm on my break, so I dont have much time, but I absolutely agree that the prices have been well past excessive since I started in 2021. So many customers complain that we're robbing them, but they complain to the people who have no control over what the prices are set to. The workers hate price gouging as much as anyone else, but if customers want to make a difference, they should contact the higher ups so that their complaints will be addressed by someone with more authority to properly make their feedback make a difference.

@michaelc3656

3 ай бұрын

Totally agree that abusing the workers at Coles and Woolies is not the right way to go about it. You guys just work there - the prices are set by forces beyond your control (and pay cheque). Sorry you have to cop abuse in the first place.

@iantophernicus6042

3 ай бұрын

Thats okay. Thank you for your kind words. It's been better recently, but things at my store usually fall into one of two camps. Either you get really friendly and kind people helping you out, or you brute force learn through trial by fire. I worked in Online for two years, they told me how to operate the Elephant and where things are located in the store, then they told me to get to it. People who started after me were given buddy shifts, but I went without. Just recently, I was moved to service. On the Tuesday before Easter. I learnt *very* quickly. Big difference was, I could count the number of rude people on one hand. Considering how busy it was, it blew me away to see so many nice people, despite how hectic it was. Even hearing people say thank you, or saying they were greatful for how I pack their bags, really tiny things that make the world of difference to hear at work. I'm afraid my break's up, but I'll be back this Arvo. Have a great day!

@kaeota

3 ай бұрын

My life in retail. Pro tip, if you just walked in then no one you can see can help or change anything, we're all in minimum wage.

@GL-xz3xk

3 ай бұрын

Nailed it. Most of the abusive whingers are your usual ‘she’ll be right’ kick the can down the road type. Too hard to write a letter or go see their local mp about the cost of living, but too lazy to go to Aldi or buy from a grower etc. Sorry to hear you have to put up with dickheads, probably the same people that a solid whinge to me in the late 90’s when the price of a slab of VB went up. Retards…

@grimdarkfuture

3 ай бұрын

Just overlook the odd 5-finger discount and we're all good :P

Woolies employee here: if you are going to assault us to increase the insurance premiums it’s important that you do enough damage to put us on worker’s comp. Cheers

@Vineethajojo

3 ай бұрын

The customers are wild

@Jim-yk9zw

3 ай бұрын

I can just come in and staunch ya then you can claim ptsd 😂

@CheeseInTheOven

3 ай бұрын

Would using one of them thick Toblerone bars do the trick?

@eggymens

3 ай бұрын

sound, reckon a bat will do it, or should i opt for a crowbar?

@discipleofdagon8195

3 ай бұрын

@@Jim-yk9zw Depends on department. Nightfill are emotionally numb. Do it to the deli people.

The wheat thing is hilarious. Australia, if cut off from the rest of the world, is statistically one of, if not the only country that could self sustain its population with crop growth. But I guess sending it overseas is more profitable 🤷‍♂️

@wilson2455

3 ай бұрын

same with natural gas..

@CheeseInTheOven

3 ай бұрын

We used to be self sustainable. Unfortunately, some knuckle scrapers that involve the colour blue and John Howard chipped away at that and have made us too overly reliant on exports

@MickH60

3 ай бұрын

@@CheeseInTheOven An immigration , And housing as a investment strategy, Howard is responsible for the current state of the country and should be held accountable for it...

@Jonesy1701

3 ай бұрын

You understand you need to do more than just buy the wheat to make bread, right?

@CheeseInTheOven

3 ай бұрын

@@Jonesy1701 Wheat is the main component of bread. Yes theres other things but you're shit out of luck without wheat

I was reading about how the German retailer Kaufland was looking to open here, but because of Coles and Woolworths land banking, it was essentially impossible. I wish there was some way for our government to bring in at least two or three new supermarket chains in order to bring in some real competition.

@user-ts2js1ji2f

3 ай бұрын

We already have 6 supermarket chains in Australia and adding more won't bring costs down because of the operational and other overheads which includes buying and building facilities. Remember that Wollies' world beating (well all the comparisions are to much larger markets than ours) is 6%.

@byroncanty8986

3 ай бұрын

​@@user-ts2js1ji2fIt's an essential monopoly. Just because 6 grocery chains EXIST doesn't mean they compete. in alot of places people have no choice but to shop at either coles or Woolworths

@fkrkf

3 ай бұрын

Capitalists HATE competition!

@nerag7459

3 ай бұрын

We got Aldi. We shop there.

@PKLuver944

3 ай бұрын

We don't got Aldi in our state at all! ​@@nerag7459

I like how Joride is clearly not trying to make extremely powerful enemies that run monopolies. Good stuff.

@guffmam6995

3 ай бұрын

I will definitely not be surprised when I hear on the news that FJ commited suicide by rolling himself up in a carpet and throwing himself off the harbour bridge

@NQISSteve

3 ай бұрын

He is a fucking girl......

@Horltum

3 ай бұрын

I think that Friendly Joyride might be my favourite alternate name for this channel.

@frankcooke1692

3 ай бұрын

@@Horltum It evokes such wholesome images of a group of nice young boys driving responsibly and then returning the stolen vehicle with a full tank of petrol. They just noticed the family wasn't at home and after all, they wouldn't mind if their car was borrowed for a day of ultimate frisbee at the park. "Come now Shayden, I don't think you would appreciate if they ripped bongs inside of *your* Maserati - that's not what we're about".

@JaylanYilmaz

3 ай бұрын

I like Comedians and the important role they play in this world too - funny but true stooge

Woollies employee here about to start my shift. All the nightfill team here at Woollies toowong Village had a good laugh and good riddance when our former CEO had a hissy fit on live TV.

@Enlight_Entertain

3 ай бұрын

He looks like a narcissistic asshole.

@DemisangNZL

3 ай бұрын

BWS employee very close to you. We all had a great laugh too

@ruthaderginsburg9506

3 ай бұрын

Just one 'l' mate

@artemisiakyrell7727

3 ай бұрын

Lol, I go there all the time. Also as a former nightfill woolies worker, fuck yea, nightfill best department!

