FabSwingers.com forum: Shrinkflation

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

How are the greedy supermarkets getting away with it.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"How are the greedy supermarkets getting away with it....."

Greedy customers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Shrinking portions, must be good in the long run somewhere.

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By *irldnCouple
over a year ago

Brighton

"Shrinking portions, must be good in the long run somewhere."

Agree but not paying the same price. It is a rip off!

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

"Shrinking portions, must be good in the long run somewhere."

I just bought Signal2 toothpaste. Usual 89p. Box same size. Tube inside was at least a third smaller.

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By *addad99Man
over a year ago

Rotherham /newquay

"Shrinking portions, must be good in the long run somewhere.

Agree but not paying the same price. It is a rip off!"
most are more expensive especially biscuits mcvities chocolate biscuits 300 down to 266grams but price up from 1.99 2.65

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By *uddy laneMan
over a year ago

dudley

"How are the greedy supermarkets getting away with it....."

Only if you let them.

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By *melie LALWoman
over a year ago

Peterborough

"Shrinking portions, must be good in the long run somewhere.

Agree but not paying the same price. It is a rip off!most are more expensive especially biscuits mcvities chocolate biscuits 300 down to 266grams but price up from 1.99 2.65 "

Go to Aldi. Their choc biscuits 300g are 75p. And the best mcvities imitators ever.

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By *I TwoCouple
over a year ago

PDI 12-26th Nov 24

"Shrinking portions, must be good in the long run somewhere.

Agree but not paying the same price. It is a rip off!most are more expensive especially biscuits mcvities chocolate biscuits 300 down to 266grams but price up from 1.99 2.65

Go to Aldi. Their choc biscuits 300g are 75p. And the best mcvities imitators ever."

But they were 46p a year and a half ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Coffee Mate has shrunk by a third.Same price.

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By *ornucopiaMan
over a year ago

Bexley

"Shrinking portions, must be good in the long run somewhere.

I just bought Signal2 toothpaste. Usual 89p. Box same size. Tube inside was at least a third smaller. "

Nothing new about that. The trick is to make the bottom crimp of the tube so wide that it stops it sliding too much in the giant box.

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By *ornucopiaMan
over a year ago

Bexley

"Shrinking portions, must be good in the long run somewhere.

Agree but not paying the same price. It is a rip off!most are more expensive especially biscuits mcvities chocolate biscuits 300 down to 266grams but price up from 1.99 2.65

Go to Aldi. Their choc biscuits 300g are 75p. And the best mcvities imitators ever."

Chocolate bars are now portions wide instead of 4 and 4 long instead of 6.

To be fair, the bar is the same overall size but it's a ploy to make you eat the entire bar in fewer sessions.

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By *astandFeistyCouple
over a year ago

Bournemouth

Shrinkflation has been happening since the day of dawn

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By *ornucopiaMan
over a year ago

Bexley

"Shrinking portions, must be good in the long run somewhere.

Agree but not paying the same price. It is a rip off!most are more expensive especially biscuits mcvities chocolate biscuits 300 down to 266grams but price up from 1.99 2.65

Go to Aldi. Their choc biscuits 300g are 75p. And the best mcvities imitators ever.

Chocolate bars are now portions wide instead of 4 and 4 long instead of 6.

To be fair, the bar is the same overall size but it's a ploy to make you eat the entire bar in fewer sessions."

Correction. The bars are actually 3 X 5 portions. I have just noshed through two rows, i.e. six slabs before placing the rest out of reach!

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By *melie LALWoman
over a year ago

Peterborough

"Shrinking portions, must be good in the long run somewhere.

Agree but not paying the same price. It is a rip off!most are more expensive especially biscuits mcvities chocolate biscuits 300 down to 266grams but price up from 1.99 2.65

Go to Aldi. Their choc biscuits 300g are 75p. And the best mcvities imitators ever.

But they were 46p a year and a half ago"

75p compared to £2.65, still a no brainer.

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By *irldnCouple
over a year ago

Brighton

"Shrinkflation has been happening since the day of dawn"

It hasn’t. It is a 20th century marketing innovation. Before mass production and packaging, everything was sold loose and by weight.

