Tim Tams selling for more than $11 at remote store   
New images have captured the shocking reality of soaring food prices, with Tim Tams selling more almost $12.   

News.com.au
June 5, 2024

The soaring price of staple supermarket favourites has made shockwaves online after a packet of Tim Tams was snapped selling for a whopping $11.80.

The Australian biscuits were one of a number of exorbitantly priced products on sale in Kalumburu in far north Western Australia this week.

Photos obtained by the ABC showed Arnott’s Sao biscuits selling for $8.90, with Black and Gold brand laundry powder on sale for $9.30.

Across the board, prices for staple foods, including fruit, vegetables, and pasta, was more than double what it would cost online.


For 500g of spiral pasta, Kalumburu residents in April 2024 could expect to pay $6; online, it was selling for just $2.95.

It comes amid heightened focus on food affordability in light of the current cost-of-living crisis, both in remote communities and in Australia’s big cities.

Earlier this month, a Byron Bay resident took to social media to vent frustration at the cost of a punnet of strawberries, snapped at Coles at $9.50.

While Coles issued a statement explaining that the high price was due to seasonal changes, it came amid increased scrutiny on supermarkets.

Prices were recorded growing faster in remote stores in the NT.

An 195-page report flowing from an inquiry into Coles and Woolworths recommended the duopoly be broken up and regulators empowered.


Concerns for food security are particularly sensitive in remote communities like Kalumburu, where the ABC said the price gap was only widening.

The cost of a basket of healthy food was 40 per cent more in remote stores in the Northern Territory than in the suburbs, a recent report found.

Between 2000 and 2019, the cost of a grocery shop rose 3.1 per cent annually in remote communities, compared to the just 2.9 per cent CPI.

Don't buy them.

GTTF has exposed himself as a Tim Tam consumer. White only?

There is no substitute for bigotry and hate.

Frank and GTTF associate and imbibe in sheep dag tea with their white Tim Tams.

whiteknight wrote on Jun 5^th, 2024 at 9:53am:

White Knight is a crazy, obscene, ABC toad and haywire. Byron Bay boongs hunt mud eels and eat roast slime cooked on kangaroo dung. They have no rights to German strawberries, media or $.
)^32 )^%$# HF&553!

I wonder if one single Abo resident of resident of Kalumburu has a job.

Interesting, I can't find one real estate transaction for Kalumburu. Woner why

Laugh till you cry wrote on Jun 5^th, 2024 at 12:37pm:


Keep it up and you'll be fronting the judiciary for a low tackle...  ah lahks ma dark chocolate ...

When you choose to live the chosen lifestyle out in Whoop-Whoop you expect to pay for a packet of Tim Tams.

I was so bored reading this thread I decided to eat a whole packet of Tim Tams.

The dark chocolate ones.

And I have the empty packet to prove it.

Oh, they were $7 for 2 packets at Coles Belmont Forum the other day.