Major supermarket slashes price of Heroes & Roses chocolate tubs to £4.50 – but there’s a catch
A MAJOR supermarket has slashed the price of Heroes & Roses chocolate tubs to £4.50 ahead of the festive season.
Asda is selling two tubs of assorted chocolate mix for just £9 – but there is a catch.
There is a maximum limit of two per customer for each time they check out, shoppers have claimed.
The offer was posted by a member of the Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK Facebook group.
The shopper wrote: “Don’t think they’ll do the 2 for £5 again but this is on. Only two tubs per customer which it didn’t state until self-checkout.”
One clever user suggested: “Just check out multiple times if you want more than two tubs.”
Another shopper said: “Oh I need to get them again.”
A third buyer said it is a good idea to limit the quantity to two tubs per customer, saying: “The two per customer offer is a good idea stop people filling their trolleys and selling them on in the shops.”
But 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.
For example, 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.
Another tool is Price Spy, which logs the history of how much something costs from over 3,000 different retailers, including Argos, Amazon, eBay and 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.
Meanwhile, another major supermarket has slashed the price of Quality Street tubs to just £3.89 – and it’s not Aldi, Asda or Tesco.
Lidl is offering the festive favourite at a bargain price to the delight of chocolate lovers.
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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.
The 600g tub is available at the discount supermarket for just £3.89, with Lidl Plus membership.
In comparison Tesco is selling the same size tub for £4.50 to Clubcard members, while at Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Asda and Iceland the classic chocolate box will set you back £6.
Aldi is offering the tub for £4.49 and Ocado for £5.
Quality Street was launched in 1936 and has been a favourite with families since.
The selection includes ‘the purple one’ which brings together hazelnut and caramel, the toffee finger, orange chocolate crunch, strawberry delight and ‘the green triangle’.
If you’re looking to stock up on the festive favourites ahead of Christmas make sure you shop around and check the variety of products available.
Shoppers flocked to Tesco to pick up 750g Quality Street refill bags, which were offered at the bargain price of £5 to Clubcard members.
The discount, 50 per cent less than the normal price of £10, is still available but the product is listed as out of stock online.