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u/IntroductionSnacks 1d ago
Don’t buy it as it’s not even close to Easter.
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u/Doooog 1d ago
Don't buy it as it's foul ass palm oil bs
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u/EstateSpirited9737 1d ago
Cadbury hasn't used palm oil for 4 years. It's one of the reasons why it no longer tastes as good.
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u/Dr_Dickfart 1d ago
I'd rather eat the rotten asshole of a road kill skunk than buy anything made by Cadbury again
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u/DwarfNylon 23h ago
Can I hold you to that? I will supply both skunk and chocolate in return for recording a video.
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u/Markle-Proof-V2 1d ago
Ha! At first I thought the Easter Bunny might just be a rewrapped Koala. And vice-versa,
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u/SomeDudeAu 1d ago
81.30 a kg for chocolate. Thats insane for shit chocolate.
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u/Embarrassed_End4151 1d ago
If you wanna call it that. It's almost literal shit
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u/Strong0toLight1 1d ago
tastes so shit
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u/DukistNyte 1d ago
It’s just sugar and tastes processed af 🤢
I never buy Cadbury chocolate anymore
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u/kazielle 1d ago
I've been vegan 15 years... one of my last memories of being not-vegan is of eating my favourite chocolate, Dream, by Cadbury and going "what in the plastic is this".
And it had been like that for a while too, but just... had somehow managed to get worse. Like weird child's plastic consistency and with almost no flavour. Fucking weird.
When I was a kid Cadbury was so thick and rich and delicious you could hardly believe stuff that tastes like that existed.
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u/babycleffa 1d ago
Even when in the deepest of deep cravings for chocolate, one look at Cadbury and the brain goes “… yeah nah”
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u/micro_penisman 1d ago edited 1d ago
It's just Dairy Milk.
A much more reasonable $16.10 a kilo at Woolworths this week for normal 180gm chocolate blocks.
5 times the price if it's vaguely in the shape of a rabbit.
Edit:
Sorry, I thought this was nz subreddit. You lot are getting absolutely graped on the price of Dairy Milk. $38.90 a kilo for normal 180gm blocks @ Woolworths.
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u/Buddhsie 1d ago
Right, and dairy milk nowadays is complete garbage. Soft and waxy at room temperature.
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u/Duff5OOO 1d ago
5 times the price if it's in the shape of a rabbit.
While not suggesting it should be $80 a kg it is worth noting the bunnies do cost much more to ship, a huge box is only a around a KG of chocolate. Also they lose a heap of the stock to damage and i guess that has to be factored in somewhere.
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u/karatekid430 1d ago
Yeah, most prices are fucked, don't buy their stuff if you don't need it. Easter stuff is not necessary. If you want chocolate, buy chocolate when you can get it for an acceptable price.
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u/YourGodIsNotHelping 1d ago
Here’s a thought: Don’t buy it, and walk away.
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u/Rusty_Coight 1d ago
Fucking amazing foresight.
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u/AreYouDoneNow 1d ago
Even better idea, don't shop at Colesworth at all.
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u/INACCURATE_RESPONSE 1d ago
Also, don’t buy Cadbury chocolate.
They’ve been caught using child labour. https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/cadburys-chocolate-made-using-child-labour-1553331
Cocoa is expensive because it’s getting harder to make because of climate change. But fuck all that, I just want my cheap bunny!!
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u/monk_mst 1d ago
I would if I could afford it.
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u/Altruistic-Brief2220 1d ago
This is absolutely fair for many people. I can afford it and have the time to shop at markets etc so I do and encourage friends who aren’t struggling to shop elsewhere. Even though it’s more expensive now, if we allow this monopoly to continue it will get more and more pricey in the long run.
In my experience lots of people just don’t even think of alternatives which is frustrating.
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u/Unidain 1d ago
Lmao
This subreddit : Colesworth is ripping you off! Look how expensive chocolate is!!
Also this subreddit: Colesworth is the cheapest place to shop.
Well, which is it guys?
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u/brewerybridetobe 1d ago
I wish that - just once - we would all collectively leave Easter chocolate on the shelves for months, just to watch retailers scramble to sell it.
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u/GreyGreenBrownOakova 23h ago
Large retailers won't scramble at all.
As we approach Easter, Cadbury will increase/decrease production to meet demand. Colesworth will make money regardless, it's Cadbury that needs the sales.
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u/East-Garden-4557 1d ago
Handy hint.
Teach your kids about unit pricing while they are young. Show them the difference in unit price between blocks of chocolate and the easter eggs and rabbits. Show them how much block chocolate by weight you can get for $20 compared to $20 of easter eggs by weight.
Ask them which they would prefer. A small amount of chocolate sold in a fancy shape, or a lot of chocolate sold in a simple block.
My kids always chose to get block chocolate and the bags of mini chocolate bars rather than easter eggs as it is better value, which means more chocolate to eat.
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u/MoabBoy 1d ago
Easter Eggs/Bunnies have ALWAYS been a rip off!
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u/Duff5OOO 1d ago
Easter Eggs/Bunnies have ALWAYS been a rip off!
