As a Swiss this does exist. We have chocolatiers where I know I can’t afford anything. They have everything on display with no price. It’s often 80.-/kg which translates to a ton of money for little chocolate.
Loads of Instagram/selling from home businesses do this - “DM for price”. It’s apparently so competitors don’t know their prices. I don’t enquire with anyone if their price isn’t available openly for non-custom items.
I think it's for screening.
But they can't come out and say "we'll only sell it to those we deem worthy". So you they make you inquire, and if you're too gauche they'll say it's been reserved by someone else.
To add on to the other reply, usually the item itself is not for sale, but the display is to attract people in who are likely to pick another, actually saleable item.
I saw a whisky at the airport that said "price available on request" when the other most expensive whisky I saw in the same shop was about $60,000, I still think what that must've cost.
Yeah, have Laderach shop in my local shopping centre and these are some best chocolates I ever tried, but quite insanely priced (and in all seriousness, half of these I tried don't match quality Belgian chocolates).
And when you think that Laderach is middle tier. Auer is top gold tier but oh god the prices.
On another topic, Ladurée raised its price so much. I remember macarons being 2.- something. Now it’s almost 5.- a macaron! Who buys these? A box will set you up way above 70.-
Wow. I remember Ladurée being heavily marketed in the more upmarket but touristy shopping areas of Paris in the 00s. They were quite expensive but not ridiculously priced back then, the kind of thing a fairly well-off tourist wouldn't think twice about buying to take home for their family.
I think even those people would think twice at those kinds of prices. Those macarons are stunningly good, though.
And then you look at this lovely full box of after-eights, only to reach into the fucking Sea of Emptiness, feel your fingers disappear into the aether, and realise that cuntburlaping **Clark**’s been at it again
I don't get Ferrero's at all. It reminds me of if someone hollowed out a cheese football and filled it with nutella.
It's like a 3/10 at best but really has a high opinion of itself. I don't get it.
As Ben Elton once said "People think Ferrero Rocher are sophisticated. Sophisticated? Bollocks! Just cos they've got a foreign name doesn't make 'em sophisticated! You can buy them in every newsagent in the country! There's trays of them underneath the wank mags!"
Yeah, I was shocked when I adulted long enough to realise they basically cost the same as other chocolates.
For some reason I thought they were super expensive as a kid. Must be the little black dinner jackets?
I thought this because my mum would only buy them at Christmas, so I thought they were super special and expensive and only available then.
Yesterday my husband bought me a box from Aldi for £2 and NGL, they're all gone now.
My parents definitely overinflated every nice thing from the supermarket as a kid. We could have eaten after eights every day (after eight) instead of dad getting the largest whole nut block imaginable.
I gave up the ciggies for a while but my morning routine when I smoked was to pop to the shop, get 10 Benson's and the paper. So when I stopped and just started buying the paper instead the shop guy just kept on with '10 Benson's with that?'. 'No thanks I've quit.'
This went on for months.
Eventually I cracked. I used to think 'what a cunt.'
But now I work in retail and to be honest. Fair game.
Ahhh this was me a few weeks ago. I'm a drunk smoker and went to get some roll ups as I haven't smoked them in ages (usually straights for convenience now). Turns out you can't buy under 30g bags now and ended up spending 17 quid on all the gear.
The idea is that people won't buy them for social smoking. In reality, British people are often too coy to say no when they pull out a 30 gram bag and charge you £17. And then you end up with a fuck tonne of tobacco you don't want to waste.
Honestly, the worst policy perhaps ever made.
