Great 'disguised Own Brand' Hunt.

jenniewb

terra_ferma wrote: »

this must be one of the funniest posts I've seen in this forum.... Selfridges to buy chocolate? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
You obviously don't need MSE...

Sorry, I was advising for chocolate not money saving. I'd also said I don't buy it myself in the very same post your quoting from...

terra_ferma

jenniewb wrote: »

Sorry, I was advising for chocolate not money saving. I'd also said I don't buy it myself in the very same post your quoting from...

well... once I went to Harrods to buy some toilet paper (not jocking, a long story....), so Selfridges for chocolate is not that bad

Doc_N

terra_ferma wrote: »

well... once I went to Harrods to buy some toilet paper (not jocking, a long story....), so Selfridges for chocolate is not that bad

They do sell the rather good Belgian Leonidas chocolates.

£39 per kilo in the UK (everywhere) but only £17 per kilo in Belgium. Difficult to see how a profit margin that big can be justified (particularly as the VAT rate's marginally higher in Belgium) - but it does add a bonus to a trip to Belgium!

charlieheard

jenniewb wrote: »

terra_ferma wrote:

this must be one of the funniest posts I've seen in this forum.... Selfridges to buy chocolate?
You obviously don't need MSE...:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Sorry, I was advising for chocolate not money saving. I'd also said I don't buy it myself in the very same post your quoting from...

You've nothing to be sorry about - what's the point of a luxury if it's horrible I think terra ferma missed the point...

pin1onu

Ego_Shredder wrote: »

I know about the Cadbury takeover a few years back and I even emailed them to voice my concerns! I'm no chocoholic or anything but G & B milk chocolate is one I do not want spoiling. Anyway they assured me that no process of making it will remain the same, with the same workforce and factories etc. Time will tell of course but for now they have been true to their word.

Cadbury is owned by Kraft. They took over Cadbury's and promised to keep the factory at Keynsham (Near Bristol) open. They have since moved their manufacturing to Poland because it's cheaper. Some 400 British jobs lost.

I would take any promise made by them with a very large overdose of salt. We boycott Cadbury's because of the way acted.

Doc_N

pin1onu wrote: »

Cadbury is owned by Kraft. They took over Cadbury's and promised to keep the factory at Keynsham (Near Bristol) open. They have since moved their manufacturing to Poland because it's cheaper. Some 400 British jobs lost.

I would take any promise made by them with a very large overdose of salt. We boycott Cadbury's because of the way acted.

The trouble is, you'd also need to boycott Nestle for their highly questionable practices (see Wikipedia for more). Why are chocolate makers such deeply unpleasant conerns now, bearing in mind the original Quaker highly-principled firms such as Rowntree and Cadbury?

terra_ferma

charlieheard wrote: »

You've nothing to be sorry about - what's the point of a luxury if it's horrible I think terra ferma missed the point...

I think it's just funny, people tend to go off on a tangent in every thread, but going from ' Great 'disguised Own Brand' Hunt'
to buying chocolate from Selfridge takes a bit of imagination and made me laugh...
(it's not about the principle of what chocolate people eat, it's their business, I've got Hotel Chocolat in my kitchen right now)

grizzly1911

Doc_N wrote: »

The trouble is, you'd also need to boycott Nestle for their highly questionable practices (see Wikipedia for more). Why are chocolate makers such deeply unpleasant conerns now, bearing in mind the original Quaker highly-principled firms such as Rowntree and Cadbury?

I like Milka and noticed that is Kraft, tastes totally different to Cadbury though.

Lindt takes some beating IMO.

Anyone know ho does the Aldi stuff. Interesting how they "take off" the Lindt Bunnies and Reindeers.

Ken68

I know of an industrial unit in a nearby village ,that buys out of date tinned goods by the lorry load and then re-labels them and sells on.
Could be that the goods are still in date and therefore legal but surely not legal to re-date.
Is this a dodge that other readers know about?

jenniewb

Ken68 wrote: »

I know of an industrial unit in a nearby village ,that buys out of date tinned goods by the lorry load and then re-labels them and sells on.
Could be that the goods are still in date and therefore legal but surely not legal to re-date.
Is this a dodge that other readers know about?

How on Earth do they manage that?! I have seen on most of my tins the BBE is printed on the ends of the tin and not on the label. Maybe they aren't out of date and insted just not selling well or from end of lines when a store is trying to get rid of things to fit in different stock.