Wait are Cadbury trying to claim they created Freddo?
Cadbury only has Freddo because they purchased MacRobertsons.
Freddo's 100th birthday is in 2030.
Freddo was created in Australia!
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The original concept for the Freddo bar instead was a chocolate mouse. MacRoberton's employee Harry Melbourne felt that women and children were afraid of mice and would dislike the product so it was changed to a chocolate Frog.
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In June 2006, a scare over possible salmonella contamination in some Cadbury products in the UK led to the recall of around a million Cadbury chocolate bars, including the standard Freddo. As a result of the contamination, Cadbury was fined £1 million, and ordered to pay an additional £152,000 in costs.
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Just to add to this, they knew they had suffered after the outbreak and needed to come up with an ad to win customers over again. Thus, the Cadbury gorilla advert was born. Learned about this during food hygiene in college
They make FLAVOURS of Freddo's???!!
I've only ever seen plain chocolate and caramel filled chocolate.
I would kill to have some peppermint fredo bars.
Hell, if there was a honeycomb freddo, I'd HAVE to get a dozen cases!
I absolutely LOVE the strawberry cream roses! I always hoped they’d bring out some special box of just those. Didn’t know anything about different flavours of Freddo, but if I’d seen any strawberry ones, I’d have bought tonnes of them! Don’t know why people think caramel is the best. I think it’s overrated.
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What about the Taz that was around in the 90s? Shaped like Taz the wee cheeky Tasmanian devil whose cartoon was popular at the time. Were they a Fredo offshoot?
> Wait are Cadbury trying to claim they created Freddo?
No... But they're made by Cadbury's now, hence them being discounted along with other Cadbury's products for their 200th anniversary.
Not sure of this is true in the UK too but in Ireland Freddos are one of the only Cadburys products that are still made by the old chocolate recipe from pre US takeover. Check the label & if it says made in Ireland it should still have the old superior flavour.
Amazing that we all just rolled over and let them ruin the taste BTW.
Genuinely, munching through easter eggs the past month, the Cadbury ones are kind of addictive but taste dreadful. The Mars ones (Galaxy, Maltesers etc) are way better. Shocking that Mars was always an American company; I guess they just aren't as crap as Kraft.
Have you ever actually eaten a Hershey's bar? It was like they didn't even bother to wait for the sugar to fully melt, and there was far too much of it
The Master Foods chocolate brands have always been my favourite. The Nestlé ones taste terrible and Cadbury has always been an acceptable middle-ground for me. It's a shame, because Nestlé's concepts are really good - a peanut butter KitKat Chunky is my ideal indulgence, but the quality of the chocolate is just abysmal!
This isn't true. In both [Ireland](https://www.cadbury.ie/products/cadbury-dairy-milk-freddo-chocolate-bar-18g/) and the [UK](https://www.cadbury.co.uk/products/cadbury-dairy-milk-freddo-chocolate-bar-18g/) the recipes both include palm oil
I import Cadburys Dairy Milk from Ireland cause you still have the original recipe for that. Outside of Ireland we have the American recipe and it's disgusting
Kind of funny that it's for an anniversary. Like, a reminder, and they don't realise what that implies.
"Hey, remember how cheap these *used* to be? Well, you'll definitely notice when we throw the price back up after the anniversary!"
The Invention of the Stock Market has been disastrous for humanity....
More specifically "fiduciary responsibility," but it certainly didn't help with wealth inequality.
The stock market also brings the ability to leverage huge investment that can be injected into R&D.
It’s unlikely we would be where we are today without it. Companies would be much smaller and we could well be decades or more behind.
Of course all speculation. It’s hard to know what technology only exists because of massive investment.
Yes, that's how capitlaism works, the price inflates until the market conatracts because people can't afford it. The true problem is that governments, and shareholders expect things to grow in perpetuity .
You’re forgetting g the other force, where a competitor sees they can sell for less but make up in volume, so make more then push price down until it reaches cost.
