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Coles Supermarkets Australia cheese filling was gritty

I purchased the Coles brand French Style Cheesecake 410g net from Coles at West Lakes SA and the cheese filling was like it had been curdled, it was very gritty and had an unpleasant taste. I thawed the cheescake in the fridge straight from the freezer. I was very embarrassed in front of my guests.
I ripped the box so I don't have an expiry date to give you but I have these numbers that were on the other side of the opening - FG62439 N04626 AS13574
It was the first time I purchased this product and it will be the last.

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Coles Supermarkets Australia food poisoning

I purchased 3 gingerbread house kit from coles in castle towers australia on 01 december 2012.
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We made up 2 of the houses and noticed that all the candy was very very hard and initial thoughts were that it was plastic. We did not use it on the gingerbread house.
After applying the icing, we left the house to ‘set’. 2 children ate the ‘creation’ at a later point and were both violently ill.

My son (7 years old) has vomited a total of 6 times during the day and is not well at all. The other child (9 years old female) who also ate the gingerbread house has also been vomiting and ill all of today.

The gingerbread houses have been thrown away and I am going to return the final unmade gingerbread house kit to coles supermarkets and insist on a refund. I will also caution them as to what happened and inquire if there have been any other complaints about this product.

Sydney, australia

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There is no email address provided by Coles to report contaminated food. Queen Vanilla Essence I purchased from Coles is foul tasting. I reported the problem to Queen but have had no response after 10 days.

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Coles Supermarkets Australia online shopping

Due to a dispute between the Landlord and the online shopping delievry person 'before' I had moved into the house, I was recently evicted by the Landlord because I was going to use Coles online shopping and because I may have been late in collection, the Landlord was afraid that Coles would not deliver to the address any more. I was evicted because of being considred 'argumentative'. I have been persecuted because of a disagreement between the Landlord and Coles online delivery. I ask that Coles permanently puts a stop to the delivery to the address from Friday 14th of December, 2012.

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Nov 27, 2014 6:53 pm EST

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Nov 27, 2014 6:51 pm EST

I work as a Coles online Driver... It sucks that you were evicted how ever us boys have tight deadlines to meat at times and have to keep on the move with a 10-15 minute delay costing us dearly in terms of other customers windows of delivery... Sounds like your Landlord stuffed them around and they had to cancel the order?

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Coles Supermarkets Australia foreign object found

To whom it may concern,

I recently purchased a serving of your chicken and garlic balls from the Army base "Robinson Barracts" and to my disappointment as I was taking a bite felt something sharp, grinding in my teeth. At first I thought I had chipped my tooth but soon though there's too much in side this chicken ball. I managed to search through my mouth full, and to my absolute disgust I found what I believe to be small, very sharp shards of this plastic or glass.
I am a very regular consumer of your products. I purchase them myself when shopping and also buy them from the canteen where I work. I informed the canteen of the incident straight away and they appologised deeply, however the blame still belongs to Coles as the foreign objects where definitely inside the product before they were cooked!
I really hope that this case is treated with great concern by your company as it could have very easily ended up being very dangerous!

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Coles Supermarkets Australia missing product

Some three months ago I tried to find Coles Julian Carrots either 500gr or 1 Kg of this product. I went overseas for 6 weeks hoping to find said product which I seemed to be missing due to my late shopping. However, upon returning to OZ late last month I was disturbed to find that no longer (according to your staff) is this product now available. Thanks for nothing, as a person suffering from arthritis, it's nigh impossible to make Julian carrots. Will you advise me as to why no longer we can buy this product as I've found many people in this are have found themselves like me.

Mr. J. Can-nan [protected]@westnet.com.au

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Coles Supermarkets Australia a2 milk always off and holes in bottles and vegetables and fruit are disgusting

I would like to make a formal complaint about Coles Seville Grove Armadale, W.A 6112 - I have brought home bottles of A2 milk that has a use by date of a week to go, yet when the bottles are opened the milk is off! Plus also have brought home bottles of milk that have holes in them, the vegetables and fruit in the shop are disgusting half the time, the shelves are all full of dust its just feral!

