Christmas Ham Prices Slashed To Lowest In Nine Years

Australia’s two supermarket giants are going head to head on ham prices leading up to Christmas, with both Coles and Woolworths cutting the price of their half leg ham to $8 a kilo.

Both retailers claim the move aims to help Aussies deal with increasing cost of living pressures leading up to Christmas.

Woolworths has lowered the price on its half leg ham to $8/kg, which is the lowest price on ham at Christmas since 2014. The Christmas ham will begin arriving in stores today, and will be available until sold out.

Christmas Ham Prices Slashed

“Ham is the centrepiece of the Christmas table for many Australian families, so we’re excited to lower the price of our award-winning half leg ham to $8 per kilo, which is our lowest price for Christmas since 2014, to help budgets go further this year,” Woolworths Supermarkets Managing Director, Natalie Davis said,

This year, Woolworths’ Christmas ham range includes 17 varieties, including four new products:

Woolworths Easy Carve Double Smoked Shoulder Ham ($11/kg)
Smoked Ham Portion ($28/kg)
Gold Triple Smoked Ham Joint ($28/kg)
Gold Sliced Smoked Ham Off the Bone ($12/kg)

Meanwhile Coles has also announced it’s also slashing the price of its Single Smoked Beechwood Half-Leg Ham to $8 a kilo.

Also launching today, the award-winning ham is 50c a kilo less than last year, with the average size four-kilogram half leg ham costing around $32.

Christmas Ham Prices Slashed

“We’re incredibly proud of our must-have, 100% Australian and sow stall free Single Smoked Beechwood Ham and we’re excited to offer customers the opportunity to spend less on their ham than last year,” Coles General Manager of Meat, Deli and Seafood Martin Smithson said.

Do you buy a Christmas ham every year, and will you be able to afford one this year? Let us know in the comments below.

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31 Comments

- - mom101628 said
  - 20 Nov 2023
    4:06 pm
Great news – I might be able to afford some this year! Thanks for letting us know.

- - mom443421 said
  - 07 Nov 2023
    11:12 am
Great news considering the price of everything else is rising tremendously.

- - BellaB said
  - 02 Nov 2023
    9:26 am
I do enjoy a good christmas ham, and try to budget for some.

- - mom462038 said
  - 31 Oct 2023
    10:36 am
This is such a crock! So sick of big supermarkets ripping us off. Making multi million, even billion, dollar profits every year but claiming they need to increase grocery prices because costs to get them to their shelves have increased. I call BS! Every day Aussies are struggling so bad, the supermarkets should look to decreasing their profits, lowering their prices to help us all through this tough time. It’s not gonna last, so we’re told, so pitch in and help. As usual, the big corporations are unaffected and no one is doing anything to stop them. Yet another case of the rich getting richer and the poor can suck it up ????

- - Danicastefanie said
  - 31 Oct 2023
    7:43 am
That’s good! Can they start lowering the cost of everything lse too please

- - Mum2archer said
  - 30 Oct 2023
    4:57 pm
Well thats good. My father in law and Brother in law make the best baked ham I have ever tasted !!

- - tessie said
  - 29 Oct 2023
    2:53 pm
I think there will only be my son and myself this year. I usually just buy sliced ham when it’s just us, then he can use the rest for his lunches. Christmas hasn’t been the same since I lost my husband to cancer

- - MandaMags said
  - 28 Oct 2023
    8:02 pm
This is great, if only prices could stay down down for a year or so.

- - mom101628 said
  - 28 Oct 2023
    3:49 pm
I will now be able to have a few slices of ham with my Christmas meal. Not sure what I am having, as it is so wasteful to buy too much once you live alone.

- - mom450498 said
  - 27 Oct 2023
    9:52 pm
Ham is traditional in our family but haven’t quite mastered how to cook it.

- - Frankiielot said
  - 26 Oct 2023
    10:31 pm
Our family eats so much ham, I’ve put this on the list to buy tomorrow.
I’m going to try and do a honeyed version.

- - mom265671 said
  - 26 Oct 2023
    9:50 pm
Nice that they have done that for families doing it a bit tough

- - mom489452 said
  - 26 Oct 2023
    8:29 pm
They have so much of our money 1 item will not make me forgive them for all the gouging

- - cassy26 said
  - 26 Oct 2023
    2:35 pm
Mmmm ham…. get in my belly!!!

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 26 Oct 2023
    1:55 pm
If only they’d do this on some other items too…
- mom93821 replied
  
  27 Oct 2023 , 4:37 am
  Hopefully the incentive to reduce prices will spread to other products and items too.