The Great 'Shrinking Food' Hunt

cazj80

dane-katie wrote: »

Not food but babywipes, used to come in packs of 80, then down to 72, now down to 64! but all same price

Pampers Sensitive baby wipes are now 56 per pack - even less!!

maman

The latest 'great shrinking food' that I found is Frylight oils.

The cartons used to be 250 ml but are now 190 ml. That's quite a drop!:eek:

Interestingly, Tesco (matched by Waitrose) are selling the 'new' packaging at the same price as the old. So 24% less costs the same! Asda is still selling the old packaging. My local Sainsbury's has reduced theirs but for how long?

ETA: mulronie, noticed multipacks of Crunchies are now 3 for £1!

sarahg1969

Another non-food one:

Large bottles of Comfort are shrinking from 1.5l to 1.2l.

juno

Medium Daz boxes have shrunk from 25 to 22 washes, so I imagine the other Daz products will shrink too - and I think, from a recent trip to Asda, other washing powders are. I stood there for ages comparing whether this box of 42 washes was actually cheaper per wash than that box of 50 or the other one of 48.

Middy

juno wrote: »

Medium Daz boxes have shrunk from 25 to 22 washes, so I imagine the other Daz products will shrink too - and I think, from a recent trip to Asda, other washing powders are. I stood there for ages comparing whether this box of 42 washes was actually cheaper per wash than that box of 50 or the other one of 48.

I ignore the manufacturers' instructions and put in about half the recommended amount in and still my clothes come out clean. I remember one fabric conditioner earlier this year reduced its washes by 1. (I think 35 to 34)I looked at the volume of the bottles - had the older one at home and it wasb only reduced by 2%.

Stompa

Pataks have shrunk their sauce jar size by 10% (from 500g to 450g). The price, of course, remains the same.

Update: it looks like they may have increased the price too.

thor

What we need is for one of these manufacturers to actually be ' named and shamed' in a big way so that others see the error of their ways. Maybe then there could real competiton between them to see who could p*ss the highest and trying to top each other with boasts like 'no price increase or size decrease'.




Nah, I can't see it happening either - These companies have no shame!

Brockyman

thor wrote: »

What we need is for one of these manufacturers to actually be ' named and shamed' in a big way so that others see the error of their ways. Maybe then there could real competiton between them to see who could p*ss the highest and trying to top each other with boasts like 'no price increase or size decrease'.

Nah, I can't see it happening either - These companies have no shame!

There is a quite famous video on YouTube about the size of Cadburys Cream Eggs. They were denying that they had decreased the size until someone put a new one and an old one side by side on TV (USA).
It would be good if a list was compiled from this thread and maybe put into the newsletter.

misscoupon

maman wrote: »

The latest 'great shrinking food' that I found is Frylight oils.

The cartons used to be 250 ml but are now 190 ml. That's quite a drop!:eek:

Just noticed this too, I can't believe it :eek:. That's such a rip off for basically watered down oil...

abailey54

This might have already been mentioned but I bought some club biscuits this week for the first time in ages and couldn't help remembering the advert 'if you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit...' - they definitely couldn't do an advert like that anymore!!