Easter eggs reduced

Rosa_Damascena

I nipped into a Sainsburys Local yesterday and found Terry's individual eggs for 60p 25p each. I am not going to pretend they are the tastiest!

They also had bags of the pistachio mini-eggs reduced by 2/3 £3.25 £1.05 - slightly cheaper on the website I see:

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-pistachio-creme-mini-eggs-150g . Worth it as they don't expire until well after Easter next year (the downside being they are totally UPF!). No plans to try them until then but the first review I found was favourable: https://www.tiktok.com/%40mine.s96/video/7624607318986067222

subjecttocontract

Asda still have hundreds of Easter eggs now at £1.25....…that's cheaper than a bad of chocolate. Glad I'm not an Asda shareholder someone has really, REALLY screwed up and over ordered stock that's probably now being sold at a loss. No wonder Asda financials are in such a mess.

Rosa_Damascena

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81960265#Comment_81960265

The financials are in a mess because the brothers sold off the family silver. I think they will take the company to a psoition where its worth more broken up into parts.

MouldyOldDough

I am unsure whether Cadbury eggs are PROPER chocolate or American CANDY chocolate ?

Creme eggs STILL appear to be UK type chocolate this year at least - but some bars are US style, some are still UK style….

jon81uk

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81950223#Comment_81950223

Yes they will be chocolate, Cadbury Dairy Milk is legally defined as milk chocolate.

Also yes it does contain vegetable fats, as it has done for at least 30-40 years.

jon81uk

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81961022#Comment_81961022

As above, Cadbury Dairy Milk is legally milk chocolate and has met that definition in the same way for many years.

Rosa_Damascena

I was in Aldi earlier and saw shelf-talkers with the Easter marzipan bars, mallow lollies and other small treats reduced to 9p. This is a self-clearing tactic that worked, there was nothing left.

clyndu

Sainsbury today had all eggs reduced to 45p each. They were tucked out of the way and I stumbled on them by accident. DD is pleased as she now has a Mars and a Fruit pastille one.

Grumpy_chap

Well, we were in our local Tesco Extra on Sunday and, while there were no or very few Easter Eggs immediately after Easter, over half of the Seasonal Aisle was stacked full with Easter Eggs. Not just a very small number of the less popular eggs, but full shelves of the larger sized and more popular mainstream products. They were all labelled as "reduced" but no percentage saving stated. I am not even sure that the prices were any cheaper than the pre-Easter pricing, especially once Clubcard Pricing was considered.

Anyway, with this thread in mind, I checked one random Egg. The Cadbury Dairy Milk 389g egg at £7.50. A couple of aisles away, a standard 360g bar of Cadbury Dairy Milk at £4.25 (Clubcard Price) or £5 (standard price). In my opinion the shelves full of Easter Eggs are far to highly priced to sell and will need to be reduced to a quarter of what they currently are to shift.

Not that I'd be buying Easter Eggs or any other chocolate.

Grumpy_chap

I noticed at the weekend that half the Easter Eggs had gone, the remaining ones are now £3.25 for the same size eggs so a bit cheaper than a regular bar of chocolate of equivalent weight.

I suspect next weekend will be the final eggs down at a final price.