@jesperdennismynster8244

3 ай бұрын

​@@ruthaderginsburg9506man who gives a shit

Me: why should i support your patreon? FJ: because it's been harder to get out videos because of supply chain issues Me: what sort of supply chain issues would cause you to stop putting out content? FJ: someone tired to burn down my house...twice. Me: ohh

Did not expect jordies to be invested the the philosophytube-contrapoints skinwalker theory

@asdfasdf-dd9lk

3 ай бұрын

toobposting going global

@evaxephonfan9649

3 ай бұрын

It's so over... /tttt/ won.

@asdfasdf-dd9lk

3 ай бұрын

@@evaxephonfan9649 let's fucking goooooo

In Western Australia we have a chain supermarket called Spudshed. It's like a mix between IGA and Aldi. So some things (half the store) is outrageously expensive and not a good deal, but the other half of the store is things being sold at near cost price or really reasonably compared to Coles and Woolworths. I tend to do most of my food shopping in the vegetables and meat aisles and avoid the other aisles of the shop like my life depends on it (apart from pantry staples, and normal non-perishables which I get at Aldi) I can do a food shop for a family of four netting about 8 dinners for $55-60 based on that. Plus or minus about $20-30 at Aldi for said non-perishables. So for $75-90, that puts it at about $2.30-$2.80 a serving for over a week of dinners. That does include bread and leftovers mostly for the other meals mind you. That's really a night and day difference compared to buying even one nights worth of food from the local Woolworths or Coles. I can only encourage more families to try finding local shops and try cooking less processed meals.

@YeetThyBaby

3 ай бұрын

Fuck I miss spudshed. Genuinely one of the great wonders of WA.

@peepeetrain8755

3 ай бұрын

Theres a small chain in QLD called Fresh n Save, they have a couple of stores in Sunny coast and Brisbane, they are pretty good with prices and coupons. They are opening their first store in NSW later in the year in Armidale (my hometown, shops have been bleeding out of the town for a decade good to see something moving in again). Hopefully it gains traction up here and spreads across the state. Might be good to see another competitor. Bc IGA is expensive while Aldi cant be the only competitor to colesworth

@StreakyBaconMan

3 ай бұрын

Problem is there are like 15 spudsheds spread across Perth - the nearest one to me would be a 50 minute round trip driving, long enough that any savings I'd make would likely go towards the petrol to get me there and back. My choices are basically Coles or Aldi where I live - even Woolworths doesn't have a store close enough to me to be worth driving to. And it's not like I live in the middle of nowhere or anything, I live in the outer suburbs of Perth. If you have a spudshed close by then that's great - but it's hardly any solution to tell people to find local shops and cook less processed meals when in many cases that's not possible.

@StaceWah

3 ай бұрын

Devo I've not heard of Spudshed until now. Such an ignorant East coaster I am 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

@Blluren

3 ай бұрын

@@StreakyBaconMan sorry to hear. I have 3 within 20km of me. Guess it's a location thing.

Woolies. The Fresh Food Thieves

@HughRussell06

3 ай бұрын

Coles, Theft the Australian Way

@GraniteGolem

3 ай бұрын

@@HughRussell06 Down Down, your bank account's mine!

@rowlandp6314

3 ай бұрын

"Put your hands in the air and give me all ya money" should be the checkouts motto.

@gardenersgraziers7261

3 ай бұрын

why dont you start up a grocers shop with crowd funding who will in turn become your customers ???

@MickH60

3 ай бұрын

And the irony is, it isn't even fresh..!!!

Woolies employee - I agree prices are absurd. I can barely afford basic living expenses in sydney (join the club) along with transport to uni, and the price of food from work is getting higher and higher every month. The implementation of electronic tickets has made it even easier to increase prices like this, and I cop hate from people despite being the bottom line - I've got no power over prices. Neither does my service manager, her boss - the store manager, or potentially even his boss - the regional manager. All while they're cutting wages to our store and forcing the roster to cut hours and reduce staff, all while implementing online order systems like uber and milkrun without hiring a new team. There's no way to keep up with the workload, and quite frankly I'm happy that I'll be out of here by the end of the year.

@Vineethajojo

3 ай бұрын

Same 😢

@jenniesales9222

3 ай бұрын

Woolworths employee. You right regards work load. The expectations of this organisation are unrealistic.

It's not quite a monopoly, as those are illegal. It's more of a biopoly and spare change. The chronic lack of viable competition in key areas of life is a serious issue in Australia. Groceries. Petrol. Flights. Banks. Electricity, water and gas. Mobile and fixed internet. Higher education. Political parties. Insurance. Superannuation. Media. It means we pay extortionate rates for basically everything we do in life because there is no real free market competition and the 2 to 4 massive players in any category often agree to take turns with the bad press rather than actually competing on price or quality.

@phattjohnson

3 ай бұрын

I think you mean 'duopoly'?

@mikespearwood3914

3 ай бұрын

Hey Crispy, the word you're looking for is "duopoly".👍

@user-ts2js1ji2f

3 ай бұрын

We have about the same amount of choice per capital as every other developed country in the world, except in telecommunications. In most countries you don't get a choice at all.

@2B34ever

3 ай бұрын

Brought to you by the not so friendly Blackrock! For it is they that own both Coles and Woolies.

@merriberri845

3 ай бұрын

I dream of when all services for needs like groceries are once again provided to communities by small, local businesses run by people in those communities.

Price gouging is a result of monopolizing and corporate greed

@discipleofdagon8195

3 ай бұрын

The sky is blue

@kiwikemist

3 ай бұрын

Nuh uh it's because of Labor and the woke!

@Azmania3000

3 ай бұрын

@@discipleofdagon8195 Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas while looking for an alternative sea route to India, to avoid the Venetian shipping monopoly. Unfortunately, he still thought he was in India, despite only being at sea for 30 days. So in conclusion; idiots can still be useful.

@Stupididiot67

3 ай бұрын

capitalism

@pw1169

3 ай бұрын

No. It's because of the increase in money supply.

