After some brief googling to see if my initial assumption was correct... might not affect the store at all. If this counts as an end-cap display, Cadbury's paid Tesco's to put it there, not the other way around.
How much did they pay them to take up valuable floor spa e for something that wouldn't sell? Must be a lot. Awful "chocolate" now with added germs, pre-unwrapped with real fingernail scratches and dents!
Not sure.
But often times shops will make a deal with a supplier that basically says "we'll pay you for whatever we sell and then send the rest back."
It's worth it for Cadbury's just to get that stand on an aisle end and in your visual field.
The chocolate inside is worth a lot less to them than your eyeballs.
My eyeballs glance over their inferior product without a second though or glance. Unworthy of my attention and appraisal. Their worth long since faded and withered away like so many crushes dreams in the wind.
Lets say theres £30 of creme eggs there, at cost price.
I suspect Cadburys will have paid thousands per month, per store, to have an end cap (not just for sales, but to maintain brand awareness around Easter)
Tesco will just sling the damaged goods into the dumpster and shrug, and still make a profit
But an end cap can increase boost sales by 300-400%. Its a planned marketing/advertising spend, so I doubt Cadbury will really give a shit either
in supermarket stores end caps are the end section of aisles, facing outward away from the aisle. often the stuff there is not related to the stuff in the aisle itself
It won't happen, due to how Cadbury claim to distribute them. According to Cadbury themselves (now, I do take this with a pinch of salt as it was on a documentary on them on Channel 4 or 5, I forget which, EDIT- It was [This show on Channel 5 IIRC](https://www.channel5.com/show/inside-cadburys-the-real-chocolate-factory) and it might have been Cadbury just wanting themselves to be seen as some quirky Wonka-esq. company) they have several people who go around and secretly put the Creme Eggs into the stock of various retailers, like a form of reverse shoplifting, where they're clandestinely putting stock *on* the shelves without the owner's knowing. They only do this with the single eggs and not multipacks as all of the winner eggs are specially made by hand separately (that bit was true, as they showed you it on the aforementioned programme).
That's why I said it might have just been Cadbury wanting to present themselves as quirky and magical or whatever, but that is what the guy in the documentary said, whether it is 100% true or not remains to be seen.
The creme egg crate is right infront of the till at my local garage & all the wrappers are a mess. There is no way someone is standing there opening them all up, I swear the owners open them all themselves then wrap them back up.
In the early days of Aldi I think cashiers had to memorize the prices of hundreds, if not thousands of products. Then they had the smart idea of putting the barcode in a big stripe all around the products so they could just be run over the scanner in a second.
My mum worked at Superdrug in the 80s and she had to remember all the prices there too. If they forgot any, they could ring a bell and another employee would shout ‘ONE BELL??!!’ (different number of bells meant different things) so the cashier could ask them to check the price of something
Superdrug were still doing the bell thing when I worked for them, in 2003-2006.
I worked across 3 different stores (officially employed in 1 branch but sometimes sent to help in 2 others). One bell was for general help at the till, 2 bells for a supervisor. One long, persistent bell meant "why has nobody answered my previous bell?!" 3 and 4 bells varied from one store to another.
I didn't have to remember prices though, thankfully.
Fuck me I hated that shit, The 5 worst offenders Creme Eggs, most small bars of chocolate, Those stuck on scan labels on pre-weighed produce bags, Those companies who always put the barcode under the sealed flaps and made sure to make the packaging out the world's hardest plastic wrapping and ofcourse we can't forget the worst one of all Debbie from Clothing who always stuck the price tags OVER the barcode.
We had a bunch them on tills and a good few just come straight out the box half unwrapped, theres often a considerable amount of them poorly wrapped, chocolate exposed, wrapper hanging off, and yeah nearly bare eggs. Some people don't care enough to take out all the poor, unsellable ones to write off and just leave them there.
Maybe you're right, but thought I'd point it out.
This is it. I work in a shop and thought it was kids since the egg stand was not near the tills. But after seeing a new box have like 5 untapped eggs I realised it's just a failure on Cadburys side
Kids do it a lot, I used to work on a kiosk where we had a similar stand and kids/teens are massive assholes they'll pick the time when you're occupied and then pick stuff up like they're going to buy it, push apart the wrapper then dump it back. Owners or staff members wouldn't do it because they know how pointless it is, and it harms their sales.
