Hungry? There’s Plenty in the Bin.

Rotting, stinking, smelling rat infested bins. Why on earth would we want to talk about them?

Whilst the green revolution attempts to curb producers impacts on the environment by producing all these amazing “green” products (a section which we are reviewing with much excitement), it is our responsibility to purchase a. the right products, and b. the right amount to reduce the amount of literal crap we produce.

Every wondered about that old capsicum you tossed out because it went mouldy? Or that tuna in the can you didn’t get around to finishing?

Now multiply you by the number of people in the street. Multiply that by the number of streets in your block. Now by the number of blocks in your suburb. That by the number of suburbs in your council… You get the picture.

We are throwing out millions of tonnes of food wastage every week – yet do we take any action to reduce it?

Everyone seems very content to reduce the number of times they got into the car when the climate change phenomenon was at it’s peak. Perhaps considering reducing the amount you throw out could also be beneficial.

Surprisingly, there are a number of additional benefits you get from reducing what you throw out. It mainly centres around what you shell out from your pocket to fill your fridge. That’s right – waste less, spend less.

That’s where mealopedia.com plays an important role for the community (and for our landfills). We help consolidate the ingredients you need into a helpful list, to save you money, and the tip a little extra room.

Online Pricing.. Useful?

A new era has dawned.

First the International discounters ALDI, now Australian behemoth Woolworths have elected to show online pricing for in-store products.

How fantastic. Amazing. Simply revolutionary.

All our problems are now solved between this strategy and National pricing policies.

Best of luck shopping equipped with the all the knowledge you’ll now need to ensure you get the best deals.

PERHAPS NOT.

So you can search a database of over 5000+ products and get prices based on “standard” items across all stores (excluding fruit, vegetable and anything with a high margin).

What use is that feature without actually being able to map YOUR shopping list to what YOU need right NOW. In fact, the strategy of providing so many items in such a hard to use format is a great tactic – win media attention but still don’t actually provide a function that benefits the community.

How can this be better?

If you’re going to share your pricing information (which by the way, last time a large Australian Research Organisation checked, was MORE than once per week), why not let others utilise that information and directly benefit customers.

Let people find out how much their shopping list will cost them at each store – what have you got to hide?

Pricing strategies can be sustained for only so long, so surely, given this is not the sole competitive advantage that exists in the Australian Grocery Retail Industry, retailers could embrace being open and honest with the consumer – let us compare and point of purchase.