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Wrights Traditional soap - shrinkflation?

soundgeek
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edited 18 September at 4:32PM in Food shopping & groceries
I recently bought a new bar of this soap (I lost the price!) & I notice the shape of the has changed - it is concave on the underside. The package looks the same, but the weight has reduced from 125g to 100g.

Is this a new product in addition to the 125g bar or is it shrinkflation or what?

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  • Muttleythefrog
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    I think you might have posted in the wrong section....this is for Benefits and Tax Credits so I'll report it only so it can be moved to suitable section
    "Do not attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by incompetence" - rogerblack
  • Rodders53
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    I use https://www.trolley.co.uk/search/?from=search&q=wrights to check prices of stuff. 
    There are both 100g and 125g bars on offer there - from the same store (Boots) even!
  • soundgeek
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    edited 20 September at 4:03PM
    Thanks for the link Rodders53.

    Looking at Boots prices via your link, the 125g bar is 68p/100g and the 100g bar is 80p, so a 17.6% rise in price per 100g. Looks like shrinkflation.

    Tesco seems to have switched to the 100g bar.
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