Re: Farmfoods, Heron Foods, Iceland etc

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Jan 24, 2024 6:38 pm

I do believe Poundland are still charging £4.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Jan 29, 2024 4:42 pm

Heron are charging £4.50 for a 360g bar of Dairy Milk but only £2 for a 200g bar of Galaxy. Now I have a dilemma. I much prefer Dairy Milk to Galaxy but Galaxy is now much cheaper. bawl

by Butterfield Mon Jan 29, 2024 7:12 pm

I will always happily pay more for anything Cadbury. aristojar

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:44 am

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:I do believe Poundland are still charging £4.

Poundland are now also charging £4.50 for 360g of Dairy Milk bawl

But only £1.50 for 150g of Terry's Chocolate Orange. happy

That makes it £1.25 per 100g for Dairy Milk and only £1 per 100g for Chocolate Orange.

Thus, I have just bought 2 chocolate oranges.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:46 am

3 Chocolate Oranges would cost £4.50.

The equivalent weight in Dairy Milk would cost £5.63. Colbert

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:47 am

At what point did Cadbury's become luxury chocolate? rollingpin

by cosmictanya Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:48 am

It was round about the time someone let Kwazi Kwarteng loose at the Treasury. Almost everything related to basic survival and simple pleasures became a luxury product within days.

by Butterfield Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:11 pm

So Poundland - where everything used to be a pound - don't even round up to the nearest pound anymore? oh no

What's the point of Poundland when things can be -.50?!

by Fangirl Three Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:28 pm

A big Poundland has opened at the Braehead shopping centre so I find myself buying a lot more PL stuff than previously.

Most recently I bought a large zip-up square storage bag to go on the back seat of my car and contain nomadic necessities like my mini clothes airer, spare keyboard etc.

by cosmictanya Thu Feb 01, 2024 5:01 pm

Butterfield wrote:So Poundland - where everything used to be a pound - don't even round up to the nearest pound anymore?

What's the point of Poundland when things can be -.50?!

They made a rod for their own back with that name. As soon as inflation kicked in, which it was always going to sooner or later, if not to this extent, they were set to look like the most unusually brazen liars on the high street. Or be compelled to have an expensive corporate rebrand.

Personally I’d have gone with ‘Worths’, as a nod to Woolworths, an offer in itself that worth is found here which seems to be what they want from a name, and as one of those prestigious sounding names in its own right. The kind of thing a grand old department store would be called.

If only they’d asked me I’d have said this to them for a very competitive fee of about £3m (as well as all taxes and other related costs taken care of by them) to me personally, plus a 1% profit share for the first three years to various charities and other causes of my choice. I’m not greedy.

by cosmictanya Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:47 pm

I read that Poundland have a subsidiary called Dealz for Eurozone countries.

It’s called that because Euroland was rejected by focus groups on account of it boxing them into a corner that inflation would leave redundant.

As I was saying.

Although I think Dealz is probably an even worse name. It puts me in mind of Delboy, or the kind of second hand car trader that would claim to have never met you when the vehicle he sold you stopped working three seconds after you’d driven it off his premises, rather than making me trustful of a quality brand.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:55 am

The price of a 200g bar of Galaxy has now fallen to £1.89.

The price of a 360g bar of Dairy Milk is still £4.50.

That means 400g of Galaxy will cost £3.78, compared to £5 for 400g of Dairy Milk. llama

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:56 am

How long can this carnage continue? bawl

by Butterfield Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:18 pm

That's only because Galaxy chocolate is inferior, and therefore must be cheaper to make.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:00 pm

But two years ago, 360g bars of Galaxy and Dairy Milk both cost £2.99. Dairy Milk has gone up way out of proportion to Galaxy. bawl

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