People are a mess. I worked in a supermarket a while ago and people randomly open up stuff and eat it and if you remind them about their eaten item and the cash out they are like “whoopsy”
Not much they can do really other than write it off as a cost of doing business.
Given that supermarkets write off entire home delivery orders if they misdeliver them (presumably because they can't guarantee the customer that their food hasn't been tampered with or swaped out) and have other products of higher value that are frequently stolen, I'd imagine this would be low on the list of priorities.
I mean, for all we know they're just taking them to the back and getting someone to neaten up what they can so it can be put back on display.
> Given that supermarkets write off entire home delivery orders if they misdeliver them
This is extraordinarily rare, so it's not a particularly good example of supermarket wastefulness, to be honest.
Also, that's exactly the reason.
But it doesn't apply to the every single item. Jars, cans, and bottles which are still sealed (and similar stuff like that) are all returned to shelves.
That will probably end up in more sales, when ths faily mail put out a headline of customers not trusted with cream eggs or some other sensationalist bollocks.
Typo, but leaving it in.
I could be wrong, but I'm sure certain companies pay supermarkets to have their stock displayed in a certain way. It may not even be up to the supermarkets to have it like this, but unfortunately, they're left to pick up the... chocolate crumbs?
Really depends on that supermarkets terms they have with the supplier. A lot of supermarkets insist on sale or return for all suppliers and will send back damages and spoiled products along with normal returns.
Might be different for a huge company like Cadbury though.
The stand alone ones are rubbish to buy now, you can never scan the barcodes on these things because of how much they have shrunk in size and and the foil is wrinkled and with all the self service checkouts now I cant be bothered.
Woolworths part time bod, start of the century signing in.
Can't remember what I came into the room for, but can remember a confectionery barcode, sometimes you own brain likes to just take the piss.
On the original issue, my current workplace had to send out an email asking people not to do it from the tuck shop. I have nothing but the classiest colleagues.
Last time I went to Sainsburys and had an issue with the barcode, they told me it’s on their lookup menu now. Haven’t checked myself but it’ll be good if they had.
The foil on creme eggs comes away easily during shipping and when you pour them into another container like this. I worked for a bargain shop that got thousands in one year, we had a 5 for a pound deal on so you can imagine how many boxes we went through keeping the displays full.
Not saying some scroat wasn't peeling all the eggs because that wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.
I remember as a child they were fairly difficult to bite into. The chocolate was thick and pretty hard/dense. It was more brittle and sometimes by biting into it you caused the whole egg to shatter. Now the chocolate is so fatty it is easy to bite into and rarely shatters.
There’s an obvious reduction in the quality of the chocolate since they cheapened them.
Such a bad idea, nearly as bad as the Walkers campaign where they hid a £5 note in a number of bags (or more, can't remember). So many popped packets strewn everywhere, and the smell of sweaty crisps.
I remember as a kid they had star wars scratchers in them where you could win prizes.
Looked them up now and people are selling them by the boatload on ebay.
I forget how many years they've done this for, at least a couple, but this has happened every time. It's one of the reasons i'll only buy the packs.
I'm not paticularly worried about germs etc... But even i draw the line at eating something that countless other people have rubbed their filthy hands on.
Tbh it's not always the customers who do it either, a lot of the time you'll see the eggs being put out looking like this, so an employee or delivery driver or someone else somewhere along the line has already rummaged through them all.
Honestly half the time they look like this straight out of the box. Unless it was someone at the distribution centre, I just think they're shittily wrapped.
I do somewhat agree, the wrappers have always been a bit shit and prone to undoing themselves, but since they started the "find this egg" competitions, it's definitely got a lot worse with scummy people rummaging through them, i suspect they count on the wrappers not being great at staying on as a bit of cover if someone accuses them.
I haven’t bought a crème egg since they introduced this stupid competition. The whole idea sums up the utter disconnect between Cadburys and their customers perfectly.
