Food Companies Giving Less

[paul.h]

This is nothing to do with cars.

 

I have been noticing a lot that food companies are putting less in the packaging and not reducing the prices and quality may not be as good. Sometimes the changes are not initially obvious as the packaging is not changed. This may be the downward slope for some of them as it puts customers off their products, it definitely annoys me. Some of it could be the result of takeovers and having to pay back loans/cut costs or making the products elsewhere as part of rationalisation/globalisation.

 

Some of the things I eat have changed but not the prices. I would prefer the prices to go up and the products not to be changed. It is usually easier to keep existing customers than try to get new ones but if the products are not the same or are not as good they can be lost for good. 

 

- Cadburys (Mondelez) started a couple of years ago by reducing the size of dairy milk chocolate bars and also putting less biscuits in their chocolate finger biscuits packs (there are more pictured on the boxes than inside).

- Kelloggs have reduced the size of cornflakes packs apart from the 750g which increased to 790g.

- Birds Eye now put 2 less fish fingers in all their pack sizes and the fish fingers themselves are not as big.

- Today I have opened some Kipling bakewells and found there is less filling in them so you can see more of the pastry inside wall, plus they did not seem as nice.

- Packaged cooked meats from supermarkets have large labels on them that hide the fat and the top piece seen is better quality than the ones below.

 

There will be more examples, anyone care to add any ?