Qikz wrote:Jenuall wrote:The mini Toblerones aren't real ones anyway, it's the full size 360g or nothing!
Whilst confectionary can sometimes get seemingly unfair price hikes like this, I'm looking at your Freddo, there are often plenty of valid reasons.
It's the other side of these arguments that often annoys me - the ridiculous and misguided entitlement that consumers seem to have. Every Christmas for example you get stupid people on Facebook posting about how "Roses tins used to be 3 times bigger! This is such a rip off!" and demanding that there £5 should get them the same amount now as it did in 1982 despite the reality that just taking inflation into account that 80s tin would probably cost about £15 now.
Those tins (even the 80s ones) don't even cost them anywhere near 5quid to make. I understand profit margins and gooseberry fool, but seriously.
I have no idea what the production cost of a tin of Roses is, either now or in the 80s, nor what their respective profit margins were, but the point is that people expecting the same quantity of product to maintain the same price point for 30 years are living in a dream world. Yes Cadbury can sell you a 2kg tin of Roses now if they wanted to, but you have to accept that it's going to cost more than it did decades ago, or accept that the same price will now get you less.
It's like expecting Ford to still sell you a hatchback for £6,995 because that's what your dad paid for one in the mid 80s.
Ad7 wrote:
Perhaps like Jez Toblerones market research has been Field of Dreams: if we make the chocolate people will buy it l, whatever the cost!