Ever feel like you’re paying more but getting less? You’re not imagining it. Shrinkflation is the sneaky trick companies use to quietly reduce product sizes while keeping prices the same (or even raising them). That bag of chips that used to be full? Half air. The “family size” box of cereal? Looks more like a single-serving. It’s a frustrating, shameless cash grab, and we’re here to expose the worst offenders.
1. “Pasta sauce is getting 8% smaller, and water is now the first ingredient instead of tomatoes.”
2. Snickers “yard” with a hollow cardboard center.
3. “Never ordering chocolate online again.”
4. My quart of milk only had 3 cups of milk in it.
5. A “roll” of wrapping paper at Target.
6. 100 fewer grams of cookies. What have we come to?
7. 12% decrease in weight here, same price, disgraceful.
8. Sometimes, shrinkflation isn’t content weight or size shrinking. Check out the juice content.
9. CeraVe Daily Moisturizing Lotion went down an ounce and is still the same price.
10. This cheese ball size comparison is just sad.
11. The 5$ meal is now 6$, makes sense.
12. Breyers is no longer considered ice cream.
13. Now there are only 5 bars!
14. The old fries will be missed.
15. We love a giant blank spot in the packaging.
16. Kellogg’s claimed cereal weight doesn’t match the contents.
17. Where are the rest of the cookies?
18. That isn’t one brownie, it’s 6 for $6.
19. It’s really getting out of hand.
20. They didn’t think we’d notice the new bottle has less.
21. Hey, you’re missing a row.
22. In just a month?
23. They’ve even gotten to string cheese.
24. Half air, half dust on the bottom.
25. Domino’s large pies in Australia are tiny now.
26. “In Hungary, there are disclaimers which warn the customers that the product size has gotten smaller.”
27. Guess which one was purchased a year ago.
This one might be a little hard to read. On the left is a box of 8 1.38oz envelopes. On the right, it’s 6 .73oz envelopes.
28. “I’ve been upset about this for weeks. 75% air.”
29. “Mcdonald’s No Longer Offering Free Refills”
30. Cups of Jif have shrunk by more than 26%, but the cost hasn’t.
