Nobby’s Loaded Snack Mix Nacho Cheese flavour tastes like arse.
But that would depend on whether you have tasted both. 
OK, I can understand flavouring the pork crackle and the crispy rice snacks. But the noodle crisps? the crunchy nuggets? The peanuts and pretzels? Bad move.
I’ve tried this now and agree. I would have liked it, if it was just licorice chunks in chocolate but the licorice crisps just made it horrible.
On the other hand, the peanut brittle in chocolate is a good blend.
The rocky road one is awesome compared to the crappy Dairy Milk one.
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The Fantales Hot Chocolate mix has been on-sale for a while now? Not so sure about the Golden Rough one though.
Either way, I wonder if the fact Woolies is selling them for half price says something about how good (or otherwise) they are?
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I generally don’t look beyond the ground coffee in that section so I hadn’t seen them before. That they are predominantly sugar means that can’t be real good for you!
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I find these drink mixes universally gross, they barely have any chocolate in them and they’re always disgustingly sweet.
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Golden Rough is relatively new.
I don’t think the half price offer is a comment on quality - more so on the stupidly high RRP
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Tried the Jaffa hot chocolate mix last winter. Found the box in the back of the cupboard the other day and had to toss it. I’d only had one or two. Too sickly sweet for me.
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Yes, Jaffa and Fantales launchrd last year and Golden Rough is a new addition.
These half price specials are just so ridiculous. Supermarkets have them so often and on so many products. You’d think they’re still making a decent profit when they’re on special which means they are really price gouging us, at full price.
It’s a rort. Why not have the items at 75% of the price every week and then just have the special price less often?
I often buy things in bulk when they are on special and don’t buy them at full price. But most people probably wouldn’t bother.
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Both majors have said they want to move to consistently lower prices rather than relying on frequent big specials, so it will be interesting to see if that does happen.
$7? for a handful of little powdered drinking chocolate is a huge ripoff.
Yep, same. If you have the room to store things and will use them before they go out of date then it’s the way to go.
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I don’t think I’ve ever bought toilet/kitchen paper at full price, easy to stock up and pretty much always half price ish once a month.
Same thing used to happen with the deodorant I buy - but in that case they eventually dropped the standard selling price from $7 to $5 - now it still occasionally goes on special to $3.50, but now I’ll buy it at full price instead of waiting for those specials.
If more products took that approach they’d make more money from me.
On a weekly special, they’ll be making the same profit margin, it’s the supplier who lowers the wholesale price in most instances.
Except when it’s a “really good special” ie front of catalogue special. Then it’s most likely a loss leader to draw customers in.
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I don’t see how they could be constantly making a loss when it involves so many products and it happens so often.
Take the example of chocolate bars. One week they’ll have Cadburys at half price $1 and the next week it will be Nestle/Mars at $1. It switches every week and there is rarely a week where nothing is on special. Sometimes they only go as low as $1.50 but then a few weeks ago they had them at 85c and boasted “better than half price”.
I can’t see how they can afford to keep doing it if every second week is a loss, but every week is a loss for the supermarket.
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It’s not difficult to track the 1/2 price specials between the duopoly, if you’re smart with it you can save significant money.
It’s a pain in the ass (in the same exact way as fuel price cycles are in the 5 city metro) but you may as well make the most of it.
This is a super high stakes move. It worked for K-Mart here in Australia, but it almost sent other retailers out of business overseas (Famous example is JCPenney in the US). It’s a slightly different story for supermarkets but I have no doubt if the specials were dropped overnight and an everyday low price format introduced across the board, that it wouldn’t work out.
Yep, except when you get caught out like I was recently, I found myself without any Arnotts Shapes at home, and discovered that neither of the majors had them on sale that week - quite possibly the first such instance since records began.
Now, I don’t like to use the term ‘in cahoots’, but…
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