The Incredible Shrinking Roses/Quality Street tins

[vegster]

Another sign of rip-off Britain, this years tin of Roses has shrunk from 975g down to 850g yet they are still being pushed at a "Special Offer " price of a Fiver. I'm pretty sure that the year before last we actually had a 1kg tin as I remember having to choose between Roses and QS and one was marginally under the 1 Kg.

So now we know why nearly all the supermarkets have piles of them in stock allegedly at a good price, buyer beware !

Rant over.

 

[Beach Hut]

In a severe recession if prices remain the same the quality / quantity will always be compromised

 

[otk]

QS are 820g. tins in some places

Total pisstake

 

[drew]

Loads of manufacturers have done this and in some cases, they don't even reduce the size of the packaging so it is not readily obvious. It is a rip off and the supermarkets and manufactures are obviously in collusion about it. Bugger all you can do though if you still want that product.

 

[The Birdman]

Like all chocolate bars

 

[Stat Brother]

I may have noticed some other jiggery pokery, but as it's only a couple of brands, I can't be sure.

Grocery item sold at say £1.50.

Put on a loss leader promotion for 'only £1', for a couple of weeks.

Then returned to it's retail price £1.90.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Good for us fatties that need to lose weight though.

 

[wunt be druv]

The utter BASTARDS!! how very dare they!

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

As long as the praline type of triangles are still there in QS I will be happy

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

I'm sure they were 2k once!

 

[clippedgull]

I may have noticed some other jiggery pokery, but as it's only a couple of brands, I can't be sure.

Grocery item sold at say £1.50.

Put on a loss leader promotion for 'only £1', for a couple of weeks.

Then returned to it's retail price £1.90.

Yep, I have seen that in action at Morrisons.

Anchor butter reduced from £2.35 to £2.00 500g tub then back to retail at £2.90!!!

 

[vegster]

Tins of chockies seem to be going the way of Wagon Wheels and Cadbury's Creme Eggs, maybe a boycott is in order ?

 

[DumLum]

Another sign of rip-off Britain, this years tin of Roses has shrunk from 975g down to 850g yet they are still being pushed at a "Special Offer " price of a Fiver. I'm pretty sure that the year before last we actually had a 1kg tin as I remember having to choose between Roses and QS and one was marginally under the 1 Kg.

So now we know why nearly all the supermarkets have piles of them in stock allegedly at a good price, buyer beware !

Rant over.

Well spotted!

I would like to rant about the fact I paid over £1 for a bag of crisps at a BP service station the other day. Yes, it was a grab bag (Bit excessive I know) but I assumed they would be about 70p. Over a pound, WTF!

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Cheese 400g down to 320g same packet, same price..we'll never notice

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Another sign of rip-off Britain, this years tin of Roses has shrunk from 975g down to 850g yet they are still being pushed at a "Special Offer " price of a Fiver. I'm pretty sure that the year before last we actually had a 1kg tin as I remember having to choose between Roses and QS and one was marginally under the 1 Kg.

So now we know why nearly all the supermarkets have piles of them in stock allegedly at a good price, buyer beware !

Rant over.

You should have been a bit quicker, they were £4 a tin recently at Asda

Lots of companies do this, its a choice between increasing the price and keeping it the same size or reducing the size and keeping the price the same and most do the latter when overheads mean they have to do something or lose money on them. That said, i would love to see some products released, even if only for a limited time in their original sizes, items such as wagon wheels.

 

[BensGrandad]

Some years ago Courage reduced the strength of Hofmeister Lager but not the price and nobody noticed. It then went into a lower tax bracket so earned the brewers a lot of money. Gordons Gin and Smirnhoff Vodka did the same reduced them from 40% proof to 37.5 ironically both are owned by Diageo a USA company is it a co incidence that most of our chocolates are now owned by USA companies and the same is happening.

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

You all have the ultimate weapon in the war against being ripped off in your armoury - don't buy them. If those bloody great piles of stock sit unsold, they'll either have to discount them further, 'til they reach a point which is acceptable, or re-enlarge the tins to their old sizes.

But people do keep buying them, in their millions. Where's the incentive for them to do anything other than what they're doing now?

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

Deleting double post. Sorry.

 

[Husty]

Another sign of rip-off Britain, this years tin of Roses has shrunk from 975g down to 850g yet they are still being pushed at a "Special Offer " price of a Fiver. I'm pretty sure that the year before last we actually had a 1kg tin as I remember having to choose between Roses and QS and one was marginally under the 1 Kg.

So now we know why nearly all the supermarkets have piles of them in stock allegedly at a good price, buyer beware !

Rant over.

Get onto your local politician about rising food prices, not Cadburys.

 

[kevtherev]

I remember when I was a kid, my Mum always bought a tin of QS at Xmas, they seemed to last forever and was always loads of toffees left at the end of the tin. Now I buy a tin and you can see the bottom of the tin before you even have one, couple of days and they are gone....and there is only about 2 green triangles as well, takes the piss!!!!!