Products Getting Smaller For The Same Price

[I_bRAD]

Speaking of dairy country, the shop I was at today didn't have the local brand of (real without any preservatives or stabilizers) cream so I thought I could live with Sealtest one time. Too bad they come in 473ml size. Liters motherfucker. Do you speak it.

 

[Tahoe]

Litres tho

 

[Techdruid]

CBC airs a doc this week nearly matching the title of this thread.

 

[I_bRAD]

It's only 19 minutes long though

 

[blaze_604]

CBC airs a doc this week nearly matching the title of this thread.

4 ways your groceries are shrinking - Business - CBC News

 

[acheron]

Balderson Cheddar Cheese blocks 300g down to 280g

This is a new trend that vendors are trying - blending to reduce cost/price. In effect 'watering down' the product:

Grocery chains' fresh ground beef now also available as ground beef+pork (not clear what the percentages are)

Allen's Apple Juice - now available in a blended, "From Concentrate and Not From Concentrate" variety.

 

[ndrwrld]

Bacon, mutha fukkin bacon has not only become smaller, it has become more expensive.


not cool

sounds like bacon prices here and in the States will be dropping.

 

[Ho||yw0oD]

Grocery chains' fresh ground beef now also available as ground beef+pork (not clear what the percentages are)

Convenient for those of us who are making meatballs.

If they could blend in some veal with that it'd be perfect.

 

[Primavera]

bottles of coke in convenience stores have gone from 591ml to 500ml rather unexpectedly recently

pepsi products remain 591ml.

 

[wickedken]

Anybody know why you can't get 20-packs of mc nuggets anymore?? That's like a meal and a half.

 

[The Truth]

Smarties candies..box is now BIGGER but contains LESS candies (now 45g from 50g)

 

[Boss Hog]

How much does a regular chocolate bar (like Oh Henry) run for at your average convenience store now? Last time I was in Canada I paid $2.

I can get a Snickers here for 50 cents.

 

[I_bRAD]

I get snickers here for nothing, but I'm funny looking.

 

[wickedken]

Here's another one. Anyone who buys food/drink at the cinema knows it isn't exactly a value proposition however...

https://www.thestar.com/business/2015/07/08/cineplex-shrinks-soft-drink-sizes-not-prices.html

 

[Bernnie Federko]

Bacon from Maple Leaf at loblaws 375 grams, wtf

 

[acheron]

Bastards

Lays/Ruffles/Doritos Chips (various) 235g down to 230g, 225g down to 220g, 185g down to 180g

 

[acheron]

Sealtest 1% Chocolate Milk, 4L (Bags) down to 3L.

 

[I_bRAD]

Conservative Party of Canada, down to 99 seats from 166

 

[diablo]

How much does a regular chocolate bar (like Oh Henry) run for at your average convenience store now? Last time I was in Canada I paid $2.

I can get a Snickers here for 50 cents.

Snickers has never been $2 unless you're at the movies or something.

77 cents + tax at Dollarama, about a buck elsewhere.

 

[Bernnie Federko]

Litres of chocolate milk is not okay WTF diabetes

 

[acheron]

Saputo Bagged Milk Downsizing Prompts Company Apology

 

[acheron]

In a bit of good news, people will notice that potato chips and cereal boxes are on the upswing lately, size-wise, due to vinegar and sugar prices being more competitive because of our weaker dollar.

 

[acheron]

Oasis Orange Juice, 2.63L down to 2.5L, 1.75L down to 1.65L
other orange juice vendors will likely follow suit.

 

[wickedken]

So has anyone else run into the small pints at pubs? I think it's 14 oz or something but noticeably smaller than your "standard pint"? You will see this at the brazenhead.

 

[basketballjones]

they are like half pints
if they are trying to sell em as pints you being robbed