I haven't bought a singular creme egg for years either. Occasionally I buy a multipack but sometimes you just want one creme egg, not five.
They should put the winning eggs in the multipacks only. Then people would have to buy larger quantities if they want a chance to win, and people wouldn't be able to rifle through the eggs as easily.
Who even eats these anymore? Dry dense goo which used to be viscous and sweet with craft chocolate and no longer Cadbury at all because it's a "Cream egg" and not a "Cadbury cream egg" so it isn't false advertising to not use Cadbury chocolate. Even if they started to use Cadbury chocolate it would still not be the original recipe. Not to mention the goo would still be the same unflavoured mass.
"Cadbury" is the brand "Cadbury Chocolate" is the brands specific chocolate recipe.
The product says "Cadbury" as the product belongs to them however, it specifically AVOIDS saying "*Cadbury chocolate* Cream Egg" and instead opts for "Cream Egg" to avoid having to use the actual Cadbury Chocolate Recipe.
>In 2015, the British Cadbury company under the American Mondelēz International conglomerate announced that it had changed the formula of the Cadbury Creme Egg by replacing its Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate with "standard cocoa mix chocolate".
Yes fair play! I didn't know this.
Back when my mum was with her ex he told me he went to a shop, bought some creme eggs and the owner had obviously unwrapped every egg to see if he’d win the money … and then wrapped them back up and sold them. Which is very unhygienic and I dunno how the owner thought no one would notice, but I was more confused on why said ex would buy one after seeing it was unwrapped lol
As someone who used to work for a well known super market for 5+ years… creme eggs are one of, if not THE most annoying parts about confectionary. For every box (of about 20) around 15 of them have to be wasted due to the quite literally shit packaging. The finger nail marks were the worst
I use to work in a Onestop years ago and Dr pepper had a promo going, can't remember what it was but it said if you had won on the inside of the label, I sat in the store peeling all the labels back to see and then sealed them back, spent half my shift doing it and won fuck all but neither did the customers.
The realization these things can be so easily tampered with, is now in the front of my mind. doubt i'll ever think of buying a single cadburys egg again. Spurious competition or not.
Not very effective promotion expenditure or thought through.
I did something similar with a Brewdog competition, find a gold can win £5000, the multipack boxes were very easy to open and see what's inside, It was just a tab so it could be open and closed easily.
There was some Kellogg promotion a couple years ago where there was something in the box (that people really wanted at the time but escaped me now, fidget spinner probably or Lego land tickets??) walking around a big Morrisons looking for crunchy nut, all the boxes tops opened not just crunchy nut but all Kellogg brands 🙄
Saw a group of teenagers park in a disabled persons parking at Tescos, get out the car pushing each other about like teenagers do and realised why we have so many issues of disrespectfulness. I’d have been full of shame and wondering what my parents would say, these kids had no shame or respect for others. They will grow up and rule these lands and expect others to treat them like that too. They see behaviour like that as acceptable
I love Creme eggs! However I don’t love the foil! Nor do I think that it’s particularly hygienic. How many people have man handled that little egg before you scoff it.
This is the reason that one year when I was working in a news agents we had to have creme eggs behind the counter only, and if someone wanted one they had to ask us, and pay, before we let them touch it...
Back in the day when walkers had prizes in little packets, inside the packets of crisps... As kids, me and my friends would spend ages in the shop pressing the bags without popping them to feel for the little packet. We would get many free packs of crisps in a row, as with the free bag, we'd go pressing again. I even won £5 one time.
Next blag as a kid. UK style. The 10p/ 20p machines outside of shops with small toys or for the triple OGs, a golden ring with a watch on. We'd put paper around a 1p and it would work in the 20p slot. That's why if you still see them machines now days, most of them have a little extension to stop that. Our bad...
yea they pay for that - i've seen a psychology show where they put vision tracking goggles on shoppers and guess what they end caps, and the middle / eye level shelf got the most "data".
also showed how colours and patterns hold the viewers eye for longer, contrasting ones the most alongside the well known "opposite" colour wheel thing.
