This is why I stopped with snickers. "Now king size comes with two pieces!" Yea and since they don't connect you lose out on about a quarter of a bar. Mfs.
Lets be real, the king size bar doesn't even taste like an original snickers. the 2 bars taste like garbage. The only thing that kept the original taste of the years is the snickers mini's. Even the main snickers bar taste different and you can read up about it, they've changed their recipe multiple times. It isn't as good as it used to be.
@@patricknelson Its been known that the recipe of snickers has changed multiple times over the years. Even if its jus the portions, the taste does not remain the same. The king size bars, for instance, have WAY too much nougat and throws off the ratio of the regular snickers bar. But even the regular snickers bar doesn't taste as good as it used to. The small bite size ones taste close to what the original used to taste like. Those are the best, imo. I remember back in 2019, the recipe changed for snickers bars. in 2010, they reduced the size of the bar, changing the ratio yet again of nougat, nuts, and chocolate. ect. Multiple changes have happened and changed the taste of the bar and I, for one, cant even eat snickers anymore lol.
@@annechristmas5796 juice I get, but milk? Milk only comes in standard units of measure e.g pints, quarts, gallons A gallon of milk can't get smaller lol. It's gone up in price, but that's a different story
@@luiscastilloful maybe he means that they're starting to make smaller size cartons and jugs for milk, sure you can still buy a gallon of milk but they have started making smaller jugs of milk.
@@J8den it's a volume based container. The plastic might be a bit thinner, but its always going to be the same size because it's based on volume. Shrinkflation doesn't work on anything based on volume or weight. You can do it with candy, chips, etc because it's not based on weight or volume but rather by container. But it's impossible to shrinkflate something like a gallon of milk or a pound of ham. You can raise prices but a pound will always be a pound, a gallon will always be a gallon, a liter will always be a liter.
It happens enough that there's a word for it "Shrinkflation: In economics, shrinkflation, also known as grocery shrink ray or package downsizing, is the process of items shrinking in size or quantity, or even sometimes reformulating or reducing quality, while their prices remain the same or increase."
It's been going on for decades. I've seen it happen multiple times with Mars bars, for example. It goes in cycles: shrink the product several times whilst keeping the price broadly stable, until it's as small as your customers are likely tolerate and still buy as a single item; announce a "new, bigger" product and whack the size up and the price more. Rinse and repeat. All the confectionary firms have been doing it since forever.
@@fatguylittlestream I bought some and it was 4.99 for a pack of 4. I ate one and it was so gross, I threw the rest out. I loved these things but they are not the same anymore.
I make myself a breakfast burrito every single day before work and I always buy the same brand of flour tortillas. Since I buy them so often I immediately noticed that they were smaller and I switched brands right away. I'm sure everyone remembers when soda bottles that come in 6 packs went from 20 to 16.9 ounces.
It wouldn't even matter if the box is skinnier, they don't have to have a full large bag inside of a box regardless so they could shrink portion sizes and you'd never know.
Sadly, a TON of products have done this.. Either shrinking their size, or changing their recipes.. It's depressing, cause every time I try to buy something from my childhood, they've ruined it. They think no one will notice.. But we do.. These days I'm always disappointed, when I try a Cadbury egg, they're just not as good. Same goes for a lot of things, off the top of my head, Pringles suck now too. The flavor isn't as satisfying anymore.. AND they're significantly smaller now too. Hilariously, they didn't change the cardboard tube size, but the chips are much smaller within now, and move around more, frequently ending up sideways inside. EDIT: I just realized another BIG one, even packages of BAKING INGREDIENTS have been gradually downsized.. packages that are supposed to be 1 lb, are now down to 11.5oz.. These greedy corporations can't even give us the freaking 16 oz of ingredient for cooking with, that recipes call for.
Honestly, and people never believe me, but I think the "off" taste comes from using palm oil. I can tell with bizarre accuracy when a product I'm eating has changed the recipe to include palm oil. I hate the taste, the texture of chocolate with it is never fully "set" and constantly gooey, and it makes the recipe feel cheaper to me. I can't stand that we're destroying the Amazon to grow such a crummy product.
@@marycavazos2252 Ya, wouldn't surprise me.. Also, pretty much every candy bar out there has downsized, claiming it's for health reasons, but they charge the same amount they used to charge for the larger quantities, so it's really just about making more profit. And heck we now know that Palm Oil isn't a great thing either.. lol oh well.
My mom had a fudge recipe she used to make. Nothing special, something she got off of a can or out of a recipe book like 20 years ago. A year or two ago, she tries to make it but it comes out mushy. She has made this recipe for decades and all of a sudden it doesn't come out the same, and we have no idea which of the constituent parts are fucking it up.
And now they are only selling five in a box for the same price as six because 'market research' says people like a 'more compacted package'... same bullshit different package.
