 per tub – nearly half as much as in 2009, when a tin included 1,100g of wrapped sweets. We analysed how Quality Street has changed throughout the years and found this year's tub typically contained around three fewer sweets than last year's. Compared with five years ago, there are 13 fewer chocolates in the average tub - based on today's sweet sizes - and 20 fewer than when Quality Street last came in a tin as standard 10 years ago. Overall, the total number of sweets per box has fallen from around 110 in 2009 to roughly 62 today – a decrease of 44 per cent. The Nestle-owned brand has made several changes to the festive favourite over the last 13 years. After dropping the weight of chocolates in its Quality Street tin from 1.1kg in 2009 to 1kg in 2010, it then dramatically cut the size by almost a fifth to 820g in 2012. Then in 2013, it introduced plastic tubs alongside tins, dropping the weight again to 780g. The tub weight was cut further to 750g during 2016 and 2017, before dropping again to 720g in 2018 and then down to 650g in 2019. This year, Quality Street tub size was cut yet again but for the first time, the brand has published just the net weight – the weight of the unwrapped chocolates – rather than the gross weight including the wrappers. It means that while the boxes say they contain '600g net', this is the equivalent of around 620g of wrapped chocolates, the measure used in previous years. The RRP of the chocolates changes every year - this year it is £6.72 - but typically su){kind=link}
IF you feel like Christmas chocolates aren’t what they used to be, you’re not wrong.
Quality Street contains roughly 48 fewer chocolates per box now, compared with the end of the last financial crisis, The Sun can reveal.
This Christmas, chocolate lovers will get only around 620g of sweets (including the weight of the wrappers) per tub – nearly half as much as in 2009, when a tin included 1,100g of wrapped sweets.
We analysed how Quality Street has changed throughout the years and found this year’s tub typically contained around three fewer sweets than last year’s.
Compared with five years ago, there are 13 fewer chocolates in the average tub – based on today’s sweet sizes – and 20 fewer than when Quality Street last came in a tin as standard 10 years ago.