To think shrinkflation is getting out of control?

I bought a pack of carrots recently. Next day they were going rotten! I'd taken them out of the pack too. Food seems to go off so quickly

Depending on how hard the plastic is, you could cut the bottle open with scissors to get the last dregs out? I’ve done this before with stuff that comes in tubes.

A lot of research goes into this. Price points are so important for buying decisions, particularly impulse purchases. So the product has to be tailored to fit the price point.

It is annoying, no question, but they'd make far fewer sales if they didn't do it this way.

It's so ridiculous now. I resent spending money on things like celebrations.
At least with cakes and biscuits, I can bake my own but why is so much of the food that we need substandard?
Unfortunately, I love crisps but they're way too expensive now to buy regularly.
Which is probably a good thing for me.
If people do start to take a stand, I wonder if companies will start to go out of business.

have you seen bagels??!!! all hole with about 1cm of bagel around it, it's so narrow it can't hold any filling

Palm oil in everything is so awful. Is it a new development or have we had it forever and I just hadn't noticed??

I've noticed this with chicken breasts fuck knows what they are pumping them with.

I am boycotting celebrations this year. The point of buying a big tub is to have more than 3 chocolates in it. I swear it is smaller than the other available tubs, although this is opinion, not fact!

Stopped buying dove deodorant too. They did a condensed spray a few years ago, which was more product in same packaging, so less waste. They have since reversed that and now have less product in a big can.

The cheaper ingredients thing is a bugger too. Most chocolates taste of sadness these days, just sweetened wax. Don't understand why it is legal to call something shortbread if it is made with palm oil instead of butter.

So do I, but sometimes they make the lids impossible to remove. Then I prop the bottle up and lean it against things so I can get the last dregs. I will not be beaten by their greed!!

I've been having Total Fage proper Greek yoghurt for my breakfast for some years. About 18 months ago they slyly reduced the contents of the 500g tubs to 350g AND raised the price at the same time. The 1kg tubs have also reduced by 50g but are, therefore, better value than 2 of the 450g tubs.

A friend offered me a biscuit out of a Fox's chocolate assortment the other day. I'm a massive fan of the chocolate shortcake rounds, so am very familiar with them. Yes, the ones in this pack were considerably smaller than previously.

I always say the same thing when the size of products is craftily reduced: "Will I eventually be buying a feckin' EMPTY container?"

I may start doing this on my job. As a hairdresser I could just leave a few bits uncut-would be much quicker 🤣

What annoys me the most is the shrinkflation in wet cat food! When I was a child, tins of cat food were the norm. Now, it’s very hard to find tins of my cats’ favourites Felix and Whiskas in gravy. Pouches are a much more expensive way of buying the same cat food!

Worse, the standard size of a pouch used to be 100g. Now they are 85g. My cats did not take a 15% reduction in their food intake lying down. We noticed they became obsessed with our food, and were all over us, when we were eating! Where before, I gave them one pouch each for breakfast and dinner, with a bowl of biscuits for grazing in the daytime, I now have to give them three pouches between the two of them. It’s no saving to have to give six a day instead of four!

I think it’s disgusting to deprive animals of their food, as some owners may not have noticed the change from 100g to 85g!

The ones on Amazon kind of roll the tube, they work but not quite as well as these ones do.
I use an Aussie tube conditioner and this thing gets almost every drop 😀

Thanks - we do tend to do that with the wipes, but it does rather make a mockery of the so-called clever design of the packs - and creates extra work for the consumer.

That is the epitome of 'simple but brilliant'!

'Fresh' vegetables. Since doing away with BBE dates, the quality has dropped right down. So many vegetables have clearly been plucked from the ground weeks beforehand and left sitting in the shelf. I wish they'd bring back bbe dates.

Re baby wipes, pop them in a Tupperware box, it stops them drying out. If they do dry out, just run them under a dribbling tap to 're-activate' them.

I'm sure the manufacturers must think we're all Dennis Waterman from the Little Britain sketches

Thank you - I will give that a go!

Do you know anyone with a 3D printer? DH made me some little gadgets that shove on your such tubes and force all the product out. Amazing how much is in there really. I have one for the toothpaste too. You can buy a version on Amazon. Well worth it.

Oh, some of them are the size of what used to be kids’ fun sized apples. My kids are now older teens, so I don’t know, I guess those mini apples are now the size of damsons.

I get this but I think it’s the deceit that’s so annoying - about size, content, packaging.

Anyway, I'm going to cheer myself up with this King Size Mars Bar

Yes! I picked up a box last week and I thought the same thing. It looked normal from the front but about a third smaller than it used to be when you actually look.

Exactly this.
problem is when they change ingredients they often swap good old reliable sugar for a cheap sweetener and the first I realise of it is when I’m curled up in bed with a migraine.

when will they get the message that most people don’t mind paying that bit more for a decent product.

I've stopped buying lurpak because of the 200g packs. I was incandescent when I bought one. Now I'm buying Aldi butter.