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How can it be that the organic Fairtrade max havelaar milk chocolate is cheaper than the migros Frey milk chocolate where nothing is organic and Fairtrade? It somehow feels counter intuitive...
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I suspect it is an Alnatura product, imported from Germany and probably also manufactured there. You can see that many Alnatura products are cheaper than the normal products made in Switzerland. I am sometimes in a dilemma because I like to pay attention to organic and Fairtrade, but I also want my products to be made in Switzerland.
Unfortunately, organic is not always better. In the case of bread, for example, organic flour often comes from Canada or other countries, so I doubt whether this is more sustainable than normal bread made with flour from Switzerland.
The organic milk chocolate is no cheaper than Frey milk chocolate:
Frey milk chocolate: Fr. 1.75
Organic Max Havelaar milk chocolate: Fr. 1.85
I assume you were comparing the organic chocolate with Frey Milk Extra Chocolate. The latter is actually more expensive.
Frey Milk Chocolate Extra: Fr. 2.--
MFG
M-Alaska
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Hello@Claudiusbuser
Thank you for your inquiry. I think@M-Alaskalie isright with her assumption. To be on the safe side, I'll ask the people responsible for the range again what the exact situation is.
Kind regards
Tanja
That's right, I compared Hans with Frey. But in my opinion, no one gets away with it anymore with so many different varieties and labels and fuss.
What should I have compared it with? Milk Special or whatnot?
Never mind, firstworldproblem
I've just noticed that chocolate is generally much more expensive than it used to be. And I think it will continue like this because of the cocoa shortage or something.
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Dear@Claudiusbuser
You're right: there really are a lot of variations nowadays - there's something for every taste. Of course, it's quite easy to lose track of things. I totally understand that.
And you're right about one more point: the raw material prices for chocolate have indeed risen. We try to avoid price increases as much as possible by optimizing processes and taking other measures. Unfortunately, this is not always 100% possible.
Kind regards
Tanja
In the past there was milk and milk nut and possibly dark and that's it. #getting too old for this sh!t
#good answer, so full of pr marketing sound but ok.
Just discovered another program error or something: I was able to accept my own answer as a solution. Ok, maybe not a bug, but funny.
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Hello Claudius
Thank you ;-)
Merci for the hint. I only recently saw this option to accept my own answer as a solution somewhere. If this also appears for you, I'll pass it on to the technical department.
Best regards
Tanja
It's simple: are you against child slavery? Then buy Fairtrade and hope for the best (I've just watched another documentary about modern-day slavery and it was very depressing. In the past, slaves at least still had a certain value. Today they are disposable because there are so many poor people).
Oops. I hadn't even thought about the slavery aspect. It's all the more strange that Max havelaar chocolate is cheaper than non-havelaar. But you'd have to do hours of research to find out exactly what all the labels, some of which were invented by the store itself, mean.