Yep the board wants bigger yachts, pay workers less and convince their customers to pay more for less product. They've successfully convinced the stupidest of the country the problem is paying people a living wage.
It's deceitful and treacherous to make products smaller and assume nobody will notice but it should be outright illegal to lie about it. This phenomena of the gradually shrinking product while charging the same price without notification is really getting out of hand. This is how investors get more while consumers get less. This practice should be outright illegal without notification stating "you're now getting less for the same price" or worse "you're now getting less for more".
I worked for a large chain restaurant after high school, and every day before the shift we had a meeting to go over changes to the menu. One day they told us that corporate had decided to reduce the portion of the chicken filet from 7oz to 5 oz. Thing is, they never notified the customers about the change, and the price stayed the same. The new cutlet was pounded flatter so that it looked the same size. They even trained us to make an excuse if someone complains that the new portion looked smaller. Lots of companies have been doing this for years and I find it very dishonest. The better way to handle it would be at least telling the customer that prices have to increase slightly due to food costs.
@@ignfan4life that's not the point of his post, it's the principle of dishonesty and lying to customers about the product they're receiving. Imagine if you order a 24 oz steak at your favorite steakhouse and they serve you a 18 oz steak without changing the price or notifying you that you're receiving an inferior product. You're left feeling cheated since you didn't get what you paid for. It's essentially false advertisement and this type of dishonesty makes companies lose loyal customers. Yes, people can stand to eat less, but then again that is a personal choice by the consumer isn't it? Nobody is forcing you to stuff your face. If you can't control your eating habits as an ADULT, well that's on you isnt it? 🤷♂️🤷♂️
Burger king. They did this with their fries container yrs ago. You're clearly getting less than what you'd get from their former containers, yet when I brought this up to the cashier they flat out lied to my face and said it was the same. I've never been since that day.
Back in the 80s, we went to a Sams Club for the first time. On that day, they were selling 48 count boxes of Creme Eggs. 48 eggs! My parents bought me a box. OMG, I think I ate them all in under a week. And they were definitely much bigger than they are today. How do I not have diabetes yet?
I've felt this way for years about the Big Mac. When I was a kid I remember that burger being massive. Someone sold me on the "you're bigger"excuse years ago, but I know it has kept getting smaller. Now I think the Big Mac is as big as the double cheeseburger used to be and it's over $4 now. Now I know, yes process have gone up on materials, and to maintain profits they have to raise the cost, but to double this raising effect without doing it to the price everytime they do it by skimping on the ingredients. An employee once told me she could make a "commerical" quality Big Mac, but only accomplish it by stacking all the ingredients on the front side of the burger. From that angle making it look like a loaded specialty burger, even though only about 60% of the thicknesss had ingredients on it.
Never fall for their tricks. Products are indeed getting smaller and more expensive. Lower quality too. I wonder if this is a product of the average person not being able to keep up with the costs over the past decade or so, thus companies find ways to give the 'same' product, but at a lower quality.
@@ifergot The same companies whose wages have stagnated for decades now wonder why people can't buy their shit so decrease the cost and quality and treat the symptom rather than the cause. Classic galaxy brain economics on their part
@softserve most companies I agree. Some don't want to deal with the PR hit from raising process no matter how you deal with it. I remember thin mints from girl scout cookies years ago. I used to buy at least one box each season. I haven't in two years now. I remember the boxes being $2 and if you dropped the box you broke half the cookies because they were packaged wall to wall end to end. Now you open the box and pull out a tray with two wrapped cookies bags barely equal in size to a roll of dollar coins. I foresee in the future someone buying a box of girl scout cookies for $6, same container, and pulling out a tray with 8 cookies on it...
Had the same experience in Germany too. Langnese ice cream boxed were 1 liter originally. Then they went down to 900ml and now they're at 850ml. It's such a scam.
@@Enigma89 is people like you who started the issue. Regardless of size most is the big factor. Your paying for less. You really are getting screwed regardless if you need it or not.
@@jubjuber1 They don't care enough to buy good ingredients. They stay with the cheap stuff because that makes them more profits. I am american and always taste the shift in ingredients it happens too often to candy, chocolate, even fast food restaurants. It sucks because it robs of nostalgia. At least we still have candy shops with the imported stuff though.
I miss consumerist, they had the grocery shrink ray feature, where they told you about this nonsense, and exactly how much was cut. Generally they'd cut 1-2 ounces at a time, thinking they were sneaky.
Yes!! They did get smaller AND they raised the price! This was a few years ago. I emailed them and the response I got was pretty rude and unprofessional. In it, they told me "Do you know how expensive chocolate is?!" Meanwhile, the shell is the only part that's chocolate. There is a little less chocolate in the small version yes, but there is much less of the cream and that to me was the best part. Anyway, I hate when companies get greedy...make things smaller and raise the price.. thinking people won't notice!
