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Are you upset by this,,,,

Yes. 42 60.00%
 
No. 21 30.00%
 
Never tried Toblerone. 7 10.00%
 
Total:70
naruball said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:

If they made people pay the new bar 15/17 the price of the old bar, people wouldn't complain so much, but nobody likes to be scammed, Toblerone always was more expensive than average chocolate, they have no excuse to raise their unit price further.

Yes they do. If the product isn't profitable enough, they need to do something about. Haven't see their financial statements but neither have most people here. It's easy to see each company as the bad, greedy guy, but it's not that simple. A lot of companies are struggling and some of the go under. Even when they don't, they still need to fire people as they're not making enough to offer these jobs.

Sure we can understand this more when done by producers with lower prices, but if we see many less known producers still putting higher percentages of cocoa and other expensive ingredients in their chocolate and still keeping their prices lower without going under, neither having to fire people, it's unavoidable that we think Toblerone (or any other well-known producer) is ripping us off.



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Alby_da_Wolf said:
naruball said:

Yes they do. If the product isn't profitable enough, they need to do something about. Haven't see their financial statements but neither have most people here. It's easy to see each company as the bad, greedy guy, but it's not that simple. A lot of companies are struggling and some of the go under. Even when they don't, they still need to fire people as they're not making enough to offer these jobs.

Sure we can understand this more when done by producers with lower prices, but if we see many less known producers still putting higher percentages of cocoa and other expensive ingredients in their chocolate and still keeping their prices lower without going under, neither having to fire people, it's unavoidable that we think Toblerone (or any other well-known producer) is ripping us off.

I really don't think it's that simple. Just because some companies don't go under, doesn't mean others aren't struggling or have to reduce the expensive ingredients. We simply don't know what's going on and assuming that they're ripping us off is just wrong without proper evidence.



naruball said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:

Sure we can understand this more when done by producers with lower prices, but if we see many less known producers still putting higher percentages of cocoa and other expensive ingredients in their chocolate and still keeping their prices lower without going under, neither having to fire people, it's unavoidable that we think Toblerone (or any other well-known producer) is ripping us off.

I really don't think it's that simple. Just because some companies don't go under, doesn't mean others aren't struggling or have to reduce the expensive ingredients. We simply don't know what's going on and assuming that they're ripping us off is just wrong without proper evidence.

But still it's unavoidable, people must arrive to the end of the month with their wages and it's natural that they be more sensitive and overreact when food, houses, health and transports prices are concerned.



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To be fair, that new shape is quite shocking.

Aren't the triangles meant to be mountain tops? Those are some seriously screwed up mountains now!



SuperNova said:
To be fair, that new shape is quite shocking.

Aren't the triangles meant to be mountain tops? Those are some seriously screwed up mountains now!

Yes, in particular they should be a stylised representaion of Mount Cervino (Mount Matterhorn in German)

John2290 said:
SuperNova said:
To be fair, that new shape is quite shocking.

Aren't the triangles meant to be mountain tops? Those are some seriously screwed up mountains now!

Yeah. They might as well change their brand image to that of the grand canyon.

LOL      



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John2290 said:
SuperNova said:
To be fair, that new shape is quite shocking.

Aren't the triangles meant to be mountain tops? Those are some seriously screwed up mountains now!

Yeah. They might as well change their brand image to that of the grand canyon.

/thread XD