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    Is IGA becoming like Woolies/Coles?!

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    1. Yetanotherdeafguy on

      I worked retail – many broken Easter eggs were poked through or otherwise sampled by customers.

      This is a hygiene issue if those eggs are a part of this.

    4. donkeyvoteadick on

      Fwiw I worked at an IGA when I was 14 and I’m in my 30s now and we used to repackage like chocolate covered almonds and shit when their packaging was damaged and sell them like this lol

      So for some IGAs it’s not new. But they’re all independently owned so they vary a fair bit depending on who owns them.

    5. Miffy_alt on

      IGA is a beast unto itself.

      Some are the worst shops you ever visit (Glebe IGA, Leichhardt IGA). Some are equivalent to Coles and Woolies (Lilyfield IGA, Lloyd’s Newtown, Tramsheds Supamart). Some are great local shops of quite fancy (Lamonica Haberfield, Locali, Romeo’s Food Hall).

      At the end of the day it’s just a buyers group that supplies stock, the individual owners run the place.

    6. calstanfordboye on

      Our lovely country is truly going to shits. This should never be on sale. Let alone at shit prices like this

    8. Cahsrhilsey on

      My local iga is still trying to shill $7 off brand advent calendars from Christmas lol

    10. GaySyd on

      Also if they are broken they probably pierced through the foil in/store. Grocery stores are FILTHY. I’ve worked in them and you should see all the gross shit we find on shelves daily, the pests like rats and pigeons we are constantly struggling to keep at bay, the filthy state of the storerooms, etc.

    11. HalfManHalfCyborg on

      When I worked at Kmart in the 90’s, any broken Easter Eggs were placed in a big tub at the service desk. Before we went home on our last shift before Easter, we’d line up and get 1kg of broken bits each, for free.

    13. SteveJohnson2010 on

      😂 An Easter egg is a thing of a specific shape. A broken Easter egg is just a piece of chocolate, or rather several pieces of chocolate, and if they can’t be sold as exactly that, at a very low price to match, then WTF?

    14. AlternativeBoot6706 on

      There is DNA of other peoples fingerprints all over that half eaten chocolate

    17. ztf7410 on

      I like the fact they are being a bit different, doing this, saving on wastage but come on $6 bucks for a broken egg that’s had someone’s hands all over it is insane

    18. SeaworthinessOk9070 on

      I like they aren’t throwing it away, but should be $1 a tub. I think a whole egg at $6 is already overpriced!

    20. SparkleK_01 on

      I went into IGA to look for an alternative to Woolies and Coles and walked right back out after looking at the shelves and prices.