Hey jordies, don't blame me, I voted for the naked clown video.

@monicagrorud2225

3 ай бұрын

There was a naked clown video? Wtf.

@mrtusk2304

3 ай бұрын

@@monicagrorud2225 0:06 right under Coles/Woolies inquriy

@knowEyeDeer

3 ай бұрын

I voted for the propaganda model explained. I thought that everyone could use that knowledge.

Woolworths a criminal syndicate, worked there 15 years worst experience of my life

@ht8286

3 ай бұрын

Just came across a plain clothed manager in the meat section passive aggressively asking me if I needed help because I was watching him trying to arrange the meat pricing ina way to trick the customers

@hypnoticnut953

3 ай бұрын

​@ht8286 he's probably just doing what he's been told, and just standing there watching him is pretty annoying and rude

@ht8286

3 ай бұрын

@@hypnoticnut953 you mean standing there trying to buy some meat? Wanker Shows the contempt that the management have for customers these days

@S4ltyTar0

3 ай бұрын

I worked as a baker for a year or so at Woolies and it was the most miserable experience of my life. 4 trade qualified guys, 100 years of experience making premix doughs because we need to put food on the table under a manager with literally zero managerial or baking experience who was there because he was up for a promotion from the stockroom and bakery was the only area with an open slot for manager.

I work in the grain sector and Ironically the domestic price of wheat and other crops prices dropped locally during Covid because in 2020 and 2021 we had massive growing seasons and local supply was flooded. The his was compounded by the rail and port infrastructure being at capacity so we couldn’t export the excess which drove prices down even further

Woolies is also here in South Africa and it honestly feels the exact same. The prices of food have well exceeded inflation and percentage increase in petrol cost. Some things have gone up 27% in one single year, for what? People are already suffering in this disgusting country and economy - now we have to suffer settling for cheap food.

@2B34ever

3 ай бұрын

Brought to you by the not so friendly Blackrock! For it is they that own both Coles and Woolies.

@Buderbukz

2 ай бұрын

"Woolworths Holdings Limited is a South African multinational retail company that owns Woolworths, a South African luxury department store chain, and Australian retailer Country Road Group. Woolworths, however, has no association to Australia's Woolworths supermarket chain."

In the town I exist in, shopping for food is limited to Woolies, Coles, IGA, and a few independent stores including bakeries and butchers. As much as Woolies and Coles are price gouging, they're still the cheapest places to buy food within 300kms, which is absurd. Unless you're rich enough to pay 1.5 to 3 times more for everything, you can't even boycott the bastards, and if their prices are high due to price gouging, what are the other stores doing?!

@Retro-Iron11

3 ай бұрын

Yep, they say that it's cheaper to go to a green grocer, bs it is, woolies is cheaper. What are those stores doing? Yet they are busy as absolutely filled with boomers not complaining as they aren't protected by the uniform of the employee.

@zimbu_

3 ай бұрын

The local bakery can't get a good deal on a hundred tons of the lowest quality wheat from Russian-occupied Ukraine because they don't work with big international suppliers or at a big scale, and they also can't negotiate for good deals on things like lights/shelves/bakery equipment/point-of-sales devices, cheaper loans, forms of corporate welfare etc. the same way the big chains do.

@godamid4889

3 ай бұрын

The big two put producers and transport on supply contracts leaving local stores to compete for the scraps. They have smaller margins because they don't have the same buying power, even though their sale prices are higher.

@h.r.hufnstuf4171

3 ай бұрын

Limited? I have 1 IGA. Your swimming in it.

@grandmothergoose

3 ай бұрын

@@h.r.hufnstuf4171 Yes, I'm in a better spot than many, and you have my condolences, but I do miss the ability to go to a green grocer or a market to buy fresh fruit and veg and Asian grocers for cheap bulk food like I could when I lived in Sydney.

I'm in New Zealand so we have food stuffs and woolworths and I find it so annoying that they're obviously price gouging the country and then in all they're advertising they try and pretend to be the good guys

@bluebel1857

3 ай бұрын

I get the ads all the time on KZread and the whiplash of their obvious propaganda is insulting

@christineewing3492

3 ай бұрын

The Good Guys could be price gouging too. 😀

@maddyc2412

2 ай бұрын

Food prices are ridiculous in NZ, idk how people with kids to feed are doing it 😢

I'm on a DSP and so I used to use a Woolworths list to order my weekly groceries. It was easy and a time saver and kept my shopping in budget. My total cost was roughly the same each shop. Then the Covid shortages happened followed by the price gouging. Charities only helped elderly so I was without food for two weeks living on spiced rice only (which was so much it triggered my autoimmune disease). Even when sending proof I was disabled and on a DSP, Woolworths still took two weeks to add me to their priority delivery which was too late by then. My shopping list then tripled in cost. I couldn't use it anymore and have to spend hours looking at the alternatives for each product I need. I still couldn't get my shop down below twice of what it used to be. Still the same product types but the cheapest/on special versions. Currently its double plus a little each shop as specials seem to be drying up as well. It's just cheap junkfood that is on sale now. As for Coles, its sometimes has cheaper prices but around half my delivery is out of stock. I spent so much time and delivery fees during the shortages to get something. I even had a $200 delivery show up with one item. I still paid full delivery fee. Now it's still bad with so many items out of stock forcing me to reorder or use Woolworths paying a extra delivery fee each time.

@kallekas8551

Ай бұрын

Get your NDIS support person to shop at Aldi for you…

@fortysixghouls

Ай бұрын

⁠@@kallekas8551DSP and NDIS are separate entities, and not all people on NDIS get support workers.

@fortysixghouls

Ай бұрын

Might be worth looking into Woolworths Delivery Unlimited if you’re getting frequent deliveries. I’m on DSP too and ended up subscribing to save some money. You’re right about the specials too, there’s so much junk food and it would be nicer to see more of the fruit, veg and meat go on sale. Items frequently being out of stock is a hassle too, I do my best to replace things before I run out of them but sometimes you’re just out of luck. Recently did an order and all the cabbage is unavailable 🤷

Also living off bahn mi (Vietnamese rolls) for lunches 🤣 "cheap as chips" needs to be changed as "cheap as bahn mi" both packaged and hot chips are through the roof. Where I live all the good ol fish and chip shops are all but gone in place of hipster "upmarket" chip shops that give you both a smaller portion and less quality for double the price.

