To never buy Anchor butter again?

[Alittlegusty]

I feel well and truly duped and am so annoyed.
They were on ‘special offer’ and cheaper than Tesco standard so I bought a few for Christmas baking.

They looked the same size as the other butters..

But I’ve gone to use one and it’s 200 grams instead of 250 grams..

The weight is well hidden on the back.

Scammers!

I’m NEVER buying Anchor butter again!

@Ourshoddyhouse 😂 I do look a bit like that ..

Have to weigh out 4oz if your scales are not g only.

There has been loads of these recently. I'm pretty sure kettle chips have reduced the bag size from 150g to 130g.

Radox shower gel changed their packaging a few months ago and made the bottles smaller.

Walkers special flavours eg the pigs in blankets crisps are in a 5 pack for the same price as a 6 pack of their normal flavours.

Uggghh, I bought Lurpak on special offer the other day, didn’t bother checking the size, it’s so depressing.

I have stopped buying nice crisps (which were my go to treat) since apparently potatoes and oil prices are now on a par with gold and diamonds. Even own brand nice crisps have shot up in price.

I’m sure if the pack size was made bigger they’d be advertising it as new pack size!

Oh my gosh this is why I was confused with baking last week. I gaslit myself thinking I messed up (usually one butter bakes two things. but I didn't have enough)

now I know why

It’s the same with lots. I like anchor though so will be buying. In this case they kept the price the same but reduced it, whereas others keep the size the same but massively increase the price

Ive had a cake recipe ruined recently with this malarkey. It’s Asda 250g packet for me now

Aha! me and a relative were only just saying that dairy products seemed to be getting cheaper. We've been had!

This drives me mad. I always say I'd rather they just put the price up!

Yeo Valley are also guilty of this particular type of fuckery. Shop's own still tends to be 250g though

Yeo Valley have done the same. Bastards.

Butter is meant to be 250g

Also beware buying Pringles in Iceland, the tubes in there are 165g not 185g, I discovered this when I bought a tube I thought were on offer but no cheaper than anywhere else and then DH pointed out they were smaller, I checked online and it was so. The tube have already shrunk anyway from about 200g

It’s bloody outrageous isn’t it, so sly. Own brand all the way now.

Guardian yesterday about rip-off prices.

https://t.co/7d9GPhKds7

And their yoghurt. Titchy pot, 400g I think, instead of 500, and bloody outrageous price.

I blame BREXIT. Pre metrification I think butter was sold in half pound packets, which is 227g. So joining the Eu gave us more butter (to be fair, there was a butter mountain back in the ‘70s 😂), and now we’re out we get less butter… ;)

Those fuckers.

It's getting harder and harder to make sensible food shopping decisions. Different sizes, different layers of pricing, do you have a nectar, how many in a pack, on and fucking on.

I actually find it quite stressful.

There was an article last week about there being a worry that there won't be enough potatoes for Christmas https://www.itv.com/news/2023-11-27/could-the-record-low-potato-crop-threaten-christmas-dinners

Anchor's been shrinkflated for a while! So has Yeo Valley. The supermarket own brands are best at the mo.

YABU to buy anything branded. It’s pretty obvious when you see it on the shelf

Thanks for the heads up mumsnet x

Such is shrinkflation. Always read the small print :)

This is really old news.