EXCLUSIVE It’s beginning to look a lot like….Easter! Puzzled shoppers find Mini Eggs and Creme Eggs on shelves in B&M and other stores BEFORE Christmas
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Easter chocolate is already being sold in food shops across the country with nearly a week to go before Christmas, according to puzzled shoppers.
Photographs show Easter displays and whole bays filled with Creme Eggs and Mini Eggs inside stores, with some claiming the chocolates have been available to purchase for weeks.
It comes as supermarkets and grocery stores are also packed with mince pies, selection boxes and other festive-themed treats with just days to go before Christmas.
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One confused shopper, who saw the Easter treats in her local Morrisons in Farrington, told MailOnline: ‘I just thought I was seeing things […] previously they’ve been out on Boxing Day which is still madness but before Christmas.
One shopper shared a photo of a whole bay of Easter treats already being sold in B&M in Ashford, Kent
Another shopper showed Easter chocolates available to buy in Middlemore Stores & Post Office in Daventry
‘Give it a few years and they will be selling Christmas, Valentines, Easter, Back to School and Halloween all year round.’
Another shopper said: ‘All shops in Congleton, Cheshire are selling Easter chocolate, mainly Creme Eggs, can’t even buy a Malteser reindeer, they are all Malteser bunnies!!!’
A third said: ‘My B&M in Stevenage is selling Easter chocolates. I had to do a double take. I don’t celebrate Christmas but still thought it was bizarre to sell Easter chocolates already.’
Images show multiple boxes of Creme Eggs and Mini Eggs being sold among other chocolates in the sweet isles.
One shopper told MailOnline: ‘I took the following picture the other day when I went to Middlemore shop and post office in Daventry. I couldn’t believe how much Easter chocolate was out. I must admit I was tempted to buy some mini eggs.’
Another said: ‘Gordale on the Chester High Road, Wirral, have been selling Creme Eggs & Mini Eggs for about two weeks, it’s bananas.’
A food shop in London is already selling Easter chocolate to customers with still more than a week to go before Christmas
A third wrote: ‘I took this photo in B&M in Ashford, Kent today… A whole bay of Easter eggs and chocolate bars.. Unreal!’
A spokesperson for B&M said: ‘Yes, you heard right – everyone’s favourite bargain store has a decadent range of Easter chocolate now available to buy in store. We’re not yolking – and they’re proving incredibly popular with customers.
‘The winter period is a notoriously long and dark time of the year, so to help banish those blues and help customers stay sunny side up, B&M have released an egg-citing selection of chocolate treats early. So don’t feel like you need to wait until Easter to crack on and treat yourself to one early – we won’t judge.’
Last year amused shoppers shared pictures of supermarket shelves overflowing with Easter eggs just days after Christmas.
Morrisons stocked up on the chocolate goodies from Boxing Day, with shelf stackers joking that the first boxes were in the warehouse before December 25.
Some supermarkets were filling warehouses with spring treats before closing for Christmas, social media users said last year.
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