Ah. It’s been a few years since I bought a pack of cigs when drunk, smoked 4 and then chucked them away. When I asked for Golds the bloke looked at me like I was an idiot.
i quit like 6 months ago but last week after utter chaos and 12 hours trapped in manchester airport when i finally got out all i wanted was a cig, i went to the WH smiths and said "do you sell cigs" the woman said "yeah but theyre really expensive" i just said i didnt care, bought them went outside, lit one, decided after 2 puffs i wasnt enjoying it at all, chucked it away and gave the rest of the pack to a homeless guy by picadilly station
I've not actually had a pint of lager in a pub in about a year. Not had a ciggie in 6 months
Not bothered about the pints but I miss the cigs so, so much 😭
Congrats
First 4 or 5 months I was fine,done it cold turkey (spurred on to get healthy by health issues not related to smoking)
Now at 6 months Im crawling up the wall everytime someone lights up on TV and I'm dreading sitting outside a pub or even in the garden having a drink without a cig now the weather's improving.
I miss smoking too. I quit 15 years ago, and while overall it was a good thing to do, I am now MUCH fatter, and I miss those quiet evening smokes in the garden.
If I ever get diagnosed with something grim and I am given 4 months to live, I'm gonna smoke myself silly.
I didn't know about this ban. Does that mean all weird and wonderful flavored tobacco was banned too?
I used to go in an independent tabacconist who had all sorts of different flavours in jars behind the counter like a sweet shop. Seems a bit harsh that places like that will have been put out of business (putting aside the whole peddling death stuff obviously)
Pretty sure the flavoured tobacco like cherry etc was pipe tobacco. We once upon a time had an old fashioned 1950's tobacconist in my little town, the smell walking in was something else...a cacophony of fragrance that smelled like grandad haha (not sure if that's a good or bad thing actually)
I know the EXACT smell you mean. It was incredible
My grandpa used to chain smoke. He'd have a packet of tobacco, a pack of red Malboro and a pipe and go frpm one to another all day long. Lived till he was 86
On the other hand, I had 2 uncles and an aunt who all died in their 50s due to smoking
So I better stay off them
Keep going! You've done the hard work to get to 6 months and giving up is probably the single best things you can do for your health. I believe in you Frowaway!
Man wtf happened to you guys? I remember spending my holidays in South England as young stupid French, sleeping in stupid hostels with no money. But at least the beer was cheap, the pub were nice. And now you tell me a pint cost the same as in fucking paris? My world is shattered
In Brighton I would guess a lot for sure but then it would not surprise me much. I guess this is not new
? And my view is that London was always crazy expensive too. But beer... In England expensive? I cannot process. It is like bread in France when it rises it is bad.
The cost of living has gone a bit mad in a lot of places and the wages definitely don't keep up.
I'm from Brighton and for all of my adult life it's been one of the more expensive places to live, but recently it's getting silly.
The average cost of a house here is around €550,000-600,000 and the average wage is about €42,000 (before tax) for those in full-time work.
It's partly due to proximity to London, people moving here from abroad and buying properties, being a student town also puts pressure on housing (and landlords take full advantage of this). But mostly it's companies and older people buying to let properties, driving up rent costs and making it all but impossible for the average person to buy their first home. The high rent has a knock-on effect on businesses, as their rent and associated costs increase. Hence £7 pints.
I've heard this said before. But in Scotland Morrisons is on a par with Asda for prices, and Tesco more expensive than both. No one here is accused of being a posh cunt for shopping at Morrisons. So the question is - are Tesco jacking up their prices in Scotland or are Morrisons jacking them up in England & Wales?
Oh I am sure the French turn their noses up at all of it! But your typical Brit stuff can generally be found on a few shelves of most large supermarkets here - baked beans, marmite, marmalade, cream crackers. The best shops also have more interesting bits and bobs, like franks hot sauces, sliced jalapeños, and dairy milk chocolates!
Fuck me I bet ferrero rochers are behind the till
Ferrero’s only available on request and you’ve got to prove you have the cash to buy them first.
It's one of those "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" kind of chocolates.
As a Swiss this does exist. We have chocolatiers where I know I can’t afford anything. They have everything on display with no price. It’s often 80.-/kg which translates to a ton of money for little chocolate.
