And yet the companies selling these products keep posting record profits
So it wasn’t the immigrants. Just institutional and corporate greed.
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They’re down to 550g now, and I may be mistaken but I swear when I walked past them the other day the tubs were made of cardboard? Could have just been my magic mushroom comedown though 🤷🏻♂️
At least we aren’t as fat as the Americans…
Stopped buying when they became plastic and lightweight- robbers
It’s Quality Street, not Quantity Street!
Sorry
Bring back quality! 💪🏼
Next step is for them to correct the branding to “Quality” Street
Come on people, it’s for our own good…
I wish they made the tubs an appropriate size for whats actually in them instead of these half empty tubs.
When i buy these i literally have to buy 2, and empty one into the other.
So miss the days when you’d open the tin and the strong smell of chocolate would come out.
Weren’t the old packages mostly empty?
I remember being upset at them making the tin plastic.
😢
Millionaires robbing us but we blame immigrants anyway. That is the real decline.
Imagine telling someone in 1990 that one day the Quality Street tins would be plastic — they’d think it’s the plot of a dystopian film
The big tin of Quality Street cost about £25 in today’s money.
You can buy a big tin today for £38..
The price of chocolate has gone up a lot in the past few years.
Plastic everywhere. It really is dystopian. We’re breathing it in constantly.
They are even smaller and made of cardboard this year!!!!!
Never knew the tins were that huge at the end. Even if they were that big today, I bet it would be super expensive 🥲. My dad keeps saying how when he was young, the food came in much bigger quantities even the weetabix was huge, and you could only fit 2 in the bowl
As a kid, I remember the big two pound tin!! It really was massive and lasted until well into January! Shameful how the have shrank it over the years!
It’s immigrants somehow, man… what can you do?
That’s not the half of it. There’s also the fact that Quality needs to be put in quotation marks at this point. Then there’s the fact that even if you adjust the price for inflation it’s still shit. But the real kicker is the fact that it’s made by bastard Nestle.
And you should see how much they are sold for in the US.
A reproduction ‘big metal box’ came out last year and it was £25.
Bet the tories get the blame.
Me and my wife agreed to cut back on them this year. Shrunken plastic tubs of palm oil shit. We used to buy 3-4 for December and now we’ll just get the one.
You can buy larger boxes, and the cost is roughly in line with inflation. This entire meme could be replaced with: family buy smaller boxes over time, likely inline with children growing up and eating less chocolate.
They were about 6 quid in 1985, which is about 20 quid today.
The immigrants ate all the sweets! /s
The ingredients are total garbage as well. Cocoa solids are well down whilst sugar, glucose, palm oil, syrup and milk powder have been increased to lengthen shelf life.
The result is waxy nonsense that sends your endocrine system into overdrive.
Go and buy from a proper chocolate maker for your fix.
In the words of Plan B
There’s no such thing as broken Britain
We’re just bloody broke in Britain
Will Shrinkflation ever reverse?
This is capitalism in an image mate nothing more nothing less.
as time progresses the product gets shittier and smaller for the same price or more and the raw resources used are cheaper.
They’ll sell 24 chocolates in a blister pack locked behind a customer loyalty gate and a perfect citizen ID card and ontop of that they’ll bring it to you for the low low price of £89.99, Bargain.
And 18 of them will be the coconut one…
You can still buy the tins
They’ve also removed Sean Bean from saying *BASTID!* in the **Sharpe** repeats.
We have fallen far indeed.
What’s sad is the smallest one here is bigger than the current size
Oh yes. They used to be massive didn’t they. Boycott them immediately.
Interestingly I was looking at the size and price of these tubs back in the 70’s just the other day. And the cost of them compared to salaries back then means if you wanted the same size tub today it would cost around £25 at least. Which is why back in the 70’s families bought one tub that lasted all over the Christmas period for the whole family. The price is comparable to wages back then and today. In the lates 70’s the 2.5kg tub cost £4.99, the equivalent tub today would be over £25 pounds. So if you bought 5 tubs today when on offer it would be around £25. The average annual salary in the 1979 was £6000, compared to today at £37’000.
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And yet the companies selling these products keep posting record profits
So it wasn’t the immigrants. Just institutional and corporate greed.
