JdeBPInteresting. The 145g #TerrysChocolateOrange ball was on sale at £1.79 in #Lidl this evening.
That's almost the same price per gramme as £2 for a 157g ball was in 2024.
@keefeglise @pixiepippi @Walkaholic
This is what you miss out on by not following the #BovrilRationing hashtag. All of the news, within mere months of it happening.
I didn't measure the "2ft sausage" in the market at Stratford today, though.
145g #TerrysChocolateOrange ball:
£2.50 Morrison's price for un-tracked purchases; £2.00 everyone else's normal price.
https://www.asda.com/groceries/product/boxes-of-chocolates/terry-s-orange-ball-145g/9309661
https://iceland.co.uk/p/terrys-chocolate-orange-ball-145g/10509.html
It looks like #Morrisons is doing the same differential pricing to incentivize submission to surveillance trick with the #MorrisonsMore card that Tesco does with the #TescoClubcard.
And #Poundland, The Coöperative Group, and B&M are lying about the mass. It hasn't been 157g since last year/first few months of this year; Terry's itself and the up-to-date retailers now listing it as just 145g. It was 175g back in 2016.
https://www.poundland.co.uk/terry-s-chocolate-orange-ball-157g
https://coop.co.uk/products/terrys-milk-chocolate-orange-157g
https://bmstores.co.uk/products/terry-s-chocolate-orange-157g-316707
https://terryschocolate.com/product/chocolate-orange-milk-ball/
#CustomerPrivacy #BovrilRationing #ChocolateOrange #Coöperative
You jest, but actually they do go to another supermarket.
The #Colgate Total Active Prevention XL there is a 125ml tube, not a 75ml one.
In Boots, it's currently on sale at £3.50 down from a regular price of £7.00. The same is true in Morrison's. In Sainsbury's and Waitrose, it's currently still £7.00 per tube. Superdrug has a reduction from (gasp!) £6.99 to £3.49.
https://boots.com/colgate-total-active-prevention-fresh-mint-toothpaste-125ml-10353409
Colgate-Palmolive appears to be running a promotion.
And #Tesco is making the promotional price only available to #TescoClubcard members, whereas in other stores (aside from the ones apparently not participating in the promotion at all) everyone pays the promotional price.
In other #BovrilRationing news:
#Iceland in Northfield turns out to be one of the few remaining places in the country that has the old 400g jars of #Ovaltine on the shelves.
Everywhere else (at least that I have physically visited in the past month or so), it's only 300g jars now.
In other #BovrilRationing news:
The 3L bottles of #Pepsi that I noticed had disappeared in February 2023 are suddenly back on the #Iceland shopping app. Whether they're actually in stock in the stores is something that I'll be checking the next time that I need an order.
Another pretence that everything is fine. Another example of #BovrilRationing.
I can select several types of trouser on the #MarksAndSpencer WWW site. but when I go to check store availability they are out of stock in all stores from Leicester to Manchester.
In the description I find that they're sourced from the EU. M&S is very quietly not stocking the stuff expensive to ship.
#Brexit xenophobia and the collapse of BHS means no-one is here to sell #trousers to me in 2024.
I tried the impressively large BBQ selection bag from #Iceland , with "big value pack" splashed across the front in a large font.
It turned out to be largely inflated with air. The beefburgers were pretty much the same diameter and height as a Sony MiniDisc.
I am no longer impressed.
Good grief!
But given #BovrilRationing we should expect "huge" to start taking on this meaning more and more.