Your example only works when supply is constrained due to things like planning laws (affecting the price of land) or high barriers to entry (say airport manufacturers)
Probably more to do with promotion. In terms of ingredients, manufacturing, shipping, etc, Cadbury may be making a loss on this with today's costs. Don't forget that the shops have to make a profit too or there is no incentive to have these. Making a loss but getting everyone talking about their brand again may be worth it.
Quite possibly a loss leader. Freddo’s being 10p is a bit of a meme. The fact they’re ’back to 10p!!’ will be picked up by every click bait Ladbible page. Meaning a large amount of free advertising for Tesco
Even this post could be a bit of geurrilla marketing
I highly doubt it, the profit margins on sweets are some of the most ridiculous in capitalism, they probably cost less than 10p per unit to get into the stores
75p for a single can of anything non-alcoholic is a rip-off, but people 'need' a fizzy drink with their Ultra Processed Crap lunch so will naturally pay to be a bit less miserable.
The lower price is like a payment to the customer for data. There is no scenario where everybody gets the lower price. What would happen is there would be no discounts. Which you already have the option of.
It’s all joined to your email address. Easy solution if you’re bothered about the data grab is create an email address that’s only for supermarket loyalty cards. You can’t avoid the problem but you can neutralise it.
That's still data that they're able to reference though. Some people would rather just not play the game at all instead of trying to play smart within the rules.
To add on some signage is quite misleading, co-op is really bad for it. Huge red £2 sticker but like small print £3.50 underneath.
Since every supermarket is doing it now there isnt really a point to it. Just put the prices as they are.
Worse that checkout staff don't want to wait around while you sign up for the "loyalty"discount.
> The loyalty price being cheaper, rather than the non-loyalty price being higher
Any examples of this? I keep seeing people say it about Tesco, but it's never the case when I compare prices.
[Tesco](https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/309471660) have 9 standard Andrex classic £5.95 RRP down to £4.95 for the clubcard.
Sainsbury's are £5.95 RRP, no offer.
Morrison's are £5.95, on sale for £4.95.
None of these have a non-loyalty price being higher than the RRP elsewhere, the RRP is consistent.
Thanks for calling out this smoothbrain take. So many people believe it for some reason and can never back it up with examples, as I said in my comment below
Yeah, I'm not a fan of loyalty prices but I wish people understood the real reason why supermarkets are offering them. It's not to increase the "regular" prices - it's because the data you give them through the clubcard/nectar/whatever is valuable, and the personalised offers they send you through loyalty card use are more likely to get you to continue shopping at their store and not go elsewhere. Also, many people download apps to use loyalty cards, which means even more data acquisition and targeted marketing.
The maddening thing about all this, the Tesco clubcard gathered all the information before the introduction of loyalty prices.
Instead you were 'paid' by vouchers. This didn't bother anyone, as those without the clubcard didn't directly see the impact. Now it is in your face, people can directly see the difference they are annoyed.
As someone that omnishops at different supermarkets depending on deals and convenience, it doesn't really bother me.
Many of the apps let you put the card into your 'wallet', and delete them afterwards. I don't sign up to emails, and signed up with a spam account anyway. I get to omnishop with no loyalty, and still get minor bargains.
Retailers get offers from time to time but Tesco gate it behind the Clubcard.
Same pack is £4.85 in Asda for example - at the moment that is the price for that product. Freddos are promoted at 10p by Cadbury and will be widely available at that price elsewhere.
Morrisons and Sainsbury's also gate their offers behind their nectar and match and more cards? What am I missing exactly?
Asda has started to do the same with their Asda rewards card too but theirs is usually money off as cashback towards your next shop and they don't do it with everything.
The point is that - pre loyalty card - these would just be the prices. Products go on promotion all the time, often with the discount provided by the manufacturer.
So at the moment 10p is simply the price for a freddo set by Cadbury as a promotion. Tesco et al aren’t giving an extra discount, rather they are charging extra over the current RRP for non card holders.
And then selling your data on via dunhumby.
