To think shrinkflation is getting out of control?

[Forwardthinkingturtle]

I’m sick of buying toothpaste in a huge box only to find that it’s a small tube 75ml. Even the ones that promise “25% extra free” are only 100ml which is what the standard size was a couple of years ago, so you’re not actually technically getting anything free!

Toilet rolls have shrunk and the quality is crap… excuse the pun.

I had a Magnum ice cream for the first time in a while and I honestly thought it was a mini sized one. They used to have 4 in a pack and now they only have 3.

Don’t even get me started on a Toblerone!

AIBU to despise the dishonesty of brands way more than the actual price inflation? Prices have risen but just be honest about what you’re selling (or not selling!) to us.

I squeeze some hot water into the bottle and shake it well to get the dregs out - usually get another two uses out of it that way!

The christmas boxes of Celebrations are 50g smaller this year than they were last year 😟

Yes, this.

At least Cadbury had no choice but to change their 'egg box' to a generic card box when they reduced packs of Creme Eggs from 6 - 5. That would have been very obvious, if they'd kept a half-dozen egg box but with one of the sections now empty!

Even if they do, though, if the paper is so thin that you need to use a yard at a time, if doesn’t help.

I've tidied up in the kitchen just now and used a good 1/4 of a new roll of kitchen paper just to wipe the surfaces. Ridiculous. Fair enough, I should be using washable tea towels or something to be more environmentally friendly, but they’d need washing with, you’ve guessed it, shrinkflationed washing powder.

TWVIII

You could, maybe, make a case for “junk food” coming in smaller sizes. But I’m sure Pink Lady apples were in packs of 6. Now 4 and cost more.

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Lol!!!!

Some shops seem to still regularly sell both sizes.

I may be terribly mistaken, but the apples in the 4-packs usually seem to be bigger than those in the 6-packs.

Tie a hair bobble around the pack and only one wipe will come out at a time 🙂

I've stopped buying lurpak because of the 200g packs. I was incandescent when I bought one. Now I'm buying Aldi butter.

Exactly this.
problem is when they change ingredients they often swap good old reliable sugar for a cheap sweetener and the first I realise of it is when I’m curled up in bed with a migraine.

when will they get the message that most people don’t mind paying that bit more for a decent product.

Yes! I picked up a box last week and I thought the same thing. It looked normal from the front but about a third smaller than it used to be when you actually look.

Anyway, I'm going to cheer myself up with this King Size Mars Bar

I get this but I think it’s the deceit that’s so annoying - about size, content, packaging.

Oh, some of them are the size of what used to be kids’ fun sized apples. My kids are now older teens, so I don’t know, I guess those mini apples are now the size of damsons.

Do you know anyone with a 3D printer? DH made me some little gadgets that shove on your such tubes and force all the product out. Amazing how much is in there really. I have one for the toothpaste too. You can buy a version on Amazon. Well worth it.

Thank you - I will give that a go!

I'm sure the manufacturers must think we're all Dennis Waterman from the Little Britain sketches

'Fresh' vegetables. Since doing away with BBE dates, the quality has dropped right down. So many vegetables have clearly been plucked from the ground weeks beforehand and left sitting in the shelf. I wish they'd bring back bbe dates.

Re baby wipes, pop them in a Tupperware box, it stops them drying out. If they do dry out, just run them under a dribbling tap to 're-activate' them.

That is the epitome of 'simple but brilliant'!

Thanks - we do tend to do that with the wipes, but it does rather make a mockery of the so-called clever design of the packs - and creates extra work for the consumer.

The ones on Amazon kind of roll the tube, they work but not quite as well as these ones do.
I use an Aussie tube conditioner and this thing gets almost every drop 😀

What annoys me the most is the shrinkflation in wet cat food! When I was a child, tins of cat food were the norm. Now, it’s very hard to find tins of my cats’ favourites Felix and Whiskas in gravy. Pouches are a much more expensive way of buying the same cat food!

Worse, the standard size of a pouch used to be 100g. Now they are 85g. My cats did not take a 15% reduction in their food intake lying down. We noticed they became obsessed with our food, and were all over us, when we were eating! Where before, I gave them one pouch each for breakfast and dinner, with a bowl of biscuits for grazing in the daytime, I now have to give them three pouches between the two of them. It’s no saving to have to give six a day instead of four!

I think it’s disgusting to deprive animals of their food, as some owners may not have noticed the change from 100g to 85g!

I may start doing this on my job. As a hairdresser I could just leave a few bits uncut-would be much quicker 🤣