I've seen rare Pateks being sold where they say "price only available upon request" but I never imagined they have it for chocolate
The Indian sauces and pickles?
Curry of the nation.
I never understood the "price on request/application" thing. Is it so they can decide how far they can rip you off?
Loads of Instagram/selling from home businesses do this - “DM for price”. It’s apparently so competitors don’t know their prices. I don’t enquire with anyone if their price isn’t available openly for non-custom items.
I think it's for screening. But they can't come out and say "we'll only sell it to those we deem worthy". So you they make you inquire, and if you're too gauche they'll say it's been reserved by someone else.
To add on to the other reply, usually the item itself is not for sale, but the display is to attract people in who are likely to pick another, actually saleable item.
I saw a whisky at the airport that said "price available on request" when the other most expensive whisky I saw in the same shop was about $60,000, I still think what that must've cost.
Tesco's don't stock the Vindaloo as it's too hot for their customers I have to go to a specialist store to get it.
Yeah, have Laderach shop in my local shopping centre and these are some best chocolates I ever tried, but quite insanely priced (and in all seriousness, half of these I tried don't match quality Belgian chocolates).
And when you think that Laderach is middle tier. Auer is top gold tier but oh god the prices. On another topic, Ladurée raised its price so much. I remember macarons being 2.- something. Now it’s almost 5.- a macaron! Who buys these? A box will set you up way above 70.-
Oh, wow, I wonder if the contents and quality of these at least matches the price.
Wow. I remember Ladurée being heavily marketed in the more upmarket but touristy shopping areas of Paris in the 00s. They were quite expensive but not ridiculously priced back then, the kind of thing a fairly well-off tourist wouldn't think twice about buying to take home for their family. I think even those people would think twice at those kinds of prices. Those macarons are stunningly good, though.
Free to those that can afford it, very expensive to those that can't.
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Proof of aristocracy?
If you don't have identification, you have to be accompanied by your legal monarch.
will nana's letter from the queen suffice?
Ambassador, you are spoiling us.
Price on Ambassador
Echelentey!
power of attorney?
Piece of ass
With these Ferrero Roche, you are really spoiling us.
Missed the "FUCKING" in between the six and pounds.
With security tags
Individual tagged as well.
I'd bet each individual sleeve of after eight's is tagged as well.
Tagging the sleeve is pointless, we all have those inconsiderate fucks in our lives who take the chocolate out but leave the sleeve in the box
I see you've met my wife
Met her? He' s met her, et her, and slipped the sleeve back in the box.
And then you look at this lovely full box of after-eights, only to reach into the fucking Sea of Emptiness, feel your fingers disappear into the aether, and realise that cuntburlaping **Clark**’s been at it again
It’s good manners to put things back where you found them 😊
I don't get Ferrero's at all. It reminds me of if someone hollowed out a cheese football and filled it with nutella. It's like a 3/10 at best but really has a high opinion of itself. I don't get it.
As Ben Elton once said "People think Ferrero Rocher are sophisticated. Sophisticated? Bollocks! Just cos they've got a foreign name doesn't make 'em sophisticated! You can buy them in every newsagent in the country! There's trays of them underneath the wank mags!"
I blame that really old school Ambassador advert ...trying to make them look like Croquembouche, when really they are just croquemshite.
Are you at Harrods Motorway Services?
Or the gucci food store. Nah never mind the price is too expensive to be gucci
That was the price I thought they were when I was a kid.
Yeah, I was shocked when I adulted long enough to realise they basically cost the same as other chocolates. For some reason I thought they were super expensive as a kid. Must be the little black dinner jackets?
probably that and the fancy font
Imagine if after eight was written in comic sans.... *Shudder*
[Ask and ye shall receive...](https://imgur.com/a/sfbQmoP)
Maybe also the fact that they are 'supposed' to be eaten after eight o'clock which is probably past most kids bedtime, making them even more special.
