Will you be buying a tin of Quality Street this Christmas?
Nestle are slowly slimming down their festive tin and hoping we don’t notice!
In what might just be the most quintessentially British story of the festive period so far, Charlotte Stacey Hook has taken to Facebook to complain about the continued decrease in the size of Quality Street tins.
She keeps the chocolate tins to store her Christmas decorations in each year, and became aware and incensed when she put them side by side about the dramatic decrease in size. She protested on the Quality Street Facebook page, and it seems to be going viral.
This appears to be yet another product which is shrinking in quantity but not in price!
Have you noticed the shrinking size of your annual Quality Street tin? Will you be buying one this Christmas? What do you think of this Quality over Quantity scandal?
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This is apparently the company we should trust to manage our water, despite the record of large bottling companies like Nestlé having a track record of creating shortages:"
Nestle` have also stated that " water is not a human right" ! They have bought over so many companies it is difficult to always know what they provide.
I look at the 'price per 100g' thus bought a packet of maltesers which were cheaper than the big box - brought out for Christmas.
Saw people just pick up the box and pop into their trolley. I wanted to point out the obvious, but you never know how people will react these days.
So.................Caveat Emptor!
Things change, raw materials and cost of manufacturing go up, so manufacturers have to adjust - A better comparison would be how much was a quarter pound in the 1950's and 60's (Yes NO grammes then!) and the cost of a similar quantity now - Adjusted with the index between then and now. A loaf of bread was probably 10p in the 50's and we are not complaining about that.
Wages and pensions have gone up (to some extent!) hopefully to compensate and I hope QS are still employing people in the UK to manufacture
If you enjoy them, buy them and find the best supermarket price you can - Two tubs for a £5 or £6 at TESCO at present!
I have never worked for QS or Tesco!
Have a lovely Christmas
I also don't think any chocolates taste as good as they used to. The ingredients are so changed in the popular ones that younger people have no idea how good they really were!