Coles has increased the price of its shopping bags. <\/p>\n
In a move that will frustrate shoppers, Coles has lifted the price of paper bags by 5c cents to 30c a bag. <\/p>\n
The cost of larger chipper bags has also gone from $4 to $4.20.<\/p>\n
The increases come after Coles Group reported a $1.09bn profit after tax for the 2025-26 financial year. <\/p>\n
Coles\u2019 online flat fee for bags remains unchanged at $2. <\/p>\n
Woolworths and Aldi paper shopping bags remain at 25c.<\/p>\n
Frustrated shoppers took to social media, saying Coles must be doing it tough. <\/p>\n
One person said it was \u201can Un Australian act\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cGuess I gotta use my paper bags more sparingly,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n
One commenter said \u201cthey need to refuse entry unless got your shopping bags, help us out to remember to bring our own bags\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd ya walkout of the store and the freaking handles rip and ya shopping now on the carpark,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n
Others said the move wasn\u2019t a big deal.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople crying over bags is pathetic,\u201d one said.<\/p>\n
\u201cDeal with it or bring your own, it\u2019s not hard,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n
In a brief statement, a Coles spokesperson said prices were changing on selected bags. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe know value remains important to our customers, and we\u2019ve worked to keep these increases as low as possible,\u201d the spokesperson said. <\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, from time to time, prices of individual products may need to increase due to changes in costs such as materials and transport.<\/p>\n
\u201cCustomers can continue to bring their own reusable bags when shopping at Coles, and we encourage them to reuse bags wherever possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prior to 2018, the major supermarkets gave away single-use plastic bags for free to shoppers.<\/p>\n
But in a move dubbed as more environmentally friendly, Aldi, Coles and Woolworths swapped from single-use plastic to reusable paper bags, which came at a cost for shoppers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coles has increased the price of its shopping bags. In a move that will frustrate shoppers, Coles has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[494974,33873,295116,494967,494969,490386,494951,494954,383455,387699,494961,494971,392057,380180,378662,49208,494965,494963,467368,494949,494975,494972,410310,64,63,67758,99,104,218693,73200,32445,51521,7136,3931,494952,494970,494973,494958,494966,115817,37473,494962,390774,494948,494953,1861,9074,494955,55466,494945,78124,7240,158889,494957,1314,428781,4961,407563,494956,378384,494964,494946,494960,377421,377589,379618,401854,494959,494950,6618,399927,73202,102,494968,418617,396022,494947],"class_list":["post-927791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-4-to-4-20-the-increases","tag-33873","tag-295116","tag-20pc-coles-hike","tag-25c-frustrated-shoppers","tag-30c","tag-5c-cents","tag-a-1-09bn-profit","tag-a-bag","tag-a-big-deal","tag-a-brief-statement","tag-a-coles-spokesperson","tag-a-cost","tag-a-decision","tag-a-move","tag-aldi","tag-all-shoppers","tag-an-everyday-item","tag-an-item","tag-an-un-australian-act","tag-another-in","tag-another-one-commenter","tag-another-others","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bags","tag-business","tag-coles","tag-coles-and-woolworths","tag-coles-group","tag-costs","tag-customers","tag-deal","tag-entry","tag-individual-products","tag-its-shopping-bags","tag-larger-chipper-bags","tag-materials-and-transport","tag-my-paper-bags","tag-newswire-business","tag-one-person","tag-online-flat-fee","tag-our-customers","tag-our-own-bags","tag-paper-bags","tag-people","tag-prices","tag-reusable-paper-bags","tag-rip","tag-selected-bags","tag-shoppers","tag-shopping","tag-single-use-plastic","tag-single-use-plastic-bags","tag-social-media","tag-ta","tag-tax","tag-the-2025-26-financial-year","tag-the-carpark","tag-the-cost","tag-the-freaking","tag-the-major-supermarket-chain","tag-the-major-supermarkets","tag-the-move","tag-the-price","tag-the-spokesperson","tag-the-store","tag-their-own-reusable-bags","tag-these-increases","tag-time","tag-un-australian","tag-woolies","tag-woolworths","tag-woolworths-and-aldi-paper-shopping-bags","tag-ya","tag-your-own","tag-your-shopping-bags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}