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By *astandFeistyCouple
over a year ago

Bournemouth

"Shrinkflation has been happening since the day of dawn

It hasn’t. It is a 20th century marketing innovation. Before mass production and packaging, everything was sold loose and by weight. "

You know as well as I do that no one here was alive in the 19th century

So, it's been happening during every single one of our lifetimes. Wanna play the semantics game? You usually hate that

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By *irldnCouple
over a year ago

Brighton

"Shrinkflation has been happening since the day of dawn

It hasn’t. It is a 20th century marketing innovation. Before mass production and packaging, everything was sold loose and by weight.

You know as well as I do that no one here was alive in the 19th century

So, it's been happening during every single one of our lifetimes. Wanna play the semantics game? You usually hate that

You said “been happening since the day of dawn” which I took as a “dawn of time” type comment. Just correcting that statement with some boring facts

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By *astandFeistyCouple
over a year ago

Bournemouth

"Shrinkflation has been happening since the day of dawn

It hasn’t. It is a 20th century marketing innovation. Before mass production and packaging, everything was sold loose and by weight.

You know as well as I do that no one here was alive in the 19th century

So, it's been happening during every single one of our lifetimes. Wanna play the semantics game? You usually hate that

You said “been happening since the day of dawn” which I took as a “dawn of time” type comment. Just correcting that statement with some boring facts

Semantics

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By *irldnCouple
over a year ago

Brighton

"Shrinkflation has been happening since the day of dawn

It hasn’t. It is a 20th century marketing innovation. Before mass production and packaging, everything was sold loose and by weight.

You know as well as I do that no one here was alive in the 19th century

So, it's been happening during every single one of our lifetimes. Wanna play the semantics game? You usually hate that

You said “been happening since the day of dawn” which I took as a “dawn of time” type comment. Just correcting that statement with some boring facts

Semantics

FACTS!

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By *astandFeistyCouple
over a year ago

Bournemouth

"Shrinkflation has been happening since the day of dawn

It hasn’t. It is a 20th century marketing innovation. Before mass production and packaging, everything was sold loose and by weight.

You know as well as I do that no one here was alive in the 19th century

So, it's been happening during every single one of our lifetimes. Wanna play the semantics game? You usually hate that

You said “been happening since the day of dawn” which I took as a “dawn of time” type comment. Just correcting that statement with some boring facts

Semantics

FACTS!

Dawn was born in 1966

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By *irldnCouple
over a year ago

Brighton

"Shrinkflation has been happening since the day of dawn

It hasn’t. It is a 20th century marketing innovation. Before mass production and packaging, everything was sold loose and by weight.

You know as well as I do that no one here was alive in the 19th century

So, it's been happening during every single one of our lifetimes. Wanna play the semantics game? You usually hate that

You said “been happening since the day of dawn” which I took as a “dawn of time” type comment. Just correcting that statement with some boring facts

Semantics

FACTS!

Dawn was born in 1966

Does she have a whole day named after her

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By *melie LALWoman
over a year ago

Peterborough

"Shrinkflation has been happening since the day of dawn

It hasn’t. It is a 20th century marketing innovation. Before mass production and packaging, everything was sold loose and by weight.

You know as well as I do that no one here was alive in the 19th century

So, it's been happening during every single one of our lifetimes. Wanna play the semantics game? You usually hate that

You said “been happening since the day of dawn” which I took as a “dawn of time” type comment. Just correcting that statement with some boring facts

You could go even further back in time before money. Can you imagine a person saying to the cow owner, Oy the last cow (exchanged for x product) was much fatter

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By *astandFeistyCouple
over a year ago

Bournemouth

"Shrinkflation has been happening since the day of dawn

It hasn’t. It is a 20th century marketing innovation. Before mass production and packaging, everything was sold loose and by weight.

You know as well as I do that no one here was alive in the 19th century

So, it's been happening during every single one of our lifetimes. Wanna play the semantics game? You usually hate that

You said “been happening since the day of dawn” which I took as a “dawn of time” type comment. Just correcting that statement with some boring facts

Semantics

FACTS!

