Steady reduction in food product sizes.

[crafter]

750mL cartons have been around for quite some time. However, I still see 946mL cartons as well as 1L plastic jugs of Beatrice.

The Bags of Beatrice chocolate milk are only 3x1 litre bags...thought we were getting 4 litre. The bags are barely high enough to pour milk out of our milk holder

[heartgirl99]

"Aunt Jemima" syrup was renamed to "Pearl Milling" at the same time size was reduced from 750 ml to 710 ml.

[heartgirl99]

"stash" teas went from 3.77 a box to 4.99 literally overnight.
i had checked the availability at walmart yesterday but didn't make it to the store. today, when i checked availability, the price had gone up $1.20! 32%

[mulock]

The package sizes keep decreasing, the cost to buy them keeps increasing, and my appetite keeps increasing. I can't see this being good for my beach body this summer.

[Ciel21]

Sometime late in 2021 ,No Name California Mix veggies (frozen) went from 1kg to 750g. Recent trip this week, I bought 2 bags as I don`t wish to run out of the product.

[HermanH]

Comet cleanser has shrunk from 480g to 400g AND they have the audacity to raise the (sale) price from $0.67 to $1 at the same time!

[Midnight Stealth]

Dawn dish soap has shrunk from 532ml to 473ml as well.

[eataiag]

President's Choice Kettle Chips went from 220g to 200g. Click and collect says "New" leaving out the size part.

I doubt anybody does this, but I weigh packages to compare actual to labeled quantities. I have a spreadsheet with almost 1400 entries.

PC Kettle Chips I bought last year were consistently overfilled. They ranged from 228g to 258g with Jalapeno flavour usually most overfilled. Little Debbie snacks on the other hand are almost always underfilled.

[eataiag]

Christie Toppables went from 454g to 386g (15% reduction).

[eataiag]

Not food but PC and Royale double roll toilet paper went from 253 to 242 sheets. (4.3% reduction) PC 30=100 rolls went from 425 to 404 sheets. (5% reduction)

Noticed this as I was looking at a pretty good deal at No Frills (Jun 2-8), 12 double rolls Royale for $2.99 (ON & Atlantic). I plan to use my $5 off WUB3 coupons with it.

[cath007]

Magnum ice cream bar now 3 bars per boxe instead of 4.....

[HermanH]

12x cans of Chunky 540mL soup on clearance at RCSS for $0.94 each
they are clearing the way for their reduced size cans of 515mL

If Campbells is doing this, then other soup manufacturers will soon follow.
Keep your eyes peeled, as most grocers are going to clear out their inventory ASAP for the new stock.

[Ciel21]

Magnum ice cream bar now 3 bars per boxe instead of 4.....

Since I don't know that Magnum used to have 4 bars, I thought the 3 bars was the standard, as Haagen Daaz only has 3 pkgs in the box as well.

[Ciel21]

12x cans of Chunky 540mL soup on clearance at RCSS for $0.94 each
they are clearing the way for their reduced size cans of 515mL

If Campbells is doing this, then other soup manufacturers will soon follow.
Keep your eyes peeled, as most grocers are going to clear out their inventory ASAP for the new stock.

Time to figure out how to jazz up dried soup mix and skip buying canned soup (though I buy the Lipton's boxes of chicken noodle soup for 4 servings).

Mr Christie's salted tops crackers, the smaller box, states 450g but I remember when crackers were bigger in those sleeves. They look shrunken now.

[HermanH]

Time to figure out how to jazz up dried soup mix and skip buying canned soup (though I buy the Lipton's boxes of chicken noodle soup for 4 servings).

I remember that a little soup mix goes a long way for taste. I could always stretch a packet or bowl with the addition of macaroni or other pasta. A handful of diced sausage can also heighten the flavour, for very little cost.