"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.

Omg what a CF. I'm annoyed they refunded her

No one knows what 100g of sweets looks like? Back in the old days we used to buy sweets by the quarter, which is about 125g. We all knew what that looked like.

Exactly - how much would ten bags of Haribo cost? (About £12) You’d expect handmade fudge at Winter Wonderland to be at least 3-4x as expensive as a bag of Haribo wouldn’t you? Actually seems pretty reasonable…

It wasn’t fudge though. The company name has fudge in it but the picture with the article is credited to the mum so I’m guessing it’s the actual sweets.

I have seen this exact article twice. One said it was in Wales the other said it was Winter Wonderland in London. The winter thing at Lakeside is £2.79/100g as well.

I work in a sweet shop where 100g is £1.25 (big long snakes are around 80p) It depends what you choose regarding what 100g looks like. Some sweets are heavy, some are light.
Lots of people start eating before they've paid, some even take them out of the scales before I've taken a weight/price.

A chocolate bar such as a Mars Bar weighs about 75 g,

That's basically 21 Mars Bars.

"Mum charged £47". That's loaded towards spinning a victim narrative. Look what the nasty world did to a mum. A MUM! They charged her. CHARGED her!

I might have said that the mum agreed to pay £47 when she filled a bag full of sweets at the displayed price then took them to the till. Sure, the price is a rip off, but we all know that, which is why we don't buy at these places. Obviously some people do, which is why they exist. If no one bought, I'm sure the price would come down.

In that sort of situation I’ve always said how much money I want to spend and then let them measure out to that amount.

Online hun army...

A tub of Quality Street is 600g ffs. She bought three times that. 😂

You'd have thought with the cost of butter crisis everyone would know what 250g looks like and could guess what 100g was.

1.6kg is sweets is ridiculous.

In the old days, you would ask the assistant for an eighth of coca cola bottles and they would weight them out.

But charge you in pence.

We used to ask for 10 p mix.

It is now. Used to be a kilo in a proper metal tin - that your mum would season/ferment (or whatever) next Christmas's Christmas Cake in from January onwards

For context, a tub of celebrations is 650g...

I would like someone to ask her what she thought it should have cost and why?

That picture is not 1.7kg of pick and mix either though! So that isn’t what she was charged £47 for.

Google tells me it used to be 1.7kg. Actually, the kid pretty much got a 1980s amount of Quality Street. One with actual layers you could dig through. The smell that would come off it.

Now, it's a scattering of sweets in crappy wrapping that just about cover the bottom of the plastic box. It can f off along with a number of other parts of the "progress" we have made since the 80s.

So am I!

They look repulsive..
like some horrendous parasites
1.6 KILOS though
That’s a vast amount of sweets.

😳😱😬

I once invited a friends kids (and myself) in this kind of stall. Think we paid £35. Which I was shocked but then realised the cheeky kids had heavy bags. It’s totally her fault. You might not know what 100-200gr is but she should have stopped her little sprinkler from putting things in the bag when she saw it was starting to be heavy

shame the company got the bad press

It's a fuck ton of sweets...but also anyone who goes to a winter wonderland knows they'll be royally fucked when it comes to buying anything. Naive.

"Then, as we were walking out to leave the Great British Fudge Company was there all lit up and it looked amazing. The kids run to it asking for sweets, so I said okay. I helped my youngest to do hers and my husband said don’t go mad on the sweets - it’s £2.79 for 100g.We both made sure the kids never went overboard. The bags were nowhere near half full, but nobody knows what 100g of sweets looks like. As my husband was paying, my little girl started eating the sweets so I couldn’t have put some back if I wanted to."

Do people have an idea of what 100g feels like?

Does no one take any responsibility anymore?

Sheer Gluttony.
Talk about sugar rush!

That’s a ridiculous amount of sweets. Yes expensive price but they clearly had a lot each