Roses chocolates - a bit of a con

Badger_Lady

DCFC79 wrote: »

How is a con if the weights are listedn on the item ? Yes its well known things have decreased in size(they are a business and the aim is to make money) and price has stayed the same or gone up.

It's not a 'con', it's just sneaky because the producer knows that customers are unlikely to notice the difference. It would be more 'honest' to simply put the price up.

POPPYOSCAR

Badger_Lady wrote: »

It's not a 'con', it's just sneaky because the producer knows that customers are unlikely to notice the difference. It would be more 'honest' to simply put the price up.

Yes I understand your point, but I would rather they had less in and cost less so we end up eating less that way!

esuhl

ultimatedingbat wrote: »

I think what she is referrign to is how Cadburys are most likely vharging a similar price for their smaller tin, compared to their larger tins in the past

And she thinks it a "con" that anyone should raise their prices in 20 years? Has she heard of inflation? Does she have any understanding of the changes in labour and manufacturing prices or the costs of raw materials? Would she expect Cadbury's to have a duty to fix their prices forever, even if the business runs at a loss?

If the OP was going to sell her house, would she try to "con" the buyers, or would she do the honest thing and sell it for what it was worth 20 years ago?

Sorry - I just don't understand how she would prefer the situation to be resolved. Any kind of legislation to restrict price fluctuations would (I should imagine) cause significant damage to the economy which has been established on the basis of (more-or-less) free trade capitalism.

peachyprice

esuhl wrote: »

And she thinks it a "con" that anyone should raise their prices in 20 years? Has she heard of inflation? Does she have any understanding of the changes in labour and manufacturing prices or the costs of raw materials? Would she expect Cadbury's to have a duty to fix their prices forever, even if the business runs at a loss?

Perhaps not a 'con', but definitley misleading purely because the tin has remained more or less the same size, the price has remained the same, but the contents have shrunk.

If Cadbury's were being honest the would shrink the size of the tin in proportion to the weight of the contents, not keep it the same but only half fill it. The tins give the impression that they are the same size and same price this year and they were last and the one before and the one before, but they're not £ for lb.

If Cadbury's were still filling the to the same weight they'd cost twice as much and people would not buy so many.

I bet by next year they will be 750g in the same size tin.

Nirvana9

trumpton wrote: »

In a similar vein, they seem to have changed the contents of Heroes and Celebrations, using cheaper chocs.

Just what I was going to say. Not noticed it with Celebrations yet but Heroes used to have great chocolates in them. Now they suck and I wouldn't even consider buying them

Shame because I love Cadbury's. Though, not so much since the buy out....

VfM4meplse

Murtle wrote: »

I think you are missing a 1 in front of the 850grams.

Not true. The reason it is a con is that the size has scaled down by more than 50% and yet supermarkets still claim that the cost is about £10, and then run 1/2 price "promotions". I'm with the OP on this one.

margaretclare wrote: »

Where? With whom has it 'become a tradition to buy a tin of these chocolates at Christmas'? I've never heard of such a 'tradition'!

Did you get out of the grumpy side of bed this morning?

Every major food retailer will disagree with you, as will Cadburys and Mars, whose production of these boxes increase dramatically for the season. A slightly different example is creme eggs - production starts in June the previous year to get enough made to meet the demand at Easter. Like it or not, anyone involved in the supply chain of poor quality cheap chocolates profits from a religious holiday.

Kaye1

We have a tin of sweets to open on Christmas Day and my parents do the same. So, that looks like a tradition to me.

~daisy~_2

tradition in my house too !!

morganedge

~daisy~ wrote: »

tradition in my house too !!

Me too.
Probably pretty much everyone on this forum in fact, so lets just agree that the OP was correct and it has become somewhat of a tradition.

barbiedoll

Yes, we have a tradition in my family.....someone always buys me a tin of ghastly chocolates, usually Roses, Celebrations or (poor) Quality Street.

We open them at Christmas, no-one eats them, they stay in the kitchen cluttering up my cupboard until around March when I give them to DH to take to work. Then I get the tin back and use it to store my home-made cakes in.