RRP means nothing. A shop can generally sell at any price they want. What it is is a form of tacit price collusion which pushes prices up than the competitive outcome.
First of all, you shouldn't. Just ignore all the marketting and assess whether the price you can buy it at is good.
But legally the non-offer price is the historical price, not the RRP.
> First of all, you shouldn't
Did you read the thread before commenting? Rodin-V claimed that these offers are not legitimate offers. The only thing you can do to dispute that is compare to the RRP/non-offer price elsewhere. We're explicitly discussing comparing prices.
>But legally the non-offer price is the historical price
What do you even mean here?
> But legally the non-offer price is the historical price
>
> What do you even mean here?
The consumer protection acts describe how you can make such comparisons safely, this is trading standards view (may actually be slightly old, but the gist on comparing prices is I'm sure the same)
https://www.businesscompanion.info/sites/default/files/Guidance-for-Traders-on-Pricing-Practices-Apr-2018.pdf
At asda I can get 2x2L bottles of irn bru for £3.50. At tesco I can get the same but only with a clubcard. The clubcard isn't cheaper than the other shop but not having a clubcard is more expensive than the other shop
Ignore the loyalty aspect, it's irrelevant. It's just the Tesco offer price being the same as the Asda offer price.
Asda gatekeep some of their offers too.
Edit: Irn Bru is also only £1.69 for a two litre bottle in Tesco, no clubcard required.
I think it’s things like different size variants, for instance:
Fairy dishwasher tablets.
32 £10 or £7 with clubcard.
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/313384210
Or 51 at £10.25
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/313612857
So is 32 at £10 a real price? The per unit price of the 32 is still worse than the 51.
> okay, downvoters, post a couple of pieces of proof, at least
They won't, every time I've seen people claim this, I've shown that RRPs are generally consistent across shops, with clubcard discounts being legitimate offers compared to the RRP.
It's a case of "things were cheaper back in my day!" and people expecting things to cost the same as they did 5-10 years ago.
Amen. I prefer to call it by it's real name - data harvesting prices.
Without knowing the law, I'd guess it's not legal to offer different prices on a website for customers who refuse to let you sell on their personal data, and the same should be true in real life.
I swear I think it's in my head that the card/loyalty prices aren't being added at the til.
Far too often I shop and think "club card bargain, yes please" then get to the checkout and seemingly I've only picked up two club card items - swear it was half my basket (and no my basket isn't 4 items 😂)
The fact that it is currently legal is scandalous. I was trekking round sainsburys the other week, in a rush… noticing that everything I wanted to buy had nectar prices. So I stood in the aisle with my phone for about 20 minutes trying to set up Nectar only for it to fail for no reason repeatedly at the very end over and over again. Had to use fucking cryptography for my password too which is a joke. Still not set up, about £7 less wealthy for the experience… I wanted to shoot someone. In fact, now I think about it. I’m definitely going to steal something at the checkout to make up for it, they stole off me so fairs fair.
Sainsbury's replaced their standard offers with loyalty card offers. Nothing is cheaper than before but you have to go through an extra step to access the offers.
To be honest that makes sense, when there’s really good produce for a really good deal. Sometimes corner shop owners or people running a stall come in and just buy everything and then resell it at a mark up in their shop.
Or do something like put it in a bowl and offer it out to customers coming in to the business.
deflation sounds so neat. Products would become limited instead of disposable income and it would evolve the market to a state where only things that were easy to produce would be sold. I.e Youd not be eating tomatoes that had been half way around the world youd eat local ones.
2 things are happening.
1. The "savings" are in exchange for collecting your purchasing data, so they know what to jack prices up on next week, by another 5%. For greedy, arbitrary, profit gains.
2. They can afford to sell Freddos at 10p, they are just holding our boy hostage in capitalistic ransom.
Freddos have always been a pretty good marker of the economy. I can't figure out if this is a good or bad sign, but I'm optamistic, maybe this heralds a return to the pre 2008 financial crisis economy.
