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Maltesers shrink by 15% as prices rise, declares Mars

Feckers,

http://news.sky.com/story/mars-blame...ction-10662160

http://e3.365dm.com/16/11/206x116/92...20161118180139

Mars has blamed rising costs for its decision to shrink the size of Maltesers packets.

[The firm has reduced the
weight of the product's
121g pouches to 103g,
a cut of almost 15%.
The decrease was spotted
by food retail expert
Steve Dresser, who also
noticed that packets of
Mars' Galaxy Counters have
been dropped from
126g to 112g in weight.]

thank you Steve Dresser

I can't wait for the internet to make a bigger deal about this than it really id

I would hate for these very rich Mars executives to lose any of their huge pay packets and think it is right that the customer should pay for any rises in price and not the shareholders who are swimming in filthy lucre.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Smithy (Post 9065881)

brexits fault

Could be
Wise Fella

..hasn't this 'shrinkage' been the thing with lots of products for a while now, not putting prices up but just not getting so much so effectively putting prices up....anyway, I'm sure that I'm not as tall as I used to be so everything shrinks in time.../sign of the times etc...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ammi (Post 9066995)

Yes Ammi, lots of tins have shrunk to , also pet food in little fancy trays with hardly anything in them - they all find a way to bamboozle more cash out of your pocket and hope you won't notice.

Quote:

Originally Posted by hijaxers (Post 9066999)

Yes Ammi, lots of tins have shrunk to , also pet food in little fancy trays with hardly anything in them - they all find a way to bamboozle more cash out of your pocket and hope you won't notice.

..cheating the poor little helpless animals as well Jax..:sad:..

Thought this was something to do with the galaxy, not chocolate

I shop at Aldi/Lidl anyway. Top, well known brands will rarely make it to my cupboards.

Making A Stand At Being Ripped Off

I was moaning about these very things
In the supermarket the other day
When I picked up a packet of Onion Rings,
Then at the till refused to pay

"That will be 59p" the checkout girl said,
With no sense of shame or care.
"What!" Sez I, my face turning red
"You haven't got a prayer"

"It's robbery" Sez I indignantly "Another of your scams".
"What cheek" Sez she,"We're the cheapest store in town"
"Oh yeah" Sez I, "59 p For one fifty grams?"
"That's nearly £2 quid a pound!"

I opened the bag, then held an onion ring aloft
"See" Sez I, "How there's nothing in the middle?"
"What's that prove numb nuts" She scoffed
And I sez "Just that it's a fiddle"

"Get to the point" sez she, popping her chewing gum
"59p would be fair" I sez "If the onion was a whole"
But I ain't paying 29 and a half pence old chum
For seventy five grams worth of holes".

Then when the cops arrived, I knew things were turning bleak
And to cut a long story short - My case comes up next week :hee:

This practice has been going on since sweets were invented by the way?