> increasingly concerned that manufacturers were reducing the size of products such as chocolate bars and packets of crisps
How about doing some actual reporting with research on to whether these concerned people are right. That’s the real story. In hard times being concerned is a given, but of these companies and supermarkets are profiteering off the inflation then that is the actual news here!!
The size and the quality. I opened a new tube of toothpaste yesterday, squeezed and water started oozing out. The texture is now slimy instead of paste. More expensive, for a watered-down product.
We live in the age of ‘because we can get away with it’, and it’s all headed towards a rapidly accelerating nose dive into oblivion. You may think you will be, but even you comfortable executives in these companies who are making these decisions won’t be safe ultimately. And we can’t easily reverse all this.
I know this is first world problem, but poppadoms…
They used to be £1-£1.25, and 75p-90p when on offer. Now they’re £2.25 and £1.75 on offer. Someone is massively taking the piss. I can’t bring myself to pay over double the price, it’s really spoilt curry night.
This has been going on for decades. From changing the recipes to ‘new improved’ ones that taste worse to 35g packets of crisps now being 25g to the tiny overpriced chocolate bars. 20 years ago you could get a Mars bar that was 30p and about 50% bigger than the current £1+ ones from a vending machine. Ladies and gentlemen rip off Britain in a nutshell.
Snickers.
The chocolate is now shorter than the word on the packet.. The final S can wrap down the side of the bar.
Infuriating. Not even the snack ones. The full sized ones.
I just wish that companies and supermarkets would not dismiss our complaints about quality and/or quantity going down. Shoppers are not idiots and we can easily tell when a packet has got smaller, we also know that ‘new and improved recipe’ means cheaper ingredients are being used. Pretending that customers are imagining all of this is just insulting.
It’s not the change in price as such, it’s the speed at which it’s changed.
We’ve seen over a 5 years of price rises in under a year.
You can tell because people have noticed. Now we’re picking stuff up in the supermarket and putting it back down again because we can’t fathom paying “that much”.
Multipack monster munch bags are now down to 20g. That’s around 5-6 crisps. Virtually pointless.
Kettle Chips going from £1.50 for 150g to £2.40 for 130g has put me off buying them entirely. That’s not far off doubling the price per gram and it seemed to happen almost overnight.
Step 1: Don’t allow the manufacturers to shrink what they make under the guise of promoting healthy eating.
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> increasingly concerned that manufacturers were reducing the size of products such as chocolate bars and packets of crisps
How about doing some actual reporting with research on to whether these concerned people are right. That’s the real story. In hard times being concerned is a given, but of these companies and supermarkets are profiteering off the inflation then that is the actual news here!!
https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/shoppers-furious-lurpak-slashes-size-30108578
The size and the quality. I opened a new tube of toothpaste yesterday, squeezed and water started oozing out. The texture is now slimy instead of paste. More expensive, for a watered-down product.
We live in the age of ‘because we can get away with it’, and it’s all headed towards a rapidly accelerating nose dive into oblivion. You may think you will be, but even you comfortable executives in these companies who are making these decisions won’t be safe ultimately. And we can’t easily reverse all this.
I know this is first world problem, but poppadoms…
They used to be £1-£1.25, and 75p-90p when on offer. Now they’re £2.25 and £1.75 on offer. Someone is massively taking the piss. I can’t bring myself to pay over double the price, it’s really spoilt curry night.
This has been going on for decades. From changing the recipes to ‘new improved’ ones that taste worse to 35g packets of crisps now being 25g to the tiny overpriced chocolate bars. 20 years ago you could get a Mars bar that was 30p and about 50% bigger than the current £1+ ones from a vending machine. Ladies and gentlemen rip off Britain in a nutshell.
Snickers.
The chocolate is now shorter than the word on the packet.. The final S can wrap down the side of the bar.
Infuriating. Not even the snack ones. The full sized ones.
I just wish that companies and supermarkets would not dismiss our complaints about quality and/or quantity going down. Shoppers are not idiots and we can easily tell when a packet has got smaller, we also know that ‘new and improved recipe’ means cheaper ingredients are being used. Pretending that customers are imagining all of this is just insulting.
It’s not the change in price as such, it’s the speed at which it’s changed.
We’ve seen over a 5 years of price rises in under a year.
You can tell because people have noticed. Now we’re picking stuff up in the supermarket and putting it back down again because we can’t fathom paying “that much”.
Multipack monster munch bags are now down to 20g. That’s around 5-6 crisps. Virtually pointless.
Kettle Chips going from £1.50 for 150g to £2.40 for 130g has put me off buying them entirely. That’s not far off doubling the price per gram and it seemed to happen almost overnight.
Step 1: Don’t allow the manufacturers to shrink what they make under the guise of promoting healthy eating.