3. TIL about shrinkflation, the practice of stealthily reducing a product's size wh...

TIL about shrinkflation, the practice of stealthily reducing a product's size while maintaining its price so that consumers may unknowingly pay the same for less. According to the UK’s Office of National Statistics, 2,529 supermarket products decreased in size or weight between 2012 and 2017.

I've said this time and time again, the problem with the food and drink industries is that the government's are trying to promote healthy lifestyles, but a 500ml bottle of coke is more expensive than a 1L bottle of coke, and value for money means that basically everyone buys the big ones.

The share size pouches of sweets at the same, they literally say share size, cost £1 on offer (most places) and a normal person will eat one for themselves because the smaller version isn't worth buying.

Lately, I've seen even bigger share size pouches of M&M's etc coming out that are double normal size but only 50p more expensive.

It's just ridiculous.

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