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General => Bargains Galore => Topic started by: lincsyokel2 on March 01, 2010, 19:35:15

Title: More air for your money
Post by: lincsyokel2 on March 01, 2010, 19:35:15
I just saw an advert on TV for Aero chocolate bar, new special offer, 33% more bubbles.

Wait  a minit,bubbles are made of air, so the offer is...less chocolate for the same price...

People WILL fall for this, wont they.............
Title: Re: More air for your money
Post by: Pesky Wabbit on March 03, 2010, 13:49:15
Yeh, its a bit like buying a lage packet of polos.
Title: Re: More air for your money
Post by: Digeroo on March 03, 2010, 14:34:40
Quoteless chocolate for the same price

Don't they sell chocolate by weight.
Title: Re: More air for your money
Post by: markp2511 on March 03, 2010, 14:47:34
It's swings and roundabouts I guess - I had a 4 finger kit kat yesterday that was entirely chocolate.  Not a bit of a finger, or even one whole finger, but the whole kit kat.  Not a sniff of wafer in the entire thing!   :P
Title: Re: More air for your money
Post by: Baccy Man on March 03, 2010, 15:13:01
Quote from: Digeroo on March 03, 2010, 14:34:40
Quoteless chocolate for the same price

Don't they sell chocolate by weight.

They do & the advert is saying that there are currently promotional bars in shops which weigh 33% more than normal so you get a third more chocolate for your money. However a lot of people still won't buy it because of Nestle's failure to act on child slavery in its cocoa supply chain.
Title: Re: More air for your money
Post by: Old bird on March 03, 2010, 15:27:09
I do not support child slavery in any shape or form - but and it is a HUGE BUT - if the children and others did not work for these companies - they would simply STARVE. 

There are no options to these poor people no nanny state - no handouts - no free housing - no health service.

I would still rather buy the products even though it means children have to work -- it does keep them alive.

OB
Title: Re: More air for your money
Post by: . on March 03, 2010, 15:54:34
 Alternative option :

http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/    :) :)
Title: Re: More air for your money
Post by: Pesky Wabbit on March 03, 2010, 19:59:11
I use child slavery down the lottie - no work, no food. That seems to be a fair trade to me.
Title: Re: More aid for your money
Post by: . on March 04, 2010, 01:17:51
non cocoa solid aero head

http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/thebigswap/about_the_big_swap/news/chocolatehead.aspx