Dawn was born in 1966

Does she have a whole day named after her

She does. I'm surprised you didn't know this

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By *melie LALWoman
over a year ago

Peterborough

You two should get a room

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By *astandFeistyCouple
over a year ago

Bournemouth

"You two should get a room

Been trying for a while. He doesn't want me, just my missus

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By *irldnCouple
over a year ago

Brighton

"You two should get a room

Been trying for a while. He doesn't want me, just my missus

To be fair there are scant pics of you so how could we know? Whereas Mrs Feisty is tasty! No shrinkflation there for sure (some of those pics are positively inflating)

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By *astandFeistyCouple
over a year ago

Bournemouth

"You two should get a room

Been trying for a while. He doesn't want me, just my missus

To be fair there are scant pics of you so how could we know? Whereas Mrs Feisty is tasty! No shrinkflation there for sure (some of those pics are positively inflating)

Tbf, she's definitely the bait.

I'm just a short, grey, beer bellied bellend who likes to argue on forums

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By *irldnCouple
over a year ago

Brighton

"You two should get a room

Been trying for a while. He doesn't want me, just my missus

To be fair there are scant pics of you so how could we know? Whereas Mrs Feisty is tasty! No shrinkflation there for sure (some of those pics are positively inflating)

Tbf, she's definitely the bait.

I'm just a short, grey, beer bellied bellend who likes to argue on forums

Don’t put yourself down, you ain’t short

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By *astandFeistyCouple
over a year ago

Bournemouth

"You two should get a room

Been trying for a while. He doesn't want me, just my missus

To be fair there are scant pics of you so how could we know? Whereas Mrs Feisty is tasty! No shrinkflation there for sure (some of those pics are positively inflating)

Tbf, she's definitely the bait.

I'm just a short, grey, beer bellied bellend who likes to argue on forums

Don’t put yourself down, you ain’t short

Aww. That's the nicest thing you've said about me in a while

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By *irldnCouple
over a year ago

Brighton

"You two should get a room

Been trying for a while. He doesn't want me, just my missus

To be fair there are scant pics of you so how could we know? Whereas Mrs Feisty is tasty! No shrinkflation there for sure (some of those pics are positively inflating)

Tbf, she's definitely the bait.

I'm just a short, grey, beer bellied bellend who likes to argue on forums

Don’t put yourself down, you ain’t short

Aww. That's the nicest thing you've said about me in a while

Are we getting all mushy now? Maybe we should get a room (the four of us I mean, might be a bit awkward just you and me)

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By *ornucopiaMan
over a year ago

Bexley

(Thread hijacked)

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By *astandFeistyCouple
over a year ago

Bournemouth

"You two should get a room

Been trying for a while. He doesn't want me, just my missus

To be fair there are scant pics of you so how could we know? Whereas Mrs Feisty is tasty! No shrinkflation there for sure (some of those pics are positively inflating)

Tbf, she's definitely the bait.

I'm just a short, grey, beer bellied bellend who likes to argue on forums

Don’t put yourself down, you ain’t short

Aww. That's the nicest thing you've said about me in a while

Are we getting all mushy now? Maybe we should get a room (the four of us I mean, might be a bit awkward just you and me)

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By *astandFeistyCouple
over a year ago

Bournemouth

"(Thread hijacked)"

Just a bit of banter mate. It gets too serious round here at times

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By *irldnCouple
over a year ago

Brighton

"(Thread hijacked)"

That’s how we roll

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By *rucks and TrailersMan
over a year ago

Ealing

"How are the greedy supermarkets getting away with it....."
. It would be interesting to know why you consider supermarkets to be greedy . They provide a fantastic service to the public and Tesco have a generous share save scheme for its employees. Compare the services provided by Tesco to that provided by barristers and solicitors who are simply out to line their own pockets

We can all benefit from Tesco by buying shares in them should we wish to participate in their success.

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By *icolerobbieCouple
over a year ago

walsall

"How are the greedy supermarkets getting away with it....."

Don’t you mean the greedy product manufacturers? But they are probably under pressure from the geeedy supermarkets to do so.

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