Price of popular 製品 at Coles and Woolworths 怒り／怒るs Aussies: 'I won't be buying them'
- Chocolates at supermarkets cost more than ever?
- Cocoa 不足s and 干ばつs 押し進めるd up prices
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失望させるd shoppers have 開始する，打ち上げるd into Coles and Woolworths over the price of their 復活祭 eggs and bunnies a 十分な two months before the holiday, but the supermarket chains 主張する they are not to 非難する.
Lindt Gold Bunnies and Cadbury 酪農場 Milk Eggs are more expensive than ever, with 製造業者s 非難するing a 世界的な cocoa 不足 that has seen the price of the 重要な 成分 more than treble over the past two years.?
失望させるd shoppers have 宣言するd this 復活祭 is 'cancelled' after one social マスコミ 使用者 pointed out that?Lindt bunnies are now a staggering $18 each.
Cadbury's Humpty Dumptys are $9.50, a 350g 酪農場 Milk egg is $20 and even?Coles' own branded 小型の eggs are 小売ing at $9 a packet.
Over at Woolworths,?250g Cadbury 酪農場 Milk bunnies costs $12 and a 440g packet of 酪農場 Milk 小型の eggs has an asking price of $15.
The price has many wondering whether they will 簡単に forego the chocolate 扱う／治療するs this year, when the cost-of-living was already worryingly high.??
'And that's the 割引d price. ColesWorth [Coles and Woolworths] make it really 平易な to not eat junk food these days,' one social マスコミ 使用者 commented.?
'Might be a pretty healthy 復活祭 this year,' another wrote.
The price of chocolate has 攻撃する，衝突する an 史上最高 just before 復活祭 2025
Shoppers have 株d screenshots and ビデオs of the exorbitant price tags on their favourite chocolate?
Other shoppers have been strategically waiting until after 復活祭 to snap them up for a 取引 price.?
'I won't be buying them at that price. Wait until after 復活祭 and buy them when ひどく 割引d,' one person said.?
However that is not an 選択 for parents of small kids, who need the eggs in time for the 伝統的な Sunday 追跡（する）.
A Cadbury spokesperson 非難するd both the?'記録，記録的な／記録する cocoa pricing' and 'other high input costs' for its 'challenging chocolate 生産／産物'.??
'We're working hard to 吸収する costs where possible while reimagining how we can bring joy at 復活祭 time,' they told news.com.au.
'This year, we have spent time reviewing our 大臣の地位 to have a wide 範囲 of Cadbury 復活祭 eggs and bunnies 利用できる in a variety of sizes and RRP so there's something for everyone.
'We encourage Australians to shop around for the best value.'
Bad 天候 and 刈る 病気 in West Africa is 存在 非難するd for the poor cocoa 収穫 and consequent high cost of the 商品／必需品.?
For most of the 2020s, cocoa's 卸売物価 was just over AU$3,000 per トン but those prices rose to AU$19,000 in April of 2024 before returning to AU$10,000 in 2024.
Cocoa 不足s have 軍隊d supermarkets to raise their prices?
A woolworths spokesperson said the supermarket is committed to keeping?'復活祭 chocolate affordable and accessible'
Lindt & Sprungli, who make the iconic easter gold bunnies, also told the 出版（物） the rise in cocoa prices are 軍隊ing them to 増加する their prices.?
A spokesperson said prices rises were '避けられない' after 'the cocoa price has quadrupled in the last two years'.
As a result of this?Coles is selling a packet of Cadbury 酪農場 Milk Eggs for $7 or two for $10 and a?160g Kinder Surprise Bunny carries a price tag of $12.80.
Woolworths recently dropped the price of its 300g 捕らえる、獲得する of Lindt Lindor Assorted 小型の Eggs from $30 to $15 but that was not a 永久の price 減少（する）.?
The two major supermarkets have said they are working closely with 供給者s in an 試みる／企てる to 減ずる these prices even more.?
A Woolworths spokesperson said the supermarket is committed to keeping '復活祭 chocolate affordable and accessible'.
