Good old Rite Price.
To think I know people who throw out unopened food that's past its use-by date. Fair enough, perhaps, in the case of oysters, but noodles? Potato chips, soft drinks, tinned fish etc etc?
This place is an Aladdin's Cave for the astute, and game, shopper. A kilo of premium brand margarine for $2. More Easter eggs than you can poke a stick at, straight after Easter, el cheapo! How about a 5kg tin of Russian beet root, or 500g of wet green peppercorns?
Toothpaste and shampoo are cheap too - and they have top brands.
Before you think I might work there, there are a few cautions. When I proudly turned up at a BBQ with my beautiful, dark red, yellow-marbled bulk lump of beef, a butcher in attendance told me that what I had bought was probably the mortal remains of a worn out milk cow, and lectured me on bright red flesh and white marbling. In other words, avoid Rite Prices's cheap 'scotch fillet'.
I've never been sure about Rite Price's eggs, either.
So it's buyer beware, but in my experience most of the products are good-o.
There's another class of products there too, in addition to the use-by stuff. These items could be called 'What was Marketing thinking of??'.
Why didn't people go for lemon-flavoured diet Coke? Or peanut-flavoured potato chips, or Jamie Oliver's grind your own spice curry kits? You can find out by buying them, and other orphans and failures from the innovative world of grocery marketing.
But whatever you do, if you're half-smart you can struggle out of Rite Price with your own bodyweight in groceries for a fraction of the price you'd pay at the big guys.
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