Australian store is cheaper than online shopping?

According to a report on August 21st of the Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, as the Australian dollar’s ​​foreign currency exchange rate has continued to fall, Australians have become more and more expensive to purchase goods from abroad. This gives their domestic online retailers Hope came. These network operators think that the opportunity to make money is coming soon.

For a long time, local online retailers in Australia have been fighting online shops overseas, because they sell online products are much more expensive than those overseas, and delivery is also very slow.

In fact, some supermarkets in Australia have more expensive online stores than the online stores sell. This makes Australian consumers feel puzzled and helpless.

Paul Greenberg of the Australian Online Retailers Association said that it is time for a real spirit. It is fair to compete and win Australian consumers. "I think the lower Australian dollar is a good thing for us local network operators and will bring greater advantages to the local market."

At the Online Retailer Expo in Sydney recently, there are many new ideas and gadgets. They all embody the novel naughty packaging methods and the latest optimized search technology. There is also a technology that makes it easy to shoot a product and then dynamically display it on a shopping site.

All of this is aimed at stimulating consumer spending, but online retail analyst Grant Arnott believes this is not a simple matter. He said that after the local currency went down, the growth rate of Internet shopping has slowed down.

Analyst experts believe that Australia's shopping website is not ideal and the delivery speed is rather slow. This means that some consumers shop faster on overseas websites than they do on domestic websites.

The latest statistics from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that Australians’ online shopping totaled nearly 11 billion Australian dollars last year, of which 6 billion were spent on overseas websites.

In fact, in terms of product prices, Australia's online stores have very little advantage over overseas stores. Consumers are shopping on the Internet and are more likely to value the low prices of online products. However, Australian local online retailers appear to have no advantage in this regard. Their online shop prices are even more expensive than physical stores. Especially those large supermarkets in Australia.

Recently, Australian consumer groups have called on Coles and Woolworhts to be transparent in their online pricing policies.

According to a sample survey conducted by Fairfax Media, Australian consumers are required to pay up to 60 points more for online purchases of the same goods, while shipping fees are between 3 and 13 yuan.

In general, Coles charged 47 points for each online shopping item, and Woolworths’ online shopping items cost 27 points more than store items.

The biggest difference in price is from Coles. In the Coles supermarket in Prahran district of Melbourne, a 150-piece Hercules sandwich bag sells for 7.11 yuan, but in the Coles online shop it sells for 7.71 yuan. The two-liter bottle of Bulla frozen yogurt sold for $6.99 in stores, but its online price was as high as $7.58.

In the Woolworths supermarket in Prahran district, a 20-piece Chux Superwipes sells for 6 yuan, while Woolworths sells it for 6.45 yuan. The 375 grams of Mainland Butter sold 5.69 yuan in physical stores, but its net purchase price was 6.12 yuan.

Tom Godfrey, head of media for consumer group CHOICE, said: “I think most consumers don’t know that there is a huge difference in physical store prices and online shopping prices. We hope supermarkets can increase transparency on this issue.”

Coles’ supermarket admitted that the online shopping price of some products would be higher than the physical store price, but when asked if it would be widely advertised, the supermarket chose to remain silent.

A spokeswoman for Woolworths said: “The online shopping price of some products is slightly higher than the physical store price, which is due to considering the cost of personal shopping services. Supermarkets need to be equipped with specialized personnel to handle online orders.”

Gao Defei expressed to the vast number of consumers: Do not think that online shopping is a good deal, at least in Coles and Woolworhts online shop does not exist in this situation.