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Coles Supermarkets Australia service

I was at Coles Dandenong when I tried to get a drink from a vending machine. The machine malfunctioned and I was unable to retrieve my money. I went to the service desk to complain and the immediate response was "the machine is not ours, it belongs to Coke, it's not our responsibility." Not satisfied with that I asked to speak to the manager. The manager was a short distance away, after a short conversation the shop assistant returned and repeated what was said earlier. I pointed out that I in fact wanted to speak to the manager, again she went to the manager, this time the manager came to the service desk. The manager again stated it has nothing to do with Coles, I reinforced the fact that the machine was inside the Coles and was their responsibility. Just as I pointed out that Coles made a profit from the machine she offered to refund my money. I accepted the refund and asked her why she didn't address the problem herself initially, her reply was that she gave the shop assistant her answer, then I pointed out to the manager that it wasn't until I addressed her directly about the problem did she offer a refund. Poor service, poor attitude and no responsibility.

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john veldwyk
Cranbourne, AU
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Aug 02, 2012 3:42 pm EDT

i like shopping at coles, but the constant bombardment of their prices down ads on full volume, blasted throughout the store is borderline abuse. ive started using an ipod to drown out this racket.

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saralap
Melbourne, AU
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Feb 19, 2014 6:07 pm EST

I had ordered few products on special and received a confirmation of the order.
When I logged in to change the delivery option I noticed that the product price is altered to full price.
Even after repeated follow up they say they cant help me with modification.
They have no right to modify the price without my permission.
I feel I have been cheated.
Such a shame on Coles that they say they cant help being a such big player in the market.

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Anthony Store Manager
Sydney, AU
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Oct 02, 2014 6:18 pm EDT

Coles has recently been forced to no longer advertised their bakery items as "Freshly Baked" or "Baked Fresh" for the next 3 years. Yet today, to advertise the the re-launch of Coles Richmond, NSW, I received a pamphlet which has a heading in it "Baked in Store" followed by the sentence, "The team are baking every day, so you know you'll be buying straight from the oven."

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Mildura, AU
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Jan 04, 2015 8:05 am EST

Today I went to Coles as I always do to get my groccries as I have walked out I have glanced at my trolley and seen my bread at the bottom of a bag with loads of grocceries on top flattening it, I myself have never worked at a groccerie store and know that bread needs to be in a bag where it won't get squished . The loaf is pretty much ruined now

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Jack Knight
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Aug 10, 2015 6:22 am EDT

they are good at telling us prices are going down and down, but we shop at Coles all the time every second or third day so we do see the prices going up, and up and up, for example we buy a lot of mince, and at the start of the year, your mince was 5 dollars, then it went up to 6 dollars a month later, a few months after it went up to 7 dollars, today the 10/08/2017, it was 8 dollars, that's all in a few months, I asked the butcher why the prices were going up, and she said its all went up mate 20 per cent, so how can Coles advertise that food is going down, I think we the public are missing something, and am sure you must think we are al silly, people do talk to each other in Coles and say this is not going down, the public will only take so much of this and move to the new supermarket that's coming to Mundaring Perth wa.as I said we feed our pets mince as well as us, so I rest my case, I don't suppose Coles will write back, but maybe the public will see this .up up .

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Sep 11, 2015 10:54 pm EDT

Store 0450, receipt 8075, time 1234, served by 349. 12 sep.

Complaint about how long it is taking to get served waiting at checkouts.
I have notice the service is taking longer and longer, to day was the worst i have ever experienced. 12 items or less has moved and the checkout person still has to serve at service desk. And only one of these. So i waited at normal checkout. Must have taken 20 to 30 minutes, felt a lot longer.
There has got to be a better and quicker way to get served. Very disappointed.

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Oct 22, 2015 9:09 am EDT

My complaint is about one of your staff Kyle she is a manager at the Eaton fair store. Several times why I have been in the store this person has been very rude and abrupt. In front of myself and other customers she has yeld at her staff and abused them which I found quite off putting. I find that this behavior is not something that should be displayed in front of any customer. Also I find her wigs offensive

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Mani1859
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Oct 25, 2015 11:26 pm EDT

On sunday (October 25) I purchased a large block of cheese (12$) with my grocery shop. When I returned home and opened it I realised it was completely mouldy underneath and so I put it aside to return it on monday along with the receipt. Today (Monday) when I returned it, a refund was given, however, I was utterly disappointed with the customer service I received. The lady who attended to me gave me absolutely no eye contact, little dialogue and no apology. I felt very uncomfortable and as though I was doing the wrong thing. Is this normal? I will be avoiding this supermarket in the future if this is how customers are going to be treated. It has left a bad taste for me. Very disappointed!

