Calls to legally require supermarkets to reveal ‘shrinkflation’ to customers

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1. 250g of rice was perfect for a single meal for me, not too much yet not too little just mama bear territory!

   But 220g??? It leaves me craving an extra spoonful of rice! But it’s too much for me to open another bag!

   Seriously? Did you think I was not going to notice when the packet has 220g written on it with huge letters?

   CURSE YOU UNCLE BEN!!! YOU DIDN’T DESERVE TO BECOME A FORCE GHOST!

2. 75g uncooked, I’m guessing 250g is the microwave packet cooked weight

3. _”They need to be called out on it and for shoppers to know when they are at risk of being ripped off”_. With a net profit of about 3% this old bollocks about supermarkets ripping people off is just obvious nonsense. What do they want, supermarkets to do, sell at a loss? How much less profit can they make?

   Plus all the information regarding weight is already on the packaging and legally has be so.

4. They already tell us the price by weight on the label.  What fucking use is it to me to know what it was two months ago?  I’m making my purchasing decision now, today, with today’s data.

5. Id rather they display the calories per item/bag you buy personally. You buy a product say 175g, and they tell you the calories per 100g. Well thats no use tell me what it is per 175g without me having to do maths

6. I’m pretty sure a law has been passed in France about this. I think the packaging or shelf must say if the size of the item has been reduced and if the price has changed (essentially making shrinkflation obvious to the consumer).

7. Other questions aside, I just don’t think this would work.

   I reckon that if I were a manufacturer trying to not fess up to this, I’d simply consider my shrinkflated item to be a new product, with its own SKU, and therefore no item weight history to compare to, while retiring the ‘old’ product that contained 10% more.

   What are were going to do then, legislate for what is and isn’t a new product?

8. Thats nanny state nonsense. Shoppers can see the quantity, weight and price ffs.

   Tax the ultraprocessed shit to high heaven, subsidise healthy ingredients. I don’t care if your bag of turkey twizzlers got smaller.

9. It’s not really the supermarkets fault. The manufacturers doing the shrinkflation. Supermarkets just sell the stuff to the end users.

10. As someone who buys mainly for just 2 people, my biggest beef with supermarkets (especially ADSA) is that everything is geared around buying a shit load of stuff. On items with near use by dates all the offers are useless to me as I’ll end up with too many of x to use. You can’t even buy a single pint of milk in ASDA nowadays.

    A more useful law would be to only allow price reduction offers on perishable goods to reduce food waste and save the buy x get x free for stuff that keeps.

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