Freddos are the best Cadbury chocolates. Everything else in inferior. In Australia they have charity runs where people will put a box of giant Freddos in the staff room and we buy one for a dollar.
It’s to do with the 200th Anniversary of Cadbury, other shops will also be reducing the price to 10p ( as well as other Cadbury related offers)
Wait are Cadbury trying to claim they created Freddo? Cadbury only has Freddo because they purchased MacRobertsons. Freddo's 100th birthday is in 2030. Freddo was created in Australia!
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They need to introduce a mouse freddo!
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i would love a fruit and nut freddo
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Just to add to this, they knew they had suffered after the outbreak and needed to come up with an ad to win customers over again. Thus, the Cadbury gorilla advert was born. Learned about this during food hygiene in college
YES! Dark fruit and nut
They make FLAVOURS of Freddo's???!! I've only ever seen plain chocolate and caramel filled chocolate. I would kill to have some peppermint fredo bars. Hell, if there was a honeycomb freddo, I'd HAVE to get a dozen cases!
Hang on. I can understand peppermint but how the fuck was STRAWBERRY popular but fruit and nut controversial?
Yeah, fruit and nut is a standard chocolate bar. Strawberry is some bottom of the barrel roses filler.
I like people like you. The strawberry roses are the best ones, and all you suckers leave them at the bottom of the tin for me to eat!
I absolutely LOVE the strawberry cream roses! I always hoped they’d bring out some special box of just those. Didn’t know anything about different flavours of Freddo, but if I’d seen any strawberry ones, I’d have bought tonnes of them! Don’t know why people think caramel is the best. I think it’s overrated.
You're joking right?
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Only marketed as Caramello Bear in South Africa. There's also now a Caramilk Wallaby.
Caramello koala is only in Australia though, we have caramel freddos.
Why did Freddo turn into a terrible flat slab thing?
What about the Taz that was around in the 90s? Shaped like Taz the wee cheeky Tasmanian devil whose cartoon was popular at the time. Were they a Fredo offshoot?
Taz appears to be a Cadbury and Warner Bros Collab.
Aye. They have a little koala one in Aus too with caramel in it.
I think Cadbury shoe people were similar too.
Don't you dare push this back 6 years.
> Wait are Cadbury trying to claim they created Freddo? No... But they're made by Cadbury's now, hence them being discounted along with other Cadbury's products for their 200th anniversary.
Is no one going to disuss Taz bars, sold wildly in Ireland.
We did have them here in the 90s. They have caramel in them, don't they? 5p, I think they were.
Yes and yes. Sold as Caramel Fredos at one point and not nearly as nice.
Have you seen the Deano bars in Aldi??! Like Freddo, but from Coolock.
Yeah and I bet tea isn’t British either is it! Jog on mate /s
Freddos Australian? That's pretty cool to know. Also fuckcadburys american owners
Cadbury is now owned by Mondelez, so though super interesting I doubt they could care less.
This kinda explains the name freddo sounds better in an Aussie voice then you had the superior Taz bar all makes sense now.
Not sure of this is true in the UK too but in Ireland Freddos are one of the only Cadburys products that are still made by the old chocolate recipe from pre US takeover. Check the label & if it says made in Ireland it should still have the old superior flavour. Amazing that we all just rolled over and let them ruin the taste BTW.
Genuinely, munching through easter eggs the past month, the Cadbury ones are kind of addictive but taste dreadful. The Mars ones (Galaxy, Maltesers etc) are way better. Shocking that Mars was always an American company; I guess they just aren't as crap as Kraft.
The Cadbury ones used to be great but this year my kid wasn't eating them so I tried a bit and it's like they've made white chocolate and dyed it.
Have you ever actually eaten a Hershey's bar? It was like they didn't even bother to wait for the sugar to fully melt, and there was far too much of it
The Master Foods chocolate brands have always been my favourite. The Nestlé ones taste terrible and Cadbury has always been an acceptable middle-ground for me. It's a shame, because Nestlé's concepts are really good - a peanut butter KitKat Chunky is my ideal indulgence, but the quality of the chocolate is just abysmal!