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jenpete
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I recently activated a promotion on fly buys that said if I spent $120 - $150 at Coles I would get a voucher for $5 - $20 to spend at my next shop. After spending the required amount, yes, I received a voucher for $5. Yesterday I went to redeem the $5.00 and was told I would have to spend a further $150 to redeem it. I questioned the shop assistant and she went to the management and they confirmed that she was right. The Coles store in question is Narrogin WA. This voucher is only valid to 11/02/2017. So it is now useless. I have another one for $15. Does this mean to redeem it I have to pay a further $150? I have shown the voucher to a number of people and after reading the fine print with a magnify glass they all agree with me that the docket does state that the amount can be redeemed at the next shop. There is no stating that a certain amount has to be paid!

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Lucie Dey
Brisbane, AU
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I did mine and my mothers shopping as per usual online.We live near the Fairfield gardens store.The day our shopping was to be delivered, their truck broke down.They called my mother to say the shopping would be delayed till the next day.We had no problem with this, then received another call to say that we had to tell the delivery guy that he was to charge us the amount from the previous day.As the weekly specials, had now finished and the price would be different, also to call head office if he didn't know what to do.On the day it was delived we told the delivery guy, and he flatly refused.I told him I wasn't sure if I had the amount in the bank for the price they were now charging, as it was now more ($119) difference.As Im on a disability pension this is quite a huge amount for me.I paid with eftos and had just enough.I told him I needed the extra amount for a bill that was due, so could he call head office before he left, to make sure it was refunded quickly.He called head office to tell them, and I was asked to speak with a lady there.The lady asked me if she could put a credit on my mums account, I said no as I needed the money in my account, for my bill.She said she would do that as I had paid with my keycard.A week later, I hadn't received it in my bank account, so I sent an email from mums online account, they still didn't contact me.A few days later they put $50 in mums online account.I got mum to call to say they hadn't given us enough, they asked me to call.I called them and they said that amount of $119 is right and that the person whom was to organise this wasn't there right now and would call me back that day.I still have not been called back.This is ridiculous as they have not only stolen money and ignored that fact.They have ripped off an old age pensioner and a disability pensioner, both whom are grieving for their husbands and father.And not only that, I still have not been able to pay my bill and have probably got a bad credit rating due to this.

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Coles Supermarkets Australia value for money

I have been searching for any type of meat ribs excluding lamb and finally come across beef ribs with smokey BBQ sauce last night at our local Bi-lo in our small beach side town where Bi-lo is our only grocery store for the next 25kms or so. I ended up purchasing a 1 kilo bag of the ribs and anticipated my families dinner. Having cooked them for the 6 hours in a slow cooker as stated on the packaging. Imagine my dismay, after checking on the ribs that had been cooking for 4 hours, when I saw the meat had retracted from the 2 inch bones and was around the size of a square cm cube of meat! 8 pieces of ribs is all that's in this bag! Anyone can tell that this is not going to even feed 1 adult! All in all, I'm very disappointed at the price, having paid $15 for something i could have improvised with chuck steak! I would like Coles to up their game and really start keeping the prices down as it states on their freekishly loud and annoying mantra. I'll know better next time and will be spreading the word...

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Coles Supermarkets Australia aggressive behaviour

I went into Coles a few months ago and this woman who works there by the name of Isobel, was yelling at an employee, infront of me and other customers, to the point where the young girl was reduced to tears. I went home and then rang the store manager about her behaviour and he said, he'd look into it. Last week I went back into this store, and there she was again, yelling at the girl working the check-out saying things like 'are you stupid?'! Don't Coles have a code of conduct to follow? Why is this woman supervising or even working at Coles with that attitude? I used to shop at this coles quite alot in the past, with what I keep seeing and hearing, I will never go into this store again.

