Shrunkflation

Haven’t they just toppled along the packet out of their grooves?

Hope you weren't too disappointed with the choc fingers.

OH was observing that toothpaste tubes have shrunk recently too.

No, they haven’t toppled! They have twisted but not toppled.

There was an article in 22nd March 2022 Thee Financial Times saying that it was not only shrinkflation was being done by food manufacturers but also with the top hoteliers including ‘both the Hilton and Marriott have made daily housekeeping services ‘opt in’ for most properties, which means guests don’t get it unless they ask.’
They also quote that Cadbury insisted a cut the size of a chocolate bar was to help tackle obesity. PepsiCo sports drink bottles were redesigned to make them easier to hold, cutting 14% of the contents

Everything chocolate has shrunk and I understand that but why the packaging doesn't shrink given how much pollution it creates I don't understand at all

A Google search has revealed that the contents of the Cadbury Fingers box was last reduced in 2015 from 125g per box to 114g - 2 biscuits.

It used to be 150g in 2002!

Curly Whirlies used to be much bigger.

VioletSky

Everything chocolate has shrunk and I understand that but why the packaging doesn't shrink given how much pollution it creates I don't understand at all

I was so annoyed about it that I asked in my local supermarket and was told the expense of changing the machines and the size of ordered materials would add to the cost of the already depleted contents!

I'd have taken them around and shown them the packaging that has been designed so that there is only product under a window to make it look like more and the things like foam burst that have had extra plastic added to the bottom so they look bigger and told them to try again!

Off topic sorry but waitrose have had to move the snack nuts to some obscure place several aisles away from the crisps section. Apparently as part of the initiative to tackle obesity …..so crisps are healthy then ?

I find it fundamentally dishonest. Do they think the public are stupid?
What is interesting about the packaging debate is that they use the excuse that it would cost too much to change the machines and this would be passed on to the customer.....these companies make millions. What about them having a sense of responsibility towards the planet's longterm wellbeing!! All the extra one-use , non recyclable plastic they are using doesn't seem to bother them just as long as the profits keeps rolling in!

It's hard to use our buying power to go elsewhere as I find that planet friendly packaged products are generally 1/3-1/2 more expensive. Right now I buy some as my support of these companies but not much as the cost of things is still rising!

I'd be interested to hear what other people do.

Lucca

Off topic sorry but waitrose have had to move the snack nuts to some obscure place several aisles away from the crisps section. Apparently as part of the initiative to tackle obesity …..so crisps are healthy then ?

Maybe the nuts think so! 🤣🤣
Sorry Lucca

Same experience here mokryna I stayed recently at a Radisson hotel and they only service your room once in three days now. They said it was due to staff shortages. Obviously if your stay was less than three days the room was serviced.

NotAGran, apparently there should be 22 fingers, and I have now counted and including the one I ate, there were 20.
Obviously a blip on the part of the machine.
However, no excuse for the packaging which has 14 grooves in the bottom, plus some extra side bits to make the pack look bigger. As PhillippaIII said , do they think we are stupid?

Loo rolls don’t have as many sheets as they used to.

Don’t last as long.

Nandalot I would be tempted to buy another box for research purposes, and if it was short- weight again I would take it up with them.

Huge respect that you only ate one!

I think a loy of the moving around of sweets, nuts and crisps in supermarkets (not just Waitrose) is the result of a government directive that says thye should not be in highly visible parts of the shop and should not be all together.

What annoys me is when manufacturers make packets look as if they have more contents than they do. In the past a box of biscuits would have a shaped pit of plastic to hold each group of biscuits firmly in place, but the box would be full of biscuits, all the shapes fitting togther like a jigsaw puzzle.

Last year a friend gave me a very nice packet of shortbread. There were only 12 biscuits in it. The plastic shape for the biscuits left inches between each stack of biscuits. a shape in each corner and one in the middle. The friend who gave them to us would have been mortified if she had realised how few biscuits were in the pack.

The box was from Aldi and the 'Scottish shortbread' biscuits 'inside tasted horrible, after nibbling one each we fed them to the birds, except they wouldn't eat them either.

if the government are worried about obesity they could insist that crisps and sweets are not sold in multipacks. This week I wanted one standard individual packet of crisps to put a topping on a dish I was making. None of the supermarkets had single packs. Evrything was in multi pcks of 6 or more.

I finally got a pack when DH and I stopped off for coffee at a Garden Centre cafe and theyhad single individual packs of crisps.

M0nica

if the government are worried about obesity they could insist that crisps and sweets are not sold in multipacks. This week I wanted one standard individual packet of crisps to put a topping on a dish I was making. None of the supermarkets had single packs. Evrything was in multi pcks of 6 or more.

I finally got a pack when DH and I stopped off for coffee at a Garden Centre cafe and theyhad single individual packs of crisps.

Re the crisps-it also costs more per packet bought singly! Grrr

Only if you want more than one or two packs. A pack of six would cost much more than a single packet, even in a cafe. I do not eat crisps, so I would need either to give the rest of the pack to someone else or leave them in the back of the cupboard until they went stale and then chuck them out.

chicken burgers from iceland used to fill the bun nicely, now are a lot smaller a tad thicker, but really need 2 to put on a bun

Mars bars used to be massive, they will soon be the same size as the mini ones.

Anadin packets now contain 8 caplets as opposed to twelve in the packet I bought a couple of months ago.

Pink & white nougat bars: addicted to them But they have shrunk so much I shan’t be buying again.