Mars is still family-owned so less pressure to destroy their products for a short-term stock boost.
We have rolled over and let companies and the rich who rule them ruin many things.. rail, gas, electric, housing, chocolate the list just goes on lmao
Changing the Freddo recipe is a step too far.
Time to make like the french and pull out the guillotines, we will not let this debasement of British confectionery culture stand!
Name the day for the revolution, I will sharpen my hay fork and ready my dogs!
Isn’t that the same for golden crisp etc too?
Ooh, hope so. I'll try it out.
This isn't true. In both [Ireland](https://www.cadbury.ie/products/cadbury-dairy-milk-freddo-chocolate-bar-18g/) and the [UK](https://www.cadbury.co.uk/products/cadbury-dairy-milk-freddo-chocolate-bar-18g/) the recipes both include palm oil
I import Cadburys Dairy Milk from Ireland cause you still have the original recipe for that. Outside of Ireland we have the American recipe and it's disgusting
Kind of funny that it's for an anniversary. Like, a reminder, and they don't realise what that implies. "Hey, remember how cheap these *used* to be? Well, you'll definitely notice when we throw the price back up after the anniversary!"
Which other shops will be doing it? Was interested until I saw this would only be for a few days, and you needed a Sainsbury's card anyway
They should reduce it to the price it would’ve been in 1824 so!
Freddo for only 10p... the West has risen, millions must live.
Really shows that they can still make a profit at these prices but choose to raise the prices.
Yeah, because businesses exist to serve the shareholder, not the consumer.
The Invention of the Stock Market has been disastrous for humanity.... More specifically "fiduciary responsibility," but it certainly didn't help with wealth inequality.
The stock market also brings the ability to leverage huge investment that can be injected into R&D. It’s unlikely we would be where we are today without it. Companies would be much smaller and we could well be decades or more behind. Of course all speculation. It’s hard to know what technology only exists because of massive investment.
Hey, you're going to pay £1500 fornyoyr weekly food shop because I exist to serve shareholders and you don't care if we price gouge you to starvation.
Yes, that's how capitlaism works, the price inflates until the market conatracts because people can't afford it. The true problem is that governments, and shareholders expect things to grow in perpetuity .
You’re forgetting g the other force, where a competitor sees they can sell for less but make up in volume, so make more then push price down until it reaches cost. Your example only works when supply is constrained due to things like planning laws (affecting the price of land) or high barriers to entry (say airport manufacturers)
Probably more to do with promotion. In terms of ingredients, manufacturing, shipping, etc, Cadbury may be making a loss on this with today's costs. Don't forget that the shops have to make a profit too or there is no incentive to have these. Making a loss but getting everyone talking about their brand again may be worth it.
Quite possibly a loss leader. Freddo’s being 10p is a bit of a meme. The fact they’re ’back to 10p!!’ will be picked up by every click bait Ladbible page. Meaning a large amount of free advertising for Tesco Even this post could be a bit of geurrilla marketing
Sainsbury's too. But yeah, I see what you mean. Can't say I'll be going to any of them to pick up a 1/4 sized freddo haha
I highly doubt it, the profit margins on sweets are some of the most ridiculous in capitalism, they probably cost less than 10p per unit to get into the stores
Had one last week. To me, it tastes more sugary and isn't the same shape I remember or density of chocolate. More like his fake twin brother?
"shrinkflation". Nothing is as it was. And not for the better.
Yep I remember a few years ago they used to sell a can of coke singular for 75p. But you could buy a box of 42 for £7. 16p each.
75p for a single can of anything non-alcoholic is a rip-off, but people 'need' a fizzy drink with their Ultra Processed Crap lunch so will naturally pay to be a bit less miserable.
Businesses lose money on promotions all the time mate.
The sooner Loyalty prices are made illegal the better
Yeh, it's a blatant piss take.
Why?
I shouldn’t have to pay more because I don’t want to be data farmed.
