• Cadbury downsizing products
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[quote] Cadbury is cutting the size of its Dairy Milk bar and is blaming "economic reasons" for the decision to downsize. The firm says it's having to slash the size of its products because if it didn't, prices would have to rise. It means that a 140g bar of Dairy Milk, which costs 99p, is reduced to 120g and has two fewer squares . Some Malteser bags have had fewer chocolates in them for a while now, though the price has stayed the same. Consumer Focus says cutting product sizes can damage consumers' trust in the brands they love. US company Kraft Foods, which bought Cadbury at the beginning of last year, says other products are affected as well. In a statement, they said: "We have taken this decision because of a number of economic factors including ingredient costs. "By reducing the size of our 140g bar to 120g we have been able to hold the bar at this price although we believe our confectionery still represents a very affordable treat." [/quote] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/12346546[/url] Obviously the most important and shocking news right now. They could at least lower the price of the chocolate if they are reducing the size of it. Personally this is the opposite effect of what I thought an American company taking over would have :(
How unfortunate. Dairy Milk is some of the best chocolate I've ever had. As a bonus, got to tour the Cadbury factory in Australia. I have never smelled anything so overwhelming, so glorious.
[QUOTE=Led Zeppelin;27825155]How unfortunate. Dairy Milk is some of the best chocolate I've ever had. As a bonus, got to tour the Cadbury factory in Australia. [B]I have never smelled anything so overwhelming, so glorious.[/B][/QUOTE] If it smells anything like the factory in the UK then I have to agree so much. Just being around the building has a nice smell.
I remember when I went to the factory when I was four, don't remember it very well though. I remember big egg shaped car things, and the liquid chocolate things.
Capitalist pig-dogs!
(also, USA ruins everything) Argh, damn Americans have gone and broke mah automerge somehow!
[QUOTE=Jsm;27825076][url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/12346546[/url] [B]Obviously the most important and shocking news right now. They could at least lower the price of the chocolate if they are reducing the size of it.[/B] Personally this is the opposite effect of what I thought an American company taking over would have :([/QUOTE] That would totally ruin the point of the downsize.
Ugh I've seen tons of idiotic "opinions" on this today. It's quite simple: Cadbury's chocolate sells at certain price points and has done for a long time. When you want a chocolate bar you know from years of past experience how much it's going to cost. Cadbury/Kraft value that and want to keep it, but production costs have increased. Hence a smaller bar to keep the price point. Whether we as customers really care about it being a certain price everytime is the debate that very few people seem to have a grasp of.
[QUOTE=subenji99;27825745]Ugh I've seen tons of idiotic "opinions" on this today. It's quite simple: Cadbury's chocolate sells at certain price points and has done for a long time. When you want a chocolate bar you know from years of past experience how much it's going to cost. Cadbury/Kraft value that and want to keep it, but production costs have increased. Hence a smaller bar to keep the price point. Whether we as customers really care about it being a certain price everytime is the debate that very few people seem to have a grasp of.[/QUOTE] Thank you.
...With all of the rabid chocolate-crazy people out there buying up 10kg of chocolate every 5 seconds of their waking life, I can't believe they actually have to DOWNSIZE their chocolate bars due to 'ingredient costs'. I bet someone high up's just gone "Shit, our profit margin dropped from $2 Billion to $1.98 Billion - MAKE THE BARS SMALLER DAMNIT WE CAN'T ACCEPT THIS SHIT!". That being said, it won't stop me from buying it anyway :P
Meanwhile, in Switzerland.... [img]http://images.ctv.ca/archives/CTVNews/img2/20100911/600_ap_armenia_chocolate_bar_100911.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Sobek-;27826523]...With all of the rabid chocolate-crazy people out there buying up 10kg of chocolate every 5 seconds of their waking life, I can't believe they actually have to DOWNSIZE their chocolate bars due to 'ingredient costs'. I bet someone high up's just gone "Shit, our profit margin dropped from $2 Billion to $1.98 Billion - MAKE THE BARS SMALLER DAMNIT WE CAN'T ACCEPT THIS SHIT!". That being said, it won't stop me from buying it anyway :P[/QUOTE] $.02 Billion is still a significant amount of money, and the real figure is probably much greater than that.
