Many countries use Cyrillic. Bulgaria for eg has many confectionery factories
We have them in Croydon as well.
If any of the confectionery is in English you know it aint the one
It is Russian. It says ‘with Plombir flavour’. Plombir is this particular ice cream popular in the ex USSR.
Can’t be worse than the Hershey’s bar below it
It’s so the Mi6 can spot hungry Russian spies.
You should’ve done a taste test for us
With added polonium-210……
The white ones are delicious. No idea what flavor they are.
Many products made by companies for the Russian market were redirected for sale elsewhere after sanctions were imposed on Russia. This is despite both Mars and Mondelez still maintaining significant businesses there, and indeed reporting increased profits.
Must’ve ran a marathon to get there.
Lots of off licence shops have foreign items of familiar brands. My local has Japanese and Turkish coke in a bottle.
Yeah I had one, was decent ice cream flavor I think
I used to get Arabic Coca-Cola from a shop in Kent. One of those odd little shops that wasn’t a corner shop exactly, but had loads of cheap things and some food and drink items. Not sure how or why they had them, but they sure were cheap.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that in a couple of Watford newsagents too
Yo which store is this? I wanna get some
I saw a lot of Russian goods in IKEA on a discount, perhaps it was made for the Russian market but couldn’t be delivered there because of the sanctions, etc.
Either limited edition or just cheaper to import. We used to get a lot places selling Snickers here in the 80s when it was still known as Marathon, usually imported from France.
There’s a newsagent by the London Eye which has some really random foreign confectionary, they might have one of these. I had a passionfruit flavour Snickers there
*Our* chocolate
“Plombir” is a classic Soviet flavor that reminds of the childhood. Most likely the shop looked at the clientele and thought that it would be good idea to get some. It’s in Russian probably because this is a region-specific thing and does not exist in other languages.
Here’s one back at ya: a cleanroom bunny-suit made in 2020 in China for the Russian market that ended up in the cleaning company’s inventory in London. Think that thing has some stories to tell?
Just to nip the conspiracy shit in the bud, my family have owned a corner shop since 1991, which originally opened in 1938.
These aren’t off the back of a lorry. They’re legitimate stock, sometimes intentionally made with foreign branding, so the brand can get extra sales through cheaper pricing that only smaller businesses have access to, without risk of the bigger retailers buying that same stock (as Tesco isn’t going to sell foreign language goods).
A Snickers bar only costs Mars a few pennies to make. So slapping fake Russian text onto the wrapper means it can sell a few thousand extra units to independent cash and carries and small businesses like the shop in the OP at 20p a bar, which they would otherwise not sell to if it was 40p a bar.
I found a Russian hazelnut one in Ealing recently, alongside a bunch of other random flavours from Brazil
I had one of these and it was nice. Not sure if there are any differences to the Brit ones. This is giving me cravings and I’m only allowed a sweet treat on a Saturday night.
Get Some Nutski
Yeah also seen this in a offie in Ealing
It’s probably due to parallel importing. You can find a decent number if of products being sold outside their intended markets in small independent shops.
Mars will have an official UK distributor that sells to UK stores. But Mars Europe or Mars eastern europe or some similar (or more likely a third party distributor that works for them) would like more sales, and their snickers are cheaper than Mars UK’s. So they could sell to shops in the UK too. Big retailers won’t deal with parallel importers – the savings are not worth Mars UK being cross with them – but small retailers/their suppliers will. It’s grey market stuff and eventually Mars global will try to stop whoever is doing it.
As other commenters have said there is probably a glut of products originally intended for Russia sitting around making it very tempting for parallel importers.
lol which one? Wanna get one
Be laced with some flash eating poison
There’s something amusing about non UK products randomly in shops even if there’s probably a grey/outright illegal aspect of dodging import tax etc
My favourite is the boss man Turkish Coca Cola given out when getting a kebab.
Harshey chocolate actually taste like puke to me. Anyone else get that? Awful stuff altogether
I’ve seen Russian, Turkish and Greek Snickers in ships all around London
It appears to be trying to annexe Mars.
They’re going universal. It’ll be the Milky Way next.
