"Mum charged £47 for two bags of pick and mix from Cardiff Winter Wonderland"

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www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/mum-charged-47-two-bags-25576870

When I saw the headline I was shocked someone would pay that much for a couple of bags of sweets even at a place like winter wonderland, which like tourist traps and a lot of attractions are going to be very expensive.

However on reading the story the company isn't wrong in saying that the price per 100g was displayed, as well as a weighing scale being available, plus the mum let her child start eating the sweets before they had fully paid so couldn't put them back?

I don't think the stall has really done anything wrong? Apart from it being very expensive, but then that's why I don't buy stuff from these sorts of places.

agree the price per 100g is horribly expensive and 100g is hard to judge exactly but 1.6kg!!!!
When I was a kid, you were extremely lucky to be allowed to buy 4 oz (100g +/-) for the week

How can a grown adult with kids not know what 100g is? Loads of sweets chocolate etc are sold in weights of 100g it’s not hard to envisage is it, and if I’d seen a sign saying 2.79 per 100g I would stay well clear 😂 it’s for sure her own stupid fault

Quick google search brought this up. This is a 2kg bag of sweets - so these kids had picked up more than 3/4 of this amount.

At a Xmas fair/market type event, so obviously going to be expensive.

Look at the size of it! That''s not even a young child in the picture.

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/783578200/huge-2kg-pick-n-mix-sweet-hamper-large?gpla=1&gao=1&utm_source=connexity&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_uk_google&utm_content=16695752879885858321012021000008005

But there’s lots of very light sweets in that photo, it’s been designed to make it look like there’s a lot there. The original story was about fudge, which would look like a lot less.

It doesn’t matter what 100g of sweets looks like. Any parent should know that 1.6kg of sweets looks like too damn many sweets for a child.

The story wasn’t about fudge. The company has fudge in their name. The picture supplied by the mother shows standard pick and mix type sweets.

I went to similar market, same sweet company, there is such a massive choice it’s easy to go overboard. And some of the sweets are really big so obviously weigh a lot. She won’t make that mistake again!

Nope. They were pick and mix sweets, it says so in all of the news stories. The company just has 'fudge' in its name.

And 1.6 kg is 3 and a half POUNDS. Pick and mix, fudge, whatever, that's a grotesque amount of sweets for children to be allowed to take.

Interesting they haven't shared any pictures of what the family look like.

And 1.6 kg is 3 and a half POUNDS. Pick and mix, fudge, whatever, that's a grotesque amount of sweets for children to be allowed to take

3 1/2 pounds is about half the mass of a new born baby.

It is a lot of mass.

Anyone with two braincells knows pick ‘n’ mix is massively overpriced and even more so at somewhere like Winter Wonderland. People need to accept responsibility and not whinge and moan after the event.

No-one is uneducated, they maybe chose to ignore it though. Artisan products using expensive ingredients from stalls paying a fortune to be at the event will always be expensive, it's not their responsibility to police people's stupidity.

Love that excuse phrase 'not pre-armed with caution', what a load of rubbish. simply 'thick' would suffice.

It wasn’t artisan or high end, it was mass-produced pick and mix from a naff novelty bus. Though in fairness anything from a stall at an event is going to be expensive.

I do wonder what the parents will do next time: it sounds like this time around their kids ran towards the stall shouting about sweets, the parents acquiesced without a discussion, half-heartedly said “don’t go mad” while simultaneously letting them fill their boots to the tune of 1.6kg, then they started eating while the bill was still being settled. They got them for free this time but what will they do next time? Hard to start enforcing the “no fucking way, it’s a rip-off” when last time it was “fill a whole bag”.

They expected to pay £20-£23
They said 'Nobody nowadays can afford to spend £47 on sweets'.

So either they thought there was a government price cap, or....?

Next, will she go to Gucci in Milan, buy a coat, and do Daily Mail sad faces because she didn't know the exchange rate?
I wonder if they would also refund...

But there’s lots of very light sweets in that photo

True - those horrid, pointless polystyrene space ship things don't actually count as sweets in my book. Might as well order something big but cheap online and let the kids eat the packing quavers instead.

They said 'Nobody nowadays can afford to spend £47 on sweets'.

"Nobody nowadays can afford to buy a Ferrari".... just after you've pointed to one in the showroom and told the salesperson "I'll take that one, please"!

Even a small amount of fudge is quite heavy.

I'm guessing that, if the seller advertised it at £27.90 per kg, people would still be up in arms and accuse them of trying to encourage gluttony, criticise them for not clearly enabling people to just buy a small amount etc. (even if no minimum purchase was set).

If they handed out tiny little bags, they would also be criticised for 'fat-shaming' people who wanted a special treat that would last them some time and forcing them to use multiple bags.

Ultimately, when it comes to non-essential purchases, it's down to people to look at the price of something and decide if it's worth it to them - then either pay it for as much as you want to buy, or don't buy it. Children should be guided in this by their parents.

I don't care that there are more expensive things for sale out there to those who want and can afford them, as long as nobody is forcing me to buy them. It doesn't affect my life in any way if some people want the option to be able to spend £800 on a D&G coat - I'll just pay £30 for one from Asda, thanks; then we're all happy.

I'll reserve my concern for expensive essentials such as gas and electricity, where there is no cheaper option.

😂😂😂😂

It was very good of the company to offer a refund in my opinion.
What was the reason for the refund?

Bitching, pissing and moaning.

Absolutely, so actually they brought more than 1.6kg of sweets and only had to pay for 1.6kg of sweets.

article should read- “Mum failed to parent and learned a valuable life lesson”.

Cause it was the mum that went to the paper and raised the story.

Just curious have you ever stopped to consider why they are rip off prices? The cost of that stall alone would be astronomical. They have to charge rip off prices to make their money back and some kind of profit.

I think people forget or don’t consider how much a stall in these city centre winter wonderlands actually cost to hire the pitch.

I really wish people wouldn’t pay these rip off prices, if everyone just boycotted they would be forced to charge something more reasonable.