Stealth Shrinking Products

[azuleja]

I got out a packet of Balhsen Choco Leibniz biscuits earlier to give the kids (3 of them). This usually works perfectly because there are 3 sets of 3 so they can each have 3 with no arguments “she got more than me” etc.

However I’ve just noticed that, while the packaging has remained the same size from the outside, they have changed the inner so that it only houses eight biscuits which are now sloping, not stacked.

I feel cheated. Just put the price up a few pence - why reduce the number of biscuits?
What else have they done this with, possibly without my knowledge?

That is a really sneaky move OP.

Atm we are extremely annoyed by the recent shrinkage of Jordan's Frusli cereal bars. Still the same number in the box but each bar is noticeably smaller.

And actually this does matter. My DS eats one after his run and he also carries them with him as back up as he has Type 1 diabetes. He would actually have preferred either a price increase or them remain the same size but one less in the box.

It's the underhand way these changes are introduced that is really annoying though.

I am also upset that clubs and some other chocolate bars don't have chocolate on them now. (Aldi alternative has proper chocolate)

Never quite got over the shrinkage of Jaffa cakes

I opened a packet of Chipsticks the other night and they were more like Walkers French Fries.

I put 3 together in my hand and showed my DC that they would've made one Chipstick years ago.

Packs of butter. Sometimes you think ‘that’s a bit cheaper ’, then notice that the price per kg is high, then that the pack is 200g not 250. 80% of the size, not 80% of the price. Swiz, yet perfectly legal.

Misleading customers is not a good marketing move.

This is particularly annoying when it's for baking! My recipe isn't going to suddenly require 20% less butter!

The butter thing is really annoying. I could always cut to the correct weight near enough.