Asda 2 bags for £2 sweets glitch

The_Old_Bag

Thank goodness someone (quoia)has explained .....
I shot off to my Asda, and could see the lollies etc on 2 for £2, but ALL the choccies are on 2 for £3, so I thought my store had different stock (weight/size of bag)
I will have to check them out again this weekend, and see if they have caught up with the rest of the country

quoia

quoia wrote:

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So I presume there will be 14 Twirls in a pack, each finger weighing 21.5 grams (approx)
(could be 15 if you are lucky)

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So I presume there are only 16 Crunchies in a bag - each bar weighing 17.125 grams
(17 I think would be a bonus !)

DEFINITELY worth checking the "feel" of a few bags before you pop them in your trolley.

I had bought 4 bags of Twirls and 4 bags of Crunchies.

When I got them home 1 of the bags of Twirls definitely felt lighter than the others. The same applied to 1 of the Crunchies.

Correspondingly 1 of the Twirls and 1 of the Crunchies felt heavier than the others.

In the interests of MSE, science and maths - I tossed them individually on the kitchen scales.

I was right.

The lightest Twirls was only 300g which to my mind is about 20g too light (and hence 1 bar missing once the wrappers and packaging have been removed) given that it is supposedly a 300g bag of chocolate
2 weighed in at 325g ish and yes there was a heavy one at 355 grams
The heaviest did indeed contain 15 individual Twirl fingers.

For the Crunchies the same was true.
Lightest 290g - probably underweight after deducting packaging given this bag supposedly contains 274g of chocolate.
2 weighed 312g and the heavy one was 328g.
The heaviest contained 18 Crunchie bars.

Needless to say, since further shopping was required at ASDA today, I returned the 2 "underweight" bags to CS and exchanged them for a replacement pair.
Careful selection brought a successful reward.
The "dodgy" 300g Twirl bag was replaced with one weighing 362g - a full 20% heavier !!!
The "dodgy" 290g Crunchie bag - sorted with one at 327g - 13% more

So TWO extra choccy bars in each just for picking the right bags !!

quoia

The_Old_Bag wrote:

Thank goodness someone (quoia)has explained .....
I shot off to my Asda, and could see the lollies etc on 2 for £2, but ALL the choccies are on 2 for £3, so I thought my store had different stock (weight/size of bag)
I will have to check them out again this weekend, and see if they have caught up with the rest of the country

You have been distracted by "the other" offer
There are 2 multibuys on at the minute.

The 2 for £3 is a "Masterfoods" (MARS) branded list of FUNSIZE products - Mars, Twix, Milky Way Bars & Milky Way MAGIC STARS, Bounty, Maltesers and Starburst Mix (Skittles)

The 2 for £2 (and better because of additional RollBack reductions) are MAINLY Cadbury's
Definitely includes "Treatsize" Crunchies and Twirls, also Cadbury's Buttons and Dairy Milk ( also I think Nestle's MilkyBar Buttons but don't quote me on this)

Happy Hunting

Madwelshmam

I just thought I'd let you know that this is was still working tonight in my Asdas, I now have lots of bags of Twirls (which are like half of a normal bar), and 4 packs of the Crunchys in our house, as well as loads of sweets...

Yippee...cheap but nice choccy..

Its def best to buy the ones that are £1.78 alone and get 2 for £1.60, instead of the £2 offer. I scan 2 packs first to check and then stock up on my next trip..