Cost of Living - Shrinkflation is speeding up at an alarming rate

yes the true connoisseurs just steam them and add salt.

Whole turkeys found their way into our Waitrose - who must have seen the light/U-turned on stocking them;
someone with 4 plastic tubs of quality street in their trolley;
Naive conversations of whether the 5p potatoes will last into next week, albeit the sprouts that have been in suspended animation will degrade faster than fresh, so fridge is mandatory.
 
I bought the christmas bangers on the market today. Black pepper infused chipolata at £5.30 for a dozen.

Yes plastic bags should be split and veg in the veg tray in the fridge. I wont buy until Tuesday anyway.
 
I have bought two christmas plum puddings, only me likes them £1.99 each, and toying with the idea of a third. Half a pudding with custard and a splash of whisky is a treat
 
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beachBOYken said:
Was looking at some of the Christmas deserts in Sainsbury’s yesterday, a “golden” profiterole bowl trifle, £15 :eek: crazy!
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A mass produced standard trifle that’s on sale all year will be cheap because it’s almost entirely done with automated machines.

The kinds of deserts highlighted above are very labour intensive to make compared to a standard trifle and labour is…. expensive (you know because British people like proper wages).

Go to a proper patisserie where it will be fully hand made and check the prices for something similar, £15 will be very cheap by comparison.
 
seems like a dutch auction on turkey prices now - I had heard there was a surplus farming today, but at £2.50/kg, for modelt , seems a loss leader.

desert is home mad xmas pudding - but if you tot up price of dried fruit they aren't cheap either.
e: haven't set them alight for many years
 
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b0rn2sk8 said:
A mass produced standard trifle that’s on sale all year will be cheap because it’s almost entirely done with automated machines.

The kinds of deserts highlighted above are very labour intensive to make compared to a standard trifle and labour is…. expensive (you know because British people like proper wages).

Go to a proper patisserie where it will be fully hand made and check the prices for something similar, £15 will be very cheap by comparison.
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I know, it’s just first look, it seems expensive, but then it likely serves a lot of people.
I think they did this trifle last year, can’t remember the price now, I’m sure it wasn’t anywhere near £15 though.
 
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beachBOYken said:
I know, it’s just first look, it seems expensive, but then it likely serves a lot of people.
I think they did this trifle last year, can’t remember the price now, I’m sure it wasn’t anywhere near £15 though.
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Profiterole's are £8 too they were £6 last year as we bought the same item thought they were expensive last year. Also noticed their items in Xmas packaging are more expensive than those not. Just as an example single Sainsburys Chocolate Pudding was £1.25 same single Sainsburys Chocolate pudding but in Xmas packaging was £1.75!
 
sprite1275 said:
I haven't had a McMuffin in years. Had one this morning. Surly they are smaller? Felt like I had to pinch it to pick it up!
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Not had any mcd for years at this point, but from what I seen on videos and such they seem to have gone downhill a lot, lots of hygiene issues since started doing deliveries, and yeah shrinkflation combined with inflation.
 
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Today it occurred to me that one type of *flation is requiring you to give up more of your data in addition to money (clubcard, nectar, etc) and I'm not aware of there being a word for this.

So I wondered if for a bit of a game we could list all the *flations.

I'll start us off:

1. Inflation - price up
2. Shrinkflation - size down
3. Skimpflation - recipe changed
4. Dataflation (new term?) - data added to price
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over to you
 
throwaway4372 said:
3. Skimpflation - recipe changed
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No need to make a word up for that, it's already covered by 2. Shrinkflation - "Shrinkflation is a sneaky inflation tactic where companies reduce the size, quantity, or quality of a product while keeping its price the same, making consumers pay more for less without an obvious price hike."

throwaway4372 said:
4. Dataflation (new term?) - data added to price
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That falls under the classic "You are the product"


throwaway4372 said:
over to you
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En****tification covers everything else
 
I like the dataflation term. We also have the subcription epidemic, the pre-order bs, etc. But making things worse covers it well enough. It won't be too long before convenience outweighs anything these companies are offering, because quite frankly, spending money is becoming an incovenience when the products are poo and you have no recourse.
 
Rroff said:
What used to be 6 pack of cereal bars, now 4 pack with a 10p reduction in price (which no doubt will go up before long)... 5 and 6 packs of other brunch and energy bars, etc. also gone down to 4 while keeping the old price - kind of defeats the point of these multipacks. Several of the toiletries I buy have reduced from like 200ml to 175ml or 150ml while at the same price recently...

Not shrinkflation but the chocolate I occasionally buy has increased in price by more than double...

Not that I can't afford it but some of this stuff I think I'll just go without.
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just noticed this with brunch bars, last time i purchased some there were x5 bars for around £1 last july ish, now they are x4 bars for £1.50 :cry: not buying them again then
 
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