Roberta Barr: How to make the best choice from a Celebrations tin

From a value perspective

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Faced with a family-sized tin of chocolates this Christmas, you could simply lunge for your favourite - or, writes Roberta Barr, you could take a more value-oriented approach that balances the potential risks and rewards

Christmas, as Andy Williams crooningly reassures us, may well be the most wonderful time of the year but, in social terms, it is also potentially the most blunderful. And while solutions to age-old concerns such as gifts people truly have always wanted and friction-free family get-togethers are still works-in-progress, here on The Value Perspective, we can shed some light on the most profitable way to approach the Celebrations tin. The prospect of three friends squaring up at a recent party over the one remaining Maltesers Teaser nestled in a bed of unwanted Mars Bars and Milky Ways p...

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