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Retail products (food, consumables) qty shrinking, price THE SAME! (no surprise)
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Someone:

--- Quote from: Ian.M on November 21, 2019, 06:22:34 am ---Shelf-edge unit prices are often in different units even for adjacent similar products, and almost invariably don't reflect special offers in force.  If you can't do long division rapidly by mental arithmetic, you *will* need a calculator.
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They're so common you'd be able to show some examples of these then? Using the metic units it is trivial if a package jumps from using g to kg. Promotions do still need to be clearly marked. If you have such big problems with it the UK has legislation to protect the consumer:
https://www.eradar.eu/the-price-marking-order-2004/
So you'd be able to make various formal complaints if its really not working. Australia is relying on the industry to self-regulate:
https://www.accc.gov.au/business/industry-codes/unit-pricing-code#promotional-offers
But it just seems to work.
Someone:

--- Quote from: ataradov on November 21, 2019, 06:27:07 am ---The big issue here is not even comparative price. If you like Nutella, you won't just go to some other brand simply because their cans are bigger.
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Ok, you might only want a very specific brand of a product... but

--- Quote from: ataradov on November 21, 2019, 06:27:07 am ---And if tomorrow Nutella drops the size of the package, there is no point in calculating anything. You will still get the smaller package.
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Um? Pick the size of package that is the cheapest unit price?

Thats the change in thinking so many people here seem to be missing. The price of the packaged product is largely irrelevant if its something relatively non-perishable you are buying regularly, all that matters at that point is the per unit pricing. If you never pay attention to per unit pricing, you cant complain when they keep the per package pricing the same and reduce the contents, it was there all along.
SerieZ:
I have been hearing about this phenomena since my early childhood... by now I've figured we would be buying Ant size packages.  :-//
Seems more like Companies do this is cycles... rather than just downwards.

As with everything in life... I blame marketing.
I wanted a rude username:
Yes, the cycle culminates with the introduction of a "new, larger size!". It's the opposite of cars, which tend to grow with every generation, forcing manufacturers to introduce smaller ones at the bottom end.
Keicar:
Reminds me of Stephen Jay Gould's essay "Phyletic Size Decrease in Hershey Bars" written back in 1979 - where, in a bit of tongue-in-cheek extrapolation, he concludes that by December 1998 a Hershey Bar will weigh nothing, and will cost 47.5 cents...
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