they should have to state weight reductions if same price

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to me its deception
they reduce the weight and charge the same
for example tins off chocolates used to be 2.5-3lbs or 1.2 -1362grams
they are now around 850 to 950 grams

the same applies with tins of fruit vegetables and any thing you get in a tin 485/460/440

cheese used to be 600/500/454[1lb] now it tends to be 400/350grams

chocolate and confectionery also suffer
my latest note was iceland back bacon used to be 1.3kg£5 now 1kg for £5

now some reductions are gradual over years others are quite quick but to be fair they should ememblazon the packaging with equal size writing to when they promote a better value package
 
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This is the greedy manufacturers at work. You may say the supermarkets are innocent, but they could, at the very least, mark the shelves with a label saying "New Pack Size", to advertise the fact it has changed. At least then the customer has a chance.

All I can say is that you boycott their products and buy an alternative that is not reduced in pack size, then write and tell them why you have stopped buying their product(s).

It is only when enough customers do this that they will begin to reconsider their greedy practices.

In particular with Iceland, I am surprised they have taken this tactic, as people shop there partly because they are very impressed with their ethics (Amongst others, they were the first to take artificial colours and flavours out of their own label foods, taking gm out of their foods and the positive way they dealt with the horsemeat scandal) and partly because they sell decent quality food at a reasonable price. These points mark Iceland out from other stores and customers must be very disappointed Iceland seem to be blindly following the mainstream brands by reducing pack sizes while keeping pack prices the same.

This is a very short-sighted move which in the short term may gain the company a small profit, but in the long term will lose them custom, which will be hard to win back.
 
to be honest the supermarkets are as guilty if not worse
they dictate what is required as in we need this as a promotion at "X" price then the supplier needs to comply on all fronts or loose the business the supplier takes the biggest hit as in 2 for one so there hard pressed say 10% profit turns to a 20% loss for the time off the offer per unit
 
You certainly need to be quick on mental arithmetic when working out the cost per kilo of all this food. If you look at chicken breasts in Sainsburys which are sold in 5 different packages, weights, offers - they all work out at £9 per kilo. This time last year it was £8/kilo - that's a 12.5% inflation rate.

Bacon has gone up ridiculously in the past 18 months, 50% by my reckoning. I don't know where they get the inflation rate they publish, some of the stuff must be going down in price to make it work out. There again most of us eat far too much so cutting down portion size can be a good thing.
 
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Just look at the label on the shelf - it'll tell you the price per kilo.
 
joe-90 said:
Just look at the label on the shelf - it'll tell you the price per kilo.
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we do on products we dont know about
but thats the point we do our homework work out the value for money then we automatically shop if we check every label every visit we would never leave the shops
thats why i want them to tell us its a different size


the price inflation is done on a basket off goods off constant contents with a few items added or subtracted every year or so
if its not in the basket it doesn't count
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/mar/12/inflation-basket-ebooks-champagne
 
What you need to do is work out what YOU will pay by weight...

For example we haven't paid over £5/kg for bacon/cheese for years...

Wait until the bargains (aka the real price) comes around again and bulk buy!
 
In Asda's you really have to be careful. Once , the missus had picked up a multipack of 12 plain crisps for something like £2.00p. Wandering down the aisle I found another multipack containing 25 packs (of the same crisps) for £3.00p. Well crisps keep for a fair amount of time in the unopened packs so for £1 more we got over double the amount. Another time a 20 pack of lager was £16, but 2 x 15 packs of the same lager worked out at £20, in effect giving you another 10 cans for only £4. ;) ;)

PS I can remember when Mars Bars were the size of a bus and cost 6d . :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:
 
In Asda you can now buy the Aero "New Big Bar" for about £1.

It has 10 grams less chocolate as they have turned the air up more to give you more bubbles.

The old 110g ones are still available at poundland lol

This is happening all over, when I shop I note down what I buy, how much it was and the weight etc. on my Nexus 7 shopping list (out of milk).
It keeps a record and shows me how they are ripping us off each week.
 
ellal said:
What you need to do is work out what YOU will pay by weight...

For example we haven't paid over £5/kg for bacon/cheese for years...

Wait until the bargains (aka the real price) comes around again and bulk buy!
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yep same here

i use a fair bit off bacon in my cooking so look through the cooking bacon in sainsburys if you select the correct packet you can get loads off end rashers which are basically where the rashers are undersized for the packets so rejected
you need to use bacon for cooking as on average 50% will actually be big chunks or odd bits
anyway the good bit is its £109p for 650grams so £1.70 kg
 
Ratailing, especially food retailing, is all smoke and mirrors these days. They shout about the price reductions, but other different products are being either increased in price, or reduced in size.

I saw it in action a few weeks ago at my local Asda. They make a big thing about 'roll back', but as usual it's just a con. In the beer section, there was a sign on the shelf saying that the price of 4 cans of Marstons Pedigree had been 'rolled back' by £1. Sure enough, it was £1 cheaper than the week before. However, the 4 pack of Bass right next to it had been increased (rolled forward :rolleyes: ) by £1. Unsurprisingly, no mention was made of this fact.

I imagine this illusion of price cuts is going on all over the store, but not so noticeable if the products that have been increased aren't in close proximity to the reduced ones. Most people are too busy to even notice the increases.
 
big-all said:
my supermarket is brilliant
compares your basket choose an item tells you what price its been on for and for how long

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/[/QUOTE]

This looks good at face value. I didn't look too deeply because I didn't want to register, so perhaps you could put my mind at rest.

Do they just pick the cheapest product they can find, not taking account of level of quality? If that is how it works, I might as well just shop at Netto!

Also, we have tried online shopping before. It was OK much of the time, but they often delivered such things as vegetables of inferior quality: they seem to pick whatever is easiest rather than picking the best.
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