Woolworths is being slammed for providing huge sales that are ‘too good to be true’.
A Sydney mother was bewildered when she found Blackmores Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Gold supplements had dropped from $60 to just $5.99.
It turns out the deals came with a catch, as the bottles of 180 supplements had an expiration date of just three days away.
Woolworths is being slammed for providing huge sales that were ‘too good to be true’
Posting to an Instagram page dedicated to finding bargains, the mother said she was disappointed with how Woolworths went about it.
‘It was really upsetting that they would try to exploit expecting mothers and others that are breastfeeding,’ she wrote underneath the photos.
The mother immediately called a staff member over to ask why the pills were on shelves with such a close expiration date.
‘I called over a staff member who paged the manager over the PA system to rectify the situation,’ she said.
‘Always check the expiry date and if a deal is too good to be true perhaps its too good to be true.’
Followers of the page agreed with the original poster and weren’t happy with the markdowns, with one commenter saying: ‘It’s great you brought it up with them. It’s wrong to profit on something like this’.
‘This is awful. Sometimes they charge full price for food out of date it’s disgusting!!!’ another user said.
‘Extremely disappointed Woolworths!’ another expressed.
Not everyone agreed, with some saying that it can be difficult keeping on top of every expiry date in such a large supermarket.
It turns out the deals came with a catch, as the bottles of 180 supplements had an expiration date of just three days away
‘Not good but I can only imagine how hard it would be to keep on top of expiry dates in a supermarket. Could be an honest mistake,’ one user said.
‘Considering the mark down and the fact it’s still in date you’re getting what you pay for. $6 for a few days use… loads of mark downs are due to a nearly expired product (meat, milk etc) why is this any different?’
A Woolworths spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia that it was an error with the store and it has since been addressed.
‘If a product cannot reasonably be consumed within the expiry window it should be withdrawn from sale and written off,’ the spokesperson said.
‘We apologise to any customers impacted and encourage them to get in contact with us if they have concerns with a recent purchase.’