Yeah, credit where it's due

... to Lidl, I'm told

Yup credit to Lidl they removed them and replaced them with caramelised fruits and patisseries, as that's much better. How about people having some self control and now buying them.

the other supermarkets will have to follow suit unless they want to be branded uncaring...

Erm, didn't bigger Tescos remove all the sweets etc. about 20 years ago?

Erm, didn't bigger Tescos remove all the sweets etc. about 20 years ago?

Must have put them back then as they're still there.

Dammit - another chance for inappropriate shouting at my kids ruined....

branded uncaring...

Surely it's Tesco that's uncaring making the fat ****ers walk to the back of the shop. How is it a step in the right direction, they're further away 😛

the other supermarkets will have to follow suit unless they want to be branded uncaring

Why is it uncaring?

Besides, surely its more about personal responsibility, and nto being a fatty and picking up the chocolate bar.

Why is it uncaring?

Besides, surely its more about personal responsibility, and nto being a fatty and picking up the chocolate bar.

I think they're referring to the wants of their children, not their own lack of will power 🙂

Sainsburys haven't had them at the tills for a long time, nothing new.

Mind you it's hardly difficult to tell your children "no" when they ask demand sweets, and it won't make a difference to adults (speaking from experience!).

What's wrong with picking up a double decker when you're stood at the till?

My daughter asking for sweets sounds like Kate Bush mixed with a fog horn played thought the Spinal Tap amp turned up to 11. I have to overcome this with even more volume. It is better for all if the sweets are somewhere else 😉

How about people having some self control and now buying them.

+10000000000000000000000000000 (got bored of pressing 00000)

this will change my life immeasurably

Sainsburys haven't had them at the tills for a long time, nothing new.

Really? They were there this am.

The Tesco I use has never had sweets by the tills, they're in a separate area along with the donuts, sandwiches and drinks etc.

Asda and Morrisons however have stacks of the things near every till. Would prefer to see some fruit added in there to balance things out.

tbh - the sort of stuff I'd like near the tills is the stuff you need, but might forget when doing a food shop - so batteries, lightbulbs, wrapping paper, cellotape, birthday cards etc.

Sainsburys haven't had them at the tills for a long time, nothing new.

The queuing system in my local sainsburys is lined by low level sweet shelving. fortunately they still have cream eggs so I don't forget.

this namby pambying over blaming food companies for making people fat, or not enabling them to control their children is bullshit anyway. if you're fat, you've eaten too much and not exercised enough. if you can't say no to your kids, then grow some balls and bring them up properly.

the blame game is all it is - not taking responsibility for yourselves.

So, it's Express and Metro stores that will be changed. Supermarkets done years back.
Will be interesting to see how they do this - does away from the till mean away from the till or away from that big long queuing area.

fortunately they still have cream eggs so I don't forget.

Just tell them they are there for advertising and not for sale. Worked with our two.

[i]Just tell them they are there for advertising and not for sale. Worked with our two.[/i]

Yeah, sometimes I wish I had a thick kid 😉

Somehow I dont think this will solve the obesity problem in the UK.

if you can't say no to your kids, then grow some balls and bring them up properly.

+1.

It's a small child, you are a large adult and you have the money to pay for stuff. It's not as if they have a gun to your head.

How about people having some self control and now buying them.

Plus you've got bigger problems brewing for the future if you can't tell your currently young child he/she can't have candy on demand.

Somehow I dont think this will solve the obesity problem in the UK.

Fitting smaller doors would, if they can't get in, they can't buy it, so the more unhealthy the food they are providing, the smaller the door, so KFC would be the size of a cat flap, and a green grocers would be ths size of an up and over garage door.

😆

So, it's Express and Metro stores that will be changed....Will be interesting to see how they do this ....

My local Express/Metro stores always have big bags of sweets on offer e.g. Malteasers, Minstrels etc. for £1 bang infront of the entrance so they're the first thing you see.

I hate seeing young teenagers overweight. Really puts me on a downer- you look at the parents and the children are literally mini-me copies. If an adult has no self-control how can they teach a impressionable child the same?

Drac - Moderator

Yup credit to Lidl they removed them and replaced them with caramelised fruits and patisseries, as that's much better. How about people having some self control and now buying them.

Our local Lidl & Aldi have only had dried fruit & seeds on the checkouts for the last 6 months, so I can stock up on seeds for my home baking easily 😀

They sell some seriously nice foreign chocolate though. When mrshora bought it I used to kick off/go mental as I was the one who ate..the lot.

