Not happy Coles/Woolies
Trying to shop yesterday for groceries for myself and daughter I actually walked out in disgust from Coles where I could not find my favourite items and went to Woolies, same there. So I enquired of the assistants what had happened to them and was told they had been deleted and replace with home brand. I knew space for brand names was being downsized but now they are disappearing altogether.
Also trying to buy milk other than the $1 stuff, there was a piddly section and the date was only about 2 days away.
It has been said for a while that shoppers should be aware that this could happen but now it quite blatent and I strongly resent being bullied into what I should buy.
I do shop Aldi where they have never pretended they favour their own brands, but even though we have the 3 supermarkets in our country town they have squeezed out the smaller shops already, so we have little choice.
sheila:
Boy, do I agree with your comments! they are the biggest bullies on this planet.
I have a FlyBuys card. Do you know that in order to get it I had to tell them:
My full name, address, date of birth and phone No? I complaint about this and I told them why a supermarket (o glorified shop) has to have all that information and for them to erase it from their books: quite politelly they told me (in a nutshell): their way or the highway! Now, I had to phone them the other day and just like a bank they asked me for all of these personal details before they could talk to me!
WWhat is going on!