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I don't go to the Coles Launceston store in Charles street as they treat everyone like thieves

They are rude and horrible

It is an awful experience stepping foot in those doors

beware of the dragon staff accusing people of stealing

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I was walking to my car the other day and an employee of yours was quite rude about my weight...I know he worked for Coles because he had a Coles van in his driveway ...looked like he was a refrigeration mechanic for Coles...he was also wearing a dark navy shirt with Coles logo on it.

The address of the Employee is 29 Pimpala Road, Old Reynella. SA 5161
His name is Darren or Darrin...I don't know his surname.

I feel he should be chatted to...its not a good look abusing a woman especially wearing your logo and driving your van.

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Deana McFadden
Mission Viejo, US
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Jul 21, 2012 10:58 pm EDT
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Trasha has many issues in her life, She is blaming everyone for her problems. I don't personally know anyone on this site Trasha. You are so silly. Trasha, everyone is after you because you are so annoying. I just hate you because you started crap about me without knowing the whole story. So don't ASSUME and talk crap to make yourself look good, you just made an ### out of u and me. Actually you made an ### out of yourself.
Now get lost Trasha!

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Deana McFadden
Mission Viejo, US
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Jul 21, 2012 2:55 pm EDT
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As for the misspelled words, Did you finally figure out how to use spell check?

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Deana McFadden
Mission Viejo, US
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Jul 21, 2012 2:52 pm EDT
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Children like you, I guess.

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Deana McFadden
Mission Viejo, US
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Sorry, I left to make dinner for my daughter. Where's Trasha? I miss reading his/her, it's misspelled sentences so I came back. This is the first time I got on this site and find it hilarious! It's tasha who steals the show. Where's la crazy Tasha!
Let's get past SeaWorld, who cares! I can find other employment, no big deal or I can go back to Macy's, make minimum wage and bust my behind. At least I will stay in shape.

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Deana McFadden
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You know nothing! My manager was sorry but he didn't know how to express himself in a positive way. He did tell me I was one of his best employee. Sometimes stress can make you say things you don't mean. I know he didn't mean what he did but since I always did what he asked of me he felt I wouldn't say anything but he yelled at me in front of people, he could of took me to his office. He got fired because he had lots of anger issues but he did have a kind heart. Ok Miss Tasha you know it all don't you. You are one of those persons who looks for trouble, very immature. By the way I quit Macy's because I got married and was moving to San Diego back in 1990. Most employers are hiring college students who only need flex hours, it makes it easier for these employers, no benefits.

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When I worked at Macy's my manager yelled at me in front of a bunch of people, I was so embarrassed I went to HR to complain and he got in trouble. I think it is so rude when your own manager can't control himself. He never apologized either but he finally got fired after several employees complained.

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Coles Supermarkets Australia found sea shells inbetween seeds

I bought 5 bottles of the coriander seeds to use for beef jerky. Lucky for me I used a big pan to roast them quickly, and noticed something shiny. It turned out to be small sea shells. What bugs me is that I did the same last week and hubby did the roasting, now the question is, did I give jerky away with shells on grrr. Not sure I will buy Cole's brand again.

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Coles Supermarkets Australia not lamb but mutton

On saturday 16th of June I purchased $35 worth of lamb (receipt number 3102). Upon eating the above I quickly realised that I was eating mutton. Not all the meat was mutton, it was obviously mixed in with some lamb steaks. my guess about 50:50. This is not the first time, about 18 months age I bought what was packaged as veal (at randwick) to find out when I got home someone had cut some ?topside very thinly and placed in in water so as some of the colour would drain out. That went to the dog. I am a good customer and I buy on average the majority of my food etc thru Coles and I don't expect the be short changed. I am very disappointed, yours sincerely Toni Saville

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Jun 19, 2012 6:07 pm EDT

Hey, that's my brother yr talkin about...

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Coles Supermarkets Australia found plastic in my yoghurt

I purchased a 6 pack of Coles branded variety mix yoghurt from the Northcote Plaza Coles Shopping Centre.
When eating the Peach, Mango and Passionfruit flavour, I was disgusted to find a long strip of transparent pale orange plastic (8.5cms in length) inside the yoghurt which i nearly swallowed.
As I buy this yoghurt for my seven year old, I was so thankful that it was I who opened this particular tub and not he as he could have easily choked.
I would expect this matter be fully investigated and product recalled if required as there would be many other children who consume this brand of yoghurt and needless to say, would be a disaster

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Coles Supermarkets Australia rudeness when complained about maggots in brown rice

I bought 2 bags of brown rice from Coles Noble Park a few months ago and kept the bags of brown rice are kept in a big tub of white rice.

