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Where are all the Selection Boxes this year?

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Sexyin2026 · 14/12/2025 16:30

There are no traditional stockings with chocolate bars in, and very few selection boxes. Is it the same everywhere? I've tried Aldi, Asda and Tesco - very very few to be had.

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KilkennyCats · 15/12/2025 13:28

TeeBee · 15/12/2025 12:05

Well, the netting can cause ecological issues to birds and marine life and we're in the middle of an obesity crisis...so small ones in cardboard finally sounds sensible to me.

It’s Christmas. Nobody eats a selection box every day or even every week.
You can be sure the scaling down is profit related, not a response to the obesity crisis Hmm

TeeBee · 15/12/2025 12:05

Well, the netting can cause ecological issues to birds and marine life and we're in the middle of an obesity crisis...so small ones in cardboard finally sounds sensible to me.

HaveaVeryMerryBerryChristmas · 15/12/2025 10:24

They're there in Aero, Cadbury, Nestle, skittles, m&ms, haribo etc, they're just tiny. I think they possibly look smaller because less packaging (fair enough), but not enough contents either imo!)

jay55 · 15/12/2025 10:24

Be not seen any with full sized chocolate in. Just the crappy couple of quid ones with mini bars and a freddo.

SnowFrogJelly · 15/12/2025 10:19

Seen in Tescos

caringcarer · 15/12/2025 10:16

They look so small, even supposed larger selection packs. It''s too embarrassing to gift to a child now.

nomas · 15/12/2025 09:53

ApolloandDaphne · 15/12/2025 05:54

This is what I remember.

I remember them, full size bars and no boxing to make it look more than it actually is.

DramaQueenlady · 15/12/2025 07:23

B&M had loads but all shrunk

Sartre · 15/12/2025 07:20

Tesco have them. I bought a couple when we were asked to contribute chocolate for the school Christmas fair. They were cheaper than a big chocolate bar or box of maltesers.

StrawberrySquash · 15/12/2025 07:17

xmasstress12 · 14/12/2025 23:12

try direct

www.cadburygiftsdirect.co.uk/christmas-chocolate-selection-stockings-174g-pack-of-2.html

Six bars totalling 174g makes 29g a bar. That's not the bars they are using to illustrate!

ApolloandDaphne · 15/12/2025 05:54

This is what I remember.

Where are all the Selection Boxes this year?
Daisymay8 · 15/12/2025 05:50

Cadbury is American owned - maybe it's too small a market to make stuff just for uk

FormerlySpeckledyHen · 15/12/2025 05:47

We have 14 crates full from donations at our food bank. Thank you everyone who donated. Far too many to give out at Christmas, but will tide us over for confectionery into next year.

TangoWhiskeyAlphaTango123 · 15/12/2025 05:35

drspouse · 14/12/2025 23:05

Don't blame me, blame my parents. Along with ITV, white sliced bread, and various other very normal aspects of a 70s/80s childhood. And pillowcases of presents

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Gosh they sound like insufferable snobs. No selection box??!! Tragic 😂

TidyCrow · 15/12/2025 05:18

xmasstress12 · 14/12/2025 23:12

try direct

www.cadburygiftsdirect.co.uk/christmas-chocolate-selection-stockings-174g-pack-of-2.html

Thank you! I had no idea what the OP was referencing.

Soashamed60 · 15/12/2025 03:55

StrawberrySquash · 14/12/2025 16:45

Yes, I've seen a few, but vary much on the smaller end. Fudge etc and half size bars. Oh for the days of a box with ten large bars, most of them full size!

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And don't get me started on the size of the advent calendars chocolates & Xmas tree chocolate decorations. They're so ridiculously miniscule now they're not worth bothering with.
The selection box bars are shrinking so much year on year that they'll soon be small enough to hang on the tree in place of proper xmas tree choc decorations. We're being fleeced left, right & centre

IDontHateRainbows · 15/12/2025 02:40

xmasstress12 · 14/12/2025 23:14

celebrations/roses etc are not only more expensive but the tubs are smaller.

Even the purple caramel ones with nuts have changed shape no longer the long shape of youth they are circular now. Travesty.

xmasstress12 · 14/12/2025 23:14

celebrations/roses etc are not only more expensive but the tubs are smaller.

drspouse · 14/12/2025 23:05

KilkennyCats · 14/12/2025 17:26

Common??

Don't blame me, blame my parents. Along with ITV, white sliced bread, and various other very normal aspects of a 70s/80s childhood. And pillowcases of presents

IDontHateRainbows · 14/12/2025 21:30

They're absolutely tiny! I bought one to share in the office as a bit of a joke as we were all agog at how tiny the bars are, some no bigger than a large sweet. Good if you are on a diet..

doitwithlove · 14/12/2025 21:28

Tesco had Nomo very small boxes in store today

TheKeatingFive · 14/12/2025 17:39

ScrambledEggs12 · 14/12/2025 17:11

Not my photo, but I used to get this as one of my main Christmas presents!

Crikey 😱

OP, I just saw LOADS in Lidl, but all small/cardboard box. I haven't seen a stocking for years.

Toddlerteaplease · 14/12/2025 17:37

In the storeroom on my ward! We’ve got bags and bags of them.

Watwing · 14/12/2025 17:36

Literally made the call a few weeks ago to make bags and fill them with bars from multipacks rather than buy one from Tescos.

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