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04 Feb 2012
I’ve been coming to this Woolworths for around 15yrs, before there was even a shopping centre there, and only a post office, and a few other shops. In the time I’ve been using this Woolies the store has been good and bad, up and down, I guess depending on who manages the store. The last year and a bit (October 2021-December 2022), I think it’s been the worst from all those years gone by. The quality of the fruit and veg looks nice on the outside but I’ve been bitten so many times by nasty tasting mangoes, avocados that are almost always blackish brown inside unless you buy them hard and nurse them yourself. The onions the last 3+ months have been rotting on the inside half the time and I only buy what we need each week. The vine grown tomatoes are the only thing I buy from here anymore. I’ve started to shop fruit at Aldi and IGA and both have good fruit and veg with no surprises inside.
The bread and bakery I thought were good, turns out that Woolworths only cooks them from frozen dough! Still Woolworths does have nice tasting bread rolls, so I come for those at least.
The fresh meat section was a good touch and I was happy paying $80 a kilo for ribeye when it tasted good (I was buying probably $200+ a week, as well as eye fillet, but even that changed fairly quickly and the meat started tasting non nice and like liver. (does the butcher not taste what he is buying)? with large amounts of gristle running through the cuts, and very fatty edges so you were paying premium dollars to get one third thrown away. I’ve shied away now, and again buy from Aldi and IGA, (they have locally sourced meat and the taste is what it should be).
Not sure why they are so short of items on the shelves half the time but I need to stock up again at Aldi and IGA. I shop here mostly on a Monday morning but come in at other times as well. You would think Monday “new week “ every thing is ready to go, but it isn’t.
I haven’t seen my favourite Mentos Rainbow flavour in this store for at least 4 months, so there isn’t any to buy when they supposedly have a sale for a dollar a packet, so I have resorted to buying online. There’s no shortage, and they advertise them there. More money lost for them.
Toilet paper, looks like the section has been pillaged and raped most of the time. Even the brands have diminished.
It’s got to the point that my weekly shopping from woollies is tiny and the rest of it is spread over Aldi and IGA nowadays. This used to be about 500+ a week to Woolies, and now it can be as little as under a hundred dollars.
I’m not sure whether it is because our area has started to expand quite rapidly and I can tell that by the car park alone, but it still doesn’t explain why these issues exist. There is a new lot of shops and another large supermarket coming soon only a minute drive from this Woolies, so they best start pulling there trousers up or lose even more business.
Approximate cost:
$500
