Shrunkflation

After Eights used to fill their envelopes, now they lurk below the finger cut out.
M0nica - Individual bags of crisps contain more crisps and are heavier than the bags sold in multi packs, by the way.

MOnica
Did you try in the sandwiches section for your single bag of crisps. I can usually find them there

Sorry I can’t seem to be able to copy the URL but a few years ago there was an excellent piece in the FT called the Mars Bar Standard. It took the humble Mars bar & compared how many would have bought a house, car etc, etc over the previous years with the then current prices. Quite entertaining!

DH bought a bar of cadbury fruit and nut chocolate the other day and the nuts were chopped where they used to be whole nuts. Obviously the chocolate bar is so thin now it wouldn't cover the nut.

I bought a bag of variety snack size chocolates from Cadbury every single one of them was toffee or fudge none of the nice ones so I was so fed up with them I emailed and was sent £4 In vouchers result 👍

Maria59
I found that so now I only buy a whole nut bar from aldi there really nice.

Just put out a new loo roll from my usual pack, and to my horror they have lopped off three quarters of an inch from the side of the roll - hadly enough to do the job now, so have to use extra sheets, which I suppose is the plan...

Frozen Blueberries, quietly, same price, 50grams less. Tesco

Even cat food pouches have gone from 100g to 80 or 85g. And cost more.

The difference in size/weight would probably be more noticeable if packaging is shrunk. It's kept the same but contents reduced.

"OH was observing that toothpaste tubes have shrunk recently too."

Lixy, your OH is right. Most toothpaste tubes now hold 75 ml instead of 100 ml. Except for Home Bargains, where they sell 100 ml tubes of toothpaste for half the price of the 75 ml ones in Tesco. Guess where I now shop for all toiletries?

Oh and don't get me started on toilet rolls! Asda and Tesco own are now almost double the price they used to be. Interestingly, they put a very cheap brand in their own toilets. I know, I make sure I use them each time I do visit the stores, just to get my money's worth 🤣

Yes its true about what is available at the check out stage as a Sainsbugs employee explained it all as part of telling me why things had been rearranged in the whole shop:

its aimed at obesity especially child obesity, the "mum, mum canniver choc bar". (and its caused me to pick up the odd choc bar at times...)

(If they are low fat crisps they probably don't come into the obesity ruling? what strikes me about this is how incredibly expensive these snacks are for half a potato!)

There are now 8 or 10 sachets of cat food in a box instead of 12 and some makes have reduced the weight of the individual portions by 20 g. Butter is being sold in 200 g packets instead of 250 g and lots of other foodstuffs are being sold in smaller quantities.

Here we are told this is being done to keep the price range of the different products more-or-less the same as what the customer "is used to paying for the particular product".

I recently bought a packet of luxury cookies as a treat for DH and I when we were away, self-catering. There always used to be 8 cookies in the pack but this time there were 7! Being a democratic couple, we broke the last cookie in half and had a half each with our morning coffee but to reduce the number of biscuits from 8 to 7 seems a poor way to reduce a packet's contents.

I went to buy green lentils in Holland & Barrett today - £3.49 per 500 gr. One hell of a jump.

M & S £1.36 BUT out of stock.

On the subject of chocolate fingers . . . there is a small shop on the Isle of Wight that still sells Bournville (dark) chocolate fingers.

Maria59

DH bought a bar of cadbury fruit and nut chocolate the other day and the nuts were chopped where they used to be whole nuts. Obviously the chocolate bar is so thin now it wouldn't cover the nut.

The jingle used to be ‘Nuts, whole hazelnuts, ooh, Cadbury make ‘em and cover them in chocolate’.

Obviously could be done under trades description nowadays!

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Tesco own brand cavity protection fluoride toothpaste still 100 ml.

Think it’s about 60p-70p per tube.

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Just to help with my shopping bill I had an interesting experience in Sainsbury’s.
Can you spot what I complained about?
Meant I got them free.

I think you have to buy Cadburys whole nut to get the whole nut. On a different note, Iceland dog biscuits, were £3.00 a bag, then £3.50 now £3.75. All in a matter of a few weeks and same size bag

Complete dog food from Aldi. I used to find heavy to lift into the trolley with two hands, now only requires one.

By coincidence OP my DD opened a pkt of chocolate fingers this morning and said exactly the same as you

Last week DH bought a pack of Werther's Originals toffees. They used to be wrapped in twisted cellophane wrappers. Now they're in ugly crimp sealed foil pouches. And they are REALLY TINY!! probably about a third the size of the original Originals. What a disappointment. I've been robbed of the pleasure of untwisting the wrapper and finding a lovely chunky toffee, Grrrrrrr

I find the difference in each supermarket sometimes really ridiculous. Spreading cheese ( same brand ) £1 in Asda £ 1.75 in Sainsbury.

Fairy washing powder. Earlier this year I got a ‘mega pack’ for £10 (advertised as 60 washes). Now a ‘mega pack’ still at £10 is advertised as 50 washes. Unless you see the 2 boxes side by side it’s not obvious that you’re getting less.

The size of Kitkats infuriates me - and I haven’t got over their replacing the lovely silver paper and paper sleeve with plastic. I don’t buy them at all any more and the manufacturers have only themselves to blame.