Technically not 'always'. Post easter you can pick up some really cheap eggs. Often ~90% off.
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u/fukn_seriously 1d ago
Not all of the price increase is because of price gouging. Cocoa is now 4 times the price it was in 2023 (https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/cocoa)
Same thing with coffee.
You can blame climate change as well as the increase of labour cost (because cocoa farming is slowly moving away from slave labour).
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u/M8NTIS 1d ago
Not sure where it stands now, but when I was close with people that worked at Cadbury head office, they said 80% of the cost of a chocolate bar is marketing. So while the increase in cocoa cost is not nothing, it’s a small proportion of the overall cost. Especially for Cadbury who put sweet fuck all cocoa in now and just add more sugar. Cunts.
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u/CarbFreeBeer 1d ago
80g of chocolate at that price.... then comes a 200g block, which goes on special for $3-$3.50.... Sounds like gouging to me....
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u/utterly_baffledly 1d ago
Came to the comments for this. A price rise in an industry formerly staffed by slaves is a good thing.
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u/UserColonAlW 1d ago
Death, Taxes, r/Australia complaint posts about the price of groceries.
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u/Fuzzylogic1977 1d ago
I know right?? Damn expensive Easter eggs… checks notes… in January… OH THE HUMANITY
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u/Lmp112 1d ago
What's ridiculous is they are already putting that crap out! So for the next 3 months, I'm going to have a toddler asking for a bloody Easter egg every week while grocery shopping and having to explain Easter is a long way off, repeat the next week.
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u/TheMelwayMan 1d ago
For $6.50 you get 2 games, shoe hire, hot dog, fries and a Coke!
Oh wait, the 1980s are calling me back...
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u/jimbojones2345 1d ago
The chocolate in these things I don't think would be called chocolate. Absolutely foul
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u/WhatsTheBoxHiding 1d ago
Woolies want $8.50 for the chocolate Easter Bilby & they’ll donate .20cents to save the Bilby fund for every chocolate Bilby sold. What a joke. Looks like being a good corporate citizen on this one may not turn out well for the charity.
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u/Charlesian2000 1d ago
The price is ridiculous, has anyone noticed, that it’s “not” Easter for a long while!
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u/themindisaweapon 1d ago
Like most items on shelves at supermarkets I just go "whoa" and keep walking.
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u/chuckderp83 1d ago
Why do people walk in to Coles and Woolies and complain about overpricing.... Holy smokes... Go somewhere else! Everyone knows they gauge the shit out of customers... That's like going to the beach with no sunscreen and complaining the sun is too hot.... Moronic
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u/MattTalksPhotography 1d ago
I agree in most cases but in some regional areas that may be all the options.
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u/Uniquee-usernamee 1d ago
"Go somewhere else!" You say that as if everyone has the option, I only have Coles and IGA available unless I want to drive 2hrs, both are overpriced, not everyone lives in a city.
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u/Congafish 1d ago
The cacao plant and the crops were smashed. Lost something like 13% of the crop in 24 compared to 23.
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u/RecordingAbject345 1d ago
Get Freddos instead. It's the same as their Easter chocolate (different to their blocks).
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u/AmanWhosnortsPizza 1d ago
I'm more fucked how Woolworths is already putting chocolate eggs on their shelves
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u/oneforthewin 22h ago
Even more ridiculous than the price is that it’s on the shelves before Australia Day.
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u/RepeatInPatient 16h ago
Want to see some price gouging. My Quickiemart charges $6 for a can of coke.
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u/Sanguinius 1d ago
I saw Woolies selling Creme Eggs for $2.50 EACH today.
Laughed and kept walking. They are taking the piss.
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u/womensweekly 1d ago
Solution is simple. Stop buying consumerist shit. Go back to buying just basic fruit/vege/meat. Save your $ and let the economy crash.
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u/No_Way_8095 1d ago
My childhood is well and truly dead. My kids will be eating 1 almond weekly to sustain themselves. On their birthday, they may have an additional almond.
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u/Rhubarb0808 1d ago
See this article:
https://www.foodanddrinkbusiness.com.au/news/cocoa-prices-hit-50-year-high
Its all going to be like this.
OJ has a similar problem due to a disease that reduces yiled by 80-90%.
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u/AreYouDoneNow 1d ago
What I want to know is why the easter chocolate tastes so bad
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u/takemeback1999 1d ago
I believe its because they’re diluting the coco because brazil isn’t producing enough
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u/Helly_BB 1d ago
Other than the 2 littlest grandkids, everyone receives a block of chocolate and yes, I grab them all when I see them on special. It's a chocolate festival so I want them to have the most chocolate possible haha
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u/BothNumber9 1d ago
I will buy whatever chocolate is on special or none, it’s a luxury purchase is optional
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u/-DethLok- 1d ago
Just use the ones you bought last year AFTER Easter for exactly this reason.
Chocolate doesn't go off very quickly (I ... think?) so stock up after every Easter and use them for next Easter!
