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Shrinkflation example from Which - PG Tips, butter and Listerine amongst the examples

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cakeorwine · 20/01/2024 13:06

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

Woman looks at phone while holding a box of stock cubes in a grocery store

Supermarket favourites victims of shrinkflation, consumer group Which? says

From tea bags to crisps, supermarket staples are getting smaller, consumer group Which? says.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68040610

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