Our Groceries Are Quietly Shrinking
Check out the Chewy Chips Ahoy cookies in the red package. The packaging is much more flimsy than a year ago, and the cookies have noticeably shrunk in diameter. Boo!
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Our Groceries Are Quietly Shrinking
I've also noticed a similar trend with our bakeries around town: cookies and muffins remain the same price but are much smaller than they were a few months ago. So it's not just limited to grocery stores....many local food merchants are feeling the pinch of food prices and passing that along to consumers.
Our Groceries Are Quietly Shrinking
I wondered why I no longer get 2 rounds of homemade mac-n-cheese out of a box of elbows...now I know. =P
Our Groceries Are Quietly Shrinking
The thing that has always bothered me more is the reverse: when they enlarge the container and claim 15% more FREE! I often don't want or need more of the product and I hate wasting it.
Our Groceries Are Quietly Shrinking
Smaller sizes in 'ready to eat' and 'single serving' sizes is probably a good thing, bar the packaging issues. It could cut down on calories consumed, although it could backfire, if people decide they now need to eat 2 containers rather than one since they're smaller. (The contents of the package, not the person consuming them...the consumers themselves are getting much bigger these days).
Our Groceries Are Quietly Shrinking
Check the label on your Edy's . Their "Edy's Loaded" product and some of the other other new offerings are not ice cream. Check the label carefully and you'll find the phrase "frozen dairy dessert" but nowhere does it say ice cream - because it's not. The Edy's Light Slow Churned and the Edy's Grand flavors are still real ice cream however.
Our Groceries Are Quietly Shrinking
I noticed this at the store the other day, too, when I grabbed an ice cream container that was decidedly wee. Farewell half gallon (and apparently 1.75 gallon). It's interesting to read about the other shrinking products.
Our Groceries Are Quietly Shrinking
I ran into this yesterday at the local Shaw's. When reaching in for some Edy's Vanilla, I noticed a smaller container (1.5) mixed in with a few of the (1.75) and they were all priced the same. Someone forgot to remove the "older" version while stocking the case. Lucky me. I bought all 4 of them!
Our Groceries Are Quietly Shrinking
This has been going on for a long time. I noticed it more than ten years ago with cans going from 16 oz. to 15 oz. Most bags of sugar went from 5 lbs. to 4 lbs. around that same time.
The cereal makers raised prices a couple of months ago, citing increased prices for wheat, energy, etc. They got consumers used to the higher price and then reduced the amount that you get. So...in some cases you pay more AND get less. The justification that they use (we don't want to see higher prices so they're reducing the size instead) is ridiculous. Do they think we haven't noticed all the times that product prices have increased over the years?
General Mills has decreased the size of their boxes in addition to reducing the amount of cereal, so at least there's less packaging in some instances.
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