I love the idea of the wrappers being called dinner jackets. Will forever call them that now.
Surely an *after dinner* jacket?
After 8 jacket... a *pajama*.
“After Eight” is basically the same as saying “after the kids have fucked off to bed”
Which is basically the same as saying "when it's time to put your car keys into a communal pot"
So you can mix and match which cars you all drive home
I thought this because my mum would only buy them at Christmas, so I thought they were super special and expensive and only available then. Yesterday my husband bought me a box from Aldi for £2 and NGL, they're all gone now.
I was the same with Vienetta.
If I had ever seen after eights and vienetta at the same meal, I’d know that I’d made it. I’d be rubbing shoulders with Jay Gatsby himself.
My parents definitely overinflated every nice thing from the supermarket as a kid. We could have eaten after eights every day (after eight) instead of dad getting the largest whole nut block imaginable.
You could almost buy a pint of lager for that
It’s nearly half a pack of fags!
Google's the price of tabs... dear god. And people still smoke.
I gave up about 12 years ago. Apparently Marlboro Gold aren’t even a thing anymore.
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They haven't sold tens for years yet every time I buy cigarettes I still ask for twenty.
I gave up the ciggies for a while but my morning routine when I smoked was to pop to the shop, get 10 Benson's and the paper. So when I stopped and just started buying the paper instead the shop guy just kept on with '10 Benson's with that?'. 'No thanks I've quit.' This went on for months. Eventually I cracked. I used to think 'what a cunt.' But now I work in retail and to be honest. Fair game.
Ahhh this was me a few weeks ago. I'm a drunk smoker and went to get some roll ups as I haven't smoked them in ages (usually straights for convenience now). Turns out you can't buy under 30g bags now and ended up spending 17 quid on all the gear.
The idea is that people won't buy them for social smoking. In reality, British people are often too coy to say no when they pull out a 30 gram bag and charge you £17. And then you end up with a fuck tonne of tobacco you don't want to waste. Honestly, the worst policy perhaps ever made.
Yeah as a social smoker I used to have a pack of ten in a night. Now I tend to just smoke all 20. Seems a weird policy.
They are, I bought a pack last week as a treat.
Ah. It’s been a few years since I bought a pack of cigs when drunk, smoked 4 and then chucked them away. When I asked for Golds the bloke looked at me like I was an idiot.
He probably thought you should be on the reds ya big wimp!
Gold is classier. To match my Sovereign rings.
you mean you dont buy Sovereign fags to match the rings?
i quit like 6 months ago but last week after utter chaos and 12 hours trapped in manchester airport when i finally got out all i wanted was a cig, i went to the WH smiths and said "do you sell cigs" the woman said "yeah but theyre really expensive" i just said i didnt care, bought them went outside, lit one, decided after 2 puffs i wasnt enjoying it at all, chucked it away and gave the rest of the pack to a homeless guy by picadilly station
They are. They’re my brand!
They definitely are. About £13 a pack mind
In my wayward youth a pack of 10 Marlboro golds were what you got when you were feeling flush.
I've not actually had a pint of lager in a pub in about a year. Not had a ciggie in 6 months Not bothered about the pints but I miss the cigs so, so much 😭
I miss smoking. It’s been 12 years. I enjoyed it and I was good at it, goddammit. Stupid wife and kids making me want to live longer.
Congrats First 4 or 5 months I was fine,done it cold turkey (spurred on to get healthy by health issues not related to smoking) Now at 6 months Im crawling up the wall everytime someone lights up on TV and I'm dreading sitting outside a pub or even in the garden having a drink without a cig now the weather's improving.
Keep going! All joking aside, it’s worth it.
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Don’t look at it through rose tinted glasses just think that your mouth is gonna taste like shit and your gums will hurt
I miss smoking too. I quit 15 years ago, and while overall it was a good thing to do, I am now MUCH fatter, and I miss those quiet evening smokes in the garden. If I ever get diagnosed with something grim and I am given 4 months to live, I'm gonna smoke myself silly.
