Shrinkflation watch

[farmerbarleymow]

But I might make my own . . . what I'd really like though is one of those Master Chef type food mixers with a dough hook

If you buy one of these and make enough muffins you'll eventually break even.

Kenwood Classic Chef KVC3100W White Food Mixer - Kenwood UK

The Kenwood Chef classic will be your go to kitchen helper for all your meals and baking needs. The original Chef will last a lifetime.

www.kenwoodworld.com

 

[High Voltage]

If you buy one of these and make enough muffins you'll eventually break even.

Kenwood Classic Chef KVC3100W White Food Mixer - Kenwood UK

The Kenwood Chef classic will be your go to kitchen helper for all your meals and baking needs. The original Chef will last a lifetime.

www.kenwoodworld.com

Bloody hell . . . but the price of that thing . . . for that money I'd rather have one of those knobby KitchenAid food mixers

 

[hegley]

Shoppers' fury as Anchor and Lurpak butter shrinks in size

People buying Lurpak butter have noticed that the size of Lurpak and Anchor had mysteriously been reduced from 250g to 200g

www.birminghammail.co.uk

Annoying as cakes and bakes often require >200g of butter and if you don't notice when you're buying could end up short.

 

[High Voltage]

Shoppers' fury as Anchor and Lurpak butter shrinks in size

People buying Lurpak butter have noticed that the size of Lurpak and Anchor had mysteriously been reduced from 250g to 200g

www.birminghammail.co.uk

Annoying as cakes and bakes often require >200g of butter and if you don't notice when you're buying could end up short.

I stopped buying Lurpak and switched to the Lidl equivalent - it's still 500g and £2.20'ish and I'll be honest, IF I can tell the difference it's nothing sufficient to fight any body over

 

[Serge Forward]

That's for your own good - grapefruit is horrible.

Grapefruit juice is the king of all fruitjuices. Unfortunately, my doc has told me to avoid it or die!!!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Grapefruit juice is the king of all fruitjuices. Unfortunately, my doc has told me to avoid it or die!!!

It's vile - grapefruits are in the 'mother nature's mistakes' category for me.

 

[Serge Forward]

Wrong 'un.

 

[mentalchik]

Shrinkflation is going on constantly ( i work in a supermarket)...i think a lot of people really don't notice

 

[Serge Forward]

Mrs Forward always tells me not to go by price but by price per amount. Trouble is, that bit is in teeny tiny writing that I can never read. The buggers

 

[platinumsage]

It's vile - grapefruits are in the 'mother nature's mistakes' category for me.

Even though they're priced per unit rather than by weight they haven't shrunk, this makes them good (unlike watermelons this year )

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Saw some sheldon's oven bottom muffins reduced to clear earlier High Voltage - did think about buying them so I could post them to you, but they probably wouldn't get to you before going mouldy.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Mrs Forward always tells me not to go by price but by price per amount. Trouble is, that bit is in teeny tiny writing that I can never read. The buggers

I always do this too - think I've always carried out those mental calculations as you can't trust the buggers otherwise. I can more or less read the small print if I take my glasses off in the shop.

 

[extra dry]

Tiny Almond slice cakes doubled in price. Aisa S and P bakery

 

[ska invita]

Mrs Forward always tells me not to go by price but by price per amount. Trouble is, that bit is in teeny tiny writing that I can never read. The buggers

And then they fuck about, one says per 100g, then a similar one will say per 500g or whatever, same goes with stuff per pack or per half pack etc. Deliberate confusion making

 

[kenny g]

Difficult to believe but until recently there were prescribed quantities so butter had to be sold in 454g or 400g packs and bread in 400g or 800g loaves. Of course this was got rid of in the name of free trade and now we have thr insanity of ever decreasing pack sizes. The water in meat situation is now so extreme a grilled pork chop leaves a puddle in the grill pan
Presumably the water is needed as part of the production process. This is literally the supermarkets saying, " let them eat water"...

 

[Artaxerxes]

Difficult to believe but until recently there were prescribed quantities so butter had to be sold in 454g or 400g packs and bread in 400g or 800g loaves. Of course this was got rid of in the name of free trade and now we have thr insanity of ever decreasing pack sizes. The water in meat situation is now so extreme a grilled pork chop leaves a puddle in the grill pan
Presumably the water is needed as part of the production process. This is literally the supermarkets saying, " let them eat water"...

Nope

 

[kenny g]

Nope

I was being sarcastic.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

cans of french and german beers in Lidl, price went up 50p size now gone down by 60ml

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I swear Jacobs crackers packets are half the size they used to be. Unless I just picked up a fun size one in error.

 

[platinumsage]

I swear Jacobs crackers packets are half the size they used to be. Unless I just picked up a fun size one in error.

They've done both 200g and 300g packs since at least the 1980s.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

They've done both 200g and 300g packs since at least the 1980s.

Right. For some reason my local Sainsburys has changed which one it stocks then.

 

[petee]

It's vile - grapefruits are in the 'mother nature's mistakes' category for me.

red grapefruits are the queen of all fruits.

 

[iveivan]

I always do this too - think I've always carried out those mental calculations as you can't trust the buggers otherwise. I can more or less read the small print if I take my glasses off in the shop.

I hate it when the per unit prices are in different units so you can’t compare E.g. jars of Helman‘s are in mg whereas the squeezy bottles and in ml. I suspect the squeezy bottles are more expensive but it’s hard to tell.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

E.g. jars of Helman‘s are in mg

Either your local shops sell very small jars of mayo, or they're weirdly listing the quantity in mg.

 

[iveivan]

Either your local shops sell very small jars of mayo, or they're weirdly listing the quantity in mg.

Do I mean grammes? Anyway, one is by volume and the other is by weight.

 

[kenny g]

cans of french and german beers in Lidl, price went up 50p size now gone down by 60ml

I'm now sticking to homebrew.

 

[hegley]

The language in this article is really weird:

'Consumers increasingly claim that manufacturers are reducing the size of products, Barclays research finds.
Hard-pressed consumers feel they are becoming the victims of food industry “shrinkflation”' [my emphasis]

Hard-pressed UK shoppers feel food ‘shrinkflation’

Consumers increasingly claim that manufacturers are reducing the size of products, Barclays research finds

www.theguardian.com

 

[Elpenor]

Looks like a pint has shrunk

 

[skyscraper101]

Not just size, but lowering % of alcohol too

Drinkflation: Beer makers 'reduce alcohol content to pay less tax'

Shoppers have allegedly been buying weaker alcohol and paying the same for months, enabling brewers to save money without passing it on to consumers.

news.sky.com

 

[Elpenor]

I understand from someone who works in FMCG that carling is actually less than 4% but the cans state 4.1% - something to do with less duty. Probably bullshit as the person who says that is a bit creative with facts somehow