Expensive confectionary in convenience shops

29-10-2016 01:31PM #1

Does anyone else think the prices charged in the likes of Londis, Spar etc. for individual bars, bags of crisps, bottles of fizzy drinks etc. are way too expensive? Bars nowadays tend to be priced about 1.00 to 1.20, crisps about 1.10, fizzy drinks about 1.80 for a 500 ml bottle, so you're looking at about 4 euro just to pick up 3 smallish items. I know inflation is a thing but these prices still just seem far too high. Maybe the availability of multipack prices throughout the years have devalued the worth in my mind of individual items, or something! I remember in the mid 2000s, when people had more money, that prices wouldn't have been far of half of what they are now.

corner of hells · 29-10-2016 01:33PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Does anyone else think the prices charged in the likes of Londis, Spar etc. for individual bars, bags of crisps, bottles of fizzy drinks etc. are way too expensive? Bars nowadays tend to be priced about 1.00 to 1.20, crisps about 1.10, fizzy drinks about 1.80 for a 500 ml bottle, so you're looking at about 4 euro just to pick up 3 smallish items. I know inflation is a thing but these prices still just seem far too high. Maybe the availability of multipack prices throughout the years have devalued the worth in my mind of individual items, or something! I remember in the mid 2000s, when people had more money, that prices wouldn't have been far of half of what they are now.

Recessions over. Bring it on.

893bet · 29-10-2016 01:37PM

The answer is in your thread title.

29-10-2016 01:38PM

893bet wrote: »

The answer is in your thread title.

Yeah I suppose. Close thread! :P

Reputable Rog · 29-10-2016 01:41PM

The underhand pricing designed to benefit from rounding is something that really annoys me about the convenience stores, €1.03 for a packet of Tayto, why not €1 or €1.02 ?

Avatar MIA · 29-10-2016 01:44PM

It does feel a bit strange paying over a euro for a bar of chocolate.

But, it's an amazing product (I've a sweet tooth okay! :pac:) that goes through a significant manufacturing process and logistics to get to your local spar, which has a proportionately higher cost compared to a Tesco.

And a minimum wage worker needs only to work about 7 minutes to get one.

Imagine, back in medieval times. What would a king give to have the luxury of a cadbury's dairymilk bar of chocolate. Probably sell a few servants and think it a bargain.

bodhrandude · 29-10-2016 01:54PM

OP buy your chocolate from Lidl or Aldi or the Euro stores, sometimes Centra offers 3 chocolate bars for 2 euro, shop around like.

29-10-2016 02:02PM

Avatar MIA wrote: »

It does feel a bit strange paying over a euro for a bar of chocolate.

But, it's an amazing product (I've a sweet tooth okay! :pac:) that goes through a significant manufacturing process and logistics to get to your local spar, which has a proportionately higher cost compared to a Tesco.

And a minimum wage worker needs only to work about 7 minutes to get one.

Imagine, back in medieval times. What would a king give to have the luxury of a cadbury's dairymilk bar of chocolate. Probably sell a few servants and think it a bargain.

Good point actually - if you graphed how spoilt we all are against time, 1300 AD would be at level 1, 2005 at level 100 and because of this mildly expensive confectionary, 2016 at level 99

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 29-10-2016 02:49PM

Reputable Rog wrote: »

The underhand pricing designed to benefit from rounding is something that really annoys me about the convenience stores, €1.03 for a packet of Tayto, why not €1 or €1.02 ?

Buy 2 packs and save in the deal.

Avatar MIA · 29-10-2016 02:50PM

Olive Disgusting Kiln wrote: »

Buy 2 packs and save in the deal.

False economy when it comes to chocolate. It just means two bars of chocolate get eaten.

Hopeful2016 · 29-10-2016 02:52PM

Reputable Rog wrote: »

The underhand pricing designed to benefit from rounding is something that really annoys me about the convenience stores, €1.03 for a packet of Tayto, why not €1 or €1.02 ?

So don't round, it's optional.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 29-10-2016 02:52PM

Avatar MIA wrote: »

False economy when it comes to chocolate. It just means two bars of chocolate get eaten.

Nothing wrong with that. What's a couple of bars of chocolate when you deserve them?

Avatar MIA · 29-10-2016 02:56PM

Olive Disgusting Kiln wrote: »

Nothing wrong with that. What's a couple of bars of chocolate when you deserve them?

Every time you feel like chocolate? What's a couple of lbs more like?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 29-10-2016 02:57PM

I don't care what price chocolate is, as long as it doesn't become scarce.

Avatar MIA · 29-10-2016 02:59PM

Olive Disgusting Kiln wrote: »

I don't care what price chocolate is, as long as it doesn't become scarce.