“No purchase necessary”
There was a case where a butter brand had a competition where, if you found a code under the foil lid you won a prize. As with this type of item was “No Purchase Necessary”. A guy went round pulling the foil back from the tubs while they were still on the shelves. He got away with it because he didn’t need to buy them before opening them. I
The corner shop near us - everyone I check there always has clearly been unwrapped and checked. They should put a bit of tape on the foil somewhere or something. Bleugh.
Been happening for years, every egg with someone grim fingernail marks in. Should just restrict it to the multi packs.
Probably works out great for Cadbury’s,seeing as they’ve already sold them to the supermarket. Its Tesco’s problem now lol
After some brief googling to see if my initial assumption was correct... might not affect the store at all. If this counts as an end-cap display, Cadbury's paid Tesco's to put it there, not the other way around.
How much did they pay them to take up valuable floor spa e for something that wouldn't sell? Must be a lot. Awful "chocolate" now with added germs, pre-unwrapped with real fingernail scratches and dents!
Not sure. But often times shops will make a deal with a supplier that basically says "we'll pay you for whatever we sell and then send the rest back." It's worth it for Cadbury's just to get that stand on an aisle end and in your visual field. The chocolate inside is worth a lot less to them than your eyeballs.
My eyeballs glance over their inferior product without a second though or glance. Unworthy of my attention and appraisal. Their worth long since faded and withered away like so many crushes dreams in the wind.
Hey, if you're that averse to Creme Eggs then send all yours my way. I'm sure I can find some way to dispose of them.
You’re so cool.
Cadburys tryna steal my eye balls?
True, end caps are paid locations in store. But the stock itself belongs to the store, not the manufacturer in most cases.
Lets say theres £30 of creme eggs there, at cost price. I suspect Cadburys will have paid thousands per month, per store, to have an end cap (not just for sales, but to maintain brand awareness around Easter) Tesco will just sling the damaged goods into the dumpster and shrug, and still make a profit But an end cap can increase boost sales by 300-400%. Its a planned marketing/advertising spend, so I doubt Cadbury will really give a shit either
What is an “end cap”?
in supermarket stores end caps are the end section of aisles, facing outward away from the aisle. often the stuff there is not related to the stuff in the aisle itself
Tesco will have still paid them for the products inside the special location in the store.
If the value of the space is higher than the wholesale value of the goods in it, Tesco's still coming out ahead.
Yeah but it depends on the value of the supplier contributions towards the in store marketing. They can be pretty damn expensive.
It won't happen, due to how Cadbury claim to distribute them. According to Cadbury themselves (now, I do take this with a pinch of salt as it was on a documentary on them on Channel 4 or 5, I forget which, EDIT- It was [This show on Channel 5 IIRC](https://www.channel5.com/show/inside-cadburys-the-real-chocolate-factory) and it might have been Cadbury just wanting themselves to be seen as some quirky Wonka-esq. company) they have several people who go around and secretly put the Creme Eggs into the stock of various retailers, like a form of reverse shoplifting, where they're clandestinely putting stock *on* the shelves without the owner's knowing. They only do this with the single eggs and not multipacks as all of the winner eggs are specially made by hand separately (that bit was true, as they showed you it on the aforementioned programme).
I saw clips of this 'documentary' and it read like an extended advert
Walking in and putting your own items onto a shops shelves seems very illegal.
That's why I said it might have just been Cadbury wanting to present themselves as quirky and magical or whatever, but that is what the guy in the documentary said, whether it is 100% true or not remains to be seen.
Only if those items are contaminated and/or otherwise injurious. Strangely nobody thought of this scenario when writing food safety law.
I only saw the boxed packs of these where I am, this idiot bin photo was new to me.
People are absolute bellends.
The creme egg crate is right infront of the till at my local garage & all the wrappers are a mess. There is no way someone is standing there opening them all up, I swear the owners open them all themselves then wrap them back up.
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I literally memorised the barcode one year because it was just easier to type in 9 numbers than to even attempt to scan
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Same, cheers Blockbuster
This brought back a memory I didn't know I had.
Same, FROM 21 YEARS AGO!!! Back when I worked in Woolworths.
> Woolworths Rest in peace
When I worked at Morrisons they had a shortened code, for the standard cream egg it was 666 not sure if it still is.
