Standard single mars bar cost

[Spare tyre]

Following on from my hair cut in Poole thread https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

I thought I’d start one about mars bars

I use mars bars as a cost indicator- admittedly this was in WH Smith’s, but I think it indicates I have turn into my dad



£1.89 worlds gone mad

[Mr Penguin]

They want you to buy the meal deal, they are 90p in Waitrose and 85p in Tesco.

[mac96]

Mr Penguin said:

They want you to buy the meal deal, they are 90p in Waitrose and 85p in Tesco.

Alternatively they want you to buy 3 of them. So much for making them smaller and healthier!

[Spare tyre]

We have a winner at 85p

In 1997 I’d buy one on the way back from school, 30p from a corner shop

Boe inflation calculator says that’s 57p in todays money

I still have a bench mark of £30 for a decent pair of shoes (that’s what they in the year 2000 - I can’t move on!

[Alickadoo]

Spare tyre said:

We have a winner at 85p

In 1997 I’d buy one on the way back from school, 30p from a corner shop

Boe inflation calculator says that’s 57p in todays money

I still have a bench mark of £30 for a decent pair of shoes (that’s what they in the year 2000 - I can’t move on!

I recommend ShoeZone.

https://www.shoezone.com/

[The Gauge]

Spare tyre said:

We have a winner at 85p

In 1997 I’d buy one on the way back from school, 30p from a corner shop

Boe inflation calculator says that’s 57p in todays money

They have probably gone up even more than inflation if you consider any reduction in size of the bar.

[K50 DEL]

I've pretty much stopped buying that size bar of chocolate, in my mind it should be 25p for 6 decent size pieces of Dairy Milk, just like it was in the 1990s when I was growing up. I can't see the value in £1 or more for a smaller bar so have voted with my feet!

[DickyC]

7d

Same as a Lyons fruit pie (square to fit the box, no cellophane, fat soaking through the cardboard).

We knew how to live.

[Lotusgone]

DickyC said:

7d

Same as a Lyons fruit pie (square to fit the box, no cellophane, fat soaking through the cardboard).

We knew how to live.

Especially if you poured evaporated milk into the holes in the top.

[hammo19]

I bought 4 pairs of thermal JCB socks in Morrisons for £8 today. Bargains are still out there but you have to look…..

[FiF]

In the mid 70s remember my boss went on a skiing holiday in Switzerland. Return to work his overriding impression of the holiday was encapsulated by "11 fking shillings for a Mars bar."

He still thought in pre decimal currency.

[Pedro25]

My son informed me yesterday, London City Airport WH Smith bag of mini toblerones £19! WTAF!

[Mr Pointy]

hammo19 said:

I bought 4 pairs of thermal JCB socks in Morrisons for £8 today. Bargains are still out there but you have to look…..

Aldi do 3 pairs for £5 which is a fair deal as well.

[CanAm]

DickyC said:

7d

Same as a Lyons fruit pie (square to fit the box, no cellophane, fat soaking through the cardboard).

We knew how to live.

I can remember them being 4d (that's 1.66p in that new-fangled decimal money), but then I am very old.

(those Lyons individual fruit pies were excellent stuff, weren't they?)

[Gary C]

Spare tyre said:

We have a winner at 85p

In 1997 I’d buy one on the way back from school, 30p from a corner shop

Boe inflation calculator says that’s 57p in todays money

I still have a bench mark of £30 for a decent pair of shoes (that’s what they in the year 2000 - I can’t move on!

When I used to buy one with my dinner money on the way home from school, they were only 15p

[Richard-390a0]

85p for a single Mars Bar, people must have money to burn!!!! Makes me glad I don't have a sweet tooth ffs!

[Spare tyre]

Pedro25 said:

My son informed me yesterday, London City Airport WH Smith bag of mini toblerones £19! WTAF!

I guess they rely on confused tourists with money to spend

[98elise]

Spare tyre said:

We have a winner at 85p

In 1997 I’d buy one on the way back from school, 30p from a corner shop

Boe inflation calculator says that’s 57p in todays money

I still have a bench mark of £30 for a decent pair of shoes (that’s what they in the year 2000 - I can’t move on!

Same here. I needed a new pair recently, and fairly average M&S shoes seems to be more like £60 these days.

[DickyC]

CanAm said:

DickyC said:

7d

Same as a Lyons fruit pie (square to fit the box, no cellophane, fat soaking through the cardboard).

We knew how to live.

I can remember them being 4d (that's 1.66p in that new-fangled decimal money), but then I am very old.

(those Lyons individual fruit pies were excellent stuff, weren't they?)

Absolutely. What a treat! And thanks for reminding me they were Lyons Individual Fruit Pies. These details will be lost if we don't write them down.

[bloomen]

For a pure discretionary spend, you'd think they'd want to keep it at a flippant price.

When it switches from 'oh, go on, then' to 'WHAT?' that seems like poor strategy to me.

Still, good for the nation's waistline. Can't remember the last time I bought a chocolate bar out and about.

It's the shrinkflation that's more offensive than the price rise.