zoostation@lemmy.world to Shrinkflation@lemmy.ca · 1 year agoIKEA shrunk its candy but still labels it as the larger sizelemmy.worldimagemessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1137arrow-down118
arrow-up1119arrow-down1imageIKEA shrunk its candy but still labels it as the larger sizelemmy.worldzoostation@lemmy.world to Shrinkflation@lemmy.ca · 1 year agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareshawwnzy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoThey use metricification as an excuse to shrink packages in Canada a ton. Bacon, butter and a ton of other products used to always come in pounds, labeled as 454 gram packages. Lately they’ve all shrunk to 400 or 350 gram packages.
minus-squareRentlar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-21 year agoYep the progress is 500g -> 1lb (454g) -> 400g or 20 US fl oz (591mL) -> 500mL -> 16 US fl oz (473mL) -> 400 mL -> 12 US fl oz (355mL), and so on and so forth
They use metricification as an excuse to shrink packages in Canada a ton.
Bacon, butter and a ton of other products used to always come in pounds, labeled as 454 gram packages. Lately they’ve all shrunk to 400 or 350 gram packages.
Yep the progress is 500g -> 1lb (454g) -> 400g or
20 US fl oz (591mL) -> 500mL -> 16 US fl oz (473mL) -> 400 mL -> 12 US fl oz (355mL), and so on and so forth