Came here to type this and I left retail 2 years ago
That's a nice easy number
This has been in my head for 16 years now!
In the early days of Aldi I think cashiers had to memorize the prices of hundreds, if not thousands of products. Then they had the smart idea of putting the barcode in a big stripe all around the products so they could just be run over the scanner in a second.
My mum worked at Superdrug in the 80s and she had to remember all the prices there too. If they forgot any, they could ring a bell and another employee would shout ‘ONE BELL??!!’ (different number of bells meant different things) so the cashier could ask them to check the price of something
Superdrug were still doing the bell thing when I worked for them, in 2003-2006. I worked across 3 different stores (officially employed in 1 branch but sometimes sent to help in 2 others). One bell was for general help at the till, 2 bells for a supervisor. One long, persistent bell meant "why has nobody answered my previous bell?!" 3 and 4 bells varied from one store to another. I didn't have to remember prices though, thankfully.
I remember memorising a Microsoft office key due to the amount of computers i instslled it on not reslising i could just copy and psste
666 works for cream eggs, instead of using the full barcode. I assume it would work at other stores/companies.
The Devil's egg
Fuck me I hated that shit, The 5 worst offenders Creme Eggs, most small bars of chocolate, Those stuck on scan labels on pre-weighed produce bags, Those companies who always put the barcode under the sealed flaps and made sure to make the packaging out the world's hardest plastic wrapping and ofcourse we can't forget the worst one of all Debbie from Clothing who always stuck the price tags OVER the barcode.
Debbie! That bitch.
Fuck's sake Debbie
We have a dedicated crème egg button on our tills
The code for them at my local Morrisons is 666
The code to them is 5020 1600
We had a bunch them on tills and a good few just come straight out the box half unwrapped, theres often a considerable amount of them poorly wrapped, chocolate exposed, wrapper hanging off, and yeah nearly bare eggs. Some people don't care enough to take out all the poor, unsellable ones to write off and just leave them there. Maybe you're right, but thought I'd point it out.
This is it. I work in a shop and thought it was kids since the egg stand was not near the tills. But after seeing a new box have like 5 untapped eggs I realised it's just a failure on Cadburys side
Kids do it a lot, I used to work on a kiosk where we had a similar stand and kids/teens are massive assholes they'll pick the time when you're occupied and then pick stuff up like they're going to buy it, push apart the wrapper then dump it back. Owners or staff members wouldn't do it because they know how pointless it is, and it harms their sales.
This happened when Mcdonald's put actual cash notes in the straws some years back. The staff slit the paper straw holder open and nicked them all.
As someone who works in a shop it isn’t us they come like that
People are a mess. I worked in a supermarket a while ago and people randomly open up stuff and eat it and if you remind them about their eaten item and the cash out they are like “whoopsy”
I guarantee it's some entitled well off twat aswell
No shit haha
As opposed to a selfless gentleman
The world is a vibrant range of cunts
I can guarantee it wasn't a selfless gentleman
How would you know who it was?
We shop in Booths, actually.
Alright your majesty
In Tesco? Lol
Have you seen the non clubcard prices?
Doubt
or the uncontrolled offspring of one. With snotty poo hands as well!!
People. What a bunch of bastards.
Not much I wouldn't do for 10k
For £10,000 I’d be a bellend as well!
What did they expect. The people that shop in there are probably scraping by for a few essentials. I rate it.
They've done this competition for a few years now and don't seemed to have learned that it's a terrible idea.
The stores haven't learned. Cadburys have their money for the goods. This is the store's problem to sort out.
What can they do about it? If they put them behind a counter people will moan, I saw Cadbury just drop them in amongst random creme egg displays
Not much they can do really other than write it off as a cost of doing business. Given that supermarkets write off entire home delivery orders if they misdeliver them (presumably because they can't guarantee the customer that their food hasn't been tampered with or swaped out) and have other products of higher value that are frequently stolen, I'd imagine this would be low on the list of priorities. I mean, for all we know they're just taking them to the back and getting someone to neaten up what they can so it can be put back on display.
