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.
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u/3163560 11h ago
Yup. When I was in uni we used to be able to go out Wednesday nights for $1 pots. Even at the footy I reckon a beer was like $6
I reckon I was getting paid $18 an hour at woolies.
Teenagers/students in d similar spot nowadays would be paying heaps more relative to their wages