Today I went to use some of the brown rice (half used) and noticed that there was a live maggot hanging from the bag (on the outside). I checked the white rice in the tub and noticed that there were little moths inside. I threw out the half open bag of brown rice and got the unopened bag and noticed that this one had about 3 moths and large maggots moving around inside of it.

As the source of the maggots and moths was clearly the bag of brown rice, I went into the Coles from which I had purchased the rice from to ask for a refund for the two bags of brown rice and the tub of white rice (25K worth) that I would now have to throw out.

The store manager apologised and agreed to refund the two bags of brown rice but said that he did not have 25K's of white rice. He advised that I could take a bag of white rice but offered no other resolution. I declined this offer and told him that I only wanted to be compensated for what I lost - nothing more and certainly nothing less. I advised that I could take a couple of 10K bags of white rice and went back to his office.

I then collected 2 bags of brown rice and 1 bag of 10K white rice as there was only one 10K bag of the type that was close to what I had. I took them to the counter and the girl who had been left to deal with me looked confused and said she was only aware of refunding 2 bags of brown rice. She went to the manager's office to check and another person came out - his name was Phil.

He asked about the situation and I said that I wanted a voucher - to which he cut me off and said abruptly - you're not getting a voucher. I explained once again that I only wanted to be compensated for what I lost and said that the manager had told me that they didn't have 25K's of white rice and there certainly wasn't on the shelves when I checked so I would like a voucher for the difference to purchase the remaining bag of rice another time. He then went somewhere and came back with another 10K bag of the same white rice and slapped it on the table and said again, here - you're not getting a voucher.

I found this to be extremely hurtful, that I was being treated like some kind of opportunist when I had not asked for anything more than what I had lost. I had not even asked to be compensated somehow for the fact that I may have consumed maggots from the first bag.

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- you did not have a receipt for this alleged transaction
- you had no proof of purchase or evidence to show that you bought rice and that too 25Kgs, and that you bought is from Coles Noble Park
- this is a fabrication of the events that actually took place when you took your complaint to the store.
- you could've gone to your local Coles to get 25Kg rice replaced if Noble Park store didn't have enough stock.
- you claim that maggots were found in brown rice and you did not agree to be compensated any less or more, yet you were okay to take bags of white rice from the store?
- people like yourself try to take advantage of the generous return/refund policies that stores such as Coles, David Jones and Myer have in place.

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Coles Supermarkets Australia treatment by coles over broken tooth

Bought coles sticky date cookies, as i m eating one a large pip lodged in my tooth and cracked my tooth, do you know how coles handled it, i suffered for two days in pain with a cracked tooth, (also i told them they dont have to fix tooth as im through medicare scheme for fixing my teeth)..After a month i got a letter from coles saying sorry these things happen heres 10 dollar gift card (good will) and we hope you enjoy it..look im not one to ask for hand outs, but im a disability pensioner who has 3 compressed discs and i i suffer sever post natal depression.. i think the matter should have been treated much much better i feel degraded and belittled with there goodwill 10 dollars, nothing would have been better...i just thought a multimillion dollar company would look after their customer more better

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Coles Supermarkets Australia stale

yesterday 7.3.12 time 9.07 am I bought a loaf of Coles White Bread, went to have a sandwhich for lunch, bread was Not fresh only fit for toast, I do 99.9% of my shopping at this supermarket and have always bought bread there at around 8.00am as i was told that is around the time the fresh bread arrived. Same thing happened on Monday with bread rolls, fresh that day, not fit to eat, unless toasted, I do know that the bread rolls are baked in store and have had the same thing happen before with them, some lame excuse about why they were not as fresh as the ones I had bought the day before, i know that the bread is only $1 a loaf, but living on a pension, a $ is a $ to me i find this quite upsetting, had to put it in freezer, at least that way I can thaw it out to the freshness it should be., not a happy customer, on the odd occasion I bought bread from Woolies it has been of the highest standard, and stayed fresh for up to 3 days