Glad I am not the only one who doesn't think its unreasonable to say to a kid that they cant have a chocolate bar, just because its there on a shelf

benji - Member
Somehow I dont think this will solve the obesity problem in the UK.
Fitting smaller doors would, if they can't get in, they can't buy it, so the more unhealthy the food they are providing, the smaller the door, so KFC would be the size of a cat flap, and a green grocers would be ths size of an up and over garage do

Or scales in the sweet isle. So you would like to buy a family sized bag of M&M's. please stand on this, nope, sorry I cant sell you that because you are too fat. My colleague in the veg isle will be able to provide you with some parsnips and cabbage though 😆

Every time I go into a bike shop, I come away with handfuls of tyre levers, Cliff bars and puncture repair kits.

The temptation at the till is too much for me. 🙂

Dunno if it'll solve the obesity problem (deeply cynical) may be less of a PITA to shop with kids in tow now tho, sweet aisle yeah we'll just bypass that one so kids aren't whining for sweets, can't bypass the checkouts tho. Trying to unload/load shopping while kids are after the bazillion sweets surrounding the tills is not a fun experience.

Why not just make the space between the tills narrower, then would be more tills, so shorter queues. Leave some of them at full size for the chubbies. Then, either put the sweeties in the narrow lanes, because people using those lanes don't have a life threatening obesity problem, or fill the chubby lanes with sweeties because if hey don't care why should anyone else?

Waitrose have a section just to the right of all the tills, it's floor to ceiling stacked with nibbles/chocolate/sweets/crisps.. Only thing is you have to walk over there to get them and consiquently loose you place in the queue, which is a bind.
You don't see fat people in Waitrose therefore I can't comment on if that extra 20mtrs walk to get them is working or not.

Besides, surely its more about personal responsibility, and nto being a fatty and picking up the chocolate bar.

Everything in Tesco is strategically placed to achieve a goal. Yes, you can say no, but they put a lot of time and effort into influencing your decision. There is a very real corporate responsibility here.

You don't see fat people in Waitrose therefore I can't comment on if that extra 20mtrs walk to get them is working or not.

Well based on that anecdote it is working.

^ first bit of sense and realism on this thread today.

(not Drac - Butcher's..)

except it's more marketing masquerading as corporate responsibility.

If you strip out the self-righteousness from this thread, it's just a bit of a pain in the ring to go with kids through checkouts with sweets in them. It's not always difficult to say no but it's just another inconvenience if u have kids of that age. All the supermarket is doing is making spending money more convenient for a certain group of punters.

glad the OP has noticed . i was part of a group that implemented this in tesco in the mid 90's..

Local Tesco has them near the tills, but they've set the prices at something like 60p each or 3 for £1.20
....so you can't even buy 1, you need to buy 3

I don't think you have/need to buy 3.

Better value to buy 3. And everyone shops at Tesco for the great value surely ?

You don't even have to buy any, it's a radical new idea I know but it seems to work.

Are they reducing the size of beer bottles and capping each purchase at 1/2 pint as well?

Perhaps they could allocate an advisor to each shopper to ensure we are only able to make sensible choices. We need to have our hands held after all.

Drac +1

Better value to buy 3. And everyone shops at Tesco for the great value surely ?

Yes, but value doesn't always have to be the main metric. Especially if one gets out of breath loading their shopping onto the conveyor belt.

Drac - Moderator
You don't even have to buy any, it's a radical new idea I know but it seems to work.

Yes! My point was that they're not happy with encouraging folk (especially with kids) to buy just one sweet, they want them to buy 3 and do so by hiking up the price of individual items but then adding a multibuy deal which makes it [i]look[/i] good value to buy 3

Replace the confectionary with contraception by the tills, nips this little problem in the bud.

Nothing to do with hand-holding or being self-righteous and displaying the levels of self control I'd expect from a forum of mountainbike athletes 😉

Store layout and product placement [u]does[/u] work, along with piped tasty smells, oversized food images and other ways of stimulating senses. If it didn't directly result in increased sales, then it wouldn't happen and they would just stack the shelves in the most efficient way possible.

So is it corporately irresponsible to use techniques that result in greater sales of sugary products? It is good marketing to make a huge fuss over moving sweets away from the tills as it could influence where hassled parents shop. Obviously a short-lived gain as the rest will follow. You will probably find there's a new and also fairly inappropriate site for the sweets though along with increased in-store marketing to suit. So the sweetie status quo will probably come back anyway.

Right then - nearly snack time and all this talk of sweets....

You will probably find there's a new and also fairly inappropriate site for the sweets though along with increased in-store marketing to suit. So the sweetie status quo will probably come back anyway.

Such as on the end of the aisles where they do the share packets for £1 or multipacks of chocolate bars for £1. Yet some how I still only buy them when I feel like having some.

Yet some how I still only buy them when I feel like having some.

Its not about the individual or whether person x is strong willed or not. There will be sufficient persons Y who will view the offer as a good deal and will buy it. Hence the increased footfall positions of the end of aisle promotional locations.

Shop online.

If you want to recreate the supermarket experience by putting a jumbo bucket of haribo next to your laptop, that's up to you.