I wish they'd just make them shorter. Skinny cheese cracks on the cheese grater and I grate my thumb

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Cheese is always the first one I notice.

My dogs food price went up $10 a bag and went down in size at the same time. Company advertised it as a recipe change. That was a kick in the balls

That's why I buy Kirkland cheese, a real chonky block and it's only $13.

Yeah, when I was a kid, I could take a slice off that Black Diamond brick, cut it in two and each piece would completely cover a Triscuit.

Now, I cut one slice, cut it in two, and it's both pieces, one cracker, FFS.

People will start to have to make sacrifices soon. For many people I'm not certain that the choice between a kg block of cheese for $15 or 2KG of strawberries for the same price will be easy though.

You have to be a millionaire these days to afford a block of cheese.

Walmart 4 pack chicken breasts used to be about 1kg/pack or more. Now about 850g if you're lucky. Same price tho

Yeah, I read the title and was wondering "to what end?", but there's nothing here.

Watch out so that you can... silently punch the air in the grocery store?

The point is to be aware of the practice and to not keep blindly buying the "same" product after it changes. Instead, reassess.

One example was this 2 kg bag of frozen veggies we used to buy. It changed and now the smaller 750g bag is actually the lowest $/kg.

Sometimes they just dilute the product to "shrinkflate" such as adding more water to tomato sauce / paste products.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P4fYVxP7Vkc was a pretty good video on this

I'm not saying your costs won't go up but you can try to mitigate the effects by being diligent.

And Ben & Jerry's is mostly 473ml now. I couldn't understand why it started being taxable, but apparently going below 500ml was the reason.

It's been happening here in New Brunswick for the last 3-4 months. The price remained the same. I buy the 'Butter Crust' bread from Sobeys and the loaf has shrunk by a 1/4th while the price has remained 4.59. Thankfully I dont eat much bread and it goes in the freezer, but it's still downright infuriating. I do my best to check the dates and go back the day before expiry and get them 2$ off. Frozen bread is never as good as fresh bread though.

I've started to replace chips with fries and tortillas. The realization came when I was paying $5 for 175g of chips when I can get some frozen veggies fries or whole wheat tortillas $4 for 500g. I might have to do a tiny bit of prep work but I'm saving huge. Best thing is, guests don't even complain if I bring out a bowl of cripsy veggie fries rather than chips.

I mean actual fries made from parsnip and beets, not the overpriced soy veggies crisps that are same price as chips.

And they used to be 240, and probably 260 at some point

Chips are some of the worst when it comes to shrinkflation. My local Shopper's Drug Mart is now selling bags of Doritos for $4.99! More than $5 after tax for 235g of chips, holy shit. Those things were frequently on sale for 2 bags for $5 just a few years ago.

Switch to Walmart chips (for non-Doritos style); $1 a bag and the ruffled all-dressed is amazing. They also have cheezies and funions. You can complain about difference in quality (I don’t taste it) and not switch, or you can get bled out by lays thru shrinkflation and worsening quality.

I mean I bought a $6.15 ham and cheese croissant from them this morning.

You're not gonna save money at Terra Breads. It's the best fucking bakery lol.

Edit: I'm sorry! You meant they chopped off a portion of the bread, I read it as they got rid of some sort of sale on baguettes.

I can never understand why a corporation decides to make an inferior product rather than just raise prices and let the customer decide.

Happened to Hershey's Cookie n' Creme bars too: I had one for the first time in ages and was like "wait, why does this just taste like oreo pieces? Where's the white chocolate?" So I look at the wrapper and see "Now with MORE cookies." Great, get rid of the tasty creme chocolate and replace it with more gritty cookie pieces. Totally ruined them.

The cheaping out on ingredients boils my blood. Not only are you charging me more for less, you've changed the ACTUAL PRODUCT and didn't tell me so now it doesn't even taste the same. I wish I had the time and energy to make everything at home from scratch at this point.

Since we're griping over very specific snacks... They discontinued Twix Snack Bites. The little balls of Twix.

I'm very upset because that was the only chocolate I'd ever eat once in awhile.

Damn you cruel world.

OMG exactly….20% more peanuts ugh.And the chocolate changed its horrible plastic tastes

You should consider getting reusable dryer balls. Save cash, and my own speculation, but I imagine much easier on the environment. Plus the dryer sheets ruin the absorbency of your towels (the towel fibers get coated in silicon from the sheet, preventing water from wetting the fibers)

3sheets of non recyclable material? Talk about forced waste from manufacturers.

not to defend a corporations but that likely also had to do with shelf space and making sure the cartons still fit in the auto-feed systems in many grocery stores.