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Coles Supermarkets Australia availability of items

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I have multiple allergies and Coeliacs disease. I find it increasingly difficult to cater to my special dietary needs at my local Coles supermarket since items that I know I can eat without ill effects are constantly being deleted from the shelves. Coles have made unavailable a "naturally Good' product, e.g. Carob covered rice cakes. Coles told me the product had been made unavailable by the supplier. I have contacted the manufacturer of "Naturally Good' products, and their written reply clearly advised me that Coles deleted them from their ordering list. Despite me having placed an order with Coles for these items I have never had a call from Coles and the item has NOT been returned to the shelf. I have complained to Coles but the generic response was most unhelpful. Further efforts by me to contact Coles has been ignored. As an individual needing a particular diet, I find Coles irresponsible and discriminatory in their actions of deleting specific food items known to be purchased by specific customers. Thankyou

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Mar 01, 2012 4:47 am EST

I agree that Coles are no longer focussing on quality products, but simply on offering over-processed, cheap foodstuff of little nutritional value. Try Woolworths, as they have a wide range of gluten-free and allergy friendly products, or glutenfreeshop.com.au - they deliver worldwide and their prices are comprable with a large supermarket.

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Coles Supermarkets Australia complaint about abuses and bulling

I mobeen Zeeshan citizen of Australia, located at melbourn. I had made shopping at Coles, coburg branch, sydney rd, melbourn Australia on 21/01/2012 at 8:10 pm. At this time there was Mr. Asad working as a member for greeting Coles customers from blue star company. So I wanna to submit the complaint against him. What he did, he abused me and said I am a brother of zaidi, he has laughed on me in bad style with neck and head movements like a non professional person. Also before this instant 3 weeks ago I was with my customer and I was inside the same Coles branch and he that time bulling me as well and said come here old man mobile man in bad way. If you wanna to confirm please follow up this complaint asap, and see camera movie inside Coles and pls follow up and please give me a reply on my email [protected]@hotmail.com ASAP. I have a customer's prove with me. I can provide u any details regarding this mater. And also I already submitted the complaint in that branch same time to Mr. Sunny duty manager that time in my hand writing and he gave me a copy of this complaint with Coles code number which is 0592. Pls follow up this complaint and I will appreciate u.

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Mobeen Zeeshan.

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Coles Supermarkets Australia customer service and choice of products

I have been shopping at this Coles supermarket for over 2 years and the product select and sustomer service was the worst I have every seen it. I arrive at 9.05am Sunday morning and only had a select of Coles bread baked or yesterdays bread the shelves were empty. Went to the deli and no Virginia ham until monday & no sun dried tomatoes either in the deli but told I can purchase them already packaged! Had to ask for a cauliflower to be cut in 1/2 as only full ones on the shelf-it seem to be an inconvenience-it was the worst shopping experience I have every had at coles.

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My Daughter took a bite into her garlic bread when she felt something unusual the more she chewed. She pulled out a long woolen string from her mouth. She then gagged and it was quite disgusting. please see attached photos of string and product

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Coles Supermarkets Australia milk off

I bought a 4 litre lite milk date was 13th jan to expire but was off on 08 jan after pouring onto my cereal
and eating it, i spat it out in shock to find it was off. I had another 4 litre lite milk that I had bought as well and
that was ok on the 08th jan but by the 11th jan the same thing happened. I am assuming you have a lot of complaints
about the milk that was sold in the westcourt coles at cairns westcourt shopping cetre.

Please refund me two 4 litre bottles of milk.
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Coles Supermarkets Australia chocalate centres

hi we have been purchasing the coles brand choc mint crunch lollies for some time now, i thorougherly enjoy this product.
but we have noticed the last three months or so that there has been quite a few lollies with out the chocolate centres they have just been solid centres instead and this is a dissapointment as we like the chocalate in the middle and this is happening very frequently.
this is supposed to be an australian product and coles say they stand by there product and we are just bringing this matter to you attention so that it can be rectified but other wise we enjoy them very much we also do all our regular shopping with coles and have done for sone time now as we prefer your products hope to here from you soon

regards no chocalate centres.

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