Sneaky Examples Of Shrinkflation You Need To See

[@l.5832]

Unfortunately, these smaller sizes means more packaging for any given amount of product. Instead of buying 1 container people will buy multiples and that increases the number of containers. The packaging already is a large portion of the product value, yet here we are, increasing it. I buy bulk as much as possible, and rarely if ever buy prepared goods which is what is mostly depicted here. I bake bread in bread machine, bake cookies, and prepare my own hot meals and cook hot cereal which I can buy bulk or in simple clear bags. That way I know what I'm getting and have a better handle on the costs. PS....I work in the grocery industry.

[@lsimon343]

A woman after my own heart

[@alimfuzzy]

Pringles did a cahnge over a few years ago where they made the cans and chips smaller, the flavour worse and increased the price. They said it was to provide a healthier option... but the calories also increases.

[@Giveme100ksubs]

Change** u did make a typo again but I understand what u said

[@brendaflower7790]

You can be absolutely certain that when something is described as being new and improved it is going to be rubbish!

[@LinkTheFusky]

"itS so pRIcEs cAn stAy thE sAMe" *increases the price after shrinking the product*

[@franklinbrizzolara2378]

I have noticed recently that all tubes of ointments (Neosporin, hydrocortizone, etc...) have huge bubbles in the middle of the product so you only get half as much in the tubes.

[@laurakibben4147]

I recently purchased my usual icy hot bottle of roll on product with said item pictured on the box only to open it to find a much smaller TUBE of lotion like cream which alone is far harder to get to hurting areas 🤬😮‍💨

[@jeanramey5490]

Glad someone is calling this out😢smaller package and higher price. The weight goes down and the prices up. Do they think we are stupid 😢but we buy anyway. Should boycott these companies 😮

[@realong2506]

I have quit buying most of these products due to shrinkflation. I make my own laundry soap that lasts for 6 months at a cost of about $15.00 twice a year. I buy ALDI brand toilet paper for $2.95 a 4 pack and it lasts us two weeks. I would rather make my own when I can for cheaper than pay the inflated prices for things today.

[@Whatswrongwithmybrain]

Nice

[@ELisa-qf2mw]

When I was a kid (90s) we would go to a theme park a few hours from home once a year, and it was literally the only place and time we would eat hot dogs. I had a fond memory of those big luscious hot dogs, until I went back to that theme park as an adult, I was so happy to get a throwback hot dog, the restaurant was still there, but the meal turned out small and dull to the point that I felt embarrassed towards the person who was with me. It made me sad to think that my childhood memory had fooled me, but learning that the hot dog might have actually changed makes me feel weirdly better about life, the nature of mind and myself.

[@BoHorn]

@@user-dk2qu2wl6nno, I agree with your principle idea, but this is what happens when inflation and corporate strategy come together. Consumers “suck it up” so companies know they can screw them because they are not being shrewd about pricing. Your attitude increases the risk of being taken advantage of, consumers must pay attention.

[@chillinreptilian6751]

So infuriating! At first they said it was to keep the costs low but it’s BS! The prices are increasing and they keep downsizing!

[@Mor4me]

Just sad 😢. Corporate greed will kill us all in the end 😮

[@davestationuk7374]

Those 70s/80s metal boxes of roses/quality street would last from christmas eve to new year

[@drivenbyrage5710]

Inflation runs downhill, and most of us are at the bottom.

[@jeffaltier5582]

I had to stop watching. I was getting too angry.

[@NickDrinksWater]

I've used dove most of my life and their bar soaps have definitely gotten alot smaller i remember a long time ago they were like 4.5 oz now ive seen them as small as 3 oz

[@paulsenjohannes]

In South Africa a slab of Cadbury chocolate used to weigh 200g and costs R2 (£1). Now it weighs 150g and costs R36 (£1.56).

[@maureenm8462]

I opened a packet of crisps and was gobsmacked by the hardly any crisps in it, I could hold the entire crisps between my 2 fingers. The chocolate bars r becoming mini as r the icecreams. Everything is getting smaller except the price.

[@jimbearone]

My mother found this out when she bought her usual jar of Best Foods Mayonnaise and wondered why her potato salad didn’t taste right and seemed a little sticky. I happened to look at the label and see it was Now Only 28 Oz. instead of One Quart (32 Oz.) she was a little pissed.

[@spiritobscura]

I remember how Archie comics shrank. There was a time when the late 90s double digest became the size of 80s single digest.

[@testsubject5990]

Worst is when the items shrink but they keep the box size the same. So the items barely takes up a third of the box. Waste of packaging to give illusion you still get the same for the price

[@lilgreenelf42]

I've been screaming about this for years. Packaging is shrinking and they think consumers aren't smart enough to see what's happening; less product but a higher price. It's all about the almighty dollar. They know we have to eat and we will pay the price for our beloved food cravings. That's a given. Don't even get me started on the price of these grade A LARGE eggs they're selling us now. If today's LARGE egg were placed next to a small egg, it would be about the size of a robin's egg. Greed. Make it as cheaply as possible but charge as much as you can get away with and call it inflation.

[@darnstewart]

The Quality Street shrinkflation is worse than you think. In the 70's there was a far bigger and better variety of sweets now it is almost all different caramel and toffee variations. I haven't bought them from the red wrapper cracknel was removed.

