Groceries 'shrinking'

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<p>From a news article: Grocery Shrink - You would notice if your candy bars went up $.50, but maybe you didn’t notice that they went from 10-count to 8-count and, now, 6-count packages. Brands are shrinking the size of their products without changing the price, to make more money off your purchase.</p>

<p>Even Costco is doing this. 6 weeks ago 36 rolls of TP was $14. Yesterday, it is now 30 rolls (same size rolls), for the same $14. That is quite a “shrink” </p>

<p>Anyone else noticing items “shrinking” without a price adjustment?</p>

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<p>No, I never realized that! I’m gonna look out the next time I go grocery shopping.</p>

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<p>Coffee packages have been shrinking for a few years now.</p>

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<p>I think some cereal boxes are shrinking. Also ice cream. Remember when we used to get a half gallon box/tub of ice cream? Now you get 1.75 qt. unless you buy Bluebell.</p>

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<p>This has been going on for years. Toilet paper is smaller (I’m talking about the size of the squares as well as the amount of tissue on a roll) than it used to be; paper towels come on tiny rolls - what used to be an ordinary roll is now a ‘mega’ roll; cereal boxes are the same height but less deep; a regular Kleenex is now smaller and rougher than it used to be - you have to get the “ultra-soft” (and of course more expensive) kind for it to feel remotely the same as it used to. I could go on and on. [The</a> Incredible Shrinking Toilet Paper Roll](<a href=“Welcome phlmetropolis.com - BlueHost.com”>Welcome phlmetropolis.com - BlueHost.com)</p>

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<p>sugar used to be standard 5 pound bags, now they hold only 4 pounds at the old 5 pound price.</p>

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<p>Oh yes, Booklady, I know it’s been going on for years (I saw it with tuna cans), but 6 rolls of TP, gone in 6 weeks, is a very big difference. And the rolls are the same size, so there was no ‘shrinking’ there. I happened to have the last packaging so was able to compare.</p>

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<p>I have definitely noticed the shrinkage! In addition to the sugar, the orange juice I buy went from 64 oz to 56 oz. Good luck trying to find a cube of Kleenex with 100 tissues any more! I recall reading something about this awhile ago, but feel more manufacturers have jumped on the bandwagon recently.</p>

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<p>Case of your soda is now 20 cans instad of 24</p>

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<p>I buy frozen edamame and a serving size of 6 was always 2.29 and you could get it on sale for 1.99. It is now 2.69 and the servings per pack are 4.5. I also never see it on sale.</p>

<p>I checked soy bean prices and it looks to me that on the exchange the price is lower so I have no idea why the price went up.</p>

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<p>HAH!
I thought this was going to be another “empty nest” thread, along the lines of “Have you noticed how much less food you buy with the kids out of the house?”
In our house, with 2 d’s gone, it is amaaaazing how little food we need to buy… I imagine it is even more extreme with sons.</p>

<p>Super size me vs. shrink it and charge the same: both ARE trends!</p>

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<p>Can sizes have shrunk too. If you read an old recipe book it will tell you to use a 32oz can of tomatoes, now I think they’re 26.5 oz. </p>

<p>It’s the way to not raise prices and hope the consumer doesn’t notice.</p>

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<p>“It’s the way to not raise prices and hope the consumer doesn’t notice.”</p>

<p>Well I noticed, and I am not happy about it.</p>

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<p>I noticed last week that the Kleenex were a good 1/2" or 3/4" shorter than the box now. And the new TP is on a tube wider than the old batch.</p>

<p>I don’t really object to cutting sizes instead of raising prices, but putting less in the same size package means increased costs for transport and storage of the same amount of product. Stupid waste of energy trying to fool the consumer.</p>

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<p>As a hardcore coffee drinker for decades it was quite funny to watch the standard can shrink and shrink down to cake frosting can size, then the mini-cans disappeared altogether and we got the larger cans, repeat, and now the large cans are shrinking too.</p>

<p>Ice cream containers are outright laughable these days - some are very narrow but keep the same profile… Like I won’t notice the Z-dimension…</p>

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<p>Laundry detergent too.</p>

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<p>You got me thinking – this trend is inflation. But it’s masked and doesn’t show up in the CPI.</p>

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<p>I bought elf cookies the other day and the package was so light. I think it is now 12 oz.</p>

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<p>They have several tactics they do. The products get smaller, multipacks contain fewer items. Then after a while, they come out with a new supersize so you’ll pay a higher price. Then the shrinking cycle begins again.</p>

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<p>Just whom do they think there are fooling? Andy Rooney used to do a story on this topic about every 5 years or so.</p>

<p>In my opinion, the most galling examples are the “no-pint” pint of Ice Cream (this means you Hagen Daaz); the 7oz bag of potato chips that is now 3 oz (well okay, it wasn’t overnight, it took them a few years); and the 59oz “half-gallon” of Orange Juice. Crooks.</p>

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<p>^^ Just had a discussion this afternoon, did you know Costco Croissant used to cost $2.99/12? Now it is $5.99… Any kind of Fish was uner $10/bag, now it is 16.95 or so. We had a some what 50-100% inflation on our grocery bill and we are not complaining…dumb a**</p>