The Great 'Shrinking Food' Hunt

fionajbanana

I say 8 times out of 10, when a company changes their design on the packaging, they normally reduce the size!

Take the latest Doritos for a moment. Mullerlight also did the same when they reduced their pots.

If you see two designs in the shop at the same time, look at both.

terra_ferma

fionajbanana wrote: »

I say 8 times out of 10, when a company changes their design on the packaging, they normally reduce the size!

Take the latest Doritos for a moment. Mullerlight also did the same when they reduced their pots.

If you see two designs in the shop at the same time, look at both.

There seems to be a cycle, I believe they find a size range customers are happy with, then they go down bit by bit, in order to 'hide' price increases. When they get at the bottom and can't go any lower without getting silly and people stop buying, the go up again (with 'BIGGER SIZE' written all over it and higher price per unit) and start all over again.

MavisTheMaven

Tesco Finest Bacon, the slices are now so thin I'm going to refer to them as a 'membrane' - they are like, one cell thick.

The pack size was 250g and is currently 240g, but I swear they used to be thicker than this.

The only thing 'finer' about them is the size the slicer was set at. Save your money, seriously.

fionajbanana

terra_ferma wrote: »

There seems to be a cycle, I believe they find a size range customers are happy with, then they go down bit by bit, in order to 'hide' price increases. When they get at the bottom and can't go any lower without getting silly and people stop buying, the go up again (with 'BIGGER SIZE' written all over it and higher price per unit) and start all over again.

One product that springs to mind when I saw this..........

Pringles

funnyguy

Noticed in poundland today that 15 m [300ml size] foil is starting to come in packs of 12 m.So stock up if you are a regular buyer.

Esoog

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but I swear gravy containers (Bisto/Aunt Bessies) ie the 'tubs' have shrunk!

lufoo7

Cadbury dairy milk standard bars are now a new shape but also 20% lighter, my daughters friend just did a uni project on this sort of thing

Poppy9

OH reckons there is less tea in each tea bag now. He is the tea maker in this house and reckons that he needs 1 extra t-bag per pot to make a decent cuppa than he did a few months ago.

Anyone else noticed?

Money_maker

I work in peoples homes and notice that some tea bags are much, much stronger than others. Perhaps its time to change brand.

Poppy9

Money_maker wrote: »

I work in peoples homes and notice that some tea bags are much, much stronger than others. Perhaps its time to change brand.

We tend to buy Tesco's own unless PG or Tetley is cheaper due to offer. OH reckons it's same with them all.

We live in soft water area and I can't tell difference between brands!