http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-2319424/Products-getting-smaller-price-pay-stays-same.html

Pissing me right off now, all tesco lunches got crocked last week

But they're not exactly doing anything wrong if the price is staying the same. It's inflation but in another form.

It is sneaky like in Sweden, instead of increasing tobacco prices there is less in the packages, so people keep buying and smoking.

Asda were the first to do this, aaaaages ago. What they were stating as better prices than Tesco, etc, actually turned out to be the same price per gram, but you get 184g per pack instead of 200g, for example.

I've noticed the recent shrink cranks more than ever, I eat chocolate maybe once a week, had a mars bar at beer festival last month and was amazed at the size, like bloody fun size it was

Thought they did this with chocolate bars for ages. Would progressively make them smaller and then do a big "30% extra free!" campaign....rinse and repeat.

Thing is I much prefer prices going up and/or quantities shrinking than fillers being put into meat... that's where I get annoyed - when you buy supermarket meat and as soon as you stick it in a frying pan a load of water comes out of it....

One other annoying thing I find is things like cola, where it's cheaper by volume, to buy a case of cans, than a single bottle. I'd actually rather pay a little more for the sake of not wasting packaging material...

Aluminium must be cheaper than whatever polypolypolyethpolyene is in the plastic.

I figured it might actually cheaper to recycle