@darkowl9

3 ай бұрын

They've swapped minimum chips with minimum expectations.

@hollysmith1347

3 ай бұрын

Yep and they put the chips in boxes. I'm getting annoyed at that. And also no one has vinegar anymore. Chicken Salt yes. Vinegar no.

@bisexualmajima

3 ай бұрын

Can't even get a bag of Smiths for under $4.00 these days and they don't even fucking taste that good anymore

@kylegonewild

3 ай бұрын

@@hollysmith1347 I appreciate that what's commonly faire food here in the US is a staple in other English speaking countries. I like vinegar on my fried potatoes but only occasionally.

At this point the government needs to step in and actively split Coles and Woolworths apart, so there are multiple different supermarkets that all have to compete with one another. Their plans have succeeded so far. They bought out every competitor. They ARE in fact, a Duopoly.

@leemollison7508

3 ай бұрын

Just like Liberals and Labor, they are both owned by blackrock...

@johnw3772

3 ай бұрын

Don't be surprised if the same groups/people with controlling shares in one company also have controlling shares in the other company in a duopoly. This means the incentive each company has is to increase profits for both simultaneously, in anticompetitive manors. One rises its prices, the other notices and raises them as well. No communication needed, no conspiracy, just incentives

@ItsDKoda

3 ай бұрын

@@johnw3772 you're spot on. Both woolie and Coles group are on the stock market.

@CheeseInTheOven

3 ай бұрын

Coles and Woolies unfortunately are too big and influential. If any govt tried to do immediate action against them, it'd be suicide for their party in lawsuits and media slamming

Meanwhile in Canada, Canadians have given up with writing angry letters and upgraded to angry posters announcing a "Holiday" to raid Loblaws groceries next month.

@schizophrenicgaming365

3 ай бұрын

Can you link me this im in ontario and never heard of this

@ScotterOtter

3 ай бұрын

fucking go for it, it's not like Galen Fucking Weston gives a flying toss. no but seriously, BAR ACTUAL SHOPLIFTING, when the supermarkets are so extortionate you might as well go for the chinese supermarkets (though tbh the prices are lower I still prefer the freshness, if you can call it that, of food basics and nofrills, heck even metro... sometimes.)

Oh my god the shade being thrown at philosophy tube has me pissing myself laughing. In all seriousness though, our weekly shop went from $80-90pw to $150pw over the course of 18 months, so the exact same shop has almost doubled in price.

3:22 hold your horses I already get my fair share of abused for putting box on shelf

That BPD joke + follow-up floored me.

@angussandford1815

3 ай бұрын

Choked on my coffee. Gold

@tahjalafaele

3 ай бұрын

Out of pocket 😂😂😭

@ViolemAllum

2 ай бұрын

called out haha

@Katherine-wx1kh

2 ай бұрын

It was hilarious. 😂😂😂

God do I hope that inquiry goes somewhere. The prices of food have gone from "yeah thats alright, I can still buy some stuff for myself" to now everytime I go shopping I go "Thats all my fuckin money gone...". It has to change.

jordies love hate relationship with his own patrons will never cease to be the most hilarious thing in the world to me. Fantastic journalism as always

Price gouging in colesworth is just one factor in the cost of living. Fuel prices is another. Price per barrel of crude is around $100, the same price it was when we broke the $1 per litre and we are now paying $2.35 in the outer west. That’s a pretty big jump considering the cost of oil is the same 🤬

@GingermusPrime

3 ай бұрын

More competition is the answer. Raiding wages in this monopolistic environment will just make the problem worse

@Suicune-oz4ou

2 ай бұрын

You know what's telling? My parents live 500km north from the city, and petrol in their town (and pretty much the whole way from 100km outside the city all the way up to their town and at least another 150km north of them) has been consistently in the $1.80-$1.95 range, meanwhile here in the outer west it jumped literally a whole 50c overnight in March and hasn't come down from $2.35 since. The petrol literally gets shipped to the city and then has to be trucked up north, but somehow it's cheaper to take it 500+km away than 30km from the port to the western suburbs??? That's fucked up.

Am I the only young adult (19-35) who's contemplating moving to a different country to escape this endless game Australian politicians play with our standard of living?

@tzz89

4 ай бұрын

yes

@PandaKnight52

4 ай бұрын

thats literally what politics influences. that why politics exists to influence your standard of living. that's why you should join, and influence a political party.

@КГБКолДжорджКостанца

4 ай бұрын

go to Vietnam

@LokiBeckonswow

4 ай бұрын

my dude I did this, moved to berlin in 2019, covid fkd me hard, but hey things are cheaper over here

@akaku9

3 ай бұрын

Move to Indiana bros

If you told me "jordies makes a jab at Philosophy Tube in this one" and asked me to guess the joke it would have taken me a hot second to guess Contrapoints identity theft.

@skullladymalady

3 ай бұрын

I had to look up wtf he was talking about. Apparently the two used to date pre-PTs transition, ended on bad terms and are now beefing

@pippingtonne

3 ай бұрын

@@skullladymalady woah, i've been watching both of them for a bit and i never knew that. the secret bread lore...

@atdyeam1605

3 ай бұрын

I’ve never heard that and watched them for years, though I try and avoid learning anything gossip/drama related. But they live in different countries so I’m not sure how accurate that would be? PT has always lived in England afaik and Contra in the US.

@skullladymalady

3 ай бұрын

@@atdyeam1605 as far as I can tell it was confirmed on Twitter. Contra tweeted in response to a short film about a trans woman with a crossdressing boyfriend "I get the struggle having an ex boyfriend that wanted to be you. But at least they didn't also ditto your entire KZread brand" and she confirmed she was talking about PT

@atdyeam1605

3 ай бұрын

@@skullladymalady well there you go. The similarities in their channels are obvious, though I’m far more a contra fan, but I had no idea of that history.