This is what happens when we allow shareholders to behave as though they are entitled to an ever-rising return on their investments. We need to reform capitalism as it is practiced today. I'm NOT talking about socialism or communism; capitalism is the most effective economic system we can use and we don't have a viable replacement. Nonetheless, this is a perfect example of why it needs reform. Maybe once Milton Friedman is dead and gone we can finally acknowledge that publicly traded companies have obligations beyond their shareholders. Until we accept that as a possibility we will continue to receive less and less while paying more and more for the products and services these companies offer. Remember, people: capitalism *serves capital.* That's it. It doesn't serve me, it doesn't serve you, it doesn't serve employees, and it doesn't serve consumers. It never did so and it isn't intended to. It serves capital, and if that service does someone damage or sells a raw deal *it doesn't matter* so long as capital is served.
i can't remember what this guys name was. But in the description it says, "BJ's bit about Cadburys Eggs."... So I thought. "I'll just google BJ, I'm sure it'll come up with something.".... It took me at least 30 minutes to realise I wasn't going to find him. good 30 minutes though
I think the idea is that he's restating something that he thinks the guest didn't explain well enough or that the audience might've missed, but yeah it's annoying
Why don’t the company’s just be honest , keep the product the same size but put the price up....at least then we know why....shrinkage is just deceit , lies , and bad business
They also changed the "yolk" part of the filling. It used to be a more runny consistency than the fondant, with a honey colour. Now it's just a dyed orange bit of the fondant. I asked the hotline about the change and they totally gaslit me telling me there was no change. When I said I had one in front of me and was looking at the differences they continued to insist there wasn't one. Bizarre.
I bought a variety pack of chips the other day the one with the mini bags I open a Dorito packet and it had legit 6-7 chips inside they use to fill the whole bag
If the man was in sticking range we would , unfortunately the man/men are all off on their private islands and yachts,whilst we eat the shit they throw us.
I nearly lost it when he said *”judge for yourself, america”* But for realness, shrink-flation was screwing around with our food during the late 2000’s and it’s only gotten worse now 😅
I just found this video while eating a Crunch chocolate bar and I'm pretty sure they too did change something bc i feel they have reduced the amount of puffed rice.... I remember being more crunchy while i was a kid, now it's just mostly chocolate
It’s light brown sugar cinnamon pop tarts they’re smaller than they used to be they don’t even change the rapper they just give you two extra, don’t mess with the product!
BigMac anyone? 90s BigMac were gigantic compared to today's. McDonalds say they're the same size, and we could have perceived them as larger if we were kids during 90s...idk
Everyone has been doing this for decades and decades. Not only is everything half as big, or smaller, it's also far more expensive. Candy, fast food, snacks, anything in the same vein as little debby items... all of it
While there are economic reasons for shrinking the size, I think its reprehensible that they lied about it. Just be honest and consumers might be disappointed but understanding. Dishonesty, though...
It's amazing how tiny they are now.... lole so insanely tiny. I dont even buy them anymore.... I loved those eggs but it's like buying 40 cents of candy for over 1$
Heres looking at you, American Cookie company. 👀The double doozie cookies used to be the size of a small plate. Now they're size of the bottom of a coffee cup...AND the price keeps rising. Same with the Whopper from Burger King, it used to be wicked big!
“Shrinkflation” is real. Reynolds Wrap is doing this. I buy their nonstick aluminum foil and I noticed immediately when they started adding “42% more foil!” No… you just made it thinner. It’s a huge pain in the ass because I could reuse it for some items (e.g. baked French fries) and it’d last a lot longer than it does now. Now it also tears constantly even in single use, creates more waste (since I don’t think the foil is recyclable) and actually doesn’t last me as long.
I prayed for years for Trix cereal to bring back the original shapes. The colored ball shaped puffs (similar to Kix cereal) were nowhere near as good! Then a year or two ago they brought back the Original Trix cereal in the fruit shapes!
I noticed this the year they did it, was like 2008 I think. Was pretty obvious. And I would have been fine with it except they charged the exact same price and they shrank by over a third.
It really is insulting the way they try sneak this stuff by us and think we won't notice. Just raise the price!!! The over packaging of stuff to make it look bigger is out of control as well. I used to love Toblerone bars but I have not bought one since they made the valleys bigger between the mountains. many other things I don't buy anymore out of spite. I`m healthier for it.
Shrinkflation... companies reduce the size of the products so they can keep the same price... it is a warning about inflation. The worse is that after some time the price price goes up anyways because of the root problem (inflation)
Sometimes that true and sometimes it's what they want you to believe. They also leave the packaging the same size and put less product in it. THE PACKAGING COSTS MORE THAN THE FUCKING PRODUCT!
