AIBU to be annoyed things are getting smaller or is it just something we should expect with time?

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A dominoes 12" pizza is now an 11" pizza

Some 20 packets of cigarettes now only have 19 cigarettes

Mars Bars have shrunk

And Coronation Street used to give you about 27 mins of actual programme. Tonight the advert break started at 7.37pm...7 mins after the actual progamme started!

I want my money's worth and think we are getting conned on a grand scale

Stop pretending you are giving value for money by shrinking everything and think we will not notice.

My question is, what would you prefer a shrinking product with a small increase in price or the actual thing you are used to with a slightly higher price increase?

Diminished junk food fags and soaps, isn't that a good thing? :o

point well made! But I like them and don't want them to try and trick me

That's what I thought too!!

Don't be ridiculous Suzanne

You can't say you're not tempted.

How are they tricking you though?

tampax used to come in a box of 10 but are now boxes of 8.

Obviously I am feeling hard done by because I am obviously the only woman in the world whose periods have not got shorter.

Yanbu.

This annoys me with packets of mince. I used to be able to get 500g of the type of mince I like at our local supermarket, now it's the same price for 400g.

I'd rather be charged more and still be able to get the same number of meals without having to go easy on the Bol in a spag Bol.

It really annoys me.

What gets my goat is packs of razor blades.. say Gillette for example. You used to get 4, now it's 3, yet they've still left the space for the fourth one which is just rubbing salt in the wound.

tricked as in I can't help think the actual value to the consumer is diminishing and the profit margins are getting larger for the companies rather than just steady price increases in line with inflation

I think if you could spend the equivalent of £100 in 1979 you'd get more for your money than in 2014?

But then sometimes I think you wouldn't...so i don't actually know hence pondering matter on a Friday night

YANBU, adverts that start in the first ten minuets of a programme drive me bonkers.

19 cigs in a box has caught me out as well. Although it's probably a good thing.

tbh I think many things are cheaper, relative to income, people seem to be able to afford more stuff than when I was a child in the 70's, oh for sure cream eggs were bigger and crossroads was compulsive viewing for everyones mum.

Im sure I bought far fewer items of clothing as a teenager than my kids did

That's an interesting point re the clothes. It's because of cheap slave labour in sweatshops abroad that has brought clothing prices down

I do sometimes wonder how a Supermarket can sell a t-shirt for £2 and still make a profit

cheap labour and cheap shipping, more efficient production methods.
A pair of jeans was about a months pocket money back then, records sound systems, all expensive, imagine taking an ipod back to 1972, they'd think it was from an alien spaceship.
In terms of material things and gadgets we have so much more, but affording a roof over your head is an entirely different matter!

I will add to your list...clothes with teeny hems and cheap fabric, sleeveless etc.

I think it's a mix between people wanting to buy things but having lower disposable income (recession), and the costs of materials increasing.

You do still have a choice though, so avoid those things that annoy you.

I thought you were messing with the 19 fags instead of 20

Cheeky fuckers.

Regarding clothes, I'm not convinced they are cheaper in the long run. The cheapo clothes look worn after a wash or two and I have had clothes unravel after only a couple of wears. I now spend a bit more and try to avoid the ones made in cheapo countries. It's more expensive upfront, but about the same in the long term and I look like less of a tramp

'I thought you were messing with the 19 fags instead of 20
Cheeky fuckers.'

I agree that is against nature, we are evolutionary hard wired for packs of 5, 10, or 20, on account of our fingers and toes

OCD + packet of 20 fags with only 19 in it = catastrophe.

I thought I had lost the ability to count but there it was in teeny tiny writing on the side. 19

M & Ms used to be come in 55g bags, now they're 44g. It's not enough!

Didn't they start selling 16 or 18 packs of fags in pub cigarette machines years ago? Something to do with keeping the price round.

Vending machines did this yes ...less cigarettes in your packet

But that was for drunk/desparate people at the end of a night when no shops were open and I did in the past pay my $5 for 18 cigarettes

and always mourned the injustice of it all

Tracker bars. Have you seen size of bloody Tracker bars??

Suzannewithaplan You are right about shipping having become cheaper. Some of us remember how the Dinosaur Dockers tried to to resist containerisation - they lost and everything we import became cheaper. Good thing too.

It annoys me because it feels dishonest. I know it isn't; the packages are clearly marked what size they are. But here, things like cereal have stayed the same price, and the boxes have shrunk. We're used to things staying the same size, and prices increasing over time. Doing it this way seems wrong somehow.