Mum shocked after finding a Woolworths receipt from 2011: ‘Everything was so cheap’

A woman has been left in shock after finding a ‘vintage’ Woolworths docket from 2011, which showed exactly how much more expensive life has become.

The mum was initially shocked at the ‘price of meat’ before realising she had been reading the docket wrong and it’s actually ‘about the same price’.

But other shoppers picked out things that had exploded in price and shrunk in size over the last 12 years.

Baby formula was at the top of the docket and a sore topic, with each can 100grams smaller than when the docket was printed.

‘A weekly essential for some parents, would blow my budget these days,’ the woman said after people commented on the steep increase. 

Chocolate has also become less affordable. 

‘Cadbury is now 180grams and $5.50,’ one woman complained. 

Avocados were ‘about the same’ but other fresh produce had also gone up in price. 

A FEMAIL investigation found the total cost of the items, based on like-for-like packet sizes, had exploded by just over 39 per cent.

The initial food bill was $49.58, the 2023 bill would come to $73.83 if you could still get the same quantities.

However if you bought the products in the new, smaller size the bill would be $65.24.

The woman estimated the same groceries would ‘cost over $100 now’ before her mistake about the cost of meat was found.

Staples like baby formula exploded in price – but so did little luxuries like chocolate. Both examples also shrunk in size

2011 saw a huge increase in the cost of lamb, it was more expensive than beef for the first time ever, and dramatic forecasts at the time predicted it would be $100-per-kilo by 2012.

The price of lamb has fallen in 2023 as supply has gone through the roof, which explains why the cost isn’t dramatically different for cutlets.  

The woman explained she found the receipt in a dark jacket pocket and was shocked it was still readable.