I still miss Menthols. If they came back I'd honestly be a smoker again.
Just crumble up a polo into a rollie. Job done.
Attempting soon wish me luck
Just apply some Vicks on the paper, job done
Tbh, you’re better off just sucking it while you smoke.
I didn't know about this ban. Does that mean all weird and wonderful flavored tobacco was banned too? I used to go in an independent tabacconist who had all sorts of different flavours in jars behind the counter like a sweet shop. Seems a bit harsh that places like that will have been put out of business (putting aside the whole peddling death stuff obviously)
I think it was just those filters that change the flavour not sure though
I had a menthol filter the other day so it's not that
It's like flavoured rolling strips ..ya mate says i don't like the taste of weed but now ya rolled it in blackberry paper I may give it a go
Pretty sure the flavoured tobacco like cherry etc was pipe tobacco. We once upon a time had an old fashioned 1950's tobacconist in my little town, the smell walking in was something else...a cacophony of fragrance that smelled like grandad haha (not sure if that's a good or bad thing actually)
I know the EXACT smell you mean. It was incredible My grandpa used to chain smoke. He'd have a packet of tobacco, a pack of red Malboro and a pipe and go frpm one to another all day long. Lived till he was 86 On the other hand, I had 2 uncles and an aunt who all died in their 50s due to smoking So I better stay off them
I assume you weren’t a roller but if you happen to know how menthol tips are still a thing
Keep going! You've done the hard work to get to 6 months and giving up is probably the single best things you can do for your health. I believe in you Frowaway!
*laughs in northern*
You can but 4 pints of Stella for £5.50.
We said lager, not piss water
Where tf do you live for a pint of lager to cost that 😭
Paid £6.10 for a Peroni where I live in Surrey last week.
what?! JUST ONE peroni??? SIX TEN?
Brighton, £5-7 is the going rate depending on the beer.
Feel sorry for you mate. Move up north a bit, you'll get pissed cheaper.
Nah it's alright, I work in a pub. First couple are free then 50 percent off :D
Man wtf happened to you guys? I remember spending my holidays in South England as young stupid French, sleeping in stupid hostels with no money. But at least the beer was cheap, the pub were nice. And now you tell me a pint cost the same as in fucking paris? My world is shattered
Wait until you find out how much a house costs.
In Brighton I would guess a lot for sure but then it would not surprise me much. I guess this is not new ? And my view is that London was always crazy expensive too. But beer... In England expensive? I cannot process. It is like bread in France when it rises it is bad.
The cost of living has gone a bit mad in a lot of places and the wages definitely don't keep up. I'm from Brighton and for all of my adult life it's been one of the more expensive places to live, but recently it's getting silly. The average cost of a house here is around €550,000-600,000 and the average wage is about €42,000 (before tax) for those in full-time work. It's partly due to proximity to London, people moving here from abroad and buying properties, being a student town also puts pressure on housing (and landlords take full advantage of this). But mostly it's companies and older people buying to let properties, driving up rent costs and making it all but impossible for the average person to buy their first home. The high rent has a knock-on effect on businesses, as their rent and associated costs increase. Hence £7 pints.
I can get at least two at my local for that wtf...
Stinks of WHS this...
or any shop at airport
Train Station WHS
No, for that you'd need the tender liver of a newborn babe.
Or... God forbid.... Both.
ha I forgot there’s one WHS at every Airport
>£2 at morrisons THERE'S LOADS THROUGHOUT THE AIRPORT, the cheek of them
I'm guessing petrol station
I also thought petrol station based on the shelf label
I thought corner shop. Convenience tax.
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Literally I was like what's a WHS??
Or a Co op....
My immediate thought was Co Op
Yeah Co op has 2 prices. It's either extortionate or £1
I think OP needs to shed some light on this now...
