The Great 'Shrinking Food' Hunt

rippedoff?

Beck's Beer which is one of the few not mass produced swill from Northampton Once sold in cases of 20 bottles for a Tenner; then 18 bottles now 15s! Plus the price has risen to £12.79 @ ASDA what a disgusting rip-off.This week other than the endless half reasonable Wine 3 for a tenner deals, not one real beer or cider deal.Are the 3 for £20 Quid doomed to be a thing of the Past?

RHYSDAD

As consumers though we have to fight back instead of moaning about it on here. Remember, every time another product messed with is bought it's another validation for Mr Tesco/Sainsbury/Asda etc to think "oh well, they don't seem to mind us reducing volume but not price, we'll keep on doing that!"
Leave the offending item on the shelf, moan at customer services, email head offices. These are the weapons we have and remember, supermarkets will use any manner of dirty tricks so don't think bad to fight dirty back.

chix51a

All supermarkets have now gone to the other extreme of only displaying joints of beef, lamb or pork that are suitable for families of six or more. They are then able to charge much larger amounts and maximise their sales and profits of meat over a much smaller time scale. I think that I will become a vegetarian.

angelsmomma

I bought a packet of snowball mallows (chocolate ones with the coconut on them) yesterday for the first time in months. On opening them I saw that they only had 5 in not the six they used to have. I look at the packaging and it does indeed say 5 snowballs but I am sure there were always 6 in before. The price is the same too.

bovysbabe

To be honest i never really noticed any changes - due to the fact my little one charges around the shop so i have to chuck things in the trolley. But my curiousity is peaked now and i will be looking next time i shop so i too can report back!
Very excited now!! :T

rmkmonk

Whiskas chunky pieces of cat food in pouches are in 85g packeys, not the normal 100g ones ...

chrisls

This is a shrinking pack size...went to Tescos to buy my usual multi pack Walkers French Fries. Now only containing TEN packs instead of TWELVE! Price the same. What a con...it looks exactly the same.

rtandon27

Though they may have corrected this now (as I sent them a moan about it) – Oc@do online have advertised the following special:

Offer - Buy 2 Huggies Pure Baby Wipes 4x72s for £8

...And the picture matches the special

...Yet the description now says:
Huggies Pure Baby Wipes 4 x 64 per pack

When I bought this special about a month ago, they were definitely packs of 72.

If you tally up the total number of wipes that are now missing, you actually get 7 packs instead of 8!!

That means the cost increase is 14%!!! :mad::mad::mad:

guiseleygeorge

Am I right in thinking that packets of Thorntons Chocolate Gingers have gone from 125gm at £2.49 to 98gm at £2.79!!! Approx. 8 in a packet so now 35 pence each, or in my language 7 bob each!! Are they having a laugh?

emmadragon

Slightly different from smaller portions but has anyone else noticed that chicken seems to have a higher water content. Tried to fry some chicken I bought in Asda yesterday and it was more like boiling!