We have the same problem here in Canada with a company called Loblaws. There's a nationwide boycott in May and it's grown traction fast. Enough traction that they've been astroturfing the boycott.

Imagine if colesworth was force to put the unit margin on every price sticker, of both their markup and the suppliers. That way you can see where the money actually goes to.

@user-ts2js1ji2f

3 ай бұрын

How do you force suppliers to provide their margin to their customer's customer? Also unit margins only calculate in COGS and not the other overheads required to run the business so you would only be providing a highly distorted view.

@tommarkstv

3 ай бұрын

@@user-ts2js1ji2f sure, is there another way of expressing margin even after expenses? Maybe just price over 2 years in a small graph?

@user-ts2js1ji2f

3 ай бұрын

@@tommarkstv If I am supplying Coles I am not providing them with my internal finances ever. Most of the food processors in Australia are family owned, private companies. Why would I give away information that is literally so valuable that other companies try to steal it? Also there is no reliable way to calculate net margin after expenses on a per item basis. How much of each corporate cost gets associated to each item? I mean things like marketing, business interruption insurance, ASIC compliance costs, corporate salaries, IT budgets, accounting and finance, etc. What do you do about stuff manufactured overseas or sourced from distributors and wholesalers? The problem isn't expressing the information but that actually sourcing accurate information is basically impossible for what you are suggesting. The other problem is even if your could source the info, how much would it cost to implement something that the vast majority of buyers don't give a shit about?

@tommarkstv

3 ай бұрын

Very good points. Perhaps more transparent reporting could work? I guess what I'm trying to say is I'd be interested to see a rough breakdown of where my grocery budget goes. Maybe someone could create an infographic of a receipt with case study products where the profit/loss can actually be inferred.

@user-ts2js1ji2f

3 ай бұрын

@@tommarkstv Well, you could do that study if you are interested enough in the topic. I don't see why national reporting standards would need to be changed to expose commercially sensitive data just to satisfy your curiosity though.

This is important to cover, may not be the most interesting but im sure the people that can barely afford to feed themselves or their ffamily properly are appreciative of what you choose to speak on. Thank you

Me finding out today that Jordies has not only watched Contrapoints, but also PhilosophyTube AND Vaush AND is also aware of the drama surrounding them all lmao

@Cassandra03

3 ай бұрын

And has collaborated with Hassan.

@Vizelvius

3 ай бұрын

@@Cassandra03 Who did? Jordies? O.o

@Cassandra03

3 ай бұрын

@@Vizelvius yeah

3:22 as a former grocery employee Go ahead, square up with the guy who looks most tired

Who's got money for frozen ready-made meals, i can barely afford the raw ingredients for water

@LORDOFGLOOP

3 ай бұрын

there's some good powdered water available now, is great for when you can't afford the real stuff

@smithy2

3 ай бұрын

@@LORDOFGLOOP probably tastes better then home made recycled water

@GH-zg2wu

3 ай бұрын

You have a good laugh with that one, thank you

Most people don't understand how funny that BPD joke was.

@sirnato5218

3 ай бұрын

Yeah it completely flew over my head. I just thought it was a little mean, but I’m guessing I’m missing some lore somewhere

@HistoryReforged000

3 ай бұрын

If you do, you do though 🥲

@S4dS1r3n

3 ай бұрын

Dead ass. That joke would’ve crippled me a couple of years ago but now it’s hilarious.

@Crowsie

3 ай бұрын

@@sirnato5218 I have bpd - its funny

@randomhumor1

3 ай бұрын

I have BPD and that joke nearly flipped my emotional state. Funny fucking joke lol a smart one that few would get.

I’m a girl with BPD.. fair call. When I was untreated, I allegedly did things.

I left Australia to live in Vietnam and have been here for 2 years. In Vietnam, A huge long french baguette costs 22c. 1kg of chicken breast costs $4.50. 1 packet of cigarettes costs $1.50, 1 beer costs $1.50. I would NEVER trade this for anything.

@honeydeer6647

3 ай бұрын

I would love to live there.

@guffmam6995

3 ай бұрын

What's the language situation? Can you get away with being an ignorant English only speaker?

@ApexOfThrottle

3 ай бұрын

With the median wage at 800 bucks a month I hope it's cheap

@midgetwars1

3 ай бұрын

Yeah but wages are low.

@Disillusioned2022

3 ай бұрын

@midgetwars1 I WFH so I keep my Australian job

haha the music at the end of the video is so mysterious... I feel like something big is coming...

@JCoates98

4 ай бұрын

it sounds a lot like the spiderman theme song to me...

they are price gouging and influencing market prices, but each weekend, either saturday or sunday morning I do a big shop at my local butcher and fruit shop (butcher 20% cheaper, fruit shop over 50%). I only buy choice items from colesworth or aldi. a nice brand of pickles, peanut butter, etc. be mindful of what you purchase, anything over $10/kg for chicken is too much, over $15/kg for red meat is too much. don't buy liquids other than aldi milk, only drink water, eat your fruits!

@L83467

3 ай бұрын

yep! dont get me wrong im all for breaking up the big two and combatting price gouging, but i only spend $40 a week and i eat well, like fish twice a week, heaps of veggies. the trick is to reduce animal products, processed food, and bougie stuff. like i dont buy any veggies over $6 a kilo, and the fish i eat are canned sardines.

@justmemimi7338

3 ай бұрын

Recent Aldi concert here. Have usually bought and continue to buy fruit, vegetable and fish from specialist retailers. But I’ve absolutely saved money buying general groceries from Aldi. Not everything, but enough to significantly reduce the amount I spend at Colesworth.

@kylegonewild

3 ай бұрын

@@justmemimi7338 Aldi's is a common shopping destination for the poor or fixed income people here in the US too. Pretty solid place. I've had family who worked there and the environment is apparently pretty decent.