I'm the same price wise, and wouldn't get a different brand to save a few Cents. Just try to limit the volume

Ronin247 · 29-10-2016 03:03PM

When I was younger I used to go to the corner shop with €2 in my pocket and get 3 cans of coke and 3 big bars of chocolate and still have money left in my pockets....... then they got cctv in.

eqwjewoiujqorj · 29-10-2016 03:41PM

Dunnes have multi packs 5 for 5 euro.

So a pack of 4 boost bars work out at 1 euro or 25 cent each.

Lidl also sell 25 Cent single bars of chocolate (Mister Choc) at the till.

Plenty of value out there.

brianregan09 · 29-10-2016 03:41PM

And there only going to get dearer with this bs sugar tax coming in

lawlolawl · 29-10-2016 03:44PM

How much garbage do people eat that this kind of thing is any kind of an issue?

29-10-2016 03:46PM

eqwjewoiujqorj wrote: »

Dunnes have multi packs 5 for 5 euro.

So a pack of 4 boost bars work out at 1 euro or 25 cent each.

Lidl also sell 25 Cent single bars of chocolate (Mister Choc) at the till.

Plenty of value out there.

Oh yeah, wouldn't argue with that. But when you just want a starbar or something when youre in one of those convenience shops the price always seems way too dear, except maybe for 30 cent bars like freddos. Well, starbar might be a poor example since i don't think you can get them in multipacks ..
When a mars bar was like 60 cent in the mid 2000s it seemed reasonable and a bag of crisps 45 cent and a bottle of coke 1 euro. Also, chocolate is of lower quality than it was in the past too so it's paying more for an inferior product.

29-10-2016 03:46PM

lawlolawl wrote: »

How much garbage do people eat that this kind of thing is any kind of an issue?

Not that much suprisingly!

Rubberlegs · 29-10-2016 03:49PM

The multipacks are all well and good , but the bars are definitely smaller than the ones off the shelf. The local discount shop sells 4 bars for €2 and again these are smaller (probably out of multipacks). You'd eat the Double Decker in 3 mouthfuls

Electric Sheep · 29-10-2016 03:53PM

Shop elsewhere, it's not rocket science.

gramar · 29-10-2016 03:55PM

73Cat wrote: »

The multipacks are all well and good , but the bars are definitely smaller than the ones off the shelf. The local discount shop sells 4 bars for €2 and again these are smaller (probably out of multipacks). You'd eat the Double Decker in 3 mouthfuls

They must be tiny so because the ones off the shelf have been shrinking for years!

Rubberlegs · 29-10-2016 04:02PM

gramar wrote: »

They must be tiny so because the ones off the shelf have been shrinking for years!

They are really small, along the lines of the ones like Mars bars that are called snack size in the multipacks

Elliott S · 29-10-2016 04:53PM

lawlolawl wrote: »

How much garbage do people eat that this kind of thing is any kind of an issue?

I know. It's like when people complain about the notion of adding a sugar tax onto confectionary - "Why should I have to pay more because others can't control themselves?" Er, well, if you're not eating that much, it's not going to cost you very much more in total. A negligable amount really.

Barry Badrinath · 29-10-2016 04:57PM

I remember 10p bags were 10p.

Now they are €3.

State of it.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 29-10-2016 05:04PM

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

I remember 10p bags were 10p.

Now they are €3.

State of it.

Penny bags were 1d. You can't even get the 1d now for 1d.

And a penny stamp now costs eleven shillings and five pence.

readytosnap · 29-10-2016 05:15PM

http://www.migros-shop.de/schokolade/tafel-schokolade/tourist-4474.html

I buy the above 2 or 3 times a year, usually get 5 bars at a time, last time (Oct 6th ) it cost me €41.39 including postage. Cannot find it anywhere else, it is the nicest chocolate I ever ate.
Having said and spent that much on Chocolate, I could not bring myself to hand over €1.20 for a starbar, I love them but the last time I bought one it was less than 50p ( I think it was 30 something) You never see starbars in a multipack, never in my life have I seen them.

FizzleSticks · 29-10-2016 05:16PM

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Commotion Ocean · 29-10-2016 05:18PM

Things are expensive in convenience shops because chumps pay it.

In one of my local supermarkets after Christmas, they dismantle the selection boxes and put a printed-off price label on the individual bars and sell them off (even though it says on the bars "not for individual resale").

They do the same after Easter. They open the box and they sell off the bars individually, they put the cups (or whatever knick-knacks) are inside and sell them too, worse part is that they actually sell the EGGS individually, the leave them in the tin-foil in a trolley by the customer service desk with a price label stuck to it.

Expensive confectionary in convenience shops

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