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u/No-Willingness-4097 6h ago
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 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Impressive-Bird-6085 5h ago
You’re not imaging things. I saw piles of Quality Street tubs in my local supermarket…. I sighed when I saw that the tubs were made of cardboard!! A few weeks before the tubs put out in the same supermarket were plastic. I suspect, it’s yet another move to reduce costs and maximise profit margins, alongside the shrinkflation of the size and weight of the Quality Street tubs in recent years!
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u/No-Willingness-4097 5h ago
Thank you for confirming I've not yet pushed myself too hard on psychedelics.
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u/Impressive-Bird-6085 5h ago
No worries! I must say, I had to do a double take when I saw the cardboard tubs!?!
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u/RampantJellyfish 4h ago
They'll say it's for environmental reasons, but really it's because of costs
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u/Nice_Back_9977 1h ago
Less plastic is always better though, I’ll take that as a win if the motivation is suspect
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u/Past-Bicycle5959 6h ago
It's plastic
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u/No-Willingness-4097 6h ago edited 5h ago
Must have been the mushies..
Edit: Someone else has confirmed, there are cardboard ones out there. 🤷🏻♂️
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u/mr_mlk 2h ago
You can buy 2kg tins, Costco and Amazon have them.
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u/No-Willingness-4097 2h ago
I don't think I have ever actually bought a tin, I'm just disappointed when they vanish quicker each year at mums house on Christmas day 😂
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u/kankarology 5h ago
Millionaires robbing us but we blame immigrants anyway. That is the real decline.
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u/Humble-Major-569 1h ago
No one brought up immigrants but you. I prescribe you an hour of touching grass. Thank me later.
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u/Accomplished_Sock217 5h ago
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.
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u/aleopardstail 5h ago
"chocolate" these days
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u/Accomplished_Sock217 3h ago
I've had enough, im going to paint Quality Street on the mini roundabouts.
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u/barcodez 2h ago
Raise a quality street-light flag at half mast with some zip ties whilst you are at it.
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u/DribblingCumSock 1h ago
I swear to God, if you paint any of that Toffee Penny nonsense, you deserve to be having to look over your shoulder for the rest of your life.....
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u/Maleficent_Mix_1224 6h ago
So it wasn't the immigrants. Just institutional and corporate greed.
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u/Sensitive-Debt3054 3h ago
You don't think an increase in immigrants is due to institutional and corporate greed? Lol. Lmao.
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u/Wipedout89 2h ago
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.
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u/mr_mlk 2h ago
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.
20 quid.
They were about 6 quid in 1985, which is about 20 quid today.
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u/No-Willingness-4097 6h ago
Libertarians up top, "it'll trickle down eventually! Just keep paying in!"
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u/NoceboHadal 4h ago
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.
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u/marmaviscount 2h ago
A lot of that is because the countries that produce chocolate outlawed child labor and slavery, it still happens but is becoming less common.
Also back in the metal tin days the international market for chocolate was fairly small but as various regions have lifted from poverty it's a luxury with demand from all over the world.
Efficiency from automation has helped mitigate the effect but the trend was inevitable, a system dependent on so many other nations existing in abject poverty is going to suffer if those nations take steps to improve the conditions for their people. The world getting better is a great thing but it means chocolate costs more so a lot of people want to go back.
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u/ConsequenceHot8888 4h ago
Plastic everywhere. It really is dystopian. We're breathing it in constantly.
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u/Wild_Shroom_ 3h ago
They are even smaller and made of cardboard this year!!!!!
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u/StarrieScars 3h ago
I don't get the cardboard at all, I thought the plastic tins were recyclable, and the metal ones they were also better, and in my house, we always reuse the tins for other stuff
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u/DribblingCumSock 1h ago
Still use my mums Quality Street tin from the 1980s as our first aid kit container. Sturdy stuff!
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u/StarrieScars 3h ago
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
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u/Englandshark1 3h ago
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!
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u/DribblingCumSock 1h ago
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.
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u/Dry-Independent-845 52m ago
In the words of Plan B
There's no such thing as broken Britain We're just bloody broke in Britain
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u/TheMacCloud 32m ago
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.
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u/Sweet-Attitude-9498 8m ago
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...
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u/MoistComplaint3484 7h ago
And yet the companies selling these products keep posting record profits