‘These look nice’ cry shoppers as two new Lindt chocolate bars spotted in Tesco
TESCO shoppers have spotted two chocolate bars which have never been seen before on the supermarket’s shelves.
The UK’s biggest grocery is now stocking brand new flavours of the popular Lindt Excellence Bars, which are now available to try in dark chocolate crunchy waffle and dark chocolate crispy wafer.
The first flavour comes with dark chocolate and pieces of crunchy waffle inside.
While the other flavour features crispy pieces of wafer coated with dark chocolate.
Lovers of the luxury Swiss chocolate where quick to share their thoughts of the product on social media.
“These look nice,” said one user in the NewFoodsUK Facebook group.
“Why can’t there be a milk chocolate version of these,” said another, who was not a fan of dark chocolate.
Tesco sells a range of Lindt Excellence bars in its stores and online.
They come in a range of other flavours including creamy milk chocolate and also hazelnut.
All 100g bars retail for £2.75 at the grocery store.
You can also buy the new bars on the official Lindt website for the same price, but you will have to factor in delivery costs.
Waitrose appears to be selling them for £2.75 also.
It comes as customers have spotted a range of rare Lindt chocolate bars in stores in recent weeks.
The premium brand has offered four new luxurious options to their range this month.
Available nationwide in all grocery stores, the varieties include LINDOR Dark 70% Mint, LINDOR Pistachio and LINDOR Tiramisu.
The fourth option available is the limited edition LINDOR Irish Cream.
Fans of the Swiss chocolatier giant can also head to independents, Lindt chocolate shops and their online store to be one of the first to try the new release.
Each 200g box has been marketed at a retail price of £6.30 making the fresh take on the well-known sweet treat perfect for gift-giving.
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Go own brand – if you’re not too fussed on flavour and just want to supplant your chocolate cravings, you’ll save by going for supermarket’s own brand bars.
Shop around – if you’ve spotted your favourite variety at the supermarket, make sure you check if it’s cheaper elsewhere.
Websites like Trolley.co.uk let you compare prices on products across all the major chains to see if you’re getting the best deal.
Look out for yellow stickers – supermarket staff put yellow, and sometimes orange and red, stickers on to products to show they’ve been reduced.
They usually do this if the product is coming to the end of its best before date or the packaging is slightly damaged.
Buy bigger bars – most of the time, but not always, chocolate is cheaper per 100g the larger the bar.
So if you’ve got the appetite, and you were going to buy a hefty amount of chocolate anyway, you might as well go bigger.
How to shop for bargains
When hunting for a deal it is important to shop around to make sure you are not being over charged.
There are plenty of comparison websites out there that’ll check prices for you – so don’t be left paying more than you have to.
Most of them work by comparing the prices across hundreds of retailers.
For example, Google Shopping is a tool that lets users search for and compare prices for products across the web. Simply type in keywords, or a product number, to bring up search results.
Price Spy also logs the history of how much something costs from over 3,000 different retailers, including Argos, Amazon, eBay and the supermarkets.
Once you select an individual product you can quickly compare which stores have the best price and which have it in stock.