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Major supermarket slashes price of Quality Street tubs to £3.89 – it’s not Aldi, Asda or Tesco and is cheapest around
The festive favourites are being offered at bargain prices ahead of Christmas
A 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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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.
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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.
This 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.
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The supermarkets have been offering frequent deals on the chocolate and last week Aldi offered the 600g tub for £3.89, but this deal has now ended.
Last week also saw Asda offering two selection boxes for £5 in one of the best deals to be offered this year so far.
The offer was part of Asda’s Rewards Mega Event weekend, which saw shoppers save more than 50% on festive favourites including Quality Street, Cadbury Heroes, Cadbury Roses, Celebrations, and Swizzels.
As we get closer to Christmas shoppers can expect to see supermarkets offering more deals as they look to attract the lucrative festive spend.
Shoppers can check prices before they hit the supermarket aisles using comparison tools such as trolley.co.uk.
How to compare prices to get the best deal
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.
Here are some that we recommend:
- 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.
- 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.
- only works on goods being sold on Amazon. To use it, type in the URL of the product you want to check the price of.
QUALITY STREET CHANGES FOR 2024
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.
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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.
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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.
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