Yeo Valley block of butter is 200g

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Picked one up at the supermarket then when I got home noticed the block of butter is 200g! Isn't butter always 250g? Thought the price looked good.

Just had a look on Ocado and the reviewers are moaning about it on there too so at least it's not just me.

What sort of size pack is 200g?! Really annoys me when companies do this sneak shrinkage. Quaker muesli oats did it too (and now you can't even get it any more)

I’ve noticed a lot of sneaky shrinkage lately.
We are paying more for even less these days.

My husband bought a carton of Tropicana fruit juice the other day and it was 850 ml. Infuriating!

Shrinkflation it’s called! It annoyed me when go ahead Apple biscuits went from five in the back to four - do they think we won’t notice?!

Anchor butter have pulled the same trick. Now only 200g. Butter is meant to be 250g surely?

Presumably it is clearly labelled?

Tesco frozen Spinach. Didn't do exact calculations, but it seems to be roughly half the size packet for double the money.
Won't buy it now.

Toothpaste. Same price (in fact my fave has increased in price) yet I'm getting 75g/ml instead of 100. I think it's shocking as it's doubling my plastic usage. It shouldn't be allowed in this day and age.

It's very annoying if you're planning to make a standard 4-egg sponge

Everything is shrinking (except my waistline ffs) even virtual coinage for roblox apparently you used to get 2000 for £20 now you get 1700 and a free virtual gift its VIRTUAL coinage for a VIRTUAL game how is it fucking effected by the COL crisis

It’s clearly marked but I’d rather they just charged the amount for the full quantity, it’s just sneaky as usually if there’s new packaging they plaster the word ‘new’ somewhere on it to entice people in, you know they’ve had to change the whole manufacturing process to cut the blocks smaller and make the paper smaller to fit it but haven’t gone all braggy about it this time 😂
I do my food shop online so don’t really notice prices or quantities, just Chuck the same things in the basket as normal and then when it arrives I think to myself ‘hmm, that’s shrunk.’

Back in the day they used to have 6 packs in, for £1!

I was buying cat biscuits today, there were 3 flavours in what looked like 4kg packs, but when I looked at the price per 100g it was different. Two of the flavours were something like 3.8kg, but priced the same. Obviously I bought the one that was still 4kg - bet they are just getting rid of the old stock, next time they'll all be shrunk (and not on offer).

Lurpak have shrunk too. Do they actually think we won't notice?

So annoying, I can cut 250g blocks just so, no way can I be accurate with sodding 200 blimmin grams. GRRRRRR.

What does my head in is tins of tuna.

They used to be 180g. Now the biggest ones are 145g.

Asda pain au chocolate. Used to be 8 for £1. Now there's only 6 in the pack and it's £1.20! Pricks. I'll stick to Lidl/Aldi thanks. Taste better anyway.

Warburton soft pittas used to be 5 in a pack, now it's 4. To be fair, 4 is more useful for me, but the price hasn't reduced so essentially a 25% increase.

Yes, Lurpak the same. I noticed it a few months back. Butter has always been 250g

Prawns in Lidl used to be 150g in a smaller pack or 300g in a larger pack. Today I saw the larger pack's now 210g, so it's gone from 2x to not even 1.5x. But the price on the price card was still for 300g.

I'm quite used to 200g, which has been standard in Poland for years and years, so I probably won't notice that one when it spreads further here.

This annoyed me too when I eventually noticed. I thought we were going through butter too fast.

The thing is though, that the price per kilo has gone down (eg from £13 per kg at the end of May to £11 per kilo at Waitrose) but that benefit that is obscured by the change in size and it just looks like shrinkflation when it isn’t.

They should have just left it alone.

Butter in Ireland is always in 227gm or 454gm blocks.

Irrelevant to this thread I know 😆

Anchor butter is the same. Down from 250g to 200g.
They call it shrinkflation I think but the price either stays the same as the larger pack or most likely goes further up so double whammy, less product but even more expensive.

Yes, half-pound or 1lb blocks.

I find myself somewhat shocked that the UK, which still uses miles rather than km for distance, has ditched the pound and half-pound blocks for butter. Or perhaps they were never sold that way!

I noticed today that lots of spreads have suddenly changed from 500g to 450g

Yeo Valley's own spreadable butter has gone down from 500g to 400g.

Slightly off-topic, but we got a tub of Quality Street from Morrison's (must be approaching Christmas). They were bragging on the tub that they were now using paper wrappers - although it seems to be waxy paper, so not easily tossed into the recycling; but the tub was only about a third full. What's the point in stopping the flimsy plastic waste on the sweet wrappers, but then using three times as much thick plastic in the tubs as you actually need?

It’s the same in the US also, sizes are shrinking and prices are astronomical. Capitalism at its finest.