Expensive heads of lettuce going unpurchased will soon have company on store shelves.

The price of cabbage has doubled to $9 at markets in Sydney and it appears the costly price tags aren’t far off in Queensland.

Woolworths has listed whole green and red cabbages for a whopping $8 a head in some stores while mini savoys cost $5.90 in Coles supermarkets.

It comes just a week after KFC announced it lettuce would be swapped out for cabbage on burgers in an effort to save on costs.

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