Half-price specials: Coles, Woolworths' best deals this week

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Australia's two big supermarket chains, Coles and Woolworths, both have a range of products they sell at 50 per cent off each week.

Lucky for you, Yahoo Finance does the running around for you every week to round up the best half-price deals from both stores here in one place so that you can decide where to shop.

The grocery industry already runs on low margins, so these deals would earn very little money for Woolworths and Coles.

But they put them on so to lure customers into their store, where they are likely to purchase other items at full price to complete their weekly shop.

These items are on sale Wednesday August 21 and will be half-price until Tuesday August 27 inclusive:

Coles: best half-price deals

Non-food items:

• Swisse Ultiboost Glucosamine Sulfate 1500mg 180 tablets: $21

• Swisse Ultiboost Odourless Wild Fish Oil 1000mg 400 capsules: $14

• Sukin shampoo or conditioner 1L: $12.50

• Sukin Purely Ageless Rejuvenating Day Cream or Restorative Night Cream 120mL: $11.50

• Sukin Hydrating body lotion 500mL: $10.50

• Swisse Women’s or Men’s Ultivite Multivitamin 30 tablets: $10

• Vanish Gold stain remover gel 1.75L: $9.50

• Finish Quantum Ultimate dishwasher tablets 18-Pack or 0% 22-pack: $8.50

• Cold Power laundry powder 2kg or liquid 1.8-2L: $7.90 (better than half-price)

(Image: Coles)

Food items:

• Lindt Lindor Cornet chocolate balls 375g: $10

• Maharajah’s Choice basmati rice 5kg: $9.50

• Ferrero Collection chocolate gift box 15-pack or 16-pack: $6.30

• Cadbury gift box 220g: $6

• Häagen-Dazs ice cream 3-pack 240mL: $5

• La Española olive oil 500mL: $4.50

• Cadbury Crunchie or Picnic ice cream 4-pack 300-360mL: $4.25

Woolworths: best half-price deals

Non-food items:

• Oral B Pro 100 Cross Action electric toothbrush: $35

• Oral B Vitality Precision Clean or Floss Action electric toothbrush: $20 (better than half-price)

• Oral B Stages kids electric toothbrush: $20 (better than half-price)

• Blackmores Odourless Fish Oil 1000mg capsules 400-pack: $19.50

• Finish Quantum Ultimate dishwasher tablets 36-pack or 0% 42-pack: $15 (better than half-price)

• Revlon Photoready Candid foundation 22mL: $12.50

• Revlon Ultra HD Lip Mousse hyper matte 5.9mL: $12.50

• Bonds Men’s Guyfront trunk underwear: $11 (other Bonds items also half-price)

• Biozet Attack regular laundry powder 2kg or liquid 2L: $9.99

• Vanish Gold Pro Oxi Action or Oxi Action White 1.8kg: $9.99

(Image: Woolworths)

Food items:

• Lindt Lindor gift box 235g: $9.50

• Ferrero Collection 172g 15-pack: $6.30

• Red Island extra virgin olive oil 500ml: $4.25

• Vittoria Espressotoria coffee capsules 12-pack: $4.20

• Mr Chen’s Yum Cha 200-300g: $3.75

• Uncle Tobys Super Blend oats sachets 8-pack 368g: $3.50

• Bulla Everyday ice cream 540-768ml 6- to 14-pack: $3.40

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