Supermarket Products Get Smaller ... But Prices Stay The Same Size

[19 year mortgage 8itch]

3 hours ago, Kilham said:

Just bought a box of 1000 resealable plastic bags from our usual supplier. Same manufacturer, same price as in July, box noticeably lighter and bag material thinner.

You're going to have to heavier filler when you cut the drugs or your punters will notice. 

[Errol]

Yes, plastic bags getting thinner and more rubbish has been a thing for a while now. It includes gardening bags and bin bags as well.

[sPinwheel]

I've noticed my gold coins are covered in foil and filled with chocolate. Still, it's good to stack for when the SHTF.

[Kilham]

On 9/26/2017 at 10:23 PM, EmmaRoid said:

You're going to have to heavier filler when you cut the drugs or your punters will notice. 

 

I'm going to need another software patch.

 

 

[ExiledMatty]

Maybe the shrinking food is not such a bad thing seeing as many people in Britain cannot eat responsibly or look after their own waistline and health.

Ban smoking too or make it £100 for 20.

[Up the spout]

On 27/09/2017 at 11:50 AM, sPinwheel said:

I've noticed my gold coins are covered in foil and filled with chocolate. Still, it's good to stack for when the SHTF.

[19 year mortgage 8itch]

On 27/09/2017 at 9:50 AM, sPinwheel said:

I've noticed my gold coins are covered in foil and filled with chocolate. Still, it's good to stack for when the SHTF.

Chocolate? That's not chocolate, that's cocoa flavour shit with milk filler. 

Only Mother Russia makes real chocolate, using the finest Siberian cocoa. 

[/Errol]

Edited September 29, 2017 by EmmaRoid

[Errol]

Good graphics show the changes in chocolate over the years (since 2012):

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-5128597/Graphics-reveal-chocolate-shrunk-size.html

Edited November 29, 2017 by Errol

[TheCountOfNowhere]

26 minutes ago, Errol said:

Good graphics show the changes in chocolate over the years (since 2012):

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-5128597/Graphics-reveal-chocolate-shrunk-size.html

Simply stop buying it.

[winkie]

12 minutes ago, TheCountOfNowhere said:

Simply stop buying it.

......brand names.

[sPinwheel]

2 minutes ago, winkie said:

......brand names.

Stop buying Cadburys since they change the recipe. Thier stuff tastes like American vomit now.

[winkie]

1 minute ago, sPinwheel said:

Stop buying Cadburys since they change the recipe. Thier stuff tastes like American vomit now.

Cheaper grease.

[Dogtanian]

On 29/09/2017 at 12:11 PM, EmmaRoid said:

Chocolate? That's not chocolate, that's cocoa flavour shit with milk filler. 

Only Mother Russia makes real chocolate, using the finest Siberian cocoa. 

[/Errol]

Although better than the baby puke shit that passes for chocolate in the US.  Hershey kisses anyone?

[longgone]

15 minutes ago, sPinwheel said:

Stop buying Cadburys since they change the recipe. Thier stuff tastes like American vomit now.

Fruit and nut 

[nome]

3 hours ago, sPinwheel said:

Stop buying Cadburys since they change the recipe. Thier stuff tastes like American vomit now.

Funny you should say that.. I tried a Hershey chocolate bar a while back and it did literally taste like vomit (not joking)

 

Edit - Having just googled it, it apparently does contain Butyric acid, which does indeed give vomit it's taste and smell.

Edited November 29, 2017 by nome

[sPinwheel]

1 minute ago, nome said:

Funny you should say that.. I tried a Hershey chocolate bar a while back and it did literally taste like vomit (not joking)

I wasn't joking either. US chocolate contains butyric acid to make it last longer. That's what gives it that disgusting flavour. Americans love it though.

[nome]

Crossed posts there!^^

[Freki]

feels like a cycle, they will drop the small size, create a new supersized and keep on shrinking aside of the price of course

And yeah don't buy that, waste of money. Sugar is a drug people are addicted to without realising it.

[Insane]

I remember the big tins of Quality Street that we got every Christmas they lasted for ages , you could dig your hands in and scrap the sweets back hunting for your favourites without seeing the bottom of the tin. Today with these silly little tins you take the lid off and you can see the bottom of the tin.

However today you pay £4.99 a tin or two for £9 in most supermarkets. When I was sixteen in 1979 they were £11.99 being a school leaver that was almost half a weeks wages. 

[Jolly Roger]

What are the economics behind this?  Doesn't the free market create efficiencies that lower prices of goods over time?  I can understand a bad harvest or drought causing a temporary spike in ingredient costs, but is corporate greed the simple answer?

[DarkHorseWaits-NoMore]

1 hour ago, Jolly Roger said:

...Doesn't the free market create efficiencies that lower prices of goods over time? ...

No, only regulated fair free markets can create efficiencies that lower prices of goods and services over time.
Otherwise naked capitalism will ultimately shift it's goals to capturing democratic legislation, to maintain market monopolies, cartel and other predatory behaviour, whilst avoiding taxation or worse still, actively consuming taxpayer subsidies.

 

 

[Saving For a Space Ship]

9 hours ago, Errol said:

Good graphics show the changes in chocolate over the years (since 2012):

 

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-5128597/Graphics-reveal-chocolate-shrunk-size.html

 

I'm wondering if 'certain ' landlords are getting any lighter ? 

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/these_odd_dune_coloring_books_adapted_from_the_david_lynch_film_are_brilli

 

[oatbake]

On 20/04/2016 at 5:51 PM, winkie said:

I phoned a manufacturer to ask why their popular branded product had shrunk from 250g to 200g in exactly the same box......they said their customers preferred the smaller size!!!! I kid you not......from that day stopped buying it....found a non-branded product that was as good for the greater weight and slightly lower price.....never looked back.

Haha... reminds me of Barclays when they introduced flat rates for customer overdrafts. When I challenged them on the fact that the interest payable was at least twice what it had been before on a similar overdraft, I was told that customers preferred the simpler charging structure. I am moving banks once I've paid off my overdraft. I could put up with paying a little more but I'm not having them insult my intelligence :-)

[winkie]

11 minutes ago, oatbake said:

Haha... reminds me of Barclays when they introduced flat rates for customer overdrafts. When I challenged them on the fact that the interest payable was at least twice what it had been before on a similar overdraft, I was told that customers preferred the simpler charging structure. I am moving banks once I've paid off my overdraft. I could put up with paying a little more but I'm not having them insult my intelligence :-)

Good for you....... sometimes I think the companies themselves indoctrinate their own staff to believe all the rubbish they are told to come out with.

[TheCountOfNowhere]

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Don't believe everything you read guys! This year we have both a 1.5kg and a 1.2kg tin available, so plenty of Quality Street to share with the whole family.

#FakeNews

 

So we are all wrong, someone's just making it up that they are decreasing sizes to hide price rises.