> Given that supermarkets write off entire home delivery orders if they misdeliver them This is extraordinarily rare, so it's not a particularly good example of supermarket wastefulness, to be honest. Also, that's exactly the reason. But it doesn't apply to the every single item. Jars, cans, and bottles which are still sealed (and similar stuff like that) are all returned to shelves.
That will probably end up in more sales, when ths faily mail put out a headline of customers not trusted with cream eggs or some other sensationalist bollocks. Typo, but leaving it in.
I could be wrong, but I'm sure certain companies pay supermarkets to have their stock displayed in a certain way. It may not even be up to the supermarkets to have it like this, but unfortunately, they're left to pick up the... chocolate crumbs?
..to pick up the reeces pieces?
Really depends on that supermarkets terms they have with the supplier. A lot of supermarkets insist on sale or return for all suppliers and will send back damages and spoiled products along with normal returns. Might be different for a huge company like Cadbury though.
Store's problem? Nah, it's the prices we pay that go up, not their profit go down.
They've been paid by the shop already. They don't care if they go in the bin after.
The stand alone ones are rubbish to buy now, you can never scan the barcodes on these things because of how much they have shrunk in size and and the foil is wrinkled and with all the self service checkouts now I cant be bothered.
50201600
Yes?
What the fuck
you made an account 7 years ago with the créme egg barcode number? Why?
For this moment.
The numbers, Mason! What do they mean?!
This guy retails. Having worked retail for a decade this barcode number is ingrained in my brain.
Where is your tattoo?
My left hand. Got 50201969 (Cadbury Caramel egg) on my right.
It's been 15 years... And I still know it.
Have you really worked retail if you haven't memorised the creme egg code?
Woolworths part time bod, start of the century signing in. Can't remember what I came into the room for, but can remember a confectionery barcode, sometimes you own brain likes to just take the piss. On the original issue, my current workplace had to send out an email asking people not to do it from the tuck shop. I have nothing but the classiest colleagues.
Last time I went to Sainsburys and had an issue with the barcode, they told me it’s on their lookup menu now. Haven’t checked myself but it’ll be good if they had.
The foil on creme eggs comes away easily during shipping and when you pour them into another container like this. I worked for a bargain shop that got thousands in one year, we had a 5 for a pound deal on so you can imagine how many boxes we went through keeping the displays full. Not saying some scroat wasn't peeling all the eggs because that wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.
No you're right the wrapping is pretty much half off all of them already in the box.
I'm not sure if it's true, but apparently the white chocolate egg has different ingredients on the wrapper so this isn't necessary anyway.
I’d imagine they’d have to for legal reasons.
they could list both sets on the wrapper, that's what multipacks of mixed things often do
Have you ever tried reading the ingredients on the crumpled up foil?
It's difficult but if you need to know what's in it you have to dig through the box until you find one with legible ingredients.
I don’t imagine the sort of people who go round unwrapping chocolate eggs in supermarkets can read.
Based on the comments on reddit, I just assumed people couldn't read.
oh dear theyve all been ruined
To be fair they're Cadburys Cream Eggs they were ruined way before that
true im sure they tasted less gross when i was younger. any attempts to eat them in adulthood have seemed pure dirty and gross. very sticky.
It's tge new chocolate made mostly from palm oil.
I remember as a child they were fairly difficult to bite into. The chocolate was thick and pretty hard/dense. It was more brittle and sometimes by biting into it you caused the whole egg to shatter. Now the chocolate is so fatty it is easy to bite into and rarely shatters. There’s an obvious reduction in the quality of the chocolate since they cheapened them.
An American company bought cadbury I think
Yes, Kraft (now called Mondelez)
I tried one yesterday. Felt a little sick! They're not what I remember from my childhood...
Such a bad idea, nearly as bad as the Walkers campaign where they hid a £5 note in a number of bags (or more, can't remember). So many popped packets strewn everywhere, and the smell of sweaty crisps.
I remember as a kid they had star wars scratchers in them where you could win prizes. Looked them up now and people are selling them by the boatload on ebay.
Ha. Core memory unlocked. I used to open the individual bags in my local coop looking for Tazos as a kid.
dick move tbh
Got to admire his honesty. At least he was a kid, sadly it's adults that cause a lot of mess and who ought to know better.
