Customers at shops like Cheaper Buy Miles and Beyond Best Before can find food items nearing their best-before date at a fraction of supermarket prices
Grant Miles at the Cheaper Buy Miles store in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick. The discount concept has become so popular he has recently opened a fourth shop.Grant Miles at the Cheaper Buy Miles store in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick. The discount concept has become so popular he has recently opened a fourth shop.Grant Miles has rarely seen so much demand for discounted food in the 30 years since he opened his first Cheaper Buy Miles store in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray.
“We always recommend people come and shop in our stores first and then whatever they can’t find there, they can get from their normal supermarket,” he says. Quach and her sister also started their store to help combat food waste. They both worked in the supermarket sector and thought the amount of consumable food going to landfill was alarming.
“ does say we’re only doing eastern seaboard, but we’ve been getting inquiries from people all around Australia, so we’ve shipped orders to Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania. The demand is there.”He says the cost of living is undoubtedly driving a shift in consumer behaviour, with real household discretionary income plunging 12% between 2020 and 2023.
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