[@joebrown2037]

Overpopulation at its finest. Here in the states its homeless folk EVERYWHERE! Resources will be scarce for all the children people have as mistakes or just cause they can shoot the skeet. Just cause you can skeet don't mean ya should. I blame all the parents skeetin us to extinction.

[@blunderingfool]

And yet we still get people shouting (figuratively) from the tops of parliament over here in the UK that we need more immigration, absolute nuts.

[@notmenotme614]

1:04 the worst is having a sticker saying “New Size!” Like the reduction from 300g to 250g is a good thing.

[@robertfarrow5853]

And instead of chocolate with distinct flavours, toffee, coffee cream coconut etc. Its now cornsyrup coloured sludge in a brown candy coat that is not chocolate. I stopped buying these back in the 90's as the deterioration from my childhood memories was too much. Spoilt Christmas that spitting out a sweet as inedible. All downhill from there!

[@sandrafoxley735]

companies are taking the proverbial - and will continue to do so until we stop buying their packets of air and start thinking that you are just buying out of habit - so much has reached the point where it is just not worth the effort........

[@StrikeBuster-b2b]

About 20 years ago I opened my first big bag of potatoe chips and noticed it was only half full. I thought it was a reject bag because before that the bag was always full. At least that half bag only costed a couple dollars because today the half bag costs 5 dollars or more.

[@Nana-Opa]

We noticed and are not happy 😢.

[@dumymariposa6795]

3:19-Say "what" one more time.I dare You!I double dare You!

[@diana57028]

I got and ad for Quality Street after the post

[@davekramer4266]

USA; There are very few 1/2 Gallon of any Ice cream Product. Most ALL Products cost at least 30% more than 20 years ago, and 50% more than 50years ago.🤔.... In the Mid 60's, I purchased a cup of Restaurant coffee for an average of 25 cents a cup{With refills} now the same coffee cost an average $2.70+ a cup, almost a 300% increase. I have a Copy of McDonald's Menu from 1960, Hamburger 15Cents, W-cheese 19cents, Fries 10cents. If KZbin allowed Up loads, I would include a Photo of menu..... I also worked & Managed in Service Stations{Remember those} from 1968-1990, and remember the Gas Wars at 15 to 19cents gal.. Could go on & on about the last 100 years. Like during the REAL Depression of the 1930's the loss of about 200 Car companies, ETC..😁🤓.... Yet there is a Federal Law on Price Gouging that is NOT Enforced, and the FTC is an American JOKE..👎🥴

[@WthrLdy]

Add poptarts to the list.

[@kwf484]

Luckily, there's not one item on this list that you actually need to buy. Save your money for the benefit of your own family

[@email6743]

Life is meant for living not hiding in a corner pinching your cents.

[@svenseike4496]

Magnum Icecream? 😢

[@chillinreptilian6751]

Perhaps, but a lot that are not on that list and are essential…

[@laurakibben4147]

​@@email6743appropriate only from someone who does have the perfect education, job, no kids, etc person...

[@jemandjemand2362]

companies will tell you how to live, and they grab your cash whenever they can. disgusting

[@1flinns]

It's the quarter pounder that boggles the mind. because if advertised as such it should weigh what is said.

[@billyhomeyer7414]

Men and women’s hair has shrunk too. Gotta go get a half gallon of ice cream

[@chrisrobson8540]

just imagine how many quality street we got back in the 70's😛😛😛 also how do you reduce a 2x4 surely you cant make either 2 inches or 4 inches any smaller also also you used to be able to get a 150 MPH jag for less than 2 grand absolutely bloody disgraceful

[@joshnic6639]

Oh Australia 👍🏻 makes sense now

[@worldhello1234]

The only remedy is to buy it with a discount or not at all. If Everybody did it, they have an incentive to change. 🤔

[@brockbaby]

Bars of soap have def shrunk!

[@cdeford]

The shrinkiest of them all: Twix.

[@kennethnash598]

Vienna sausages used to be huroughly packed together now they are free ploating. one or two less sausage?

[@laurakibben4147]

I got some recently after a long hiatus and the sheer fact that I no longer needed a fork to pry the first one out told me the sausages were shrunken 🤣🤣

[@joshnic6639]

What in the hell even are these products?

[@gasdorficmuncher9943]

cliff bar is not as wide before covid higher price

[@croiners4166]

We are doomed!

[@stanleyhape8427]

Oh please, such nonsense. Don't complain about the Jr. Whopper if you are just going to squish it flat.

[@freudenberg101]

Thank the federal reserve. 💵💵

[@laurakibben4147]

Put a stop to this crap and quit buying it. Determine the difference between your wants and needs. Do your homework when looking at an advertisement in the sheer too good to be true factor alone now that we cannot necessarily trust reviews to have even come from humans.

[@donwright3427]

Cements susa Wedgwood crew

[@kattat919]

I think it's Disgusting.. I would rather pay a higher price... For something I really want.. Give me a choice of a smaller package for less or for the original.. I would even Pay a higher price for what I really want

[@charlesxavier5681]

Bidenomics

[@egertergetsen4076]

how can it be otherwise when the whole world still give all their money to ukrain .

[@Spocklee]

music is gay

[@LordOfLight]

Too many people, not enough resources.

[@Anita-tm3bi]

40~% food waste in America so I've heard

[@emigdionunez668]

Might as well sell us an empty container 🫙 🫣🫠