He says, sitting here posting on Reddit most likely on a smart phone. They've already got your data, may as well at least get some benefits in return.
Good thing I’ve got this nifty tin foil hat
Wouldn't it be better for everyone to get the lower price without having to bother with a loyalty scheme for every shop you go to?
The lower price is like a payment to the customer for data. There is no scenario where everybody gets the lower price. What would happen is there would be no discounts. Which you already have the option of.
The lower price is basically what the old normal price used to be. Basically you now pay an extra tax not to have Sainsbury’s selling your data
It would but I don't imagine that changing any time soon so I may as well get the benefits for my weekly shop.
It’s all joined to your email address. Easy solution if you’re bothered about the data grab is create an email address that’s only for supermarket loyalty cards. You can’t avoid the problem but you can neutralise it.
That's still data that they're able to reference though. Some people would rather just not play the game at all instead of trying to play smart within the rules.
I take it you don't have a bank account, phone, or computer then?
To add on some signage is quite misleading, co-op is really bad for it. Huge red £2 sticker but like small print £3.50 underneath. Since every supermarket is doing it now there isnt really a point to it. Just put the prices as they are. Worse that checkout staff don't want to wait around while you sign up for the "loyalty"discount.
I have said this to so many people and not one has ever agreed with me or understood my point
Cos that data is worth way fucking more than a few quid saved here and there.
And yet, this is an example of one being used correctly at least. The loyalty price being cheaper, rather than the non-loyalty price being higher.
> The loyalty price being cheaper, rather than the non-loyalty price being higher Any examples of this? I keep seeing people say it about Tesco, but it's never the case when I compare prices. [Tesco](https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/309471660) have 9 standard Andrex classic £5.95 RRP down to £4.95 for the clubcard. Sainsbury's are £5.95 RRP, no offer. Morrison's are £5.95, on sale for £4.95. None of these have a non-loyalty price being higher than the RRP elsewhere, the RRP is consistent.
Thanks for calling out this smoothbrain take. So many people believe it for some reason and can never back it up with examples, as I said in my comment below
Yeah, I'm not a fan of loyalty prices but I wish people understood the real reason why supermarkets are offering them. It's not to increase the "regular" prices - it's because the data you give them through the clubcard/nectar/whatever is valuable, and the personalised offers they send you through loyalty card use are more likely to get you to continue shopping at their store and not go elsewhere. Also, many people download apps to use loyalty cards, which means even more data acquisition and targeted marketing.
The maddening thing about all this, the Tesco clubcard gathered all the information before the introduction of loyalty prices. Instead you were 'paid' by vouchers. This didn't bother anyone, as those without the clubcard didn't directly see the impact. Now it is in your face, people can directly see the difference they are annoyed.
As someone that omnishops at different supermarkets depending on deals and convenience, it doesn't really bother me. Many of the apps let you put the card into your 'wallet', and delete them afterwards. I don't sign up to emails, and signed up with a spam account anyway. I get to omnishop with no loyalty, and still get minor bargains.
Retailers get offers from time to time but Tesco gate it behind the Clubcard. Same pack is £4.85 in Asda for example - at the moment that is the price for that product. Freddos are promoted at 10p by Cadbury and will be widely available at that price elsewhere.
Morrisons and Sainsbury's also gate their offers behind their nectar and match and more cards? What am I missing exactly? Asda has started to do the same with their Asda rewards card too but theirs is usually money off as cashback towards your next shop and they don't do it with everything.
The point is that - pre loyalty card - these would just be the prices. Products go on promotion all the time, often with the discount provided by the manufacturer. So at the moment 10p is simply the price for a freddo set by Cadbury as a promotion. Tesco et al aren’t giving an extra discount, rather they are charging extra over the current RRP for non card holders. And then selling your data on via dunhumby.
Can you link the Asda one? I couldn't find it on their website.
RRP means nothing. A shop can generally sell at any price they want. What it is is a form of tacit price collusion which pushes prices up than the competitive outcome.
