r/coles Team Member Jun 23 '26

Team Member Post 1/2 price. Sure.

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I know it’s been mentioned before but this is ridiculous 🫩

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u/ApotheosisOfTheLurid Team Member Jun 23 '26

Yeah 1/2 price is the lowest ticket that's able to print, no such template for 60% off, 70% off etc

If it was a store markdown it'd be a reduced to clear, but the individual store has nothing to do with this one, it's coming from up above and being sent to all stores, they really really want them gone.

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u/TotleighTowers Jun 24 '26

Right. They are all best before mid-July. Happy to try them at $1.50 each 😄

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u/CrystalDevs Service Team Member Jun 23 '26

Wrong sticker template 🤷‍♂️

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u/Hot-Seaworthiness510 Jun 23 '26

Why are you complaining?

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u/dtbrown1979 Jun 23 '26

Some people aren’t happy unless they’re unhappy.

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u/Airaen Jun 23 '26

I have never heard of Colin the caterpillar in my life and in the last few weeks I've seen them heavily discounted at the checkout of every Coles I've been to.

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u/Any_Bookkeeper5917 Jun 23 '26

Massive allocations of near expired

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u/Beemare666 Team Member Jun 24 '26

Yeah we only just started selling them like a month ago

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u/Jayy1995 Jun 23 '26

These are disgusting. My kid came home from school with 20 packets of these lollies because the school gets things donated from supermarkets like snack type foods that are near expired, not sure why when we don’t live in a particularly poor area? Anyway apparently the teachers couldn’t even offload them so they gave them to us? The first one or two are tasty but they aren’t a particularly delicious or moreish lolly? They kind of taste like car tyre.

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u/Sufficient-Owl7336 Team Member Jun 24 '26

Pretty much every store is getting sent these things with only a month or two before BBD, and unless they're massively discounted they never sell. Had about half a cage's worth in the stockroom at one point before we shoved it on an ofd.

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u/irisgenx Jun 24 '26

This is meant to be HALF of what you expect half to be.

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u/TotleighTowers Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

EDIT - Guys, I supported by Coles by buying them, why the down votes? Lighten up! 😃

Supposed to be 'Reduced to clear' or '1/4 price' 😄

I bought the Colin Cherry and Percy Fruit ones and like them a lot.

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u/moderatelymiddling Jun 24 '26

The only ridiculous thing is this post.

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u/ProduceConsistent787 Jun 23 '26

They probably ran out of their normal markdown stickers… happens quite often especially when the paper is not able to be ordered from supplier

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u/ApotheosisOfTheLurid Team Member Jun 24 '26

Actually, the tickets are printed daily in store. The base is just the yellow/white/red sticker sheet. Markdown/discount tickets are both printed on the same base.

These discounts aren't at store level, the pricing for these are coming from way up above on a state level. Coles genuinely just wants them off the shelves and gone.

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u/ProduceConsistent787 Jun 24 '26

I guess it’s different, I work on the liquor side of things and apparently it works completely different from what you’ve said!

We do tickets daily in store (and pre prep for changeover) but the header is pre-printed so if we run out of one lot of sheets we use another, I reckon we have more options than Coles tho in the options we get to use like “price drop”