Easter Egg Deals

road_high wrote: »

Debenhams are ridiculous at setting alleged high RRPs then cutting it down to “50% off” to appear like a bargain.

Tesco do this too in Ireland. Not sure about the UK but here you have to have something at a price for a certain length of time before you can legally declare/advertise it is reduced. Might be 28days.

Some people just grab any alleged offer. I remember seeing auld ones snapping up stupidly priced eggs in tesco a while back.

Those eggs were 15.99 in tesco and now reduced to 12euro, stupid price when a fiver got you the same amount of creme eggs and 200g more chocolate last week. The time limit might be part of the reason you see them stocked so early, and often just a few on the shelf.

OmegaGene wrote: »

People tend to buy eggs that have the wow factor to impress kids and look better than the other relatives rather that worry about the price per kilo of chocolate they are getting, as the years go on the eggs are more of a rip off and the ratio of cardboard to chocolate is mad, from the 21st of April the recycling bins will be packed

They’ve actually gotten relatively cheaper- Easter eggs were damn expensive in the 90s. There was no 3 for €5 or anything like that.

OmegaGene wrote: »

The prices may be lower but there is feck all in them, it’s all packaging and the quality of the chocolate isn’t as good

There wasn’t a whole lot then either- the packaging has actually improved- used be a big heavy plastic insert back in the day. Now it’s all just cardboard paper in most of them

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Even up until the mid 2000's you used at least get a decent size bar or even bars.

Yea but you paid a lot more. They were never 3 for €5 or £4. More like that each in fact

OmegaGene wrote: »

Pay less for less and people think it’s a deal
I’d prefer to pay regular price for the eggs that were around years ago

not sure what prices you remember but I am certainly paying less for far more than I got years ago. You can get eggs of a similar size to what they called a "medium" years ago. I think those would be around the same ratio of price as they were in the 80s or 90s, i.e. ratio comparing them to retail prices of the bars they have.

Now for 2 euro you are getting 2 bars and 200g chocolate (2 medium eggs). I think that is the size that I would have known as "medium" in the 80s, and I think the cheapest back then was £2.50 punts. I am not sure those eggs even were 200g, it could be the "creme egg effect" remember the size in your smaller hand as a kid. There would be old photos of boxes about with weight.

I remember being jealous as a family round the corner were allowed to just get loads of chocolate bars instead if they wanted, and they got way more. After begging I was allowed do something similar, rule was I had a set amount of money and had to get mainly easter stuff, so got the best value egg and rakes of creme eggs and some bars.

OmegaGene wrote: »

People tend to buy eggs that have the wow factor to impress kids and look better than the other relatives rather that worry about the price per kilo of chocolate they are getting

I was acknowledging that some might want big ones of course. When I was a kid it was a numbers game too, some kids might prefer to get 5 small eggs instead of 1 costing the same price.

I think many do not even consider price per kilo as they assume it will cost more than single bars or mulitpacks, logically it should be, but its not anymore. This was always the case when I was growing up. Same with selection boxes, there is no reason they should be cheaper than mulitpacks as you should be paying for all the packaging, transport, additional shelf space etc -plus the fact they used to just fleece you as you had to get them for the kids regardless. But only in more recent years this is not the case.

I remember remarking on the price to a woman getting loads of selection boxes and she said they were great for the kids lunches, much cheaper than multipacks.

People doing baking might prefer the eggs as not only are they far cheaper, but they are easily broken up to aid melting. It might not have crossed peoples minds.

It was like the last days of Sodom and Gomorrah in my local store, people just taking the packages of eggs as soon as they came from the stock room. One woman had a trolley full of them.

OmegaGene wrote: »

handy snack after the school run

Then head to slimming world and wonder why they aren't losing weight.

OmegaGene wrote: »

Pay less for less and people think it’s a deal
I’d prefer to pay regular price for the eggs that were around years ago

Same with Roses at xmas... I would happily pay 20e for a tin of "premium" roses that do not taste like dog ****

Centra Glencar Letterkenny are selling 6 Cadbury’s Easter eggs for €9.

Dancor wrote: »

I got 21 this morning with no issues.

Probably store specific limits, having said that I went out the door & back in and got 3 more at the self service till.

Debenhams gone into administration so eggs might even get cheaper!!

Ki ki wrote: »

The shelves were stuffed full in Debenhams (Blackrock) with large eggs this afternoon. No way they would have cleared them all.
They were down to €7 average but the Creme Egg (of which there were loaaaads) was the best bargain.
May be worth a trip on Monday if anyone's still craving (overly sweet and gooey) chocolate.

Same in blanchardstown. Was like a Black Friday for eggs. Queues of people at the tills with them. Surely €5.10 for creme egg egg isn't that amazing is it?

All eggs where half price in dunnes this morning, decent size Lindt ones from 4 euro

Sheep Shagger wrote: »

All remaining stock at M&S is 50% off including various Easter cakes etc. Quite a bit still left in Dundrum earlier.

Even some of their Easter deserts are included.

Makes some of the stuff that was mad money, bearable.

This includes the rather cool looking Jazzie eggs (3 euro).
Tonnes in o connell street yday

5 for 5 in Tesco valid from tomorrow (13/3/2020) until 17/3/2020

link, if it works

https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/ProductBuylist/default.aspx?id=L00005682&icid=TBH_Tab4_Easter_Buylist_Easter_Medium_eggs

still 3 for 5 in Artane Castle

slave1 wrote: »

SuperValu currently 4 for €4 … .. .

Same in my local Centra..

5 for 5 this morning in Tesco

slave1 wrote: »

SuperValu currently 4 for €4 … .. .

Anyone know if this is still going?