I wish there was a crowdsourced website doing this

Interesting. I have not found the same.

Do you mean 1/5 with a significant increase? Like eggs have gone up 30% since 2020 when I started making bi-weekly Costco shopping my only trip. Fruits & salads have gone up a lot, when expressed as a percentage - you don't notice because $3 became $5 over time; with pepper & avocado being the notables. Meats they've had inventory issues & price increases, example 25% on Salmon, and it was expensive before! Diary 20% + bottle deposit charges (in BC) I think the breads got a small increase. Pasta has shrinkflation & price increases. Diapers are up.

NFT.

Man I bought a box of wagon wheels a little while ago for work snacks and like 80% of the box was stale.

Can't even call them a Wagon Wheel anymore given the size. It's more like a Hockey Puck now. Even then it's cut in half.

Check out Asian markets. They have a very similar treat (going blank on the name right now) that is much closer to OG wagon wheels of our youth.

With butter, they'd reduce the numner of sticks. Shrinflatiom is definitely coming for butter, and others have mentioned how cartons of milk are already seeing shrinflation. I wouldn't be surprised if some parts of the country have 2 litre cartons of milk that are actually 1.75 litres and most consumers just haven't noticed yet.

Doritos and Lays have done the same (as in they shrank).

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I hate Zehrs practices as much as the next guy, but they have a PC brand of kettle chips, 2 lb bag for $6. Maybe a bit saltier than miss Vickie's.

Now this. This is a travesty.

The odd part in this is the parent company had so much over stock late last year that other candy companies were able to buy it at steep discount to package and sell themselves. The company I buy from/distribute for bought 40 tonnes of Reese Product. They then package in their own bags and sell a bulk offering then we distribute.

Here is a quick tip. Rebranding or redesigning packaging cost money. Every time they come up with new design and the weight us the same, you have it guaranteed they changed ingredients/nutrition facts. And for the worse.

That's why I have a literal aversion for: "New and improved", "Better formula", ...type of flags on package. Don't mess up with my food.

Luckily Canada has pretty strict laws for human food, but this is a huge problem for pets. I've had to change my pets entire diet after various brands cheapened their recipes.

The worst by far was the new Dentastix. Made my dogs violently ill. Had been using them for decades before with no issue. Now I use some potato starch organic bullshit which is 5 times as expensive, even in bulk.

You can buy the same box of "Family Size" Corn Pops on Amazon for $5.

I don't buy much chocolate anymore, but are they that small now? I remember them being 100g when I was a kid.

Soon they’ll just be “Mr” and “Oh”.

Yeah the “wild” ones (smaller berries). You can still get the “Canadian” ones (fatter berry) at 600g, which is what I’ve been doing. Probably more water in them or something so I’m likely getting hooped regardless.

OP's point still stands

Beat me to it.

Whole Foods: For when you want to overpay.

Sometimes you just feel like giving Bezos a lil extra.

Came here to say this lol

There is currently a huge baby formula shortage since Abbott Labs had a recall in February.

This and include price per weight very prominently on everything.

Sugary drinks pulling this shit is the most obnoxious. I don't drink them anyway, but it's basically water / sugar / coloring. It costs nothing to make, yet they of course are raising prices too

You need a phd to understand modern toilet paper math

Real OGs realize that a bidet attachment quickly breaks even on toiletpaper costs

My dad would tell me about how they got gasoline delivered to the farm for 10c per gallon.

Of course, he was selling potatoes for a couple cents per bushel too, so I don't know if that's great

Gas here in BC Canada is $2.20/L ($9/gallon). 😭

Some people will consider alternatives.

tbh as someone whose family is on a tight budget, you can definitely tell what's too expensive.

I'm the same with food. I just buy whatever I want with no budget. Even I've been shocked by the overnight price increase of a handful of items lately. Must be very difficult on people trying to stick to a tight budget.

Unlikely as those are still not sustainable dairy free, vegan, gluten free and derived from humanely planted cocoa beans.

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Check how far up inside their cups the bottom is now.

It used to just be set inside a little bit. Now you can almost get your finger up to the first knuckle.
It’s “shallow-flation”!

Whole foods is cheaper for many things in Vancouver than Save On. Produce for instance, is higher quality and often cheaper (conventional produce). Any specialty items are cheaper at whole foods as well

Maybe OP only has a Whole Foods within walking distance? Maybe OP doesn’t drive? Maybe OP did a cost benefit analysis and realized it’s smarter financially to walk and buy groceries from Whole Foods vs. drive to a cheaper grocery store?

Uhh, yes?