Woolies shopper shocked by 15-year-old grocery receipt
A Woolworths shopper has been left stunned after unearthing a 15-year-old grocery receipt and comparing what the same order would cost today.
Amy Coulston took to TikTok after finding her mum's grocery receipt from January 14th 2010 and decided to do a comparison to 2025 supermarket prices.
"It's been 15 years since this shopping trip and I wanted to see the difference in price from then and now," she said.
"I added in as much as I possibly could (but) there's brands on here that just don't exist anymore."
The overall price for 30 items, which included chicken pies, salami, cereal and a DVD of the Pixar animated film Up, came to $127.26 in 2010.
She looked for all the same items, or close comparisons, on the Woolworths website and the January 2025 bill came to $170.45.
"That's an increase of 35 per cent," Ms Coulston said.
While many people took to her comment section to say the price comparison wasn't as significant as they thought it would be, others took another factor into consideration.
"A 35 per cent (increase) over (that) period isn't actually that bad. It's the fact that the product is shrinking as the price goes up," they wrote.
While Ms Coulston did not claim that all, or even most, of the products had shrunk in size over time, she did mention one popular treat in particular.
"There's definitely a lot of discrepancies on here when it comes to things getting smaller, so for example, the Turkish Delights were 55 grams and now they're 50 grams," she said.
One commenter spoke for many, though, in pointing out a glaring detail in the most recent shop.
"It doesn't seem like a big increase over that period of time. The majority of the increase was over the last two years!" they wrote. "Like cheese prices didn't gradually increase, they just jumped from 6 dollars to 10 dollars overnight."
Image credits: Woolworths / TikTok