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I honestly can't trust any brands and their packaging because of shrinkflation.
Eveytime I go into a grocery store i see packaging stay the same size but the amount inside the packages keeps getting smaller and smaller.
In the image below for example now frozen fruits come 50% less filled, and the price has gone up from the originally 600g.
I think this may be a bad example. Different fruits are not necessarily sold in the same weights. Fresh strawberries are typically sold in heavier containers than a container of raspberries, and have been for a long time. Raspberries are just a more expensive fruit.
Exactly what I was thinking. Large strawberries are pretty uniformly cheap for me. Much less so for raspberries, blueberries, etc.
If we want to complain about the state of things fabrications make our arguments less trustworthy the moment they come out of our mouths.
Uh... those are two different fruits. If you are going to compare packing to measure shrinkflation, shouldn't you be using the same product?
My favorite shrinkflation is Campbell's soup, particularly their low-sodium offerings. Costs twice as much, comes in a slightly smaller can, and isn't condensed. So you pay five times as much for them to just not put so much fucking salt into their soup in the first place.
The one that burns me is whipped Cream Cheese - bigger container but less product in it at the same price as solid. And damn them, I prefer it with the air in it.
Even just regular cream cheese. It's $8 for a 12 oz. tub of Philadelphia brand but $1.50 for an 8 oz foil-wrapped blocked of the generic. For years now I've been buying the generic blocks and packing them into old Philadelphia tubs because my parents insist on the name brand. They've never said a word about it.
I'm sure you could make your own whipped cream cheese with a food processor.
Making soups has become a really fulfilling one of my cooking challenges I set myself. Tinkering with veg soup and getting slightly different variations each time has been a journey. Extra bonus is there’s always tons so there is always some in the freezer for days I cannot be bothered.
I’d say “That’s Loblaw’s for you” but the other day I was in Costco, and even THEIR packages have shrunk. You still have to buy a pack of 6, but it doesn’t weigh as much.
Oddly though, a 1kg bag of oats is still a 1kg bag of oats… just more expensive.
Bob Lablaw of the Lablaw Law firm and Bob Loblow Law Blog takes issue with your hasty generalization.
Same, I usually compare the net weight and amount of servings in a package vs the other brands nowadays.
There are definitely brands I stopped buying due to shrinkflation. A few times I've seen shrinkflated items on sale later and then do the math just to realize the price is still too stupid to buy even at sale price.
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Are you comparing the two package sizes? One has strawberries and one has raspberry’s….
That is like… well comparing strawberries to raspberries they are totally different… I would assume packaging and pricing would be different.