Why the hell are we acting like were shocked this is literally done forever since the beginning of time YOUR favorite products cycle every few months with quantity and packaging to make you buy less for more
He did go to business school!
Shut up please
@@oranthomas3276 delayed response...
@@raulnieves2098 u think that because u posted something 9 months ago I have to comment on it immediately? Jesus
@@oranthomas3276 should i call your people?
@@raulnieves2098 😒😪
This is why I stopped with snickers.
"Now king size comes with two pieces!"
Yea and since they don't connect you lose out on about a quarter of a bar. Mfs.
Lets be real, the king size bar doesn't even taste like an original snickers. the 2 bars taste like garbage. The only thing that kept the original taste of the years is the snickers mini's. Even the main snickers bar taste different and you can read up about it, they've changed their recipe multiple times. It isn't as good as it used to be.
@@bryanjordan8876 they taste fine
@@Fadtat Nice try, Snickers CEO.
@@bryanjordan8876 Just curious: Could you explain how it has changed over time?
@@patricknelson
Its been known that the recipe of snickers has changed multiple times over the years. Even if its jus the portions, the taste does not remain the same. The king size bars, for instance, have WAY too much nougat and throws off the ratio of the regular snickers bar. But even the regular snickers bar doesn't taste as good as it used to. The small bite size ones taste close to what the original used to taste like. Those are the best, imo.
I remember back in 2019, the recipe changed for snickers bars. in 2010, they reduced the size of the bar, changing the ratio yet again of nougat, nuts, and chocolate. ect. Multiple changes have happened and changed the taste of the bar and I, for one, cant even eat snickers anymore lol.
I used to stock shelves at walmart for 5½ years. I witnessed multiple products get progressively smaller it happens a lot.
It’s become really noticeable with milk and juice. I’m a cashier, sometimes I point it out to my customers.
@@annechristmas5796 juice I get, but milk? Milk only comes in standard units of measure e.g pints, quarts, gallons
A gallon of milk can't get smaller lol. It's gone up in price, but that's a different story
@@luiscastilloful maybe he means that they're starting to make smaller size cartons and jugs for milk, sure you can still buy a gallon of milk but they have started making smaller jugs of milk.
@@J8den it's a volume based container. The plastic might be a bit thinner, but its always going to be the same size because it's based on volume.
Shrinkflation doesn't work on anything based on volume or weight. You can do it with candy, chips, etc because it's not based on weight or volume but rather by container.
But it's impossible to shrinkflate something like a gallon of milk or a pound of ham. You can raise prices but a pound will always be a pound, a gallon will always be a gallon, a liter will always be a liter.
It happens enough that there's a word for it "Shrinkflation: In economics, shrinkflation, also known as grocery shrink ray or package downsizing, is the process of items shrinking in size or quantity, or even sometimes reformulating or reducing quality, while their prices remain the same or increase."
It's been going on for decades. I've seen it happen multiple times with Mars bars, for example. It goes in cycles: shrink the product several times whilst keeping the price broadly stable, until it's as small as your customers are likely tolerate and still buy as a single item; announce a "new, bigger" product and whack the size up and the price more. Rinse and repeat. All the confectionary firms have been doing it since forever.
They also used to have cream inside, now they're just filled with clots of paste.
Im glad im not the only one, these things used to be my jam, now they feel like a dollar store rip off of their own product🤔
Ah, I never understood the appeal but the one I had was of the sugary snot variety. Caramel eggs seem legit though.
They are complete garbage now.
@@MattFoleysGhost Sugary snot sounds abhorrent.
@@fatguylittlestream I bought some and it was 4.99 for a pack of 4. I ate one and it was so gross, I threw the rest out. I loved these things but they are not the same anymore.
I make myself a breakfast burrito every single day before work and I always buy the same brand of flour tortillas. Since I buy them so often I immediately noticed that they were smaller and I switched brands right away. I'm sure everyone remembers when soda bottles that come in 6 packs went from 20 to 16.9 ounces.
He was found dead later that day
They done the same with cereal. Cereal boxes don't look any smaller from the front but if you turn them sideways the box is skinnier
It wouldn't even matter if the box is skinnier, they don't have to have a full large bag inside of a box regardless so they could shrink portion sizes and you'd never know.
Cadbury reps: they're the same egg! (with Pam's voice)
This clip is from 2010. They are MUCH smaller than this today.
read the title, the clip is from 2007. it says so in ALL CAPS, and even says it again in the description. uploaded in 2010.
Why the hell are we watching a 10 year old vid xd
@@LizordSword reddit
@@akshitkumar9402 yes
@@LizordSword Yea old stuff sucks amirite??? Like mozart and shit, fuck all that fam 100 dab on the haters
Anyone else still mad about this in 2024!?
Not for myself,i think they're gross.But for my husband and kids...not cool,Cadbury!