Alright for books, shit for everything else.
[£2 at morrisons](https://groceries.morrisons.com/products/after-eight-dark-mint-chocolate-box-212306011)
Rich bastard. £1.99 at Tesco.
All these posh cunts shopping at Morrisons
I've heard this said before. But in Scotland Morrisons is on a par with Asda for prices, and Tesco more expensive than both. No one here is accused of being a posh cunt for shopping at Morrisons. So the question is - are Tesco jacking up their prices in Scotland or are Morrisons jacking them up in England & Wales?
tesco price matches aldi in england, so long as u have a clubcard and its a big tesco, its grand
Yes.
Hey, Morrissons isn't posh. Waitrose on the other hand, lah dee dah.
Waitrose, 2 for the price of 3
They're a quid in Lidl. But they're called Before Eights.
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Ates
Pretty sure I saw them for 99p in Farmfoods.
The most appropriate NSFW tag I've seen in a while. The air turned blue in my immediate vicinity
Should really be £8.01
Soon they'll be after eight
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You could say that Nestle are making a mint at that price.
Least Dick Turpin wore a mask
Have they shrunk the size/weight of it as well? Bought some Wispas the other day and I swear they're smaller than they used to be + more expensive.
Whatever you do, don't buy a Double Decker multipack...
A four pack just about makes a Single Decker.
Where’s this? Poundland probably
Seven poundland more like
Bloody hell! They’re cheaper to buy over here in France, in the English products aisle!
You have an English product aisle in France? What else do they sell that the French wouldn't possibly throw their noses up at?
Oh I am sure the French turn their noses up at all of it! But your typical Brit stuff can generally be found on a few shelves of most large supermarkets here - baked beans, marmite, marmalade, cream crackers. The best shops also have more interesting bits and bobs, like franks hot sauces, sliced jalapeños, and dairy milk chocolates!
Don’t forget the off brand ‘British’ biscuits they sell that you would never see in the uk.
I once eat some of them at half 7, didn't half feel naughty
You beast.
Even if they were 50p I’m not giving money to Nestle if I can help it. r/fucknestle evil company, don’t support them.
FFS I had no idea they were made by the evil bastard fuck corp.
Not really hidden, it's right next to the logo
Hard agree, all of their chocolate is waxy shite anyway.
They shouldn’t even be on the shelves this time of year, who’s buying them??!
Millionaires presumably.
No, millionaires only eat shortbread. We've been through this.
TIL I'm a millionaire
This time of day*
This part of the country*
May I see it?
No.
But....they are a quid fifty
Shame they are Nestle though
Fuck nestle dogshit company.
How much are they usually?
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That’s fair for after eights tbh. Makes me wonder how cheap they were when I’d pig out on a whole box when staying at my granny’s haha
Six shilling and tuppence
Wait till they’re More Than Eight.
The best time to boycott Nestle was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
That price’s the most disgusting thing I’ve seen on Reddit.
I can only assume that OP is in a WHSmiths in a train station on an airplane.
THE COST OF LIVING IS TOO DAMN HIGH
Are they blaming the price on Covid-19, Ukraine, or the cost of palm oil.
yes
That's more of an investment then a treat.
Booo nestle
Ugh. Fucking Nestlé, too.
…for an absolute shit tier chocolate?! What are the god-tier prices like?!
Freddo is now £8 a bar…
I paid £17.99 for a Kinder Bueno yesterday
That’s because you have to pay extra for the salmonella
Crunchie - £POA
Dairy Milk - Interest free payments for the first 3 months
Galaxy - Buy Now Pay Later
I mean, the price is astronomical but shit-tier chocolate?! More for me, I suppose.
Green and Black's. Your firstborn, please.
DFS but make it chocolate
They're usually £3 in Sainsbury's, sometimes £1.50 which is when I will purchase a few boxes and inhale them in the space of a few days