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Many countries use Cyrillic. Bulgaria for eg has many confectionery factories
We have them in Croydon as well.
If any of the confectionery is in English you know it aint the one
It is Russian. It says ‘with Plombir flavour’. Plombir is this particular ice cream popular in the ex USSR.
Can’t be worse than the Hershey’s bar below it
It’s so the Mi6 can spot hungry Russian spies.
You should’ve done a taste test for us
With added polonium-210……
The white ones are delicious. No idea what flavor they are.
Many products made by companies for the Russian market were redirected for sale elsewhere after sanctions were imposed on Russia. This is despite both Mars and Mondelez still maintaining significant businesses there, and indeed reporting increased profits.
Must’ve ran a marathon to get there.
Lots of off licence shops have foreign items of familiar brands. My local has Japanese and Turkish coke in a bottle.
Yeah I had one, was decent ice cream flavor I think
I used to get Arabic Coca-Cola from a shop in Kent. One of those odd little shops that wasn’t a corner shop exactly, but had loads of cheap things and some food and drink items. Not sure how or why they had them, but they sure were cheap.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that in a couple of Watford newsagents too
Yo which store is this? I wanna get some
I saw a lot of Russian goods in IKEA on a discount, perhaps it was made for the Russian market but couldn’t be delivered there because of the sanctions, etc.
Either limited edition or just cheaper to import. We used to get a lot places selling Snickers here in the 80s when it was still known as Marathon, usually imported from France.
There’s a newsagent by the London Eye which has some really random foreign confectionary, they might have one of these. I had a passionfruit flavour Snickers there
*Our* chocolate
“Plombir” is a classic Soviet flavor that reminds of the childhood. Most likely the shop looked at the clientele and thought that it would be good idea to get some. It’s in Russian probably because this is a region-specific thing and does not exist in other languages.
Here’s one back at ya: a cleanroom bunny-suit made in 2020 in China for the Russian market that ended up in the cleaning company’s inventory in London. Think that thing has some stories to tell?
Just to nip the conspiracy shit in the bud, my family have owned a corner shop since 1991, which originally opened in 1938.
These aren’t off the back of a lorry. They’re legitimate stock, sometimes intentionally made with foreign branding, so the brand can get extra sales through cheaper pricing that only smaller businesses have access to, without risk of the bigger retailers buying that same stock (as Tesco isn’t going to sell foreign language goods).
A Snickers bar only costs Mars a few pennies to make. So slapping fake Russian text onto the wrapper means it can sell a few thousand extra units to independent cash and carries and small businesses like the shop in the OP at 20p a bar, which they would otherwise not sell to if it was 40p a bar.
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I found a Russian hazelnut one in Ealing recently, alongside a bunch of other random flavours from Brazil
I had one of these and it was nice. Not sure if there are any differences to the Brit ones. This is giving me cravings and I’m only allowed a sweet treat on a Saturday night.
Get Some Nutski
Yeah also seen this in a offie in Ealing
It’s probably due to parallel importing. You can find a decent number if of products being sold outside their intended markets in small independent shops.
Mars will have an official UK distributor that sells to UK stores. But Mars Europe or Mars eastern europe or some similar (or more likely a third party distributor that works for them) would like more sales, and their snickers are cheaper than Mars UK’s. So they could sell to shops in the UK too. Big retailers won’t deal with parallel importers – the savings are not worth Mars UK being cross with them – but small retailers/their suppliers will. It’s grey market stuff and eventually Mars global will try to stop whoever is doing it.
As other commenters have said there is probably a glut of products originally intended for Russia sitting around making it very tempting for parallel importers.
lol which one? Wanna get one
Be laced with some flash eating poison
There’s something amusing about non UK products randomly in shops even if there’s probably a grey/outright illegal aspect of dodging import tax etc
My favourite is the boss man Turkish Coca Cola given out when getting a kebab.
Harshey chocolate actually taste like puke to me. Anyone else get that? Awful stuff altogether
I’ve seen Russian, Turkish and Greek Snickers in ships all around London
It appears to be trying to annexe Mars.
They’re going universal. It’ll be the Milky Way next.
That’s not Russian
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