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Coles is now charging $175/kg for a popular fruit - and one customer is not happy

‘It’s plain robbery at that price.’ - by Amy Sinclair
  • 02 Mar 2020
Coles is now charging $175/kg for a popular fruit - and one customer is not happy

A Coles shopper has voiced his taken to social media to voice his disbelief over the exorbitant price of one popular fruit. 

Posting on the supermarket’s Facebook page, customer Samuel pointed out that Coles are now charging $175 a kilo for pre-packaged red birdseye chillies. Even more alarming, is that the loose variety of the same chillies are only $28 a kilo - which is $148 a kilo less. 

Writes Samuel: ‘Would someone like to try their hardest to justify the price difference and the $175kg for birdseye chilli?’

He adds: ‘It's plain robbery at that price. $147kg for that packaging 😂’

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The ticket on the pre-packed birdseye chillies has them priced at $175 a kilo ....

Image: Facebook
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... While the loose variety are just $28 a kilo.

Image: Facebook

Speaking to New Idea Food, a Coles spokesperson explained that a range of factors went into the enormous ticket price. 

‘There is customer demand for prepacked chillies and the additional labour and packaging requirements means that they come at an additional cost,’ the spokesperson. 

‘We will continue to offer customers a choice between loose and pre packed chillies.’

However when a Coles representative spoke of the various factors - ‘transportation costs, manufacturing changes and stock availability’ - to Samuel, he wasn’t convinced.

‘$148kg for all those "factors" 😂 you're killing me. Nice try 😕’ he said.

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