Supermarket favourites victims of shrinkflation, consumer group Which? says - BBC News
So obviously we have food inflation. Prices going up. Now we have product amounts being reduced AND the price increasing - so even more maths to do!
- Listerine Fresh Burst mouthwash shrank from 600ml to 500ml. At Tesco it also went up in price by 52p
- PG Tips Tasty Decaf Pyramid tea bags went from containing 180 bags to 140 at a number of supermarkets
- Kettle Chips Sea Salt and Crushed Black Peppercorns Crisps shrank from 150g to 130g at Tesco
- Lurpak Slightly Salted Butter reduced from 225g to 180g at Morrisons and Sainsbury's
- Yeo Valley Organic Salted Spreadable went from 500g to 400g at Sainsbury's and Tesco
And skimpflation.
Changing the quality of the ingredients to reduce costs
- In Sainsbury's 'Clotted Cream Rice Pudding', the clotted cream was replaced with whipping cream in its entirety. It has since been repackaged
- Morrisons 150g guacamole lost some avocado, from 80% of its recipe to 77%
- The amount of beef in a 1.5kg Tesco Beef Lasagne dropped from 23% to 19%
- Waitrose Butter Chicken Curry lost some of its chicken content from 47% to 41%
I get why it's done. It just makes shopping to get value for money much more difficult