Major supermarket slashes price of Quality Street tubs now scanning for just £3.95
TUBS of Quality Street are on offer at a huge supermarket - but shoppers aren't sold.
The famous hexagonal tubs are just £3.95 in Tesco stores across the country.
To celebrate 30 years of rewards with Tesco Clubcard, the store has slashed prices on loads of customer favourites - including the Nestle bestseller.
The huge discount on the 600g Quality Street tubs is only available with a Clubcard.
For non-Clubcard holders, the price tag is the usual £6.
One shopper shared a photo of an in-store tower of the chocolate boxes on page.
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Despite the huge saving, customers were not impressed - with one calling them "bloody awful".
"Thought they would of had great offers for 30 years! Not left over Christmas stock selling it higher than before Christmas!" one grumbled.
"They can't give them away," wrote another.
"They are only worth a pound half empty," echoed a third.
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"They can't get rid of them because they are bloody awful!" agreed a fourth.
Several also slated Quality Street chocolates, complaining that they are "too expensive" and "all taste the same".
"I find they all taste the same and they are smaller than they used to be as well," one wrote.
"At [the] current size of tins that'll be about 90p a chocolate."
A Nestle spokesperson told The Sun: “At Quality Street, we are committed to delighting to our shoppers and consumers with a variety of products for Quality Street fans.
"We are continually reviewing our delicious Quality Street range with formats, sizes, weights and RRPs based on a range of factors including the preferences of our customers and consumers as well as the cost of manufacturing, ingredients and transport. Final prices are at the sole discretion of individual retailers.”
The Sun has approached Tesco for comment.
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Go own brand - if you're not too fussed about flavour and just want to supplant your chocolate cravings, you'll save by going for the supermarket's own brand bars.
Shop around - if you've spotted your favourite variety at the supermarket, make sure you check if it's cheaper elsewhere.
Websites like Trolley.co.uk let you compare prices on products across all the major chains to see if you're getting the best deal.
Look out for yellow stickers - supermarket staff put yellow, and sometimes orange and red, stickers on to products to show they've been reduced.
They usually do this if the product is coming to the end of its best-before date or the packaging is slightly damaged.
Buy bigger bars - most of the time, but not always, chocolate is cheaper per 100g the larger the bar.
So if you've got the appetite, and you were going to buy a hefty amount of chocolate anyway, you might as well go bigger.
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This comes after Nestle was accused of shrinking the size of the legendary Purple One.
The selection box cut the size of the beloved hazelnut snack by more than a tenth, sparking fury among customers.
Sweetmakers Nestle previously sparked controversy by changing the caramel treat from its Brazil nut-shaped design to a circular swirl.
But fans also noticed the change in size, with one even weighing both sweets to work out the scale of the “shrinkflation”.
Previously, the chocolate clocked in at 9.6 grams, while this year’s was only 8.4g – the same as a 12 per cent reduction.
Quality Street lover Rebecca Gracey fumed online: “Half of the appeal of Quality Street is/was aesthetic.
“Changing the shape and size of much loved favourites is sacrilege.
“I've never forgiven Nestlè for changing the diamond of fudge into a most uninteresting shape.
“However, the final straw was changing the shiny cellophane and foil wrappers to dull waxed paper.
“I have not purchased them since that abomination.”
On Facebook, Karen Harrison added: “Had some Quality Street last night and noticed the purple ones were now round and felt they were smaller.”
Nestle previously said the change, originally introduced as a trial, was to make sure the iconic sweets would still be “the same great-tasting Purple One”.
The choccy giant failed to disclose the fact the chocolate had actually decreased in size until they were asked by The Sun.
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A spokeswoman admitted: “The new shaped The Purple One sweets are slightly lighter than the previous shaped sweets, but the net weight of the tub remains the same.
“This means people are still getting the same amount of delicious Quality Street product they know and love – just in a slightly different format.”
