The Great 'Shrinking Food' Hunt

littlerat

Not seen this mentioned, at some point bottles of Shloer (posh fizzy grape juice) have shrunk from 1 litre to 750ml, but seem to be the same price or more expensive than before!

No particular brand but I used to buy bottles of shampoo and most would be 250ml, a lot are 200ml now.

hotpot1000

Creme eggs and walnut whips are constantly shrinking.
Also when I was younger you could not dunk a wagon wheel or the larger biscuits like digestives used to be, in a mug but now you can fit them in no prob.

JAY2CAL

MCVITIES CHOCOLATE CARAMELS HAVE DEFINATELY SHRUNK !

NOT SURE OF WHAT THEY WERE BEFORE BUT THEY DEFO HAVE!!:mad:

MissKate_2

Yes... I agree. Some products are definitely shrinking and this one in particular has caused my brain some confusion!!!
Sainsbury's Raisin, Nut & Honey Crunchy Oats 500g £0.99/unit

However, I have just discovered that the bigger bag is much better value.... 1kg for only £1.28!!!
I only buy cereal when it's on offer as too expensive otherwise.
Good offer on large box of Kelloggs Bran Flakes at the moment too.

Skintslimmer

This thread has made me laugh, its not often I read all the pages.

I think some people simply don't realise that manufacturers costs go up - thats inflation for you. Personally, I'd rather have smaller boxes than a higher price to pay per box, but horses for courses. Of course supermarkets are going to do it on the sneak, they'd soon lose your custom if they didn't but their competitors did.

As for some of the comments from new members, including the outraged one that cadburys was lying to their customers telling them their hands had got bigger not their creme eggs... the joke's on you I'm afraid.

Methusela

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]babyshoes:- This is the most insidious form of inflation! I do wonder who is driving it... Prices stay the same while the packs get smaller, so the government can claim inflation is low, yet they are probably not actually comparing 'like for like'... Grrrrr!
[/FONT] sjw360:- I also wonder what effect this isn't having on the retail price index. The supermarkets/manufacturers can say they're keeping prices down but in fact they're just fooling us.

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]At first sight, it might just look like a sneaky retailing practice - reducing quantities while keeping the price the same. But there is a very worrying problem underlying this. What effect will it all have on pensioners, whose annual pension increases are calculated on the basis of rises in the “cost of living”.[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]If retailers keep reducing sizes, while keeping their prices the same, there will be no apparent rise in the cost of living. By that I mean that if you take a typical shopping basket and put into it a tube of Pringles, a packet of Bernard Matthews Turkey Ham, etc, etc...... the price of the basket will be the same today as it was this time last year. That doesn't really mean a “zero increase” in the cost of living, because you now get much less of all the products than you did last year.[/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]But the pensioners' annual increase will be zero, based on the mistaken notion that the “cost of living” hasn't gone up.

At the very least, increases in costs will be “hidden” or appear reduced as a result of this practice. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Maybe this is why pensions this year went up by 2.5% (less, on most pensions), while Bernard Matthews Turkey Ham went from 200g to 170g for the same £1.49 at Tesco – which represents a hidden increase of 17.6%. [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Perhaps its all part of [/FONT][STRIKE]Robin Hood's [/STRIKE][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Alastair Darling's plan to aid economic recovery in the UK – take from the poor and give to the Turkey farmers![/FONT]

lafayette

At Savacentre today looked for usual own brand of the cheapest small plastic sandwich bags (for responsible dog exercising....?) but the usual wide selection of styles & sizes has been replaced - now only one quantity per size - meaning you buy (say) 60 bags or nothing. All prices have increased but didn´t have time to record - will do next visit and report.

lafayette

Yeah, when we were kids in the 50's we used to put them around our waists and swirl them around .......

lafayette

Sorry, mu last post #149 was in response to the Hula Hoop posting.

stenephe

love you all, but just getting a little fed up now. Bread and anything based on wheat (hmmm, that'd be pasta for sure) has increased in price as the tractors run on pretro-carbons (diesel) and it's not really come down for a darn long time. On top of that, unless you buy organic, then your veggies may well have been dosed with a petrocarbon based anti-thisthatsomethingorother...

Alot of the hidden cost of products is due to oil (what a horrid thought) but in addition (I'm sure it's been mentioned) is that the government decided that kingsize M'bars for example, were a down right bad idea as portion control had gone crazy.

No doubt I've not helped other then to point out that we all save money by buying less - less petrol, less veggies (and just use them properly rather then bin them after a couple of days) and all that stuff. In the meantime, i'll aim at moving the chocolate and wine out of arms reach

I'm not preaching from a 'converted corner' as I need to lose weight - fortunately I know what's caused the gain for me - and i'm please to say it's not dicky portion control, but I struggle to see that reducing portion size is a bad thing - we've all become used to opening a bottle and drinking it (or quite alot over the night) or as I did the other day, eating a bag of mars planets over the day /eve, when the guidence suggested it should serve four portions. To be perfectly honest, mars bar has grown over the years at a greater rate then what appeared to be inflation, so if the company want to do us a favour by reducing the size to save increasing the price - sounds good to me. If you don't like it, most supermarkets do a 'me too' product these days. Whinge over. Love to all.

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