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Old 12-10-2013, 15:43
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I had noticed that the normal size Quality Sweet tins are now tubs just like Celebrations. Hero's have also changed to tubs. The only normal sized tin left is Roses for some unknown reason.

You can get tins but you need to buy the more expensive ones. What do you think of this???
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Old 12-10-2013, 15:48
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I think at 2 for £5 in Lidl, I don't really care what they come in.
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Old 12-10-2013, 16:11
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I think very little of this either way really.
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Old 12-10-2013, 18:49
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I assume its because the plastic tubs are more green/easier to recycle. And they must weigh less than the metal tins too - less fuel for transport etc.
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Old 12-10-2013, 19:17
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I assume its because the plastic tubs are more green/easier to recycle. And they must weigh less than the metal tins too - less fuel for transport etc.
Yes, I seem to recall they trialled cardboard tubs. It also saves them money but they do offer metal tins for £3 extra but the same size.
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Old 12-10-2013, 19:33
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all about profit
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Old 12-10-2013, 23:23
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Toblerone is now in Heroes.
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Old 13-10-2013, 17:07
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It's not just the container. Look at the weight.

Tins used to be 1KG. Then they were 950g, then 900g, etc.

Now they all vary a little, but none of them are 1KG anymore, and Quality Street has dropped to a significantly reduced 820g. That's almost a 200g bar of chocolate having been taken out of the box before you've even opened it.
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Old 13-10-2013, 17:16
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This is a shame. When I was a kid, I used to worry that my nails would be torn off each time I tried to pry the Quality Street lid off.

But not even the fear can stop me from going after my favourites: the gold-wrapped toffee pennies, the orange-wrapped caramel cups, and the yellow-wrapped toffee fingers. I avoided the coffee ones and the weird nutty-bits ones at all costs. Prying the lid off was part of the fun.
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Old 13-10-2013, 19:15
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It's not just the container. Look at the weight.

Tins used to be 1KG. Then they were 950g, then 900g, etc.

Now they all vary a little, but none of them are 1KG anymore, and Quality Street has dropped to a significantly reduced 820g. That's almost a 200g bar of chocolate having been taken out of the box before you've even opened it.
Quality Street do a larger 1KG tin for more money though.
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Old 13-10-2013, 21:21
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Price of chocolate gone up, people still want to pay same price, Therefore make tin smaller. Magic!
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Old 13-10-2013, 21:56
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Reminds me of when Les Dawson told of being given
a box of chocolate biscuits . Upon opening he took out a note that read -
'Good luck to our boys in the Trenches'.
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Old 15-10-2013, 11:25
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Toblerone is now in Heroes.
Respect at last!
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Old 17-10-2013, 21:01
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It's not just chocolates that are in shrinking packaging. We bought a tin (it still is a tin!) of McVities Victoria biscuits for Christmas. In 2010 we paid £5 for an 800g tin, the following year that had become 725g, didn't get one last year but this year they are a measley 500g and they are £5. I would rather pay more and have a bigger tin. Are things going to shrink so much that they become non existent?
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Old 17-10-2013, 22:36
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But not even the fear can stop me from going after my favourites: the gold-wrapped toffee pennies, the orange-wrapped caramel cups, and the yellow-wrapped toffee fingers.
At work we have a perpetually replenishing tin of quality street, and nobody ever eats the toffee pennies. I assume that someone throws them away every now and then when they achieve critical mass. You should come round sometime!
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Old 18-10-2013, 11:27
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It's not just chocolates that are in shrinking packaging. We bought a tin (it still is a tin!) of McVities Victoria biscuits for Christmas. In 2010 we paid £5 for an 800g tin, the following year that had become 725g, didn't get one last year but this year they are a measley 500g and they are £5. I would rather pay more and have a bigger tin. Are things going to shrink so much that they become non existent?
"Market research" says you are in the minority. The majority of people are prepared to have a smaller product sold at the same price as the old larger product.

People are much more sensitive to price changes than they are to quantity/weight changes.
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Old 18-10-2013, 15:36
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What makes me sad about the tubs over the old tins is that my granny still has metal tins of Roses from about 20 years ago with buttons and what not in them. They're also good for cake/biscuit tins.
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Old 18-10-2013, 16:49
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What makes me sad about the tubs over the old tins is that my granny still has metal tins of Roses from about 20 years ago with buttons and what not in them. They're also good for cake/biscuit tins.
What about the tubs that means they can't be used as cake/biscuit 'tins'?
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Old 18-10-2013, 19:15
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"Market research" says you are in the minority. The majority of people are prepared to have a smaller product sold at the same price as the old larger product.

People are much more sensitive to price changes than they are to quantity/weight changes.
And yet when you have this discussion with people the majority say they'd prefer to pay a little more but keep the size

Either way it's a price rise.
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Old 20-10-2013, 01:16
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Price of chocolate gone up, people still want to pay same price, Therefore make tin smaller. Magic!
REALLY wish people would understand this before moaning on the likes of Cadbury UK & Cadbury Dairy Milk FB pages. Although hasn't happened so much recently but when it happened last year (or 2011?) they went mad. I rolled my eyes as the answer was obvious
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