A DIVISIVE Celebrations flavour is scanning for £3.50 instead of £7 at a major supermarket.
With Christmas Day well and truly over, retailers often slash the price of festive treats to shift stock.
And Tesco has done just that, slashing the price of its 360g Bounty Gift Box to just a few quid.
A sign also reads that the sweets are reduced to clear, so once they are gone, it is unlikely they will be restocked.
Some shoppers were unimpressed with the controversial snack, with one writing on social media that it should be given away “for free”.
The coconut-flavoured chocolate is featured in the iconic Celebrations tubs, and Mars has also branched out to sell single boxes of the chocolate.
The Bounty-only tub divided fans when it was launched by Mars last year.
One user said “No thank you” while another declared the tubs “a box of wrong”.
It comes despite Mars telling The Sun that the boxes would not be returning to stores this Christmas.
A spokesperson for Mars previously told The Sun: “While Bounty-only Celebrations tubs will not be returning to shelves this Christmas, Bounty fans can rest assured that their favourite coconut treat can be found in our classic Celebrations tubs – alongside all your other favourites!”
Sometimes supermarkets sell excess stock from past seasons, so shoppers need to be quick to get their hands on it.
But for those keen to check out the bargain, you will have to shop the deal in-store as it does not appear to be available online.
It may also be worth ringing your local branch ahead of your next visit to avoid disappointment as the deal may not allow you to shop at your local branch.
You can find your nearest Tesco by using the store locator tool on the supermarket’s website.
There are a number of post-Christmas chocolate offers available to shoppers.
Morrisons has slashed the price of its 750g Quality Street bags to £4.
The hefty bag should cost £7, but one savvy customer was only charged £4 when they scanned the product at the till.
Sharing the discovery in a post on HotUKDeals, they said: “Just scanned at £4. No more [Morecard] needed.”
They shared a picture of the self-scanning register and it showed Morrisons knocked £3 as part of a ‘Christmas offer’.
Elsewhere, Asda has cut the price of the iconic 600g chocolate tub from £6 to just £3 making it one of the cheapest on the market.
Again, for those keen to check out the bargain, you will have to shop the deal in-store as it does not appear to be available online.
When hunting for a deal, it is important to shop around to make sure you are not being overcharged.
There are plenty of comparison websites that will 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.
Price Spy also 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.
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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.