Sounds like a case of the [URL="http://consumerist.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?blog_id=1&tag=grocery%20shrink%20ray&limit=20"]grocery store shrink ray[/URL]. This thing is amazing, the food industry has developed groundbreaking new technology that enables them to "shrink" the amount of food you buy but still maintain the same price as if nothing ever changed. :rolleyes:
Meh, I hate Cadbury chocolate. Yorkie master race.
In terms of chocolate i fucking love Galaxy but i hate how they advertise it as something only women would eat....fuck that!
Well, this doesn't matter. There are alot of different choices. Nobody should buy any of their chocolate for a while and they will lower the prices
[QUOTE=sharzu;27829852]Well, this doesn't matter. There are alot of different choices. Nobody should buy any of their chocolate for a while and they will lower the prices[/QUOTE] For some reason I can't see that happening, or working if it did happen. If anything less sales would mean they would put the prices up.
[QUOTE=Jsm;27825076] Personally this is the opposite effect of what I thought an American company taking over would have :([/QUOTE] Are you kidding me? American companies are the most monopoly profiteering cunts on the planet, you expected an American take over to be remotely fucking good? They cut British jobs, now they're finding ways to save profit, next you know they're going to start replacing ingredients like sugar with that god awful corn syrup.
[QUOTE=Source;27828092]In terms of chocolate i fucking love Galaxy but i hate how they advertise it as something only women would eat....fuck that![/QUOTE] You're letting ads control your life and what you do? How weak.
I'll give it another two weeks until they raise the price.
[QUOTE=Vasili;27833420]Are you kidding me? American companies are the most monopoly profiteering cunts on the planet, you expected an American take over to be remotely fucking good? They cut British jobs, now they're finding ways to save profit, next you know they're going to start replacing ingredients like sugar with that god awful corn syrup.[/QUOTE] Naw this was really inevitable, it was more a bad attempt at an Americans are fat joke.
[QUOTE=Vasili;27833420]Are you kidding me? American companies are the most monopoly profiteering cunts on the planet, you expected an American take over to be remotely fucking good? They cut British jobs, now they're finding ways to save profit, next you know they're going to start replacing ingredients like sugar with that god awful corn syrup.[/QUOTE] his point your head
If only the people were capable of filing collective lawsuits, this kinda shit would be prevented... Then again, the concept of having a public committee that can collectively issue cease and desist orders to corporations when they're doing bad things is an outlandish concept at best. It'd have it's good points and it's bad points, plus it would need internal moderation to ensure that this power wouldn't be abused. But if it actually worked, it could make a difference, and things like Cadbury downsizing would be met with cease-and-desist action from the people. Call it communist and idealistic if you will, but that's because it probably is.
Oh no 20 whole grams! But seriously, this isn't that big of a deal. It's like the airlines cutting out olives from their salad and cutting costs by millions per year.
Jesus titty-fucking Christ. Cadbury eggs are already small enough! Any smaller and they might as well candy coat them and call them C&M's.
[QUOTE=Jsm;27825076][url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/12346546[/url] Obviously the most important and shocking news right now. They could at least lower the price of the chocolate if they are reducing the size of it. [/QUOTE] you didn't even read the article you posted even reading the quote would have saved you from looking stupid
[QUOTE=toxicpiano;27834626]you didn't even read the article you posted even reading the quote would have saved you from looking stupid[/QUOTE] I know the reason why they are doing it, I just personally think that if things get smaller the price should go down. Obviously if they did do that it would be a pointless exercise.
Fucking Ham Shanks fucking ruining everything Labour should never have let them fucking take over and stop fucking privatising everything before they own all our forests too and FUCKEDY FUCK FUCK FUCK GO AWAY AMERICA NOBODY LIKES YOU EVERYBODY HATES YOU GO AND EAT SOME FUCKING WORMS
Kraft suck. They should never have agreed to let Kraft take over Cadbury. Fuck off Kraft :smith:
That's it i'm only buying Nestle now.
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