Items Getting Smaller

[ianmonger]

Last year McVities reduced the size of there ginger biscuits.
I now notice Andrex have reduced the width of classic quilt toilet rolls by 3mm.Still the same price. Trifling items but why?
I wonder if any other ABs have noticed any other cuts.

[berniecuddles]

in the trade called down sizing less weight of item price goes up

[bert_h]

About 3 years ago, Walls changed their ice cream packs to 1.8 litres instead of 2 litres, but the price stayed the same . . .

[BlackadderV]

A classic way of concealing price increases by stealth. Examples are too numerous to mention. I recently noticed that a lb of mince (454g) is now packaged at 400g, same price. Plays havoc with my recipes.

[mccfluff]

well its not my ****, that's for certain .....

[Old_Geezer]

Long noticed. It's been discussed here more than once. I think it is a con, they hope we don't notice.

[Jeza]

Iceland chocolate cream eclairs. The size has reduced greatly but they're still £1.

[BlackadderV]

Another example, for smokers, is that some brands of cigarettes are now sold in packets of 9 rather than 10, for the same price.

[Retrochic]

Our coal supplier recently changed bags from 25 kilo to 20 kilo without mention. When I asked why, they said it was better to make the bags smaller than to put the price up and less people would complain. Less people would notice more likely.

[-Talbot-]

I now notice Andrex have reduced the width of classic quilt toilet rolls by 3mm.



To all the train spotters I have called 'saddest people in the world' ..........

I'm sorry, truly sorry.

[jomifl]

Talbot, when the size of a bog rolls gets down to 3mm in width that decrease in size could make quite a difference.

[Khandro]

jomifl; 3mm toilet rolls? Better covert to Islam and use water.

[jomifl]

The Romans used mussel shells ....ouch!

[-Talbot-]

Simple solution






Lose a bit of width from your ass.

[sherrardk]

Wagon wheels are tiny - no biggèr than the bottom of a jam jar, they used to be ginormous!

[Khandro]

"Wagon wheels are tiny - no biggèr than the bottom of a jam jar"

Don't say it jomifl

[jomifl]

I think mussel shells are more practical in several ways and the colour is useful too.

[BlackadderV]

I have often wondered about Wagon Wheels. They disappeared during my childhood and did not reappear for many years. I noticed that they were considerably smaller, but was that because they had reduced in size or that they seemed so much bigger in the small hands of a 5 year old?

[campbellking]

Nature Valley cereal bars used to have 6 in a box, this has now gone down to 5.

[shoota]

After Eights, stupidly they still put them in big wrappers