Bring back full-size wagon wheels!

One favourite luxury I buy from the big 'M' (supermarket) are the Lindt Lindor offerings. I carefully watch the prices of this BUT beware. On 'offer' at times, 3 of the smaller boxes for £10, at the moment about £5 each or the larger box on offer at £7.50. Which is the best value? Wonder how many look at the Yellow 'Price per 100gm" label on the face of the rack containing them? Same with St Agur cheese, another of my luxuries, normal price £2.40, offer same for £1.80 – 4 packs quickly in trolly..

Seen a few weeks ago, 500gm box of Lurpac butter £3, 1kg box (Twice the weight for those incapable of 2 x table) for £7.50? DOH.

Regards Ian.

Edited By Circlip on 04/03/2022 10:26:55

After Eights are still as good as they used to be, Quality Street too, just look out for when they are on special

Cadbury stuff is a writeoff now, US based companies never could do chocolate although Mars isn't bad

Shrinkflation is the word, says it all.

Agree Cadbury choc is now aweful, formulation changed to USA style. (they could never make decent chocolate over there). Too much Palm Oil I guess.

Agreed. Had one at a mates house yesterday and it was tiny.

regards

What’s really annoying is that they don’t give you a choice. It’s the take it or leave it attitude.

Likely a shorter list of items which are still the same size!

I immediately thought of milky ways, polos, mars bars. I expect there are a multitude of others.

I have been buying maltesers for my wife, recently. I looked at refilling the display box with some from a plain(er) plastic bag – but the ones in the display box were better value.

The better (apparent) value of the reduced size bar could easily be accounted for by the smaller nuts required – and possibly a good run on using up time-dated stocks of chocolate – among other factors, such as standard packaging sizes.

Ah!! memories. And sometimes you got one of the ends – had more chocolate.

Think Marianne Faithful and Mick Jagger inspired fun-size ones.

Easy, for a long time UK inflation was low (less than 1.0% for most of 2020), but it's been rising since January last year, 4.9% this January and the Bank of England are predicting it will rise above 7% this spring. Probably best to Google for explanations, but the pound in your pocket isn't worth what it was. As a result we're all getting less for our money. Chocolate, food, gas, electric, petrol, taxes, and pretty much everything else.

Just before chocolate bars become stupidly tiny manufacturers will reset our expectations by switching back to giant bars. They'll cost much more, but the new super-sizes will quell most criticism.

The cloud has a slightly silvery lining. If it's any consolation, low interest rates are good for pensioners but bad for the economy in general. The optimum inflation rate is about 2% because it encourages mild spending. Inflation above 5% is too high to be healthy, let's hope it comes down soon.

Dave

The thing that annoys me is when they charge more per unit weight for refill packs than for products in plastic bottles or dispensers. So the choice is between saving money or helping saving the planet.

Russell

Remember when wagon wheels were about the size of a flat cap? Plenty for me and a bit left to share with the whippet and 2 polecat ferrets.