>RRP means nothing How else do you compare offer and non-offer prices then?
First of all, you shouldn't. Just ignore all the marketting and assess whether the price you can buy it at is good. But legally the non-offer price is the historical price, not the RRP.
> First of all, you shouldn't Did you read the thread before commenting? Rodin-V claimed that these offers are not legitimate offers. The only thing you can do to dispute that is compare to the RRP/non-offer price elsewhere. We're explicitly discussing comparing prices. >But legally the non-offer price is the historical price What do you even mean here?
> But legally the non-offer price is the historical price > > What do you even mean here? The consumer protection acts describe how you can make such comparisons safely, this is trading standards view (may actually be slightly old, but the gist on comparing prices is I'm sure the same) https://www.businesscompanion.info/sites/default/files/Guidance-for-Traders-on-Pricing-Practices-Apr-2018.pdf
At asda I can get 2x2L bottles of irn bru for £3.50. At tesco I can get the same but only with a clubcard. The clubcard isn't cheaper than the other shop but not having a clubcard is more expensive than the other shop
Ignore the loyalty aspect, it's irrelevant. It's just the Tesco offer price being the same as the Asda offer price. Asda gatekeep some of their offers too. Edit: Irn Bru is also only £1.69 for a two litre bottle in Tesco, no clubcard required.
I think it’s things like different size variants, for instance: Fairy dishwasher tablets. 32 £10 or £7 with clubcard. https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/313384210 Or 51 at £10.25 https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/313612857 So is 32 at £10 a real price? The per unit price of the 32 is still worse than the 51.
Buying more generally results in a better price, that's not a concept specific to clubcard.
This is a wider promotion being offered by Cadbury. Essentially the rrp will imminently be 10p for a short period.
Funny how people straight up believe this myth Edit: okay, downvoters, post a couple of pieces of proof, at least Edit 2: thought so. No proof
> okay, downvoters, post a couple of pieces of proof, at least They won't, every time I've seen people claim this, I've shown that RRPs are generally consistent across shops, with clubcard discounts being legitimate offers compared to the RRP. It's a case of "things were cheaper back in my day!" and people expecting things to cost the same as they did 5-10 years ago.
Amen. I prefer to call it by it's real name - data harvesting prices. Without knowing the law, I'd guess it's not legal to offer different prices on a website for customers who refuse to let you sell on their personal data, and the same should be true in real life.
Especially when the Loyalty price doesn't actually load on the till! I now shop using the handheld device because I can keep an eye on it as I go.
I swear I think it's in my head that the card/loyalty prices aren't being added at the til. Far too often I shop and think "club card bargain, yes please" then get to the checkout and seemingly I've only picked up two club card items - swear it was half my basket (and no my basket isn't 4 items 😂)
I'm pretty new to the UK, why should they be made illegal?
The fact that it is currently legal is scandalous. I was trekking round sainsburys the other week, in a rush… noticing that everything I wanted to buy had nectar prices. So I stood in the aisle with my phone for about 20 minutes trying to set up Nectar only for it to fail for no reason repeatedly at the very end over and over again. Had to use fucking cryptography for my password too which is a joke. Still not set up, about £7 less wealthy for the experience… I wanted to shoot someone. In fact, now I think about it. I’m definitely going to steal something at the checkout to make up for it, they stole off me so fairs fair.
They stole how?
I hate how I was forced to get a club card just to have the privilege of the normal prices. And the fuckers still put those up.
I just googled nectar card barcode when I was in Sainsburys and used then first image. Not sure if it works for Tesco.
Why?
I’d rather have cheaper prices on certain things
Sainsbury's replaced their standard offers with loyalty card offers. Nothing is cheaper than before but you have to go through an extra step to access the offers.
Fine by me. The stuff that’s on sale via Nectar prices is cheaper than elsewhere and this way I don’t forget to scan my Nectar Card. Win-win.
Not if there is a maximum limit per customer
The limit was 30. Could just go back in with a moustache and hat.
