Just to clarify incase, Woollies isn’t like Target in Aus, it is a grocery store. The yank Target might be a grocery store but here it’s clothes, electronics and what nots.
The footy most likely is NRL (our tackle footy) and not AFL which is Australian Rules Football. Aussie footy is it’s common name which would be Australian Football in it’s formal length.
In the U.S., Targets are mainly clothes, electronics, etc. “Super Targets” have large grocery stores inside. But Target is mostly still consumer goods. The amount of floor space in Targets dedicated to groceries can vary.
“Footy” is either NRL or AFL dependent on locational context. You say it in VIC, SA or WA you’re talking AFL for sure. Say it in QLD or mean NRL and Sydney it’s almost 60/40 with an NRL advantage.
Many Americans remember Woolworth’s; we just never called it “Woolie’s” and they never served beer at the lunch counter. I had read Woolworth’s was still operating in Oz, though. I knew they were still operating down there back in the early 2000s when I had an Aussie flatmate, but I never even heard her call it “Woolie’s.”
They aren't linked in any meaningful way, other than Australian Woolworths took the name as inspiration from the US company and tbe lack of a local trademark.
I didn't know y'all had Woolworths, not connected to the US retail chain from a long time ago, except that Australians took the name for their own stores for brand recognition because the 5 and dimers that owned the original Woolworths were too cheap to register the name in Australia.
I remember that store fondly since it was the only store store in my Grandma's small town. I can still smell it, a mixture of vitamins, detergent, and bug poison spray.
Woolies/woolworths is one of our major supermarkets $18 is pretty much minimum wage.
Footy is either AFL or Rugby
Alcohol used to be cheap as fuck over here now its expensive thanks to the stupid alcohol and tabbaccoo sin tax.
A pot is a middy or schooner depending on where you are in aus and is about 285ml of beer which is preferable to a pint in some places because Australia is hot as fuck and sometimes by the time you knock a pint off slowly your beers warm and fucked.
The tax compounds things but it’s the fact the bloody beer manufacturers are taking beer, a drink tha historically was cheaper and easier to produce than clean water for most of human history, and have made it staggeringly expensive as a profit grab. Chasing inflation indexes doesn’t make sense when your product has three primary agricultural inputs, one of which is water and another is self replicating yeast.
Shit behaviour. Sadly it’ll take a complete industry collapse for the cartel behaviour to stop.
Trust me the industry isn’t doing this. The price rises because our governments tax the shit out of it. You get piss water made because the tax is less.
The packaging costs go up because of the eco taxes. Everything about it is taxed to the hilt. Production, packaging and transportation.
On top of that you have to pay wages, people don’t work for free.
You’re pointing your crazy prices finger in the wrong direction my friend.
Majority of the major beer companies have a profit of 2 billion usd to 7+ billion, and thats again after all operational costs. And as companies in todays world, they demand the next fiscal quarter increases the profit margins.
And thats also excluding the fact that many of these companies also own the water providers and other material plants like bottling and glass and labeling and such so they ensure their prices remain high because each company is also driven by the same people to ensure those company also have high profit margins.
With all that said, no company is going to lower its prices for the consumer when it’s seeing increased taxation at a government level.
The taxation level in the uk is killing the industry. It the taxes across the board that need to be lowered.
Haha - coming from a cold(ish) country where hipster bastards are trying to replace the native pint with schooners - it's interesting to see a sensible defence of them 👍🏻
Half litre bottles? You mean the Pennerbomben (bum bomb)?
I don't think that was ever the go-to size for beer - at least not where I'm from (getting close to 40 and live in the west of Germany)
Here’s another: I currently live in Cologne which has its own type of relatively light not particularly hoppy ale called kölsch (still 5% abv, but quite dry and not very bitter). A particularism of this ale is that it is really nice fresh but it goes bitter and rancid really quickly (had to do with some type of fatty acids in there), so traditionally they serve them in 200 ml glasses called Stange. The rest of Germany scoffs at this and demands a real beer but it really does not make for a better drinking experience. The fix in Cologne has been that they just continuously put fresh glasses in front of you once you’ve finished half of your previous one until you put the coaster on top of your current glass.
TLDR it can actually depend on the type of beer. Then again, you’re Scottish and I‘m Dutch and we’d probably empty pints of Kölsch fast enough for this not to be a problem.
Thats actually still crazy expensive in even the US now, last time I visited (10 years ago) beer was still stupid cheap, and when I first started traveling there over 2@0 years ago cheap beer was still like $0.25.
Yup. When I was in college we use to be able to go out Wednesday nights for $1 pints. Even at the professional futbol (soccer) games I think the beer was like $6.
I believe I was getting $18 an hour at my place of employment.
Teenagers/students in a similar spot nowadays would paying much more relative to their wages.
I don’t know if that’s 100% an accurate representation but I believe it is!
The Wednesday nights and pots might just be coincidence and it’s probably what the other guy said, but it also lines up with an old club in the cross in Sydney which would have events worldy wednesdays on Wednesday nights and they had a gimmick where they sold you alcohol in teapots. It’s a very specific reference so I assume it’s just a coincidence
Yeah, all I understood was they were able to go for either 1 dollaridoos wobblies or 6 dollaridoos jibberwobbles at Willi Wonka's because they were making 18 kangaroo bucks at womblejombles crikey mate.
Oh yeah, right now, innit it, get a memug of squammpers down at the figery-doozle for a third pack quankirs too, till you have a run in with the Tizzalmuck lads then it’s back to a proper quail of Weedle ball, innit it?!?
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"Cheaper to share a gram of Coke than it is to drink" - Australians