Ordering Online Versus Buying at the Market

People ask which is cheaper, the stall or the website. The answer depends entirely on how much you are buying, so here it is properly rather than as a slogan.

At the market, the price is the price

The chalkboard is flat. Two pies for $29, whatever you pick. Sausage rolls two for $15, or four for $26. What you see is what you pay, and that simplicity is deliberate. Nobody wants to stand in a queue doing arithmetic.

It is a good deal if you are picking up a couple of things on a Saturday morning, which is what most people at a market are doing.

Online, the price falls as the quantity rises

The website is built the other way round, because packing eight pies costs me barely more effort than packing four.

Four or eight pies works out at the same $14.50 each you would pay at the stall. Go to twelve and it drops to $13. The Full Monty twelve-pie combo brings it to $12 a pie, which is the best price we do anywhere.

Sausage rolls follow the same shape. Four is $7 each, twelve is $6.

The best value we sell

Add four sausage rolls to any pie order and they are $20, which is $5 each.

That is cheaper than any price on the chalkboard and cheaper than buying them on their own online. If you are already ordering pies, there is no reason not to.

All website prices are before sales tax, which is added at checkout.

So which should you do

Buying two or three things? Come to the market. The price is much the same, you get to try before you buy, and the pasties only exist there.

Stocking the freezer for the month? Order online. The price breaks are real, you get every flavor rather than whatever is left at eleven o’clock, and you pick where and when to collect.

That second point matters more than people expect. By the middle of a market morning the popular flavors have thinned out. Online, everything is there.

How collection works

Order on the site, choose one of our collection points and a date that suits, and we bring it to you frozen. You get an email the moment it has been dropped off, so you are not guessing.

There are collection points across the metro, including several breweries and the kitchen itself by appointment. It is not a delivery service and it is not a queue. You pick the spot that is already on your way somewhere.

Browse the shop or see the collection points

One thing that is not about money

Everything goes in the freezer either way. A pie you bought at the market in September is exactly the same pie you would have ordered online, made in the same kitchen the same week.

The only real question is how many you want and how much effort you want to spend getting them.