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Felix -smaller pouches?

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NewUserNewName · 22/02/2025 21:19

I looked for cat food today, and noticed that the felix as good as it looks are now only 85g instead of 100g.
if anyone has already switched to the new pouch, did you change the amount of food/pouches you’re feeding (and did your cats appear hungrier), or am I overthinking this, and they will be fine or won’t notice?

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BigDahliaFan · 23/02/2025 05:43

Our cat definitely noticed and we have had to feed him more.

Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 23/02/2025 06:09

No price change so effectively an instant 15% rise in cost for us by reducing the size of the packets.
They did the same when they reduced the number of packets in the large boxes from 48 to 44 and then again later from 44 to 40.
They are bastards who think we are too stupid to notice.

Octavia64 · 23/02/2025 06:10

Our cats noticed.

We're feeding more.

Allergictoironing · 23/02/2025 07:56

Technical term is "shrinkflation". Think of the size of say Mars Bars today compared to 20 years ago, or that Cadburys milk choc bars look the same size but are much thinner than they used to be.

As @Grumpyoldpersonwithcats says, it a stealth way of raising prices as everyone would notice a 15% price rise.

I stopped buying Felix a while back when my cats suddenly went off it, as did many others with some getting stomach upsets. They swore blind that the only change they had made to the ingredients was swapping the artificial colouring for a natural one... I reckon there was definitely a change of something in them that saved them money

CerealPosterHere · 23/02/2025 07:58

Also if your cat used to have 2 pouches and 200g then you now feed 3 pouches and they get like 255g. So the cats get fatter and we spend more because we go through more cat food a month. It’s very annoying.

so in effect it’s more than a 15% rise in costs. It’s a 15% rise in costs plus the cost of an extra 55g of food a day increase.

me58 · 04/04/2025 12:34

Pure shrinkflation, while Purina try to fob us off with ‘less food wastage’ excuses - in fact there’s more wastage, as you open a second sachet to make up the 100g and the rest dries out. They think we are stupid. Looking for another brand which is honest and still retails 100g sachets of quality cat food. Not giving into this greed.

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