The Great 'shrinking food and other items' Hunt

weezie7

Anyone else noticed that 4 packs Branston baked beans, are now in tins of 410g, instead of 415g? Not sure when this happened, as unable to buy them for a while and had to resort to their competitor!

Cornucopia

GS.. said:

Welcome to the 1/2 size Pukka Pie 

I notice Pukka Pies used to be about 225 - 240 grams and were occasionally on offer for £1. I now notice that Pukka have jumped on to the shrinkflation rip off and created a half size pie to sell for £1 and excluded displaying the weight altogether. I'm not sure they would get away selling half-size pies to the chippy

Do you mean the Microwave Pies below?   These are a different product.

Stompa

GS.. said

I now notice that Pukka have jumped on to the shrinkflation rip off and created a half size pie to sell for £1 and excluded displaying the weight altogether.

It must surely be a legal requirement to display the weight?

General_Grant

Stompa said:

GS.. said

I now notice that Pukka have jumped on to the shrinkflation rip off and created a half size pie to sell for £1 and excluded displaying the weight altogether.

It must surely be a legal requirement to display the weight?

I think they are 195g each pie.  Sainsbury's sell them for £2.50 for pack of 2.

Foxy16

Aldi digestives now in a blue pack have gone down to 300g from 400g for the same price. Lidl still selling 400g for 31p. Aldi Ashfield farms Southern Fried Drumsticks and Thighs, false labelling, these packs only contain ONE thigh now, rest are legs, more bone less meat. Aldi probably pay less for legs than thighs, total rip off on customers.

Rosa_Damascena

Foxy16 said:

Aldi digestives now in a blue pack have gone down to 300g from 400g for the same price. Lidl still selling 400g for 31p. Aldi Ashfield farms Southern Fried Drumsticks and Thighs, false labelling, these packs only contain ONE thigh now, rest are legs, more bone less meat. Aldi probably pay less for legs than thighs, total rip off on customers.

Isn't it madness that I am thinking I should be stocking up on these? I haven't eaten then for years and tried some a few weeks ago and can take them and leave them. Possibly why its a good biscuit for me, I can easily apply a stop button.

od244051

Noticed that the Lidl Maribel Wholenut Peanut Butter has not only shrunk from 340g to 280g - also increased price from £1.19 to £1.25. New jar has 'New' in a blue shape. Managed to find an old sized jar at the back and noticed the price. This is a price increase of 35p/100g to 45g/100g


Also the new jars have reverted back to the red = crunchy blue = smooth. As before it was green = crunchy and red = smooth. I must not been the only one to pick up a red lidded jar only to find it was smooth!

Stompa

Large Lucozade bottles have shrunk from 1L to 900ml, though the price seems pretty much unchanged. They've also added a larger 1.45L size.

20aday

Nestle Shredded Wheat have shrunk from 750g to 720g.

Sapindus

Tesco proudly announced they'd reduced the packaging on their cheese a while ago.  The shape of the blocks had changed.  They were also about 50g smaller, for the same price... I still had part of an old pack in the fridge.  I was too jaded and cynical to complain.