The Official Roses/Heroes/Quality Street/Celebrations et al Thread

€4.50 for the tubs of sweets in my local Eurospar.

Well that's my Christmas shopping done!
(Black magic from ALDI I think). Thanks for the LIDL heads-up, OP.

1.2kg tins of Quality Street in Centra Friday 1st only for 6 euro

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Tubs of Quality Street are €4 in Tesco until the 3rd!

Cheaper again for anyone with Tesco or competitors voucher. If you use a spend €50 save €10 they'll come down to €4.24/kg. Depending in how close to the €50 mark you get!

vicwatson wrote: »

Supposedly, but at this stage of the day don’t waste your time, I’d say these are gone 5 minutes after opening, tried two today and both said they only got half what they were supposed to - exact same excuse as the choc Kimberley. I’d say they are stacked inside for staff

Comment is unfair and inaccurate. For alot of the deeper cut promotions store has no control over the promotion and usually get very little notice of it.Even if it is allocated you often you don't receive your expected allocation as demand exceeds supply. No issue with customer quotas or staff keeping 1 for themselves, after all they're customers too.

Re the chocolate Kimberley store ordered their stock at the trade show in May and would have not known or expected that they would go half price, impossible to have enough stock in those circumstances as if you had known in advance you could have increased your order tenfold.

Kuva wrote: »

A real sweetie, Feror rocher (cant spell) is on offer in Dunnes.

how many & price? loads of rocher offers are bogus. In dealz is it 2euro for 8

http://www.dealz.ie/ferrero-rocher-8-pack

Last time I was in dealz there were new packs I had not seen, maybe 6 in the pack, not sure if they were 1.50 either, could be 2euro, even though the link says 8

pouches of celebrations were 3euro in my tesco, about 450g,

There appear to now be only 3 Brazillian Darkness per Roses tub! Even at 3 euros a tub, I can't go for that

deiseindublin wrote: »

Must look for the Toblerones. Hope it's all branches.

if you like toblerones then try the twin peaks bars in dealz, 1.50euro for 180g, the regulars are still there 150g. I prefer them over toblerone as did my other taster. I think they did blind tastes and something like 66% preferred them.

Mini toberlones are fine, the big ones have bits in them that are far too big for my liking, they stick in your teeth. The twin peaks can also be broken into smaller pieces easier. I would like to see dealz just come out with 3-5packs of smaller versions.



mine were in a greenish pack like this


Dealz/poundland should really come out with a rival to celebrations/heroes etc. Could come up with some smart names to get them in the media-
celebrations -commiserations
quality street - mediocre lane
roses - dandelions
heroes - villains

vicwatson wrote: »

Dealz did a deal with toblerone makers that they would stop making twin peaks once the run was done to avoid litigation

I was not sure if they were still going to be available, i.e. in some shape or form. My understanding was that it was the extremely similar packaging that was the major issue. The ones I got were the green packing. I think 500,000 of these were still meant to be available, not sure if it really was limited to that, or just the press

It was all a big clever & slick marketing trick, poundland/dealz won as did toblerone/mondelez, both got free advertising, and both had boosted sales.

If they do have to stop the shape then I imagine they could make more in a different shape, which I would actually prefer it, as toblerones are a terrible shape to actually eat.

The likes of hunky dorys are sold in aldi alongside "okey dokeys" both made by the same factory. Difference here is the twin peaks are made by another company, but still, dealz will sell toberlones.

Mac 3 wrote: »

Toblerones not on offer in SuperValu castletroy. Maybe only in some stores.

My local SuperValu never really sells off old Christmas/Eater stock!

vicwatson wrote: »

Opened a tub yesterday and there was ONE in it, Cadbury philistinism

I feel your pain... desperate times call for desperate measures.

Are there any regularly available packets of chocs that are similar to the Cadburys Roses Brazilian Darkness?

The closest I can think of is Riesen, but it's just chocolate.

Gerrymandering reborn wrote: »

Anybody know anywhere selling Roses, Heroes etc?

If you mean tubs, I say you'd find it difficult at this time of the year!

It's a good thread to have on the go in my opinion for those who want to pick up a few bits every week for Christmas or those those who just want to eat them now.