A MAJOR supermarket has slashed the price of Quality Street to just 49p this week.
Aldi has cut the cost of 300g pouches of the popular festive chocolates, dropping them from £1.99 to an incredible 49p.
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Posting the find on the Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK Facebook Group, one shopper said: “Still a fair few quality street pouches left in Chichester Aldi.”
Another shopper reacting to the find said: “Lovely bargain. Yum yum!”
A third shopper said: “I paid £1.99 on Tuesday gutted…”
A fourth added: “Not had any in ours for months.”
Shoppers will need to be quick to bag the cheap chocolate as they’re only available in-store.
If you don’t know where your nearest branch is, you can use Aldi’s store locator by visiting stores.aldi.co.uk/store-finder.
You just have to enter your town or postcode and it will bring up the closest store to you.
Aldi isn’t the only supermarket to have slashed the price of Quality Street in recent weeks.
To celebrate 30 years of rewards with Tesco Clubcard, the grocer has cut prices across loads of customer favourites – including the Nestle bestseller.
Tesco cut the cost of the famous hexagonal tubs to just £3.95.
The huge discount on the 600g Quality Street tubs is only available with a Clubcard.
For non-Clubcard holders, the price tag is the usual £6.
One shopper shared a photo of an in-store tower of the chocolate boxes on Foods Find UK Official Facebook page.
Despite the huge saving, customers were not impressed – with one calling them “bloody awful”.
“Thought they would of had great offers for 30 years! Not left over Christmas stock selling it higher than before Christmas!” one grumbled.
“They can’t give them away,” wrote another.
“They are only worth a pound half empty,” echoed a third.
How to compare prices to get the best deal
JUST because something is on offer, or is part of a sale, it doesn’t mean it’s always a good deal.
There are plenty of comparison websites out there that’ll check prices for you – so don’t be left paying more than you have to.
Most of them work by comparing the prices across hundreds of retailers.
Here are some that we recommend:
- Google Shopping is a tool that lets users search for and compare prices for products across the web. Simply type in keywords, or a product number, to bring up search results.
- Price Spy logs the history of how much something costs from over 3,000 different retailers, including Argos, Amazon, eBay and the supermarkets. Once you select an individual product you can quickly compare which stores have the best price and which have it in stock.
- Idealo is another website that lets you compare prices between retailers. All shoppers need to do is search for the item they need and the website will rank them from the cheapest to the most expensive one.
- CamelCamelCamel only works on goods being sold on Amazon. To use it, type in the URL of the product you want to check the price of.
Other Quality Street news
Nestlé recently faced criticism after being accused of shrinking the size of the iconic Purple One chocolate.
The maker of Quality Street later confirmed it had reduced the size of the much-loved hazelnut-filled treat by over 10%, igniting outrage among loyal customers.
Nestlé previously stirred controversy by altering the iconic Brazil nut-shaped design of the caramel treat, replacing it with a circular swirl.
However, fans also picked up on a change in size, with one even weighing both versions to calculate the extent of the “shrinkflation.”
Originally, the chocolate weighed 9.6 grams, but this year’s version tipped the scales at just 8.4 grams—a reduction of 12 per cent.
Quality Street lover Rebecca Gracey said online: “Half of the appeal of Quality Street is/was aesthetic.
“Changing the shape and size of much loved favourites is sacrilege.
“I’ve never forgiven Nestle for changing the diamond of fudge into a most uninteresting shape.
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“However, the final straw was changing the shiny cellophane and foil wrappers to dull waxed paper.
“I have not purchased them since that abomination.”
How to save money on chocolate
We all love a bit of chocolate from now and then, but you don’t have to break the bank buying your favourite bar.
Consumer reporter Sam Walker reveals how to cut costs…
Go own brand – if you’re not too fussed about flavour and just want to supplant your chocolate cravings, you’ll save by going for the supermarket’s own brand bars.
Shop around – if you’ve spotted your favourite variety at the supermarket, make sure you check if it’s cheaper elsewhere.
Websites like Trolley.co.uk let you compare prices on products across all the major chains to see if you’re getting the best deal.
Look out for yellow stickers – supermarket staff put yellow, and sometimes orange and red, stickers on to products to show they’ve been reduced.
They usually do this if the product is coming to the end of its best-before date or the packaging is slightly damaged.
Buy bigger bars – most of the time, but not always, chocolate is cheaper per 100g the larger the bar.
So if you’ve got the appetite, and you were going to buy a hefty amount of chocolate anyway, you might as well go bigger.
