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[Varche]

Anyone else noticed how manufacturers are selling us household stuff  with less for the same price.?

Latest thing we have spotted is toilet rolls. My Mum had a stockpile of one brand. Down to last packet. My dad buys the same brand and packaging. The cardboard roll in the middle is bigger diameter. Crucially same number of sheets but they are thinner.  So you use more per sitting and end up buying more. 

[Diamond Black Geezer]

And choccy bars are getting smaller!

[Mr Skrunts]

And choccy bars are getting smaller!

1st thing I thought about was how the wagon wheel has shrunk over the years.

Quality street the price has remained arround £5 it's just the tin shrinks every xmas.

[zirk]

Toilet Rolls have always been a sore subject in this household (may have to rephrase that), why is it some lightly packed flimsy recycled toilet paper that you can lift up with your little finger (definitely have to rephrase that one) Costs £££'s and yet you can buy a heavy Ream (500 sheets) of quality Ink Jet Paper for Pennies.   

[Mister Rog]

Jars of instant coffee. Used to be 200gr, now often 190 or 180.

But then at a later stage they announce " Now Bigger " and increase back to the original size/quantity, and then it all starts again. 

[Varche]

And choccy bars are getting smaller!

1st thing I thought about was how the wagon wheel has shrunk over the years.

Quality street the price has remained arround £5 it's just the tin shrinks every xmas.

Wagon wheels. Maybe that is when you were younger wagons looked really big but now you are grown up they are just normal size?!!

[Bigron]

NO! The size of Wagon Wheels has definitely reduced significantly with time, being in fact a benchmark of "progress" in our society and an augury of its collapse into oblivion; it probably caused the destruction of Pompeii and the demise of the dinosaurs........

Ron

[redelitev6]

  Crème eggs are smaller

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Yes.....I could bore for England when it comes downsizing.

If manufactures insist on putting less in, then the overall size of the packaging should also be reduced.

Often it is not. Bastards.

[Marks DTM Calib]

Crème eggs are smaller

And taste rubbish now they don't have Cadburys chocolate on them

[zirk]

Crème eggs are smaller

And taste rubbish now they don't have Cadburys chocolate on them

I could never eat those things, the cream was far, far too sweet for me.

I tend to go months without chocolate, then I'll get a craving, binged for 2 or 3 days till its runs out, then go without for months again.

My favs, normally biscuit variety, Wagon Wheels, Club Chocolate Orange, Dark Choc Digestives, Maryland Cookies and Orange or Mint Aero.

Ballards, off to Poundland now.

[Mister Rog]

Crème eggs are smaller

And taste rubbish now they don't have Cadburys chocolate on them

I could never eat those things, the cream was far, far too sweet for me.

I tend to go months without chocolate, then I'll get a craving, binged for 2 or 3 days till its runs out, then go without for months again.

My favs, normally biscuit variety, Wagon Wheels, Club Chocolate Orange, Dark Choc Digestives, Maryland Cookies and Orange or Mint Aero.

Ballards, off to Poundland now.

Won the Lottery have you ?      Feeling flush ?

[zirk]

Crème eggs are smaller

And taste rubbish now they don't have Cadburys chocolate on them

I could never eat those things, the cream was far, far too sweet for me.

I tend to go months without chocolate, then I'll get a craving, binged for 2 or 3 days till its runs out, then go without for months again.

My favs, normally biscuit variety, Wagon Wheels, Club Chocolate Orange, Dark Choc Digestives, Maryland Cookies and Orange or Mint Aero.

Ballards, off to Poundland now.

Won the Lottery have you ?      Feeling flush ?

I wish, Lidl and Aldi are cheaper for Chocy Biscuits, unfortunately Poundland is nearer.

[Mister Rog]

Crème eggs are smaller

And taste rubbish now they don't have Cadburys chocolate on them

I could never eat those things, the cream was far, far too sweet for me.

I tend to go months without chocolate, then I'll get a craving, binged for 2 or 3 days till its runs out, then go without for months again.

My favs, normally biscuit variety, Wagon Wheels, Club Chocolate Orange, Dark Choc Digestives, Maryland Cookies and Orange or Mint Aero.

Ballards, off to Poundland now.

Won the Lottery have you ?      Feeling flush ?

I wish, Lidl and Aldi are cheaper for Chocy Biscuits, unfortunately Poundland is nearer.

Chocolate biscuits !!!    B_***rd. I'm trying to lose weight. I dare not even think about them. I seem to be living on plain fish and vegetables         . . . . . . but I do get a couple of glasses of wine in the evening 

[Nick W]

Crème eggs are smaller

Cadburys insist that isn't true, and claim they would need new machinery to do it.

New packaging design is always a good sign that they're changing the quantity.