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!

Shrinkflation is one thing, outright theft is another. I bought a box of eye masks the other day, 25 in a box, off Amazon. Bestseller, over 25,000 reviews and over 4.5 *. There were 24 in the box (counted as there was an empty slot in the tray).

Has also happened with tampons and pads.

The time and effort required to go back and argue that one was missing, knowing they won’t believe you, just isn’t worth it.

I don’t count anything now. Not worth the energy spent on getting angry.

YANBU. So fucking tired of companies taking the piss.

I got caught out exactly the same a couple of weeks ago. Completely mucked up my massive baking schedule for 8 huge sponges.

Waitrose is the worst culprit for this. One product priced 4 different ways. Per unit , per kilogram, by grams and another by wash. They are still crooks like every other supermarket, just in a shiny suit.

I grew up eating anchor butter, then for reasons only known to my mother, she chose to eat st ivels gold instead. I have never come across anything as rank as that. We protested so much that she got us flora instead.
Now I find anchor too salty.

It's the same as all the chocolate things in Poundland! They are smaller. You need to read and check.

wish it was the same for fruit - some in gs some in kgs - some in per fruit,.

There should be a standard all shops have to stick to.

To be slightly fair, yes Yeo has reduced its block size to 200g but it also reduced didn't increase the price. Once I noticed I - sad git - stood there working out the cost per 100g for a range of butters and Yeo ended up as about the same as everyone else. I guess they're counting on people just looking at the price, not the quantity, so I suppose they're still sneaky bastards.

Kerrygold comes in 200g in my local cornershops :\

I only ever buy Kerrygold

And this is the problem. Lots of UK recipes are based around 8oz. It means you'd have to buy two packs of butter.

I can't help thinking that this might well be deliberate, as a third way to steal a march on their customers.

As well as lower quantities of product per se, and increased prices on top of that, they know that you will now need to buy more packs. Thus, regardless of the increased price and smaller amount in the packet, they hope to sell 400g of butter to customers who would otherwise have only bought 250g.

And like with the bizarre 23 Quorn nuggets in a pack, if you never completely finish a pack (i.e. you have 5 left, when everybody has 6), what are you going to do but have to buy another pack to get the 'missing one' - and on it goes.

I can't see most of them simply halving the size/quantity of most products, as then, people would just buy two of them, thus they don't wrest any extra unplanned and unwanted sales out of them.

Oh.My.God 😱

Not even being sarcastic. That's terrible! I'm not going buy it either.

YANBU.

I've also boycotted Heinz.

Dolce gusto coffee pods - latte has 8 drinks (16 pods) in a box. Saw them reasonably priced so bought a couple of boxes, found out later theres now only 6 drinks in a box! Bloody bar stewards!!!🤬

To be fair in this scenario, unless your gran is very young, I doubt that her recipes (maybe handed down from her mum/gran) will be using grams!

This has happened to so many things now. We are being ripped off every day. Makes me sad, and also angry.

There's no point in boycotting any specific brands purely based on their devious shrinking of packets, as they will all be doing it in a matter of time - even the own brands.

They'll probably also add insult to injury by citing the fact that shoppers are now universally preferring to choose the 200g packs as justification for it - rather than the 250g packs that they now cannot actually buy!

It's particularly annoying as lots of recipes are based on American sticks and a stick used to be exactly half a pack. And my butter dish is just the right size for a slice off a 250g block.

And my butter dish is just the right size for a slice off a 250g block.

Before long, they'll start exclusively manufacturing smaller butter dishes as well - and then we'll all soon realise how dreadfully remiss and foolish we were to ever forget that we've always been friends with Eurasia and always hated Oceania

I said similar about mince now normally being 400g instead of 500 and recipes are usually 500g or 1kg.
Nobody agreed then

I couldn't eat anything but anchor

I moved frpm lurpack to president quite recently, when i noticed the tiny lurpacks. I actually prefer president. Its all cream, no oil.

@Graasspp this makes so much sense. I wondered why suddenly i was getting three normal portions and one for a mouse rather than 4 full portions from a box of mince

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All of you need to email corporate office! The more complaints, the higher likelihood of the company backing off.