FabSwingers.com forum: Why Reduce Size of Everything ?

By *BWLOVER1965 OP Man
37 weeks ago

My Own Little World

On the back of one of threads today

Question why reduce the size of our favourite foods

I know a lot of chocolate products and with Easter coming up Easter eggs years ago they used to put lots of buttons in the egg

Nowadays smaller egg hardly no buttons inside crisps also reducing the size and changing the same

Thoughts

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
37 weeks ago

Glasgow / London

Things are always getting more expensive to make. Manufacturers can either up the price, shrink the product, or go bust. Supermarkets won’t accept them upping the price.

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By *parkle1974Woman
37 weeks ago

Leeds

Things aren't getting smaller, it's just that we've grew up and our hands are bigger from when we were kids

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By *mmaleiaWoman
37 weeks ago

East Northamptonshire

As somebody who runs a shop, they can’t justify keep putting up the prices, so they’re reducing the size, while boasting their prices haven’t changed. Also, Tesco are buying up all the wholesalers & killing independent corner/village shops

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By (user no longer on site)
37 weeks ago

"On the back of one of threads today

Question why reduce the size of our favourite foods

I know a lot of chocolate products and with Easter coming up Easter eggs years ago they used to put lots of buttons in the egg

Nowadays smaller egg hardly no buttons inside crisps also reducing the size and changing the same

Thoughts

It’s annoying isn’t it. I bought some bread earlier this week and it’s only about 3/4 the size it was when the year started.

Personally I’m tired of being ripped off. All we’re hearing is that prices are going up due to increased manufacturing costs - only to be followed by reports of the same companies making “record profits”.

It’s my real pet peeve at the moment. Being lied to and being ripped off at the same time.

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By *ickshawedCouple
37 weeks ago

Wolverhampton

So when you place the food item next to your genitals it makes your penis look huge

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By *iscreetAndFreakyMan
37 weeks ago

walsall

They have increased the amount of air in crisps packets though

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By (user no longer on site)
37 weeks ago

Capitalism and greed

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By (user no longer on site)
37 weeks ago

I don’t know but it makes justifying why I ate a 4 pack of chocolate bars much easier.

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By *lym4realCouple
37 weeks ago

plymouth

Shrinkflation and been going on for ages though ? and reducing the size and upping the price !!! and now it's getting silly and ages ago they said they were all doing to help eat more heathily ??? ....and Cabury's moved most of their production to Poland as it was cheaper etc etc and of course Brexshit happened and ....and higher prices are here to stay as most of our food was articifially kept low by the big boy supermarkets and didn#t reflect the true cost as in a fair few farmers are giving up etc etc and soon the corner shops will be gone and then ...

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By *r_reusMan
37 weeks ago

Coventry

It's been going on for years, product size/quality reduces, price stays the same, we keep buying it.

If we didn't, we could force change, but we don't.

We get what we deserve.

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By *BWLOVER1965 OP Man
37 weeks ago

My Own Little World

"As somebody who runs a shop, they can’t justify keep putting up the prices, so they’re reducing the size, while boasting their prices haven’t changed. Also, Tesco are buying up all the wholesalers & killing independent corner/village shops"

Unfortunately this has been going on for years it’s the retail trade in general corner shops can’t compete with larger supermarkets there used to be lots of independent butchers now unfortunately due to supermarkets and more availability of meat that’s cheaper butchers shops local in decline

Support our local businesses

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By *naswingdressWoman
37 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)

Inflation. Just the way of the world.

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By (user no longer on site)
37 weeks ago

It’s called shrinkflation I have the same problem lol

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By *ealitybitesMan
37 weeks ago

Belfast

Support our local businesses

I used to work for one of the largest wholesalers in the country.

Lots of products, especially seasonal ones such as Easter eggs and selection boxes which are all purchased direct from the manufacturers are more expensive to buy than the likes of Tesco are retailing them at.

Despite the fact the wholesalers are buying these products in tens of thousands the supermarkets are using them as loss leaders.

The wholesalers now send staff to Tesco and Asda to buy the products in order to fulfil their own orders.

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By (user no longer on site)
37 weeks ago

Profit margins

For insurance say it takes 1kg off stuff to make a bar off chocolate in 1990 a 20kg batch got them 20 bars

Now it may only take 0.5kg off stuff to make that bar as it’s smaller

That same 1kg batch makes 2 bars for that same 20kg batch you can now make 40 bars and dubble your profits

They all so do it on the fly ie they don’t just jump from say 30cm size to 15cm

They cut it over time so it isn’t as noticeable

Ie was 30cm last year this year it’s 28cm the next year it’s 26cm the year after it’s 24cm you get whare I am going with this

You don’t notice it as much before you know it 15cm is standard

It isn’t till you see a old picture off the size off the bar do you release how much smaller it’s gotten

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By *ealitybitesMan
37 weeks ago

Belfast

It's nothing new either. Our goods in department always had at least 20-30 lines per day that wouldn't scan in because of new pack sizes so new internal barcodes had to be created.

That has been happening for at least 15 years.

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