Food Weights con

stephen77

Borage wrote: »

Food has always increased in price not decreased in weight

food portion sizes have decreased in sizes lots of times over the past at the expense of price increases
its not a recent phenomenon

Borage

brendon wrote: »

With 20% of bought food being thrown away, it's probably a good thing that pack sizes are getting smaller. I think it's a preferred option to prices going up.

I would agree with that IF they displayed the weight right next to the price

Borage

stephen77 wrote: »

food portion sizes have decreased in sizes lots of times over the past at the expense of price increases
its not a recent phenomenon

I can,t remember it happening lots of times in the past ?

Meadows

Borage wrote: »

I can't remember it happening lots of times in the past ?

Been happening for years, rather than up prices they have dropped pack sizes (hidden increases that many never pick up on!).

stephen77

Borage wrote: »

I can,t remember it happening lots of times in the past ?

I can as I have been involved in the process of making products smaller as opposed to increasing the price or reformulation.

At the same time I have also made products bigger over the years.

SOme times products sizes have changed for other reason besides price. eg health and wastage.

freyasmum

Borage wrote: »

Food has always increased in price not decreased in weight

Well you say that now, but there comes a point though when people won't purchase a product because it's reached a certain price point.

Sliced bread, for example, isn't in a kick in the knackers off £2 - and I doubt many people will enjoy paying £2 for a loaf of [STRIKE]pappy[/STRIKE] bread - so they have to resort to the methods above. Reducing pack size by a percentage has always been seen as the most favourable option by companies - the consumer will still buy their product in the new size, as much as they did in the old. However, if they were to simply just put the prices up, people would refuse to buy the product.

Also, on the subject of recipe changing - cadburys 'chocolate' absolutely stinks now. Tastes nothing like how it used to be

frugal_shopper_2

Borage wrote: »

I can,t remember it happening lots of times in the past ?

Have a look at the shrinking food hunt thread for numerous examples of the same thing happening over the last 3 years.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2394297

bambibear

The latest victim are the cadburys Peanuts in chocolate. They've changed the packaging and lo and behold they seem to have lost 20g of their weight also!
They're now only 180g where the yellow packets had 200g.

Don't seem to have lost 10% of their cost though.

stephen77

bambibear wrote: »

The latest victim are the cadburys Peanuts in chocolate. They've changed the packaging and lo and behold they seem to have lost 20g of their weight also!
They're now only 180g where the yellow packets had 200g.

Don't seem to have lost 10% of their cost though.

Thats because food inflation is rising.

Increasing / decreasing weight by eg 10% would not change the price by 10% anyway.
The packaging costs are the same for same size pack. It does not matter if you put in 10g or 1kg.

Borage

If everything had standard sizes this rip off could,nt happen