When I was an apprentice baker at Woolworths in 2016, the Homebrand loaves of white bread were only 50c per loaf. When I talk to new hires and casually mention this, the ones that never worked bakery always say that it was never that cheap. I worked there, I stocked that shelf, I know what the prices were.

@user-ts2js1ji2f

3 ай бұрын

Then you are misremebering because prices that low for bread were banned by the government for anticompetitive behaviour decades ago under dumping rules.

@benfromtheupsidedownunder7122

3 ай бұрын

@@user-ts2js1ji2f I think they may mean 50c to produce, the last time bread cost 50c retail was before I was born (1980s).

@user-ts2js1ji2f

3 ай бұрын

@@benfromtheupsidedownunder7122 Possibly. It amazes me how many employees don't bother learning anything about the business they work for outside of the immediate scope of their role. Then they get to their forties and wonder why they are still working entry level dead end jobs.

@harriskicksyou

3 ай бұрын

I remember paying around $1.20 for a home brand loaf in 2016, could be misremembering though

@b4rdz

3 ай бұрын

you must be remembering wrong, I worked for tiptop bakeries during those years and woolies got homebrand bread from us and took a loss on every loaf of homebrand bread, which was sold for $1 at the time...

3:00 australia and czech republic one struggle! (We have a simmiliar problem with supermarkets and also have vietnameese small businesses)

I worked for a grocery price comparison startup for nearly 2 years prior to this all being a hot topic and I already figured out where the fault lines are and how to fix it. BUT the signs were there ages ago, the best example is looking at the lamb/beef markets as the grocery stores do not have an exclusive supply agreement. The MLA keeps track of all the auction prices which is where they go through so you can see the lamb prices at the beginning of the year to the end of the year. Anyway, where to deal with this? The problem is not the store its the machine. The smaller stores are not able to compete with coles and woolies with their infrastructure, their private B2B marketplace for suppliers to jump through. There are 3 B2B marketplaces for supermarkets in Australia, one for Coles (private) one for Woolies (private) and one that effectively supplies the IGA franchises (Metcash). Breaking up the supply chain not the ownership of stores is where the most bang for the buck would be for price transparency.

@Suicune-oz4ou

2 ай бұрын

I used to work for Metcash for around 8 years and in my department we went from averaging around 30-40% gross profit per unit when I started, to when I finished getting in trouble if we sold somethinf for less than 70% gross profit per unit. I was in a different department not groceries so our products were a little higher price point and probably even lower margin than the groceries because they were more expensive to start with. I had to bite my tongue and sell items we bought for $2.94 to regular business customers I had good relationships with, for $65+. B2B sales too so I know there was more markup before the product got to the end consumer snd I know for a fact the "codt prices" we saw from head office also had an extra cheeky invisible markup before the product even got to us (yes hesd office even price gouged product going to their own distribution centres to up the bottom line for distributions managers to make it harder/often impossible for them to hit their targets so they'd never qualify for bonuses - common practice in a lot of franchises but we weren't a franchise we were company run). Meanwhile in the same breath we'd be told by upper middle manangment that we were "expected" to do at least 5.5 hours per week of unpaid overtime and had to cut staff hours and all overtime unpaid (or imaginary "time in lieu" everyone knew they would never actually get). I had staff leave to go work for McDonalds because they paid more and I don't blame them. The price gouging isn't even just at the end of the chain it's the whole way through, even within the same company.

fuckin more Yilmaz/Davez Dinerz. were in a cultural drought.

@tHeFloW

3 ай бұрын

While you're at it, more Ja Rule's Friday Spooktacular

Just wait for the $6 cupcakes at Coles to be marked down 50% then you can pretend that life is still affordable.

Lack of competition in Australia in so many sectors allows the major players to indulge in 'cartel like' behaviour. I would bet grocery prices would have increased much more slowly if there were 10 major supermarket chains. Same with banks, same with petrol etc. Taxation and business rules that give unfair advantages to big business also stifle competition.

@theairstig9164

3 ай бұрын

How much money do you think the supermarkets and Wesfarmers donate to political parties to make sure they stay a monopoly?

@user-ts2js1ji2f

3 ай бұрын

If there were 10 major chains the baseline prices would have been even higher as supply chain cost controls would be less effective. The food manufacturers instead would have higher margins and overheads would eat even more of the sales price. There is a reason why the smaller retailers are more expensive than supermarkets. Shifting bargining power in the supply chain won't lower consumer prices.

If you feel like it's expensive to shop in Australia...be a Kiwi. They treat you guys amazingly.

was not expecting a contrapoints and philosophy tube reference here, and a destiny and vaush reference??? i am so terminally online, oh god

@themanonthepan

3 ай бұрын

and a dig at her too like omg... i mean he's right, toob aped contrapoints thing right down to the transition but still. off guard!

@vanillaboy4514

3 ай бұрын

He’s trying to move onto the scene. His next videos are going to be a 2 hour long video essay on the leftist politics of Bananas in Pyjamas and livestream clip discussing the fashion taste of Australian politicians.

@pegendary

3 ай бұрын

yeah did a triple take having those worlds collide

@lawrence4301

3 ай бұрын

wheres the destiny reference?

@monkeydetonation

3 ай бұрын

My guess is analytics told him he has big audience overlap with them

My personal motto is that whoever decides to put those “low price” stickers on items that are more expensive than ever, should face the punishment of having to eat every single low price sticker in the store

@spiritlevelstudios

3 ай бұрын

Low price for members only is the latest scam. And of course it's the normal price, the higher price is new, and for all the non-members.

Great to see you back, great video. Realistically nothing will come of the Inquiry into Price Gouging & Unfair Pricing Practices. So people need to get wise & buy just the staples e.g. flour, eggs, milk, fresh veg & meat & get back to basics again. Example, I make my own bread for half the price, compared to a good quality bread in supermarket. Same goes for everything that's cooked from scratch. Don't buy prepackaged fresh veg or fruit, most of the time it's dearer per kilo. Make biscuits & cakes from scratch.

Banger video on such a depressing topic. Keep it up!

Goddamn that BPD bit is nefarious 😂😅

@foenfriends

3 ай бұрын

Was heartless and not funny.