I am just wondering how much smaller they are now
Yep.
Yes because it's gotten worse
2021 and they are even smaller again.
Sadly, a TON of products have done this.. Either shrinking their size, or changing their recipes.. It's depressing, cause every time I try to buy something from my childhood, they've ruined it. They think no one will notice.. But we do.. These days I'm always disappointed, when I try a Cadbury egg, they're just not as good. Same goes for a lot of things, off the top of my head, Pringles suck now too. The flavor isn't as satisfying anymore.. AND they're significantly smaller now too. Hilariously, they didn't change the cardboard tube size, but the chips are much smaller within now, and move around more, frequently ending up sideways inside.
EDIT: I just realized another BIG one, even packages of BAKING INGREDIENTS have been gradually downsized.. packages that are supposed to be 1 lb, are now down to 11.5oz.. These greedy corporations can't even give us the freaking 16 oz of ingredient for cooking with, that recipes call for.
Honestly, and people never believe me, but I think the "off" taste comes from using palm oil. I can tell with bizarre accuracy when a product I'm eating has changed the recipe to include palm oil. I hate the taste, the texture of chocolate with it is never fully "set" and constantly gooey, and it makes the recipe feel cheaper to me. I can't stand that we're destroying the Amazon to grow such a crummy product.
@@marycavazos2252 Ya, wouldn't surprise me..
Also, pretty much every candy bar out there has downsized, claiming it's for health reasons, but they charge the same amount they used to charge for the larger quantities, so it's really just about making more profit. And heck we now know that Palm Oil isn't a great thing either.. lol oh well.
My mom had a fudge recipe she used to make. Nothing special, something she got off of a can or out of a recipe book like 20 years ago. A year or two ago, she tries to make it but it comes out mushy. She has made this recipe for decades and all of a sudden it doesn't come out the same, and we have no idea which of the constituent parts are fucking it up.
@@SRM30 Kraft Dinner and most things Kraft have always been trash. Now you're just an adult with taste buds.
If they're gonna pull that type of shit why dont they make 2 products, "original" and "new recipe"
Fun size bars are like 30-40% smaller than they were when I was a kid
And yet, kids are fatter
Ha ha! Now they are just fu-bar
@@Soloman_Gumball That because running on a playststion game somehow does not have the same effect as actually running in a playground.
And now they are only selling five in a box for the same price as six because 'market research' says people like a 'more compacted package'... same bullshit different package.
Lol what a crazy excuse!! It's all about being cheap. And they will probably charge more for the box of 5 than they did for the box of 6!
No they’re selling 4 in a box for $4.99 and I can’t find singles anywhere.
I noticed this over the years; Cadbury eggs have definitely gone down hill since my youth.
No you've just gotten bigger
@@evanbrown3907 what do they have to say about the filling being disgusting now?
Yep the board wants bigger yachts, pay workers less and convince their customers to pay more for less product. They've successfully convinced the stupidest of the country the problem is paying people a living wage.
It's deceitful and treacherous to make products smaller and assume nobody will notice but it should be outright illegal to lie about it. This phenomena of the gradually shrinking product while charging the same price without notification is really getting out of hand. This is how investors get more while consumers get less. This practice should be outright illegal without notification stating "you're now getting less for the same price" or worse "you're now getting less for more".
+Dorian McIntire Then let's sue them.
cry about it
Surprised they call them "Potato Chips", they should NOW be called "Potato Chip".
but, the shareholders must be kept happy
That's what she said
I worked for a large chain restaurant after high school, and every day before the shift we had a meeting to go over changes to the menu. One day they told us that corporate had decided to reduce the portion of the chicken filet from 7oz to 5 oz. Thing is, they never notified the customers about the change, and the price stayed the same. The new cutlet was pounded flatter so that it looked the same size. They even trained us to make an excuse if someone complains that the new portion looked smaller. Lots of companies have been doing this for years and I find it very dishonest. The better way to handle it would be at least telling the customer that prices have to increase slightly due to food costs.
We need to be eating less. We can't complain about portion sizes getting smaller as we continue to get larger. It just doesn't make any sense.
@@ignfan4life that's not the point of his post, it's the principle of dishonesty and lying to customers about the product they're receiving. Imagine if you order a 24 oz steak at your favorite steakhouse and they serve you a 18 oz steak without changing the price or notifying you that you're receiving an inferior product. You're left feeling cheated since you didn't get what you paid for. It's essentially false advertisement and this type of dishonesty makes companies lose loyal customers. Yes, people can stand to eat less, but then again that is a personal choice by the consumer isn't it? Nobody is forcing you to stuff your face. If you can't control your eating habits as an ADULT, well that's on you isnt it? 🤷♂️🤷♂️
@@fustinjong this and what Cadbury did should be illegal acts but I'm not a lawyer. I'm sure what they did does constitute as false advertising
Chick-fil-A? I swear the fillets have gotten smaller. Sandwich is mostly bread now.