[deleted]
They’re down to 550g now, and I may be mistaken but I swear when I walked past them the other day the tubs were made of cardboard? Could have just been my magic mushroom comedown though 🤷🏻♂️
At least we aren’t as fat as the Americans…
Stopped buying when they became plastic and lightweight- robbers
It’s Quality Street, not Quantity Street!
Sorry
Bring back quality! 💪🏼
Next step is for them to correct the branding to “Quality” Street
Come on people, it’s for our own good…
I wish they made the tubs an appropriate size for whats actually in them instead of these half empty tubs.
When i buy these i literally have to buy 2, and empty one into the other.
So miss the days when you’d open the tin and the strong smell of chocolate would come out.
Weren’t the old packages mostly empty?
I remember being upset at them making the tin plastic.
😢
Millionaires robbing us but we blame immigrants anyway. That is the real decline.
Imagine telling someone in 1990 that one day the Quality Street tins would be plastic — they’d think it’s the plot of a dystopian film
The big tin of Quality Street cost about £25 in today’s money.
You can buy a big tin today for £38..
The price of chocolate has gone up a lot in the past few years.
Plastic everywhere. It really is dystopian. We’re breathing it in constantly.
They are even smaller and made of cardboard this year!!!!!
Never knew the tins were that huge at the end. Even if they were that big today, I bet it would be super expensive 🥲. My dad keeps saying how when he was young, the food came in much bigger quantities even the weetabix was huge, and you could only fit 2 in the bowl
As a kid, I remember the big two pound tin!! It really was massive and lasted until well into January! Shameful how the have shrank it over the years!
It’s immigrants somehow, man… what can you do?
That’s not the half of it. There’s also the fact that Quality needs to be put in quotation marks at this point. Then there’s the fact that even if you adjust the price for inflation it’s still shit. But the real kicker is the fact that it’s made by bastard Nestle.
And you should see how much they are sold for in the US.
A reproduction ‘big metal box’ came out last year and it was £25.
Bet the tories get the blame.
Me and my wife agreed to cut back on them this year. Shrunken plastic tubs of palm oil shit. We used to buy 3-4 for December and now we’ll just get the one.
You can buy larger boxes, and the cost is roughly in line with inflation. This entire meme could be replaced with: family buy smaller boxes over time, likely inline with children growing up and eating less chocolate.
https://www.costco.co.uk/Grocery-Household/Nuts-Snacks-Confectionery/Boxed-Chocolate/Nestle-Quality-Street-Tin-193kg/p/295740?srsltid=AfmBOopJliWjGezc2coLJY_MljrFo7Rh3fKddzl6eUFFeZfGCBP9LRTj
20 quid.
They were about 6 quid in 1985, which is about 20 quid today.
The immigrants ate all the sweets! /s
The ingredients are total garbage as well. Cocoa solids are well down whilst sugar, glucose, palm oil, syrup and milk powder have been increased to lengthen shelf life.
The result is waxy nonsense that sends your endocrine system into overdrive.
Go and buy from a proper chocolate maker for your fix.
In the words of Plan B
There’s no such thing as broken Britain
We’re just bloody broke in Britain
Will Shrinkflation ever reverse?
This is capitalism in an image mate nothing more nothing less.
as time progresses the product gets shittier and smaller for the same price or more and the raw resources used are cheaper.
They’ll sell 24 chocolates in a blister pack locked behind a customer loyalty gate and a perfect citizen ID card and ontop of that they’ll bring it to you for the low low price of £89.99, Bargain.
And 18 of them will be the coconut one…
You can still buy the tins
They’ve also removed Sean Bean from saying *BASTID!* in the **Sharpe** repeats.
We have fallen far indeed.
What’s sad is the smallest one here is bigger than the current size
Here’s a 750g tin for £7.98:
https://www.asda.com/groceries/product/9309256
Oh yes. They used to be massive didn’t they. Boycott them immediately.
Interestingly I was looking at the size and price of these tubs back in the 70’s just the other day. And the cost of them compared to salaries back then means if you wanted the same size tub today it would cost around £25 at least. Which is why back in the 70’s families bought one tub that lasted all over the Christmas period for the whole family. The price is comparable to wages back then and today. In the lates 70’s the 2.5kg tub cost £4.99, the equivalent tub today would be over £25 pounds. So if you bought 5 tubs today when on offer it would be around £25. The average annual salary in the 1979 was £6000, compared to today at £37’000.
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