Quality Street - same size tin, contents down 99g

thor

sonnythecat wrote: »

Deceive the cus

My OH has several supermarkets as his clients. He recently went to the HQ of one and was walked through a different office to normal; a huge, open plan state of the art space filled will extremely loud and aggressive hotshot graduates. He said it felt like you'd imagine a New York law firm. His client told him that this entire department was devoted to outwitting the customer using whatever marketing, psychological, legal tricks possible.

This is what I have always expected. An army of overpaid marketing people trying to pull the wool over our eyes. They must really run into overdrive when the supermarkets are 'competing' to outdo each other's fake sales.
The sad thing is that we all fall for it so they can get away with it.

Coopdivi

I remember when Wagon Wheels were wagon wheels. You couldn't get them through your front door.

How dare modern manufacturers reduce the size. They should increase the price. Nobody will notice.

sonnythecat

Wagon Wheels were definitely as big as a dinner plate when I was a girl. Bigger, probably.:D

And don't get me started about Walnut Whips.......;)

NekoMalik

I hope they don't reduce the sizes of the tins...else, what am I going to use to store the cakes I bake over the new year??

We've got an old Roses tin that we use for large chocolate cakes when I make them, and that thing is HUGE, held over 2kg of choccies when we got it!

TBH, I think they should produce two sizes of tins; one smaller one that's still £10 (£5 half price, thanks!) and a much bigger one - for parties, of course! Not for me at all >.>;;

brettcta

perhaps the wrappers are slightly lighter than previous years?

Rainy-Days

Bottles of Schloer drink at a class act at this. They used to be one litre bottles now they are down the 750ml! But they still charge the exact same price for less quantity! They are all at it Cadbury's is in the spotlight for reducing the size of it's bars but still charging the same price as well :-(

Yorkshire_Pud

Sadly the decline continues and a further reduction in weight to 820g for the tin for Christmas.

Don't think the price will go down but the risk of emergency dentistry over the Christmas period may:eek:

Middy

My colleagues were discussing where can you buy these tins between Jan - August as its a cheap way of buying sweets/chocs for buying to give among colleagues during birthdays and when someone leaves work etc.

As my birthday is in mid Jan, I had to buy a couple of tins in December to dish out to my colleagues on my 30th birthday (well the day before as I don't work my birthday)

Middy

NekoMalik wrote: »

TBH, I think they should produce two sizes of tins; one smaller one that's still £10 (£5 half price, thanks!) and a much bigger one - for parties, of course! Not for me at all >.>;;

Last year, I saw in a larger Sainsburys a larger tin of QS along with the standard one. I couldn't remember the price of it but it was 1.6kg to celebrate 75 years of QS. I am not too sure if they are having larger tins with the normal design.

The tin was http://www.amazon.co.uk/Quality-Limited-Edition-Collectors-Anniversary/dp/B006LN8NTA

thatguy1

There still is a larger tin available, although it's only 1.2kg.