Easter Egg Deals

freshpopcorn

road_high wrote: »

Debenhams are ridiculous at setting alleged high RRPs then cutting it down to “50% off” to appear like a bargain. They did the same all over their stores particularly with small electrical and household stuff. No one in their right mind would pay €17 for those hence set to 50% and appear like a bargain. Retail psychology 101!

I think everybody knows this about Debenhams at this stage!

rubadub

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.

Robenhams!

Rip off!

road_high

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.

freshpopcorn

Tesco opened near us in 2004. a medium Easter eggs were 3 for €10 and people were delighted with the offer.
You got a decent size egg and one or two bars.

road_high

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

OmegaGene wrote: »

The chocolate eggs were much thicker year ago (1980’s) and the goodies inside made it more appealing for children, now they are too thin the quality of chocolate is poor and if there are treats they are along side the egg as it’s cheaper to produce, the market if flooded with crap eggs for way too long these days

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

road_high

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

amber2

Supervalu tomorrow :

48 Hour Special - Thursday & Friday Only, Mix & Match Any 3 for €3 on Cadbury, Mars or Nestlé Medium Easter Eggs. Grab them quick!

rubadub

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.

rubadub

OmegaGene wrote: »

I melted last years build up of eggs and it was a disaster compared to the proper baking chocolate, whatever is in the new Cadbury’s stiff is almost impossible to melt

I had no trouble melting last year, I mix it with coconut oil after. I do agree the chocolate in general is much worse, and of course bars are smaller -just as retail & mulitpack are, I doubt anybody questions that. My quoted comment sparking more comments was about price per kilo, and just highlighting that the (crappy tiny horrible tasting) eggs are far cheaper then the (crappy tiny horrible tasting) chocolate bars you get nowadays! so people might want to buy for "non easter" uses as they are such good value relative to other bars today, I much prefer a egg than a bar.

This 2 bar egg was what I knew as "medium", it is from 1991 and 220g.



I think kit kats were about 45g then, reduced recently enough to about 40g. So about 130g of egg.

In supervalu it will be 2euro for 2 eggs with 2 bars and 200g of egg, 280g total. Some might have preferred the chocolate back then but if you could magic up that 1991 220g egg and have price it to what it was in punts, and adjust for inflation, then I would definitely be getting todays ones. They were stupid money back then.

Sheep Shagger

1kg Lindt bunny eggs - £40 with free Amazon Prime delivery.

£40 also in larger Tesco stores in NI

€60 in Brown Thomas...


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lindt-Golden-Bunny-1-Kg/dp/B000O6XSFO/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?crid=2V7CB173Q0P1M&keywords=lindt+1kg&qid=1554320991&s=gateway&sprefix=lindt+1&sr=8-2

mjp

amber2 wrote:

48 Hour Special - Thursday & Friday Only, Mix & Match Any 3 for €3 on Cadbury, Mars or Nestlé Medium Easter Eggs. Grab them quick!

Will be stocking up in SuperValu tomorrow morning so as missed offers in Tesco and Dunnes over past few weeks. Can't see getting the "medium" eggs for less than €1 each in next 2 weeks

holliehobbie

OmegaGene wrote: »

I melted last years build up of eggs and it was a disaster compared to the proper baking chocolate, whatever is in the new Cadbury’s stiff is almost impossible to melt

Is it the palm oil?

Doge

Picked up 6 eggs in SuperValu for 6 euro and had no problem scanning them with the self service checkout. Thanks for posting jt!

Cantona's Collars

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.

123654789

Biggish (read, not great per kg but look relatively impressive) Cadburys eggs are half price in Tesco.

Mini eggs, dairy milk, flake etc: this kind https://m.tesco.ie/mt/www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=302808804

Large sized ones 2 for €8 from tomorrow
https://m.tesco.ie/mt/www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=265947614

Cantona's Collars

OmegaGene wrote: »

handy snack after the school run

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

amber2

amber2 wrote: »

Supervalu tomorrow :

48 Hour Special - Thursday & Friday Only, Mix & Match Any 3 for €3 on Cadbury, Mars or Nestlé Medium Easter Eggs. Grab them quick!

Limit of 12 per customer in my local SuperValu.

mloc123

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 ****

Dancor

amber2 wrote: »

Limit of 12 per customer in my local SuperValu.

I got 21 this morning with no issues.

Cee-Jay-Cee

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

123654789

Saw an ad in the paper earlier, Eurospar are doing 9 for €9

Starts today and on for a few days, til the 7th i think?

amber2

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.

Doyler99

Debenhams doing a 1/2 price sale on Easter Eggs at the moment. Good selection too especially on the larger eggs. Picked myself up a few!

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

Doop

RoboKlopp wrote: »

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

every cloud... what :rolleyes:

miamee

RoboKlopp wrote: »

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

That's Debenhams UK only.

Debenhams Ireland reassures staff and customers as UK store enters administration

freshpopcorn

Meduum eggs are 3 for €4.50 at Tesco!

ashes2014

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Eggs are 3 for €4.50 at Tesco!

Yep-can recommend the click and collect when shopping in Tesco. Its brilliant.

Ki ki

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.

DopeTech

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?

JP Liz V1

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Meduum eggs are 3 for €4.50 at Tesco!

99c each in Aldi

at1withmyself

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

rubadub

5 packs of creme eggs were 2euro in tesco yesterday. There were very few easter eggs left.

Sheep Shagger

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.

billcullen1

Tesco large Easter eggs 2e

gmisk

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

JP Liz V1

4 for €4 Dunnes Stores

mydiscworld

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

Princess Calla

mydiscworld wrote: »

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

Yeah I think it's the Friday before paddy's day each year.

However going by reports, they will be the only item left in stock.

Manic out there at the moment.

kenkin

still 3 for 5 in Artane Castle

Yellow Dog

From yesterday Tesco have various Easter Eggs at 5 for €5

https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/SpecialOffers/SpecialOfferDetail/Default.aspx?promoId=R32845655

slave1

SuperValu currently 4 for €4 … .. .

rubadub

tesco

12 Cadbury Creme And Caramel Chocolate Eggs 474G
€4.00

that is 6 of each, so 33.3cent each

Basq

slave1 wrote: »

SuperValu currently 4 for €4 … .. .

Same in my local Centra..

rubadub

rubadub wrote: »

tesco

12 Cadbury Creme And Caramel Chocolate Eggs 474G
€4.00

that is 6 of each, so 33.3cent each

Wish they did a box of 12 caramel eggs I don’t like Creme eggs

Sponsorgate

5 for 5 this morning in Tesco

Basq

Be careful in Centra's for those eggs..

.. my local Centra is selling eggs at 4 for €4 but then another one locally (an award winning Centra nonetheless) are selling the same range at 3 for €5.

Trimm Trabb

slave1 wrote: »

SuperValu currently 4 for €4 … .. .

Anyone know if this is still going?