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Where Are You Buying Your Easter Eggs?

 
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mark occomore



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:50 pm    Post subject: Where Are You Buying Your Easter Eggs? Reply with quote

Woolworths was always my home, but as thats gone I'm having to go to Tesco or Asda.

Where are you shopping chocoholics?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

As I said on the Wellies thread, mark, Tesco snapped up Woolworth's order of Easter Eggs for a snip, so they should have plenty, and they should be cheap.

Something odd I did notice in Sainsbury's last week. If you like Cadbury's Creme Eggs it is actually cheaper to buy the individual eggs in multiples of three, because they are three for £1.09, but a packet of three is £1.29, and one for six £2.49.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:53 pm    Post subject: Re: Where Are You Buying Your Easter Eggs? Reply with quote

mark occomore wrote:
Woolworths was always my home, but as thats gone I'm having to go to Tesco or Asda.

Where are you shopping chocoholics?


"Hotel Chocolat" for a superior chocolate. None of yer common junk!

There's a really, really good choc-shop in Bruges (Belgium) that's worth a visit. Wish I could remember the name.

Easter Eggs are a rip-off due to the hugely wasteful packaging, of course.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 6:56 pm    Post subject: Re: Where Are You Buying Your Easter Eggs? Reply with quote

colby wrote:
mark occomore wrote:
Woolworths was always my home, but as thats gone I'm having to go to Tesco or Asda.

Where are you shopping chocoholics?


"Hotel Chocolat" for a superior chocolate. None of yer common junk!

There's a really, really good choc-shop in Bruges (Belgium) that's worth a visit. Wish I could remember the name.

Easter Eggs are a rip-off due to the hugely wasteful packaging, of course.


Thanks!!
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Shaky Fan



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

RockitRon wrote:
As I said on the Wellies thread, mark, Tesco snapped up Woolworth's order of Easter Eggs for a snip, so they should have plenty, and they should be cheap.


They were on special offer in our local Tesco last week - large ones reduced from around £5.40 to £2.19.....
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

CHEAP EASTER EGGS FROM WOOLIES TO HIT STORES

(14/2/09)

"A glut of cheap eggs will flood on to the market this Easter because of the demise of Woolworths, retailers and wholesalers have predicted.

Tesco this week snapped up container loads of Easter eggs destined for the now-defunct chain, which sold 20 million Easter eggs a year. The retailer has already promised to sell a gift pack that would have been sold in Woolworths for £4.99, for £2.49.

The multiples are fighting it out to become the biggest Easter egg retailer following the demise of Woolies, which was the market leader.

Independents said cheaper deals threatened to push them out of the Easter egg market completely. The multiples' traditionally aggressive Easter egg promotions would become even more intense, they predicted. The problem would be exacerbated by shoppers cutting down on their spending during the recession and Easter falling later than usual this year, on 12 April.

Although Easter is seven weeks away, promotions on eggs have already started, including bogof deals at The Co-operative and three-for-£2.50 deals at Tesco.

"Easter eggs are clearly going to be very cheap - Asda is already selling them for £1," said one retailer.

One independent said he would cut back his Easter egg range by 25% this year because he could not compete with the multiples. "I'll be buying mine from supermarkets."

Tesco is not the only retailer to have picked up Woolies eggs. 99p Stores has been shopping too.

"The manufacturer could stop production of some products but the components for other products had already been ordered, so we bought 150,000 medium and large eggs," confirmed commercial director Hussein Lalani."

I wouldn't be surprised if Tesco paid as little as 99p for those eggs, Shaky. Your local independent store might pick them up from their cash & carry for £2.99 + VAT[/b]
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anyone expecting to pick up extra cheap Easter eggs with their weekly supermarket shopping last/this week will have noticed that there weren't any. This is because, not only did the stores pick up Woolies stock on the cheap, but they were sale or return, and any they had left they did.

You have to go into bandit country, the poundstore prairie, to find them, if you didn't get enough at the time.
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