Overpricing…

[bleedToWin]

5 minutes ago, M L said:

So how do you avoid shrinkage?

Asking for a friend.

[Jewbacca]

5 minutes ago, M L said:

So how do you avoid shrinkage?

Asking for a friend.

Lower saline?

So don't spill your contact cleaner on your crotch

[esCape-ist]

9 minutes ago, M L said:

So how do you avoid shrinkage?

Asking for a friend.

I guess your trying to be funny here, but it's pretty simple. Chicken is injected with Saline solution at the packaging plant. The saline solution cooks out and evaporates when you cook the chicken, and the chicken shrinks.
 

Your paying a per/kg price, so the more saline, the more your being ripped off.

Edited August 11, 2022 by esCape-ist

[throttles]

I die a little everytime I see a woolies bag in my kitchen.. 🥹

[BigDL]

This debate about same factory, same quality, is one that has always frustrated me. I spent some years in the UK and Ireland setting up recycling strategies and programs for various manufacturers and, as a result, spent days at time on factory floors, following the production processes from beginning to end. Without exception, in food facilities, the no name discount brand and the Marks & Spencer stuff, followed very different processes and had different ingredients. 

I also spent some years buying fitness equipment at scale for health club chains in the UK and in South Africa, where balancing price, quality and longevity is critical. I visited lots of factories in China where big brand names were produced in the same factory as lesser known or budget brands. There was a massive difference, in most cases, in everything from quality of materials through to quality control. Thus, when I'm in a shop and the salesman says to me "Brand X comes out of the same factory as Brand Y, but you are paying for the name", I am dubious 

[dave303e]

32 minutes ago, throttles said:

I die a little everytime I see a woolies bag in my kitchen.. 🥹

Those R6,49 shopping bags are worth crying over when you have forgotten reusable ones...

1 minute ago, BigDL said:

This debate about same factory, same quality, is one that has always frustrated me. I spent some years in the UK and Ireland setting up recycling strategies and programs for various manufacturers and, as a result, spent days at time on factory floors, following the production processes from beginning to end. Without exception, in food facilities, the no name discount brand and the Marks & Spencer stuff, followed very different processes and had different ingredients. 

I also spent some years buying fitness equipment at scale for health club chains in the UK and in South Africa, where balancing price, quality and longevity is critical. I visited lots of factories in China where big brand names were produced in the same factory as lesser known or budget brands. There was a massive difference, in most cases, in everything from quality of materials through to quality control. Thus, when I'm in a shop and the salesman says to me "Brand X comes out of the same factory as Brand Y, but you are paying for the name", I am dubious 

There is one place where the whole made in the same factory is true- KTM, Husqvarna and Gas Gas mx and off road motorcycles, but there is no real price difference anyway

[Steady Spin]

47 minutes ago, M L said:

So how do you avoid shrinkage?

Asking for a friend.

Shop at Checkers. Woolworths stores are cold.

[PhilipV]

23 minutes ago, dave303e said:

Those R6,49 shopping bags are worth crying over when you have forgotten reusable ones...

 

Cringe worthy stuff. Saving the fish comes at a price. But it works. Ive only coughed up for it once. 

We now have a bread crate in my wife's car. If we forget bags,the shopped items go back into the trolley, and is packed into the crate back at the car. 

 

 

[BigDL]

39 minutes ago, PhilipV said:

Cringe worthy stuff. Saving the fish comes at a price. But it works. Ive only coughed up for it once. 

We now have a bread crate in my wife's car. If we forget bags,the shopped items go back into the trolley, and is packed into the crate back at the car. 

 

 

Similar - I'll pack the boot full of loose items rather than keep buying bags. They're awful things 

[MORNE]

thats how they keep staying profitable....those bags are their new cashcow. I own atleast 247987 of them....

Ive considered setting up a stall outside of WW and selling their bags at R3 a pop to people like me who always forgets haha. They are handy though. We use them for all sorts of stuff like transporting the days toddler activities to and fro. and since I'm a WW bag 'whale' I can be a good samaritan and give some to other forgetful people in the lines and do a good deed so i can swear more at home...

[MORNE]

2 hours ago, throttles said:

I die a little everytime I see a woolies bag in my kitchen.. 🥹

ok but seriously...has anyone else noticed that tomatoes...like any tomatoes, are an endangered species these days? Like Marmite (RIP) You are lucky if you find cherrie ones. all you find are semi crappy looking hlf green Wimpy tomotoes. i dont like Wimpy tomotoes except for braaibroodjies☺️

[WIPEOUT 1000]

4 hours ago, esCape-ist said:

Case in point:

For around R75k you can get either an Allu SC Tallboy or a Carbon Epic Evo.

With the SC you get a 16kg bike, with a spindly RS Recon fork, and a SRAM SX/NX Combo drivetrain.

 

On the specialised, you get a 13kg bike, with an SLX drivetrain and a Reba fork. 

Neither of these bikes are cheap, but compared with the rest of the market, which is overpriced?

I'm not sure I get your point, for me at R75k, both are overpriced.

[Steady Spin]

23 minutes ago, BigDL said:

Similar - I'll pack the boot full of loose items rather than keep buying bags. They're awful things 

If I can carry it to the till, I can carry it to the car. 

[dave303e]

6 minutes ago, MORNE said:

thats how they keep staying profitable....those bags are their new cashcow. I own atleast 247987 of them....

Ive considered setting up a stall outside of WW and selling their bags at R3 a pop to people like me who always forgets haha. They are handy though. We use them for all sorts of stuff like transporting the days toddler activities to and fro. and since I'm a WW bag 'whale' I can be a good samaritan and give some to other forgetful people in the lines and do a good deed so i can swear more at home...

I have seen children sent to the the store next door to buy plastic bags for 50c while the parents shop at ww. The Ladies at the pharmacy tills laughed at how often it happens.

[ChrisF]

1 hour ago, BigDL said:

Without exception, in food facilities, the no name discount brand and the Marks & Spencer stuff, followed very different processes and had different ingredients. 

 

THIS IS AFRICA .... 

 

Our factories have a SINGLE production line.

 

Only TWO differences:

- final sorting and quality check of items packaged, i.e. the Woolies product looks better, but is essentially the same product

- The actual packaging, in some cases ....  with tinned food the ONLY difference is the label

 

The single biggest difference in SA is that the different factories have slightly different quality controls ... so the similar product from one factory may well taste and last differently to that of a different factory.

 

 

 

 

FRESH PRODUCE is a function of the cold chain ....  Woolies were better 30 years ago.  Most of the big brands have caught up.  With temperature loggers it is now VERY easy and cheap to log the cold chain.

 

 

On the topic of "fresh produce" .... MOST out of season "fresh produce" comes from gas controlled cold rooms where the ripening was "slowed" for a few months ... it may look and taste fresh, but it has left the farm MONTHS ago !!!  NOTHING wrong with it, just an observation that what we "see" is often not the complete picture.

[cadenceblur]

Formulations often differ and the WW requirements are often quite specific.

The specification of final product will also be different.