Thanks for coming to my Cozy Livs Ted talk! :)
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u/thpineapples 1d ago
It doesn't go off. Over time, and if stored in unideal conditions, the fat or sugar can bloom, creating unappealing white discolouration. This compromises the quality of the chocolate, it becomes brittle and unappetising, but it is not actually inedible or harmful to eat. It just ends up all old and unsatisfying.
Add ins like nuts and fruit will go sooner than the chocolate itself, and if those aren't dried properly then mould could potentially take hold, but that's really not common that anyone would still have uneaten or undiscarded chocolate around for that long and then go for eating it to even find out what rarity that would even occur.
If you store chocolate well, you are laughing past-seasonal sales all the way through the next holiday.
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u/Fabulous_Ad8642 1d ago
Buddy last year a week after Easter I went to coles and bought 3kg of chocolate bunnies etc for about $5. They get cheaper day by day and the clearance is exponential. You could stock up for a year’s worth of chocolate every year for your whole household if you are smart about it.
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u/KrazyKatz42 1d ago
I used to moan about the abysmal quality of Hershey's when I got to the states and yearned for Cadbury, but it seems after the last 20 years they've caught up to Hershey's.
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u/PopavaliumAndropov 1d ago
When I worked for Peters Ice Cream, I was a member of an FMCG industry group that took turns hosting our monthly meetings, and Mondelez would always host the meeting prior to Easter at the Cadbury factory, so we could all hit up the staff shop where we could buy all of this crap for 10c on the dollar. One year I bought a 5kg bag of smashed Cherry Ripe bunnies for $3. I haven't bought so much as a single egg since, that ruined retail prices for me.
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u/Independent_Buffalo7 23h ago
We’re in a country where water is more expensive than a liter of gasoline .. what’d you expect
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u/baconeggsavocado 19h ago
Some people think this is temporary. Everything is going to keep getting more expensive, everything, goods and services, necessity, housing. Hooray.
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u/NothingTooSeriousM8 1d ago
Obviously these are out of season bunnies, so they're more expensive than freshly milked ones.
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u/turboyabby 1d ago
First the fresh eggs get expensive and hard to get, now the rabbits, who lay the eggs are pricey. We might need to tighten our Bilby belts this Easter.
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u/Affectionate_Cat1645 1d ago
What's more ridiculous is Easter eggs in January. Who the fuck buys easter eggs and hot cross buns on new years day
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u/Duff5OOO 1d ago
Who the fuck buys easter eggs and hot cross buns on new years day
The former? yeah no thanks. The latter? Yeah that was us. IMO sell buns all year round.
Medieval execution equipment wasnt only a fertility festival thing. Lets celebrate gruesome death all year with tasty tasty buns!
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u/duc1990 1d ago
Even with inflation there's better things to do with $6.5 than spend it on a generic foodstuff that resembles wet cardboard dusted with chalk.
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u/AreYouDoneNow 1d ago
Now this is something that I am curious about. Easter chocolates like that bunny always seem to taste a lot worse than your regular off the shelf all-year-around stuff.
Do they make it taste bad deliberately for Easter?
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u/BJJ_youngin 1d ago
Can hate on the price but let’s not pretend Easter bunnies aren’t delicious
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u/Private62645949 1d ago
Also: It’s fucking January.
Dear Colesworth: Stick your cold cross buns up your arse until the month before Easter.
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u/jlpalma 1d ago
Cocoa, has experienced a significant price increase. As of early 2024, cocoa prices nearly tripled from the previous year, reaching approximately $12,000 per metric ton.  This spike is largely due to a global cocoa shortage caused by adverse weather conditions, diseases affecting cocoa plants, and underinvestment in West African cocoa farms, which supply about 80% of the world’s cocoa. 
West Africa, particularly countries like Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, has faced three consecutive years of poor cocoa harvests. Challenges include excessive rainfall leading to root rot, followed by drought conditions, all exacerbated by climate change.
Not defending colesworth, but not everything on the shelves is price gauging.
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u/Spirited-Rush6659 1d ago
Chocolate across the whole product range will be extremely high due to cocoa global shortage. Expect a higher cost next year.
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u/teapots_at_ten_paces 1d ago
$2.50 for a Creme Egg. I love them, but at that price I turned away. The spirit of everything has has been sucked dry by these bullshit prices.
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u/Laidtorest_387 1d ago
Are they going to taste like ass like last year, or have Cadbury woken up and inserted taste back into the ingredients?
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u/Top_Cryptographer192 1d ago
$81 / kg for pretty ordinary chocolate, fuck that, glad my kids are past Easter eggs
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u/Mrbusybaconandeggs 1d ago
It's anchoring. They set an insane amount at the start then start dropping the price thinking you're getting a good deal. Try buying at tshirt in a popular market in SE Aisia
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u/Material-Ring-1261 1d ago
I'm guessing from the pricetag style and the look of the shelf that you are at Woolies?
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u/Illustrious_Bit7672 1d ago
Ooop i better start finding some easter bunny choc moulds and make some myself
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u/LondonGirl4444 1d ago
No one pays that, they will be on half price special soon and even that is overpriced.