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Customers rejoice after noticing the price of lettuce drops to $2.50 for the first time in months: ‘It’s a miracle’
- Aussies have noticed the cost of iceberg lettuce has dropped to $2.50 each
- Coles shopper Emma was first to point out the decrease on Facebook
- Emma and others online quickly dubbed it ‘a miracle’
- Customers claim to have also seen prices drop at Aldi, Woolworths and IGA
- It follows after months of supply shortages due to floods in NSW and QLD
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Aussies are marvelling after noticing the price of iceberg lettuce drop to just $2.50 after months of price hikes.
Sharing a photo to a popular Facebook group, Sydney shopper Emma was first to point out the decrease in cost after visiting her local Coles supermarket and dubbed it a ‘miracle’.
Some customers said they’ve also noticed cheap prices at Aldi, IGA and Woolworths, while others deemed the low cost to be due to ‘more supply’ and ‘less demand’.
Since May the cost for iceberg lettuce jumped to $7 each and reached as much as $12 over the last few months.
Sydney shopper Emma noticed the price of lettuce at Coles had dropped to just $2.50 each (pictured). Since May the cost for iceberg lettuce jumped to $7 each and reached as much as $12 over the last few months
The image shared online shows a stack of lettuces priced at just $2.50 each, and others said their local supermarkets have the vegetable priced at $2.99 as well.
‘Lettuce celebrate this miracle,’ on person commented, another added: ‘Good things come to those who wait.’
A third added: ‘I got one for $2.99 at Aldi in Sydney yesterday and was so happy.’
‘I just got home with one for $2,’ another wrote.
But others added their local supermarket still has lettuce priced as much as $6.50.
Others customers said their local supermarkets have the vegetable priced at $2.99 as well. While many were rejoicing, some said the low cost is simply how ‘supply and demand’ works
While many were rejoicing, others said the low cost is simply how ‘supply and demand works’.
‘Absolutely no miracle! More supply less demand!! We’ve had pretty decent growing conditions and this is what happens,’ one woman wrote.
‘Supply and demand. How is this a new thing to people? Especially in fresh food?’ another wrote.
Some also questioned the authenticity of the image and asked if it’s ‘old’.
In the comments Emma said: ‘Last week the prices were $8 minimum. So it’s new to me. And I personally wouldn’t buy one at that price.
‘So to me it’s a miracle them being this low. I also know quite a few people that didn’t know the price dropped.
The original increase for lettuce follows a wet start to the year with unprecedented rain and flooding spoiling crops in NSW and Queensland.
Some farmers in Queensland have lost their third crop in a row and risk the collapse of their businesses following the unseasonable rain.
The peak horticulture group warned growers in the state’s southeast will need millions to recover from the string of natural disasters.
Fast food chains have tweaked their menus following the huge price increase with KFC warning customers to expect a cabbage blend on their burgers.
Some restaurants in Melbourne began to charge $1 per lettuce leaf for san choy bow dishes.