Roses & Quality Street 5 Euro a Tin

leahyl

The Heroes seem to be hard to get now - it always just seems to be roses and quality street on offer - are Heroes actually on offer?

mailburner

got one heroes, roses and celebrations for 4.50 in joyces today
thats me more than sorted for xmas for sweets anyway
dont rate quality street at all

admiralofthefleet

there were lots of heroes in tesco arklow earlier this evening

opo

the groutch wrote: »

I think it's also to stop independent retailers buying huge amounts, as €4.99 is probably cheaper than Musgraves or another cash&carry would charge.

I disagree. Tesco, like any other retailer, wants to maximise sales at any margin.

Margin by volume = profit.

This is a classic loss leader. Tesco is catering to hundreds of thousands of cross purchase - volume customers. Retailers are an unlikely consideration if even Dunnes/Musgraves have never sent trucks to Tesco supermarkets to load up. And that's assuming it would be worth their while.

It can only be worth their while if the wholesale price is substantially dearer after all - and they have plans for the stock that will shift the volumes. That means beating Tesco price. More loss leading.

I am of the opinion that Tesco is prepared to lose money on a single product, to win on the big grocery spend but they utterly resent doing so and are more afraid of the savvy customer than the retailer.

It really isn't going to get much cheaper - though there may be 50c left either way.

Buy it and leave. You can win too .

opo

the groutch wrote: »

I think it's also to stop independent retailers buying huge amounts, as €4.99 is probably cheaper than Musgraves or another cash&carry would charge.

I disagree. Tesco, like any other retailer, wants to maximise sales at any margin.

Margin by volume = profit.

This is a classic loss leader. Tesco is catering to hundreds of thousands of cross purchase - volume customers. Retailers are an unlikely consideration if Dunnes/Musgraves etc do not tend to go to Tesco supermarkets to load up after all. And that's assuming it would be worth their while.

It can only be worth their while if the wholesale price is dearer and they charge less

I am of the opinion that Tesco is prepared to lose money on a single product, to win on the big grocery spend.

Buy it and leave. If there is 50c left to be had - its probably as good as it gets.

You can win too .

Stereomaniac

So good you had to say it twice? It's real simple to me, if I want to buy something, I'll have a look around and see what the cheapest price is for it, and not worry about things like this. YOU can win as well, OPO.

phasers

I was in Dunnes in Clondalkin on Thursday getting a sandwich when I saw the tins of sweets. The manager told me that they'd only a couple of tins of Heroes left (and no celebrations, boo-urns). Seems like they sell really fast, unlike the horrible, cheap tasting Roses who took out all the good flavours

paddy147

All the roses,celebrations and quality street are now gone up to 6 euro in Tesco Clarehall.


Sneaky gits indeed.

rubadub

rubadub wrote: »

€13 is actually reasonable enough per kilo relative to other chocolates. But of course temporarily overinflated prices is common practise these days. As i said earlier in the 80s & early 90's these 'christmas tins' costed a fortune relative to other chocolate. I said €5 is equivalent to a mars or twix being 34cent per bar, so €13 is 2.6 times that, so equivalent to 88.4cent per bar, which is a typical price for bog standard bars.

Easter eggs have also dropped dramatically relative to regular bars. Since people have gotten used to it they are screaming ripoff.

Look on musgraves cash & carry christmas specials

http://www.musgravecashandcarry.ie/files/r12-2012/retail.pdf

roses, heroes & quality street tins are all €6.01 incl VAT
The RRP is listed as €7.99

Bit silly comparing them to individual bars and multiplying that price up though. Even just comparing to multipacks where ya can get Twixes for a around 50p per 100g shows that.

phasers wrote: »

I was in Dunnes in Clondalkin on Thursday getting a sandwich

Of course!

noodler

Still no celebrations in Tesco Merrion - very disappointing!

coffee to go

Roses tins now at :pac: €3.99 in Eurospar, Fairgreen, Portlaoise. Limit of 3 per customer. Don't know if this applies to other Eurospars.

clappyhappy

Eurospar in rathkeale also have roses at 3.99 for 850g tin. They also have boxes of cadbury selection biscuits for 4.50. Great value.

the groutch

I'm waiting for the Loch Ness monster to start selling them

shannon82

supervalu has two tins for €10 i picked up the celebrations and miniture heroes

DermoMIO

Tesco have the small boxes of heroes for €5.99 should it not be the tins @ that price ? :rolleyes:

danjo-xx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySQlU3hussQ

vicwatson

DermoMIO wrote: »

Tesco have the small boxes of heroes for €5.99 should it not be the tins @ that price ? :rolleyes:

The Heroes seem to be hard to get now - it always just seems to be roses and quality street on offer - are Heroes actually on offer?

I need a hero !!

vicwatson

Supervalu 2 for €10.00 or €6.00 each

g0g

Was just shopping in Eurospar Inchicore and they also have the € 4 tins of roses limit 2 per customer. Shelves empty except for one which I felt obliged to buy! :pac: They reckoned more will be out tomorrow....

Pj!

Full credit to Eurospar here for the €3.99 price for Roses. Tops the lot.

Is it in every Eurospar does anybody know?

Monkeynut

Pj! wrote: »

Full credit to Eurospar here for the €3.99 price for Roses. Tops the lot.

Is it in every Eurospar does anybody know?

eurospar kinsealy has it too, it had loads on monday.

noodler

My Tesco has celebrations today.

Unfortunately the price on all the tins has been jacked up to 6e!

2smiggy

noodler wrote: »

My Tesco has celebrations today.

Unfortunately the price on all the tins has been jacked up to 6e!

boooooooooo

Lucyn

noodler wrote: »

My Tesco has celebrations today.

Unfortunately the price on all the tins has been jacked up to 6e!

€4.99 in aldi last sunday - loads there

Sempai

Eurospar selling tins of Roses for €3.99 and Heroes for €4.95 in Kinsealy...this week only! I'd say it could be nationwide as well.

Carlosthejakal

Celebrations are still in Aldi at only 4.99

A Law

Sempai wrote: »

Eurospar selling tins of Roses for €3.99 and Heroes for €4.95 in Kinsealy...this week only! I'd say it could be nationwide as well.

Got it in applewood swords 2day.

jay0109

tried the eurospar on Barrow St ("the flagship store") for the past 2 days and no roses or any of the other tins in stock

Tabitharose

2 tins for a tenner in Supervalu in Churchtown Dublin 14 today

padyjoe

Gone mental and building my tower already...:-)))