A MAJOR supermarket has slashed the price of giant Quality Street bags to just £4.
With Christmas Day over, retailers often slash the price of festive treats to shift stock.
And Morrisons has done just that, slashing 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’.
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 be available to shop at your local branch.
Picking up a 750g Quality Steet bag at this price can be an easy way to get more bang for your buck compared to the traditional tub
That’s because Morrisons is charging £6 for the 600g tub, which works out at £1 per 100g.
Not only is the bag cheaper in cost it also has a cheaper unit price.
Unit prices make it easier for shoppers to compare similar items of different sizes and choose the best deal.
You can usually see the unit cost of the product where its price is shown – it may be in the small print.
Morrisons current offer on 750g Quality Street bags works out at 0.53 per 100g.
Even if you paid £7 – the original price that Morrison was charging for the bag – it would still work out cheaper at £0.93 per 100g compared to the tubs.
If you have your heart set on buying a tub, then it may be worth shopping around.
That’s because 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.
And that is not the only festive bargain on the market.
Iceland has slashed the price of a festive favourite to just 50p.
The bargain retailer is now charging 50p for a packet of six mince pies marked down from £1.45.
That works out at around 8p per mince pie.
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.
