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The Great 'shrinking food and other items' Hunt
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KP nuts, were 300g bags, now 270g bags, same price at Tesco.'We don't need to be smarter than the rest; we need to be more disciplined than the rest.' - WB0
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Here are some examples of "shrinking food"
Asda Butcher’s Selection turkey mini fillets from 573g to 500g
Iceland frozen chips from 1,5kg to 1,25kg
Taste the Difference pork sausages from 625g to 500g0 -
Here are some more examples of "shrinking food"
Aunt Bessie's Homestyle Chips from 750g to 700g
Cadbury's Chocolate Fingers from 125g to 114g
HP Brown Sauce from 454g to 450g
Mars Bar from 58g to 51g
Coca-Cola from 2litre to 1,75litre
Cadbury's Dairy Milk from 140g to 120g
Kit Kat Chunky from 48g to 40g0 -
Coke and Cadbury's size change happened a long time ago. I remember Cadbury's reducing their bars 5-6 years back when I worked in retail as it was always a till pricepoint special.PK! :money:0
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ASDA Mint Assortment was 70p for 250g still 70p but for only 200g.0
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Have you noticed that McVitie's digestives have got thinner.Stash Busting Challenge 2016 6/520
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Doritos 200g bags are now 180g.0
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How about expanding food?! Carte D'or ice cream has gone from 900ml to 1 litre.... does anybody know if there has been a price increase? It's currently £3.50 Tesco.0
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VeGGie-STyLe wrote: »How about expanding food?! Carte D'or ice cream has gone from 900ml to 1 litre.... does anybody know if there has been a price increase? It's currently £3.50 Tesco.
Ice-cream manufacturers can afford to be "generous": their secret ingredient (upto 50%) to make the product soft and whippy is in fact airValue-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
"No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Hope is not a strategy...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!
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Pringles 190g up to 200g but the price is so variable that it is impossible to compare.0
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