Continued from here: Supermarkets and Retail (2015-2025) - #12330 by JBar
Welcome back to the Hot Cross Bun saga, where we try to figure why the heck Woolies wants to sell them 3 days after Christmas & 5 months prior to Easter
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Actually, i saw them in Woolies on Boxing Day.
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As @Jack_Laverty said before I so rudely cut him off and locked the thread - clearly they sell well. Supermarkets arenât in the business of selling lines that donât work - and will quickly delete ones that donât.
Plus I kinda think they enjoy the publicity/âcontroversyâ from the inevitable articles every year.
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Yeah. I expect to see them on Boxing Day now so itâs no surprise. I just think itâs a waste if theyâre not selling them and they get thrown out after they get marked down three days later.
Still could be worse, at least they ainât selling carved out pumpkins yet (Hopefully this doesnât get jinxed within a week)
Iâm pretty sure Aldi have them year round at this point - though in my local they relocated them from a smaller section near cookies and cakes to the main bakery section after Xmas. I bought some, because they are tasty.
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Aldi: the place you can buy knockoff brands, a $90 fridge & one of those fluffy wool steering wheel covers
Sometimes Aldi has some diamonds in those pieces of coal.
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Though Woolies sell âfruit bunsâ year round without the cross.
While adding the cross when the time comes to boost sales and the public fall for it.
say what you will about the timing of the hot cross buns, but I now have a craving for chocolate hot cross buns
(yes consumers like me are the reason why they start to do this all early xD )
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The funniest part about this whole argument is that people will most likely winge about it then buy hot cross buns.
I will whinge and not buy hot cross buns for many, many reasons. 
Hot Cross Buns sold from Boxing Day onwards is the new norm
Next, we will be seeing the Back to School Sales in November, mixed in with the Black Friday Sales. Lol.
I have no problem with hot cross buns being sold at this time of year, theyâre delicious and should be sold for longer than the Easter period.
Now if it was eggs on the other handâŚ
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Denmarkâs postal service has ended its letter delivery service after 401 years in operation.
PostNord told the ABC there has been a âmajor declineâ in letter sending in favour of electronic means of communication.
The move makes Denmark the first country in the world to end its letter delivery service.
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The article says: âIn the year 2000, PostNord delivered nearly 1.5 billion letters. Last year, it delivered 110 millionâ.
Yes, thatâs a huge decline in letters, but 110m letters delivered last year is still a big number.
Weâre already heading in that direction in Australia. Mail is delivered in Sydney 2-3 times a week, down from 5 days a week. And stamps have been on the increase in recent times too.
Parcel deliveries (from Australian Post and other couriers) on the other hand - big increases.
Youâd think there would still be a need for some service to exist, even if they reduced them to say a weekly delivery only.
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âOld schoolâ Woolworths store goes viral
âOne of the last Woolies without self serve!â the poster pointed out.
In a statement to news.com.au, Woolworths confirmed that this is, in fact, one of the last stores without self-serve checkout options, with it now being in the vast majority of locations across the country.
âWe have rolled out self-serve checkout options to 98 per cent of our stores,â the spokesperson shared.
Discount chain Cheap as Chips went into voluntary administration on December 30, before it was bought by rival Choice the Discount Store.