Jordan putting this up will make things change. Great video, great research and journalism Jordie like ALWAYS

Love the choice of background music. Makes the video nice and welcoming

Us Australians are benifiting from the price gouging as we feel 100% justified in stealing from them.

@squishy1706

3 ай бұрын

Legally, i do not do this.

@HiImAiden

3 ай бұрын

real

@sorcey6957

3 ай бұрын

Yeah i love those five finger discounts they do

@karizma8175

3 ай бұрын

False bottom bags, they make the rocking world go round. Sing it with me.

@discipleofdagon8195

3 ай бұрын

​@@squishy1706 fun fact: employees are trained not to physically obstruct or stop you in any meaningful way from shoplifting.

Most of this "inflationary pressure" upon Australian's seems to be price gouging from many companies and corporations. Not an iota of these price increases never make sense. Commodity prices from the agricultural sector have been stable, if not decreased in prices. Petrol and oil prices haven't increased that significantly. In fact during Covid, oil products decreased in prices, yet prices increased again. Employee wages have not increased significantly, which would result in an increase in overall prices so that they can not be used as an excuse. If anything, investors are receiving an increase in share prices. So the pressure upon customers and the increase in overall prices is to put more money into shareholders' pockets.

omg the philosophy tube identity theft drama is so fucking hilarious thanks for reminding me LMAO

@Steph.98114

3 ай бұрын

Genuinely don't get what he means by that, Abigail Thorn was doing philosophy tube way before she transitioned.

@kylegonewild

3 ай бұрын

@@Steph.98114 The aesthetic and style, not really the content itself. PT was still performative and all that but after the transition things certainly became reminiscent of a style that has spread quite a bit. I don't particularly care either way. "Melodramatic nerd who likes dressing up and being risqué" just describes like half the theater club when I was in high school and the concept of essays and video presentations are in no way unique. If anything they're all Ray William Johnson clones obviously.

This is happening in Canada, too. But we don't have a Friendly Jordies of Canada.

that BPD joke was brutal. lol.

if you're day itn't filled with punching grocery store workers, are you even australian?

@iantophernicus6042

3 ай бұрын

Pretty please, don't do that. We already cop enough from the people in our own departments.

not only Coles & Woolies. My car insurance (2021 Hyundai I30) has increased by $275 / annum. No claims or demerit points in over 20 years !

@missjodarling

3 ай бұрын

Mine increased by $800. Same boat no claims or anything in 20 years. Robbery.

@wilson2455

3 ай бұрын

@@missjodarling forgot to mention that my health insurance (hospital only) has increased by 12% every year for the last 7 years. Count myself so lucky that I'm not in the rental market. People offering property agents $10K to $15K (cash) to get info on upcoming rental apartments/houses.. C.O.L. is absurd.

@user-ts2js1ji2f

3 ай бұрын

There is a lot of overcharging in insurance but the primary cause of this is reinsurance. All the insurance companies insure their insurance risk pools with other insurers overseas. The cost of doing so has increased exponentially since the multiple fires and floods over the last few years so insurance is just more expensive to provide because the entire country is considered high risk.

That picture of a house looks exactly like a street in Lithgow I used to live on

example: discount local shop selling twirl bites for $4 a packet. Woolworths sells them for almost $7.

@rtificial8292

3 ай бұрын

Bro twirl prices went crazy. Once every two weeks i get them. saw it gradually go from $4 to $8. Absolute robbery. Never get them anymore, won't buy them at $8, everyone pinches them at half price

Thank you Jordan, I have BPD and now I am in the pysch ward, i slashed the tires of my car, and I ate Burger King until I was sick. Seriously though, as someone who does suffer from it. It's hell daily and that joke was quite good. 10/10 it was eeriely perfect.

@kiwikemist

3 ай бұрын

Prove to me BPD isn't just spicy narcissism

@pamdabeep

3 ай бұрын

@@kiwikemist gee i dont know, the hundreds of studies thoroughly laying out criteria for what it is and how it's nothing like narcissism come to mind.

@guffmam6995

3 ай бұрын

Where did you get Burger King?

@SalmonLord14

3 ай бұрын

@@kiwikemist In my experience, at least, untreated BPD presents as intense clinginess and fear of abandonment, with massive emotional shifts usually triggered by perceived (or, sometimes, real) abandonment. Narcissism, on the other hand, is not clingy at all. Narcissists do not need you or want to need you at all, and if they ever feel like they do need you - if they sense, somewhere deep down, that they are actually attached to you - they will brutally repress it, because it makes them feel weak. The BPD person has an inner emptiness that they are desperate to fill; the narcissist has a void inside them that must always be fed. They can sound similar, but they are very different.

@TheRealMycanthrope

3 ай бұрын

​@@SalmonLord14well said, 9.8/10

That bass slapper at 3:08 had me going for a minute hahahha

Finding this channel a few months back is the best thing that's happened to me in some time.

Next time on the Jordies Show: The Elon vs AusGov war on terrorism

Land and builders. Built a home 3 years ago in perth that was 145k base price. Same build design now is 295k

your level of presentation has leveled up! hahah fantastic content, hadn't watched for a while. well done sir

I have been working in the transport / logistics and warehousing / distribution ( 3PL ) sector for almost 25 years and from my experiences there has been supply chain issues in regards to companies competing with one and other in Australia, These global companies undercut each other to gain contract deals fighting against their competitors via reducing the cost of providing a service, this has created instability with companies switching 3PL providers every 3 - 7 years. They create a new EBA and ultimately force them onto a lower paid salary, in many cases there will be 3 EBA in the same building all getting paid different wages to do the same job. This crates more strikes on multiple occasions considering some agreements are only for 1 year, it is only getting worse.

@Kustom2170

3 ай бұрын

My salary is the same as it was in 2016 due to big corp controlling wages because the government are to scared raise the minimum wage, they rely on Unions and the people to fight back and strike. Its been a losing battle for a long time but i don't know how or when this can be fixed.

