SHOPPERS are rushing to buy heavily discounted tubs of popular chocolate tubs from one unexpected retailer.
Tubs of Quality Street chocolates have all been reduced by 50%, from £6 to £3.
You can also purchase tubs of Cadbury Heroes and Celebrations chocolates at the same discounted price.
One savvy shopper spotted the bargain buy and posted it on the Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK Facebook group, writing: “One stop on deliveroo got tubs of sweets for £3 instead of £6 great saving for xmas.”
Another person commented: “Thankyou just got mine delivered x.”
Someone else wrote: “Just done this got 8 tubs for £17 as had a £10 voucher for being a new customer ..winning.”
One person said: “Got 5 for £8.”
Another added: “Thank you just had mine delivered and also got a £10 first order discount…. Very happy.”
You can access the deal if you’re a new customer by ordering from your local One Stop via the Deliveroo app, and the items will be delivered direct to your door.
To download the Deliveroo app, search for it on your phone’s app store, or if you have an Android phone, search for Food & Shopping or Deliveroo Rider in the Google Play Store.
You can buy a Nestle Quality Street Sharing Tub from Lidl for £ 3.89.
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.
Last weekend 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% less than the normal price of £10, is still available but the product is listed as out of stock online.
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’.
Cadbury Heroes tubs are on sale in Lidl for £4.99, in Asda for £6 and Aldi for £3.49.
You can buy a tub of Celebrations on sale for £3.89 at Aldi, £6 at Asda or a pouch of Celebrations for £2.99 at Lidl.
If you’re looking to stock up on on the festive favourites ahead of Christmas, make sure you shop around and check the variety of products available.
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.
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 is another option – but only for goods that are sold on Amazon.
To use it, type in the URL of the product you want to check the price of.
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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.
Customers discovered they can no longer visit their local John Lewis store to create personalised Quality Street tins this week.
The service had allowed shoppers to purchase a £17 tin with a personalised gift card and lid.
They could then fill these tins with their favourite Quality Street chocolates from dedicated pick-and-mix counter.
However, while the pick-and-mix counters still exist, shoppers can’t get a personalised Quality Street tin this winter.
Instead, they must opt for the £12 non-customised version.
However, Nestle did launch a new version of its 813g Quality Street tin in September.
The £12 tub features all the usual classic flavours and plays on Quality Street’s Halifax heritage – where it was first manufactured continues to be produced.
It can also be purchased empty and filled at any of John Lewis’ Quality Street pick and mix stations.
If you’re not fussed about the nostalgic tin or picking your chocolates, you’ll pay less for a different tub or packet.
This week, shoppers can pick up a plastic 600g tub from Lidl for £3.89 – 65p per 100g.
Nestle has also brought back a Quality Street fan-favourite for the second Christmas in a row.
The coffee creme flavour chocolate was last seen in Quality Street tubs over 20 years ago until the chocolatier reintroduced it last year.
The coffee-flavour fondant wrapped in dark chocolate has joined the 11 other Quality Street sweets at pick-and-mix stations across selected John Lewis stores in the UK.
They are also available in a limited-edition cracker at Waitrose and John Lewis stores for £5.50.
For the first time, Nestle has also launched paper tubs.
The tubs are available at 60 Tesco supermarkets.
Their introduction is part of a trial, and Nestle will gauge the product’s popularity among shoppers.
It claims the paper tub, adorned in the signature Quality Street purple, boasts a luxurious design and feel.
They feature a “re-close” mechanism that ensures the lid can be securely sealed even after opening.
This isn’t the first time Quality Street has introduced new packaging to make the festive favourites easier to recycle.
Nestle left shoppers outraged when it changed the Quality Street chocolate wrappers for the same reason in October 2022.
The iconic brightly coloured plastic and foil wrappers that had encased its famous chocolates for 86 years were replaced with a more understated form of waxed paper.
However, the introduction of new paper tubs does not signal the immediate discontinuation of plastic and metal Quality Street tins.
Shoppers can still buy 600g plastic tubs of Quality Street chocolates at most major supermarkets.
Tins containing over 800g of the festive chocolates continue to be available too.
