Shrinkflation
- Thread starter PeteXXX
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- Location
- Glasgow
You made me go check my tube!
I always buy Acquafresh from Home Bargains for £0.99.
Mine is still 100 ml - I also checked the most recent bought tube, last week it was bought.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
I bet the cardboard box is the same size as the previous one's.
I'd pop back & buy a trolleyfull.. Quickly!
The box is smaller, too. I thought it looked different but it wasn't until the eagle eyed MrsPete spotted it when I got back from B&M!
- Location
- Glasgow
I'm pretty sure there are 2 sizes of toothpaste tubes, 75ml and 100ml.
I don't buy the small ones, not sure how much they are here.
I'll check for you next time I'm in Home Bargains
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- The Urban Fringe
What annoys me is the rampant bollards the companies trot out to justify this.
Some years back Mars came oit with a dusey, about their shrinking sizes being their response to "the fight against obesity." Really? From a firm that does nothing but make people fat?
I wouldnt mind if they were honest and said, "we're simply maximising our profits in a high inflation commercial environment", but its the excuses, the deceptive packaging, etc, that make it so unseemly.
Some years back Mars came oit with a dusey, about their shrinking sizes being their response to "the fight against obesity." Really? From a firm that does nothing but make people fat?
I wouldnt mind if they were honest and said, "we're simply maximising our profits in a high inflation commercial environment", but its the excuses, the deceptive packaging, etc, that make it so unseemly.
Greggs in the square in Otley did a bacon butty and coffee before 11-00 about five years ago,it was a superb deal,and the girls were run off their feet it was so popular,Otley being a great place.Well someone brought the hour to 10-00 which wiped me out it was too early to eat that at that time. I have just checked Greggs website and its back to 11-00,a great deal if anyone fancies one.
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teeonethousand
Veteran
Best example IMHO is shaving some product off the OXO cube to make it look like an X. Very clever indeed
Spurs have brought out a stockcube,calling it a laughing stock.
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
Terry's Chocolate Oranges - when the segment shape changed from a solid wedge to having a small gap between each segment a few years ago.
Something similar happened with Toblerones when they increased the gap between the pieces so you got fewer pieces in each bar.
Something similar happened with Toblerones when they increased the gap between the pieces so you got fewer pieces in each bar.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
It's even worse than I thought!! 😔