This isn’t exactly new. I’ve seen candy bars decrease in size over the years. The manufacturers are doing it to keep the prices the same as the contents’ costs have increased. Just like spaghetti sauce (30 down to 24 ounces), peanut butter (18 to about 16), ice cream (2 quarts down to 1.5), and now orange juice cartons (look closely—only 59 ounces now) have done.
Now, they have an excuse—they’re cutting calories!
I just looked at my Blue Bell Ice Cream container and it reads, “Still a 1/2 Gallon (2 QTS)” LOL.
Every time I buy a bag of Lay’s potato chips I swear the bag has less in it than the previous bag. I think they cut the size by 1/4 ounce each time and then raise the price. Right now they are $4.59 regular price, which I never pay. The family size is now the size of what a regular bag used to be a few years ago.
Notice the Ritz Cracker box? I thought it looked shorter the other day and then I checked its weight. It used to be exactly one pound for YEARS. Now it is 15.1 ounces, which gives you about 7 crackers less than the pound size. I could go on and on and on....
The real killer of all of this is toilet paper. They’ve shortened the width of the roll so now my toilet paper holder is over an inch longer than the toilet paper. The supposed “double” rolls now look like the old single rolls, which means I am constantly changing them. You would think that it would be smarter and more efficient to put more paper on the roll so they would have fewer cardboard rolls to make, but obviously they don’t care about that. They want to sell you less for more money.