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?

I'm not sure what the OP is grumbling about.

Inflation is an economic fact of life.

If this is just meant to be a trip down memory lane, I'll happily chip in with my childhood memories of Black Jacks and Fruit Salads costing a farthing each.

Either the price goes up or the pack gets smaller.
Price goes up and people complain.
Pack gets smaller and most people don't notice.

Often comes with a brand new packaging design to mask the reduction in size.

Am amazed at the packs of 19 fags though. That is cheeky.

And Wagon Wheels are definitely smaller than when I was a child.
The fact that I was smaller then is neither here nor there

YABU We're all fat and overfed.

I'm not annoyed at all. I just compare the price per unit so I know what I'm getting.
I prefer things to be in smaller quantities, because I have a small family so usually only need smaller amounts. I can see why people who need to buy larger amounts might prefer the opposite though - larger amounts at higher prices.
As far as things like bars of chocolate being smaller, that's a good thing IMO, though I expect some people will just eat more of them to compensate.

Chocolate really annoys me. There are very occasional frantic days when lunch becomes a chocolate bar and a can of coke (our rural shops and small petrol stations really can't always cope with anything more exotic).

I need a big enough sugar hit to get through the afternoon and have the energy to cook a decent tea - shrunken Yorkies do not hit the spot.

Meat packs just make me you end up using two and getting silly sized left overs.

The holes in Curley Wurleys are now bigger than they used to be. Fact.

Apparently the 19 packs of cigs are at least a pound cheaper than a pack of 20. Something to do with the tax.

Did you actually measure the pizza OP? I have an amusing vision of you sat there with a ruler

I agree, everything seems smaller.

Crisps. I had a bag of those Walkers baked crisps. There were 8 big crisps and 2 small ones. It seems this is what constitutes a full bag of crisps these days

What irks me is when you buy a kids' DVD for £3, thinking you've got a bargain but it turns out to be only twenty minutes long. Bastards!

I worked out the price per fag on the 19 and it was 2p per fag cheaper at the time I worked it out so the 19 were better value.

I wish I was getting smaller, sadly the shrinking effect seems to be working on my clothes only.

Crisps. I had a bag of those Walkers baked crisps. There were 8 big crisps and 2 small ones. It seems this is what constitutes a full bag of crisps these days

That's why they're only 99 calories a bag, there's only 9 crisps at 11 calories a shot

Coca-Cola's another one - the 2 litre bottles have turned into 1.75 litres.

Topics are a disgrace. I love them but can't but them as I feel robbed paying 75p for a fun size bar of chocolate

Topics are a disgrace. I love them but can't but them as I feel robbed paying 75p for a fun size bar of chocolate

i dislike the fact that wispa bars now come in packs of three and are smaller one or the other please!

Aldi are guilty of this. Their baby wipes used to have 80 in for 68p now they've gone down to 64 for the same price.

when they do the handy comparison thingy on the shelf in supermarkets one is price per kilo one price per kilograms (easily convertable unless ive the kids with me) one ends up being price per something ive never heard of (tod? but that was an obscure shop doing it for fun)

i asked my maths teacher about centiliters as i was confused i had never dealt with them before

Yes I try to shop according to the price per as well.
It's very annoying trying to compare price per kilo to price per unit.
Annoying? Fecking impossible.

Not size/food related but am I the only one who expects to have to sew on buttons, re sew hems etc within about 30 minutes of buying something?

DP and I are slowly quitting so occasionally get a '20' box to share. We were close to a relationship breakdown over who knicked the last fag when they first started doing 19 boxes. Broke my heart having to share the last fag when I knew it was the last one for a little while! Argggg.

Snickers bars are smaller with thinner chocolate...

Apparently this is for consumer health reasons...

All ready meals are too small now too.

I had a mint Feast lolly for the first time in ages yesterday, they much smaller than before. Very disappointing. I think a lot of it is cost, and in the case of food products its also for labelling purposes. They can claim things have 'less calories' in and fool people that they are now healther when in fact it's just because you have less.