Tins of Quality street, Roses and Celebrations £5 each or 2 for £7. (£3.50 each tin)

roddydogs

But if virtually everyone know their only worth £4-£5, who regards that as a "present", you would need to buy something else anyway.Kids want £40 games, not a cheap tin of sweets.

jellyhead

roddydogs wrote: »

But if virtually everyone know their only worth £4-£5, who regards that as a "present", you would need to buy something else anyway.Kids want £40 games, not a cheap tin of sweets.

If my kids didn't regard a tin with almost a kilo of sweets as enough of a 'present' from any relative I'd be thinking I'd brought them up wrong ...

jeanmd

roddydogs wrote: »

But if virtually everyone know their only worth £4-£5, who regards that as a "present", you would need to buy something else anyway.Kids want £40 games, not a cheap tin of sweets.

Not all children! My grown up children and my grandchildren do not expect anything from my mother who only has hers and a small work pension from my late father. She insists on buying them something and believe me they are very grateful.

LeaLea89

roddydogs wrote: »

But if virtually everyone know their only worth £4-£5, who regards that as a "present", you would need to buy something else anyway.Kids want £40 games, not a cheap tin of sweets.

Something bought for or given to someone else is a 'present' not all people are as obsessed with how much something costs. You have to be grateful that someone has bought something for you, or kids, not everyone can afford £40 games everytime.

jellyhead

My step-grandmother is nearly 90 and she buys a selection box for all of the great-grandchildren. They are grateful because it's nice to be thought of and be given a gift. My children probably have 30+ people giving them christmas gifts, it's mad. They certainly don't need each one of those gifts to cost more than a fiver.

A lot of the 30 gifts I give outside of my own household this year will cost less than a fiver.

cef66

I'm delighted when I'm given a gift, as are my children and we would all love to be given a tin of chocolates or sweets.
I remember when I was growing up one of our favourite Christmas presents was the tin of Quality Street sent through the post from an uncle we rarely saw. This was a family present and it's arrival was one of the things I remember which made Christmas special as we didn't often have chocolates.
Obviously the tins are cheaper, and smaller now but my children would think wow what a lot of sweets in one tin rather than think about the cost, which they're probably not aware of anyway.
My MIL buys a token chocolate present for her grandchildren and I'm glad to say my children are always pleased with what they get.

Confuzzled

pretzelnut wrote: »

Im sure morrisons do a price check voucher on their SOLD OUT deals.

If an offer has sold out you can ask for a voucher, and when it comes back in stock you can buy it for the price of the offer.

that's what i thought too but when i asked about it and insisted they clarify with a manager they said that only works on items that aren't listed as while supplies last

not sure i believe them if i'm honest, at first the women didn't even know what i was talking about!

i was under the impression that advertising, especially in a big way, something on sale, especially when it has days left to go and not having enough to supply was known as bait and switch, i didn't voice this opinion at the time i enquired about them but if this continues to happen with their deals and they refuse to give one of their IOU's i may have to email head office and inform them of this particular stores inability to live up to promises, not sure it will do anything but it would make me feel better at least

i couldn't even get the woman to be upfront about when the deals start, made me a little suspcicious

AmandaToogood

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- a saving of 50p for a tin of chocs is not enough of an incentive for me - I would rather pay more at Asda or Tesco[/QUOTE]

Chocs are priced at £4.00 in Asda. With the Asda price match this reduces the price to £3.50 BUT Asda offers its 10% cheaper guarantee so this reduces the price to £3.15 compared to Morrison's £3.50 anf here I'll agree with Galvanizersbaby it's a much more pleasant shop!

DaveLy

roddydogs wrote: »

But if virtually everyone know their only worth £4-£5, who regards that as a "present", you would need to buy something else anyway.Kids want £40 games, not a cheap tin of sweets.

As adults the majority of us, in this current consumerist society that we live in want things we simply can't and will never likely have.

Better to teach a kid the harsher realities of life now, teach them that if they want something then they're going to have to be the ones to get it, and not rely on their parents for the things they want. It'll be the best lesson money cannot buy ;-)

One method of parenting teaches your kids to grow an ever more reliance on you -- something that is coming to fruition in current society (coupled with a valid enough excuse of cost of living increases). The other method of parenting teaches your kid to be reliant on themselves.

In the long run, it's self serving for your kids to be reliant on themselves, as when we hit retirement age it's common knowledge the state pension will no longer exist, thus we'll need a reliance on our children... back to how it used to be... it's going to be a shock for most though when they realise that perhaps they should of actually spent their time as a parent being a parent.

I think our current iteration society has lost what parenting actually means... fobbing their kids off on whoever will take their 'inconvenience' away from you.

But it's merely a case of human nature, repeating everything that has been repeated before. We could blame our parents, but then they could blame theirs, and the blame game goes on all day long ^_^ It's all about blaming others and never yourself.

Doc_N

galvanizersbaby wrote: »

I have to say our local Morrisons is in a not so great part of town so it is not unusual to find the customers that shop there physically fighting over reduced meat etc..:eek:
I try and avoid going there if I can possibly help it, especially with the kids in tow - a saving of 50p for a tin of chocs is not enough of an incentive for me - I would rather pay more at Asda or Tesco

I'm with you on Morrisons - though I think it's got more to do with the store itself than where it's located. It's pretty much the most downmarket store in this area - and that includes Aldi and Lidl. Tesco's not a lot better, though!