Australians are venting their anger after a South Australian shopper spotted a local supermarket promoting a buy now, pay later program as a way to buy groceries.
The shopper shared images of Afterpay signs at a Drakes supermarket on reddit, headlining the post, ‘Cost of living hack: get into crippling debt just to stay alive’.
Independent supermarket chain Drakes, which has stores in South Australia and Queensland, introduced Afterpay last year, becoming the first Australian supermarket to do so.
The furious shopper continued: “It’s one thing to have Afterpay at all, another to use it for groceries – but I honestly find if ridiculous that the supermarkets are actually promoting this sh*t.”
The post was met with a flurry of angry comments from fellow Aussies who say it’s a ‘disgrace’.
“Snags on AfterPay. We’re f***ed,” wrote one person.
“Everyday items shouldn’t be used on Afterpay, hell I would say if you have to Afterpay it you can’t afford it. I can understand emergency items on Afterpay. Car repairs for example. But groceries, bills etc. are the worst things to Afterpay, because there’s always more food to buy and another bill to pay. You’ll end up in a descending cycle of increasing debt as each bill or grocery shop builds upon the last until you can no longer pay. Then the fees start to rack up from Afterpay to really drive the nail into the debt coffin,” added another.
But there are those who don’t see a problem with it.
One person saying, “How is this any different from someone using a credit card to purchase groceries?”
While others admitted they have used buy now, pay later programs to buy groceries, without an issue.
“I’ve used ZipPay to buy Woolworths cards for my weekly shopping, long before the cost of living crisis. Currently debt free so I guess it helped at the time,” said one shopper.
Drakes Supermarkets director John-Paul Drake said in an ABC radio interview last year that the company did have some reservations about introducing the payment method, but did so to meet customer demand.
“[At first] I looked at Afterpay like, ‘Well if you’re using Afterpay, that means you’re struggling to pay for something,’ and when we started to actually look into it, that wasn’t the case at all,” he said.
Would you (or have you) used buy now, pay later to pay for groceries? Let us know in the comments below.
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