Burger king. They did this with their fries container yrs ago. You're clearly getting less than what you'd get from their former containers, yet when I brought this up to the cashier they flat out lied to my face and said it was the same. I've never been since that day.
Not only have they gotten smaller but the filling has changed well in Australia it has its not runny anymore
They should update this video they’d probably be half the size now
Back in the 80s, we went to a Sams Club for the first time. On that day, they were selling 48 count boxes of Creme Eggs. 48 eggs! My parents bought me a box. OMG, I think I ate them all in under a week. And they were definitely much bigger than they are today. How do I not have diabetes yet?
I've felt this way for years about the Big Mac. When I was a kid I remember that burger being massive. Someone sold me on the "you're bigger"excuse years ago, but I know it has kept getting smaller. Now I think the Big Mac is as big as the double cheeseburger used to be and it's over $4 now.
Now I know, yes process have gone up on materials, and to maintain profits they have to raise the cost, but to double this raising effect without doing it to the price everytime they do it by skimping on the ingredients.
An employee once told me she could make a "commerical" quality Big Mac, but only accomplish it by stacking all the ingredients on the front side of the burger. From that angle making it look like a loaded specialty burger, even though only about 60% of the thicknesss had ingredients on it.
They released a limited time only grand mac and it was the big mac i remember from when i was a kid 30 years ago
Here's a trick. Get two mc doubles, get what's basically on a big Mac and ask for big Mac sauce on it... you get more for pretty much less..
Never fall for their tricks. Products are indeed getting smaller and more expensive. Lower quality too. I wonder if this is a product of the average person not being able to keep up with the costs over the past decade or so, thus companies find ways to give the 'same' product, but at a lower quality.
@@ifergot The same companies whose wages have stagnated for decades now wonder why people can't buy their shit so decrease the cost and quality and treat the symptom rather than the cause. Classic galaxy brain economics on their part
@softserve most companies I agree. Some don't want to deal with the PR hit from raising process no matter how you deal with it.
I remember thin mints from girl scout cookies years ago. I used to buy at least one box each season. I haven't in two years now. I remember the boxes being $2 and if you dropped the box you broke half the cookies because they were packaged wall to wall end to end. Now you open the box and pull out a tray with two wrapped cookies bags barely equal in size to a roll of dollar coins. I foresee in the future someone buying a box of girl scout cookies for $6, same container, and pulling out a tray with 8 cookies on it...
Yes noticed this. Started happening when Cadburys was bought by a US company.
Kingsize candy bars use to be a full bar. Now they're two separate bars with a gap in the middle.
I boycotted Cadbury’s cream eggs along time ago, hate corporate company’s they ruin everything in the name of profit margins.
*companies
They hurt my teeth..the real ones I have left
Remember when ice cream came in half gallons? Now the standard is 1.5 quarts and we just stood by and whined a little.
Had the same experience in Germany too. Langnese ice cream boxed were 1 liter originally. Then they went down to 900ml and now they're at 850ml. It's such a scam.
No one needs a half gallon of ice cream
That's why Blue Bell Advertises "Still a half gallon" on their trucks. They aren't as big since the listeria shut down but are making a come back.
@@Enigma89 is people like you who started the issue. Regardless of size most is the big factor. Your paying for less. You really are getting screwed regardless if you need it or not.
@@Enigma89 Imagine being so sad and desperately alone you don't even realize families exist.
then Kraft bought Cadbury and now the chocolate tastes like rotten eggs 🥚
Mondelez spun off from Kraft and it's navigating at 57.74 and pays a handsome dividend by keeping the eggs small.
are you european? it might the crap they put into American chocolate that tastes horrible to ppl outside the us (well and me too lol, i hate hersheys)
@@jubjuber1 They don't care enough to buy good ingredients. They stay with the cheap stuff because that makes them more profits.
I am american and always taste the shift in ingredients it happens too often to candy, chocolate, even fast food restaurants. It sucks because it robs of nostalgia.
At least we still have candy shops with the imported stuff though.
@@dexteroreo3392 imported chocolate is the best.
@@annechristmas5796 I actually got a huge piece to save the other day. The first bite cured my stomachache while giving me a nostalgic feel aha
I miss consumerist, they had the grocery shrink ray feature, where they told you about this nonsense, and exactly how much was cut. Generally they'd cut 1-2 ounces at a time, thinking they were sneaky.
Yes!! They did get smaller AND they raised the price! This was a few years ago. I emailed them and the response I got was pretty rude and unprofessional. In it, they told me "Do you know how expensive chocolate is?!" Meanwhile, the shell is the only part that's chocolate. There is a little less chocolate in the small version yes, but there is much less of the cream and that to me was the best part. Anyway, I hate when companies get greedy...make things smaller and raise the price.. thinking people won't notice!