@Kustom2170

3 ай бұрын

In many cases they take entitlements out of the EBA which over time discourages the employees to work effectively ultimately reducing productivity causing delays, this is extremely common within this sector and has been an ultimatum for big corp to fairly pay their staff. But obviously things wont change any time soon due to incompetence from management indulging in bonuses which they receive when they meet their targets 😏

Well the reason your patrons asked you to cover this Jordan is because you video is more palatable to watch than most news stations. Also we can't be bothered to read the articles which actually have the full information about the situation so the patrons are getting you to read it for them and then explain what any of it means

Ah no! Right in my rejection sensitivity and splitting LMAO that BPD joke was mint.

@garbanzolover4604

Күн бұрын

what is splitting? I know what rejection sensitivity is coz I have it diagnosed

You joke about defecating in the produce section Jordies, but as a former Woolies produce team member I have discovered multiple used and completely shit covered baby wipes in the Iceberg Lettuce section. Gotta love the Shire.

I got an ad for "Cheer" cheese while waiting for this video to load. So post-2020.

i am so glad i found this channel. this leukemia paitent is funny af ;)

BUDDY that BPD joke hit TOO FAR to home holy shit lmfao

The price increase passed to Colesworth by the supplier is effected by all the cost increases for the supplier (their suppliers, energy, wages, rents etc), so when Colesworth up their prices because their suppliers are upping their prices, it would naturally increase by more than just the cost they've got to bear from the supplier. Not saying they're not gouging, but the analysis needs to be a wee bit deeper otherwise it's just useless, IMO.

@user-ts2js1ji2f

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, the way every angry report on this just ignores all the overheads is amazing. Also I have yet to see a comparison of the EBIDTA of our supermarket chains to comparable overseas markets rather than much larger markets that are closer to massively subsidied global food supplies. UK, France, Germany, USA are exponentially larger and closer to global centres of agriculture.

@retsaMinnavoiG

3 ай бұрын

That... doesn't make any sense. You just said: Supplier passes on their production cost increases to the supermarket Supermarket has to increase the price BY MORE THAN THE SUPPLIER DID That's only true if you're talking about them maintaining their 'return on equity' which they have actually increased. Considering the tax payers that are now facing cost of living pain recently gave them gigantic amounts of monetary support during COVID it feels wrong for them to increase profits.

@LoudestHoward

3 ай бұрын

@@retsaMinnavoiG Because Colesworth has other cost increases besides their goods from their suppliers, so in an inflationary environment you would expect them to have to increase their prices beyond the increase from their suppliers.

As a British viewer I'm just astonished that Woolworths is still open in Australia, the last Woolworths in the UK closed when I was a kid, it was a whole thing and I was very sad because I used to get my pokémon cards there

@WhatEthan

3 ай бұрын

AND WOOLWORTHS IS GREEN???? IT WAS RED FOR US

@laurencefraser

3 ай бұрын

It's a thing in New Zealand, too... though until recently the NZ ones were called 'Countdown'. ... in mroe recent times the logo has been a "CD" that looks a lot like an apple... that is suspiciously W shaped. When I was a kid it used to just be their name with the "count" part in one colour and the "down" part in another. (their slogan is/was 'you can count on us to keep prices down' ... ... ... it's been rather questionable for quite some time, mind you.)

Not sure how Philosophy Tube "ripped off" Contrapoints when Abby has been doing video essays just as long and has been doing philosophy vids even long. Can't wait for someone to tell me "he's just joking mate." Whats the joke? That he's wrong? Is friendlyjordies the joke?

holy crap the PT-Contrapoints situation just completely mentally flashbanged me I didn't expect it at all

Alice Sprkngs had a lettuce farm. Ran for decades. Supplied the locals Coles and Woolworths. Gave up a few years ago when it cost them $50k a year just to put their product on the shelves.

Coles brand products are still basically the same price. A little increase to adjust for inflation. The phukery seems to be from the suppliers. A can of mortein is $15 while the coles brand bug spray is $3.95. Up from $3.25.

That Woolies CEO made their job easy.

There's no way I get a PT, Contra, Vaush and Destiny reference in one video

The sad thing is i am so close to having to steal just to feed my son and partner......because of the price of rent, food, daycare, fuel and everything else that has gone up in price (we both work but are really struggling)

I'm old enough to remember when Australia had many supermarket options. This was pre 90s

Couldn’t this be considered cartel behaviour?

I think what viewers wanted was to see Nick McKim vs Brad Banducci, especially when Banducci reveals he got paid 8 point something milion dollars last year.

As someone with experience with mental health issues I completely cracked up laughing when Jordan has a go at people with BPD and exaggerates the outlook of someone with BPD, very cathartic laughter I had there, lol thanks Friendly Jordies for the laughter and good vibes, keep the gold coming!

as someone with BPD that joke made my evening. Cheers mate

Canada has a bread price fixing scandal not long ago, so it's the Aussies turn now

@user-ts2js1ji2f

3 ай бұрын

We had one in the 90's with supermarkets dumping bread at below cost on the market to drive bakeries out of competition so there basically a floor price on bread.

Let’s gooo friendlyjordies video just dropped!

So many times I've seen a sale item, looked underneath, and saw the same price. Generally Office Works, and JB Hi Fi for that one little trick...

BWS employee here: spirits have all gone up across the board around $10, some as much as +$20. RTDs are not worth touching, and beers are pretty rediculous these days.

24% increase in the price of bread! Holy moly! Bread in Hungary tripled in price in the past few years. :D

@retsaMinnavoiG

3 ай бұрын

Which is still cheaper than Australian bread despite the price increase and Hungary grows about 20% of the wheat Australia does. I know you were just kidding around but I'm a douche.

@MaxwellTornado

3 ай бұрын

@@retsaMinnavoiG How do you grow that much wheat with largely not that many more people? Also, bread here is already like 2€ a kilo, I can't imagine it being even worse.

NEVER even considered putting "Jordies throws shade at Abigail from PhilosophyTube via a Contrapoints burn" on my bingo card....

jordies seemed even more unhinged than usual in this one. I like it