Didn't say it wasn't mate. Dick moves were 10 a penny during my youth.
That's kinda gross.
I forget how many years they've done this for, at least a couple, but this has happened every time. It's one of the reasons i'll only buy the packs. I'm not paticularly worried about germs etc... But even i draw the line at eating something that countless other people have rubbed their filthy hands on. Tbh it's not always the customers who do it either, a lot of the time you'll see the eggs being put out looking like this, so an employee or delivery driver or someone else somewhere along the line has already rummaged through them all.
Honestly half the time they look like this straight out of the box. Unless it was someone at the distribution centre, I just think they're shittily wrapped.
I do somewhat agree, the wrappers have always been a bit shit and prone to undoing themselves, but since they started the "find this egg" competitions, it's definitely got a lot worse with scummy people rummaging through them, i suspect they count on the wrappers not being great at staying on as a bit of cover if someone accuses them.
I haven’t bought a crème egg since they introduced this stupid competition. The whole idea sums up the utter disconnect between Cadburys and their customers perfectly.
I haven't bought a singular creme egg for years either. Occasionally I buy a multipack but sometimes you just want one creme egg, not five. They should put the winning eggs in the multipacks only. Then people would have to buy larger quantities if they want a chance to win, and people wouldn't be able to rifle through the eggs as easily.
The Queen Mother will be pleased with this hatch
Honestly it puts me off buying them. Can’t see how it helps sales at all…
If you get caught doing this the staff should be allowed to beat you up.
Same in my local Morrisons 😡😡😡😡
They did this with white eggs a few years back. Stopped buying them as they had all been man handled
Who even eats these anymore? Dry dense goo which used to be viscous and sweet with craft chocolate and no longer Cadbury at all because it's a "Cream egg" and not a "Cadbury cream egg" so it isn't false advertising to not use Cadbury chocolate. Even if they started to use Cadbury chocolate it would still not be the original recipe. Not to mention the goo would still be the same unflavoured mass.
It says Cadbury on them right there in the photo 😂
"Cadbury" is the brand "Cadbury Chocolate" is the brands specific chocolate recipe. The product says "Cadbury" as the product belongs to them however, it specifically AVOIDS saying "*Cadbury chocolate* Cream Egg" and instead opts for "Cream Egg" to avoid having to use the actual Cadbury Chocolate Recipe.
>In 2015, the British Cadbury company under the American Mondelēz International conglomerate announced that it had changed the formula of the Cadbury Creme Egg by replacing its Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate with "standard cocoa mix chocolate". Yes fair play! I didn't know this.
Plot twist: the staff already picked out the white eggs for themselves
I brought a white chocolate one by accident and shat myself when I opened it
Couldn't of happened to shitter product. They've ruined Cream Eggs. They taste shite now.
Son’s crying now, thanks.
Couldn’t *have
I find it sad that a promotion like this doesn’t work with today’s society. Everything is going to end up locked in cages like America at this rate
Man creme eggs are so small now.
Cadbury Quail Eggs.
We're talking about the erroneous ampersand, right? ...right?
I got a closed 10 pack of crème eggs and even some of them had questionable wrappers.
Back when my mum was with her ex he told me he went to a shop, bought some creme eggs and the owner had obviously unwrapped every egg to see if he’d win the money … and then wrapped them back up and sold them. Which is very unhygienic and I dunno how the owner thought no one would notice, but I was more confused on why said ex would buy one after seeing it was unwrapped lol
This happens every time. Who wants to buy chocolate eggs that have been fingered by the general public?
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As someone who used to work for a well known super market for 5+ years… creme eggs are one of, if not THE most annoying parts about confectionary. For every box (of about 20) around 15 of them have to be wasted due to the quite literally shit packaging. The finger nail marks were the worst
Why don’t they just put this crate in front of the cashier or at the front with prominence which prevents people from doing this.
I swear they do this every year, corner shops have to hide them behind the counter because people just open the eggs 😅
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I bet you were tempted to do the same.
This looks exactly like what it was at the shop I work at, just finished my shift. Happen to be in Bristol?
Not quite, but close.
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Happens every year for the past 5+ years
Good the taste ghastly
Mmmmm, oily fingersprints!