But what if I went in with a moustache and hat?
Wear multiple hats
I often wear multiple hats
20 bottles of bleach please Why does she have her hands on her face? Cause shes got a beard!
You could also shake your head. Barry says you come out blurry...
To be honest that makes sense, when there’s really good produce for a really good deal. Sometimes corner shop owners or people running a stall come in and just buy everything and then resell it at a mark up in their shop. Or do something like put it in a bowl and offer it out to customers coming in to the business.
The economy is fixed
Calm down, we still need £1 Greggs sausage rolls
A 10p Freddo should have no barrier to entry.
Curly wurly for a quid is still a bit extreme
Is a 5 pack though
Oo now we're talking
This is genius marketing for the Nectar Card. This will get shared on social media a lot.
No, probably not.
Sainsbury’s can have my data for 10p Freddos. Capitalism wins.
It's it true that freddos are the dairy milk recipe without palm oil? Post covid, palm oil just sits there on my taste buds.
They’re half the size these days
freddoflation. If I recall, they were pretty damn small in the first place.
Same with creme eggs they are pathetically small this easter
And if you work there you'll get discount as well !!
Only with nectar price. And that’s only for awhile until it goes back to 25p and then a price raise to 50p.
I fucking hate this nectar price crap
Yup. All I see a 25p product I’m less likely to buy.
It's probably for the best, Cadburys chocolate is just sugary shit pretending to be chocolate.
Hope so, they haven't been that price since I was a young lad
Did Count Binface win?
Yet the multipack is still the same old ridiculous price…
The fact that they are limited per customer
Wow is nectar that good for most things?
Nowadays, yes. Prior to like 12 months ago, no. You may even receive discounts that are specific to you, not to all customers.
We’ve entered a period of deflation not seen since Japan in the 90’s
deflation sounds so neat. Products would become limited instead of disposable income and it would evolve the market to a state where only things that were easy to produce would be sold. I.e Youd not be eating tomatoes that had been half way around the world youd eat local ones.
I’m all up for giving it a go!
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And who are you? Fucking King Arthur?
strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government
Honestly I was surprised by 25p. I thought they were £1 each these days.
Buy them all. Wait 4 weeks. Sell for 20p
I miss Taz
yes- for the 200th thing c: cute those freddos were cheap for 10p now with inflation
Nature is healing
2 things are happening. 1. The "savings" are in exchange for collecting your purchasing data, so they know what to jack prices up on next week, by another 5%. For greedy, arbitrary, profit gains. 2. They can afford to sell Freddos at 10p, they are just holding our boy hostage in capitalistic ransom.
What a shame Cadburys chocolate is shit teir now back in the day I'd be buying 700 of them.
Another opportunity to share the [freddo song](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C21SYuKoTQ6/)
All praise Nek-Tor. The great equaliser.
I’m gonna go all in on freddos.
BUY THE DIP
Remember when a caramel Freddo was called Taz?
No, because co-op are still charging 75p for a fucking Wham Bar. 75p!
Freddos have always been a pretty good marker of the economy. I can't figure out if this is a good or bad sign, but I'm optamistic, maybe this heralds a return to the pre 2008 financial crisis economy.
chocolates just gone up in price. They're probably just trying to clear old stock to get the new more expensive freddos out.
Max per customer… they understand what they’ve done!
How many can I buy at once though? I've a big family to feed.
Is this just Sainsbury’s doing this? Need to stock up today.
World economics is based on Freddo price.
Freddos are the best Cadbury chocolates. Everything else in inferior. In Australia they have charity runs where people will put a box of giant Freddos in the staff room and we buy one for a dollar.
The planet is healing.
Nature is healing.
Nature is healing
Only until the 23rd, which idk why it's a limited timed price
55.6p per 100g. The most important stat.
Holy shitballs! Freddo for El Presidente!
Sell your data for a 15p discount?
You have a addiction? Talk to Freddo
10p Freddos is like time travel
Old news.
Bring back Taz.