'yes, I do know how expensive chocolate is, but that's not relevant there since you don't even use real chocolate'
@@evilplaguedoctor5158 DO U NOT KNOW HOW EXPENSIVE OUR GMO CHEMICLE CRAP IS???
This is what happens when we allow shareholders to behave as though they are entitled to an ever-rising return on their investments.
We need to reform capitalism as it is practiced today. I'm NOT talking about socialism or communism; capitalism is the most effective economic system we can use and we don't have a viable replacement. Nonetheless, this is a perfect example of why it needs reform.
Maybe once Milton Friedman is dead and gone we can finally acknowledge that publicly traded companies have obligations beyond their shareholders. Until we accept that as a possibility we will continue to receive less and less while paying more and more for the products and services these companies offer.
Remember, people: capitalism *serves capital.* That's it. It doesn't serve me, it doesn't serve you, it doesn't serve employees, and it doesn't serve consumers. It never did so and it isn't intended to. It serves capital, and if that service does someone damage or sells a raw deal *it doesn't matter* so long as capital is served.
@@glitchyjoe64 there is nothing wrong with GMOs. Cadbury cream eggs are probably not even made from organic matter though...
Don't be a business that sells chocolate if you're concerned about the price of chocolate
Happy Easter, never forget
i can't remember what this guys name was. But in the description it says, "BJ's bit about Cadburys Eggs."... So I thought. "I'll just google BJ, I'm sure it'll come up with something.".... It took me at least 30 minutes to realise I wasn't going to find him.
good 30 minutes though
I don't remember searching for this and have no idea how I got here.
10 years after this upload its gotten even smaller. No wonder people don't buy them anymore.
Conan is so good at repeating exactly what his guests said as filler for their conversation
Conan was annoying the hell out of me with that. I'm sitting here like, "Can you let the man get to his fucking point!?"
I think the idea is that he's restating something that he thinks the guest didn't explain well enough or that the audience might've missed, but yeah it's annoying
Are you saying that Conan repeats what a guest says as a way to fill time and extend the conversation???
Not only repeating it, but ALWAYS DOING SO VERY LOUDLY.
Why don’t the company’s just be honest , keep the product the same size but put the price up....at least then we know why....shrinkage is just deceit , lies , and bad business
They would lose money this way, because it is honest way
@@Sbayo9 lol no they wont
New (smaller*) package, same great taste (and cost*)
No one ever talks about this in public facing media anymore. We live in a society.
Same with BloPops. The “normal”size now use to be the size produced for Halloween.
They also changed the "yolk" part of the filling. It used to be a more runny consistency than the fondant, with a honey colour. Now it's just a dyed orange bit of the fondant. I asked the hotline about the change and they totally gaslit me telling me there was no change. When I said I had one in front of me and was looking at the differences they continued to insist there wasn't one. Bizarre.
It's called shrinkflation this also happens for example in chewing gum where you open a packet and there's a slot missing.
Looking at YOU, Cadbury. THIS is why I don't buy your garbage any more.
I bought a variety pack of chips the other day the one with the mini bags I open a Dorito packet and it had legit 6-7 chips inside they use to fill the whole bag
Toblerone pack haven't gotten smaller, but the space/gab between each triangle has gotten bigger. So you get less overall chocolate.
Kraft have destroyed traditional Cadbury's Bournville chocolate. Thanks Kraft. :|
Kraft has ruined so many brands over the years.
Lower quality, more slavery!
"I bet they weren't expecting this"
HoW did he make that moment ??
It was so normal yet so great
Make Cadbury Eggs Big Again! MCEBA!
I for one, will not let this go.
I wish I was strong enough to say I would never buy them again!!
We need someone to do this with a Curly Wurly. Or a Wagon Wheel.
2.05 what do cadbury think they are pulling EUUUYYY
lmao yes
2:04 "WHAT DOES CADBURY THINK THEY'RE PULLING-eeeaaeeugh" - Conan O'Brien, 2007
2:05 was the funny part
What does Cadbury think they're doing? It's not Cadbury, this is Kraft fucking shit up.
..making more money :(
Hell yeah stick it to the man.
If the man was in sticking range we would , unfortunately the man/men are all off on their private islands and yachts,whilst we eat the shit they throw us.
Orange juice use to come in 64 oz cartons. Its now packaged to hold 52 oz of juice. Same price, less product - total ripoff.
Same price? It's almost DOUBLE! The only place you can find OJ for an affordable price is Aldi.
The yolk is on you, Cadbury.