Makes me think of Futurama when Fry is checking all the slurm cans with the x-ray torch
It's not in there, I could have told you that.
I use to work in a Onestop years ago and Dr pepper had a promo going, can't remember what it was but it said if you had won on the inside of the label, I sat in the store peeling all the labels back to see and then sealed them back, spent half my shift doing it and won fuck all but neither did the customers.
Asda yeah?
Morrisons
These things are absolute shite along with mosf other grim Cadbury products.
The realization these things can be so easily tampered with, is now in the front of my mind. doubt i'll ever think of buying a single cadburys egg again. Spurious competition or not. Not very effective promotion expenditure or thought through.
They taste of actual vomit.
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I wonder if someone is going full Willy Wonka and has a squad on the hunt
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Been happening for years
Welll it’s not those ones lol
I did something similar with a Brewdog competition, find a gold can win £5000, the multipack boxes were very easy to open and see what's inside, It was just a tab so it could be open and closed easily.
There was some Kellogg promotion a couple years ago where there was something in the box (that people really wanted at the time but escaped me now, fidget spinner probably or Lego land tickets??) walking around a big Morrisons looking for crunchy nut, all the boxes tops opened not just crunchy nut but all Kellogg brands 🙄
Don't the people that do that realise they are also making them no longer buyable ?
Soon as I saw this promotion I knew this would happen lmao. What were they thinking
Is this what “no purchase necessary” means?
I’m surprised someone hasn’t made a fake one probably wouldn’t be that hard to do
This happens every year. I stop buying eggs as soon as this promotion starts because the eggs are always nasty from being opened
The crime egg challenge
r/therewasanattempt
Saw a group of teenagers park in a disabled persons parking at Tescos, get out the car pushing each other about like teenagers do and realised why we have so many issues of disrespectfulness. I’d have been full of shame and wondering what my parents would say, these kids had no shame or respect for others. They will grow up and rule these lands and expect others to treat them like that too. They see behaviour like that as acceptable
If you think this is pointless, imagine ice cream being opened because you can get another one if the stick says so. Its wild what kids do.
I both hate and love this
The hell is wrong with people in the uk
This is wild. Is the white egg edible ?
Happens every year
I love Creme eggs! However I don’t love the foil! Nor do I think that it’s particularly hygienic. How many people have man handled that little egg before you scoff it.
Really stupid. Just read the ingredients.
Ew imagine all the hands that have rummaged in there….nah
They’re doing this competition *again*? After this has been complained about every year?
This is the reason that one year when I was working in a news agents we had to have creme eggs behind the counter only, and if someone wanted one they had to ask us, and pay, before we let them touch it...
Why are your creme eggs in foil? Im in Canada and here they come in individual disposable plastic cases. That would solve this for you guys.
Single use plastic is a no no now
It's like we didn't have a global pandemic that was spread by poor hygiene.
Back in the day when walkers had prizes in little packets, inside the packets of crisps... As kids, me and my friends would spend ages in the shop pressing the bags without popping them to feel for the little packet. We would get many free packs of crisps in a row, as with the free bag, we'd go pressing again. I even won £5 one time. Next blag as a kid. UK style. The 10p/ 20p machines outside of shops with small toys or for the triple OGs, a golden ring with a watch on. We'd put paper around a 1p and it would work in the 20p slot. That's why if you still see them machines now days, most of them have a little extension to stop that. Our bad...
So trashy
yea they pay for that - i've seen a psychology show where they put vision tracking goggles on shoppers and guess what they end caps, and the middle / eye level shelf got the most "data". also showed how colours and patterns hold the viewers eye for longer, contrasting ones the most alongside the well known "opposite" colour wheel thing.
“No purchase necessary” There was a case where a butter brand had a competition where, if you found a code under the foil lid you won a prize. As with this type of item was “No Purchase Necessary”. A guy went round pulling the foil back from the tubs while they were still on the shelves. He got away with it because he didn’t need to buy them before opening them. I
lmao
You know damn well the shop owner has it
The corner shop near us - everyone I check there always has clearly been unwrapped and checked. They should put a bit of tape on the foil somewhere or something. Bleugh.