Same thing happened to Cadbury bar's they used to be much more bigger
I nearly lost it when he said *”judge for yourself, america”*
But for realness, shrink-flation was screwing around with our food during the late 2000’s and it’s only gotten worse now 😅
I just found this video while eating a Crunch chocolate bar and I'm pretty sure they too did change something bc i feel they have reduced the amount of puffed rice.... I remember being more crunchy while i was a kid, now it's just mostly chocolate
what is the weight on each of the packages?
This is my experience with nearly all cadbury products.
I smell a class action lawsuit.
Armor All [car finish product] did the same thing years ago.
Wow I didn't know this was going on. I dont usually buy sweets but this is on a new level public scamming system
National treasure
So Ryan finally found his way into stardom again, I guess!
This was uploaded in 2010. It is now 2020.
It’s light brown sugar cinnamon pop tarts they’re smaller than they used to be they don’t even change the rapper they just give you two extra, don’t mess with the product!
BigMac anyone? 90s BigMac were gigantic compared to today's. McDonalds say they're the same size, and we could have perceived them as larger if we were kids during 90s...idk
Everyone has been doing this for decades and decades. Not only is everything half as big, or smaller, it's also far more expensive. Candy, fast food, snacks, anything in the same vein as little debby items... all of it
While there are economic reasons for shrinking the size, I think its reprehensible that they lied about it. Just be honest and consumers might be disappointed but understanding. Dishonesty, though...
It's crazy that the title references 2007
This interview happened in 2007
This is Cadbury.
It's amazing how tiny they are now.... lole so insanely tiny. I dont even buy them anymore.... I loved those eggs but it's like buying 40 cents of candy for over 1$
All of the sweets I enjoyed as a child have been shrunk during the years.
Heres looking at you, American Cookie company. 👀The double doozie cookies used to be the size of a small plate. Now they're size of the bottom of a coffee cup...AND the price keeps rising.
Same with the Whopper from Burger King, it used to be wicked big!
It's fun size!
Cadberry don’t mess with the product!
It's at least 30% smaller.
“Shrinkflation” is real. Reynolds Wrap is doing this. I buy their nonstick aluminum foil and I noticed immediately when they started adding “42% more foil!” No… you just made it thinner. It’s a huge pain in the ass because I could reuse it for some items (e.g. baked French fries) and it’d last a lot longer than it does now. Now it also tears constantly even in single use, creates more waste (since I don’t think the foil is recyclable) and actually doesn’t last me as long.
They don't drop the price either. Shrinkflation bastards!
Tomorrow; everyone buys all the eggs
I want to see BJ Novak, Sam Harris, and Ben Stiller do a podcast together
That might be incredibly entertaining.
dont they have to tell you how many grams they are or something?
People need to STOP BUYING THE PRODUCTS that do this otherwise you're only validating the company's decision to squeeze further.
Yeah! Bust up the chocolate egg industry!! Those scoundrels.
What about theyr weight? It it the same or not?
Cadbury chocolate sux since they changed the recipe. It now tastes artificial and leaves an odd aftertaste. Thanks Mondelez /s
That’s how I feel about Butterfinger. Used to be my fav chocolate bar but I can’t stand them now ):
Actually it was because it was a little cold in there.
i wanna know what date this aired?
I prayed for years for Trix cereal to bring back the original shapes. The colored ball shaped puffs (similar to Kix cereal) were nowhere near as good! Then a year or two ago they brought back the Original Trix cereal in the fruit shapes!
I noticed this the year they did it, was like 2008 I think. Was pretty obvious. And I would have been fine with it except they charged the exact same price and they shrank by over a third.
Tru Tru!!
And yet we keep getting fatter...
I wonder how big they are now?
Here after watching Bon Appétit Gourmet Makes and reading it in reddit replies.
Mae Jee Desendario me too!!! 😂😂
@@dirtymartini4107i know Claire is right.
So....it's treason then...
It really is insulting the way they try sneak this stuff by us and think we won't notice. Just raise the price!!! The over packaging of stuff to make it look bigger is out of control as well. I used to love Toblerone bars but I have not bought one since they made the valleys bigger between the mountains. many other things I don't buy anymore out of spite. I`m healthier for it.
Why didn't anyone look at the weight on the egg?
That could just mean it's filled with more Chocolate that's heavier than the cream. Could be the same weight but be smaller
Shrinkflation... companies reduce the size of the products so they can keep the same price... it is a warning about inflation. The worse is that after some time the price price goes up anyways because of the root problem (inflation)
Sometimes that true and sometimes it's what they want you to believe. They also leave the packaging the same size and put less product in it. THE PACKAGING COSTS MORE THAN THE FUCKING PRODUCT!
After the hedge funds are destroyed in the MOASS, Cadbury is next if they don't bring back the bigger eggs!
Why the hell are we acting like were shocked this is literally done forever since the beginning of time YOUR favorite products cycle every few months with quantity and packaging to make you buy less for more