Pringles, shrinking tube

Caranica

Pringles have gone down from 200g tubes to 165g tubes but prices haven't changed. The smaller tubes listed as "new" on Tesco website, while the larger ones in my favourites show as out of stock. So sneaky.

Strumms

Sneakiness… It’s rife in food retail…

just had a couple of those Wispa mousse desserts… the carton was about 65% full, they are tiny enough anyway but ffs….

pringles must cost next to zero to manufacture so why they feel the need to charge the same but give less..

Shelflife

Got them in this week and queried it. Its basically a price increase but they want to keep the price point.

Seemingly shipping and packaging costs have rocketed and thats the main reason.

goldenmick

Totally agree.

It's a sneaky, sly and underhanded disgrace I tell you.

At least there's no need to worry about putting on the weight now they've resized.

Wanderer78

american economist Pippa Malmgren calls this shrinkflation, shes been monitoring it for some time now, seems to be rife with confection

zell12

Been going on for decades.

Phil.x

Fookers

odyssey06

Better to reduce the quantity than mess about with the ingredients using cheaper inputs and just entirely ruining the product... which has happened with big brand chocolate.

silver2020

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118622086#Comment_118622086

Quality? Seriously?

High fat content and not even proper potato.

connected1

And I thought 90% of the complaints Pringles got were about the width of their cans? Just make 'em wider!

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118622107#Comment_118622107

It's a thread about Pringles reducing in size. Maybe you're in the wrong thread because you don't seem to someone who would lower themselves to doing something so common as eating Pringles. God forbid.

silver2020

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118622187#Comment_118622187

And I was replying to a poster who said it was better than messing with the ingredients.

The ingredients are already as cheap as you can go.

40% fat, reconstituted potato and artificial flavour.

So only option now is shrinking the size

Strumms

So 17.5 % less content but you are expected to pay the same as the larger product…At least Dick Turpin wore a mask…

pringles are crap now unless you got a decent dip…the texture sometimes is like something you’d use for wall insulation…

They’ve fallen off my snack list

olestoepoke

Ah Jaysus not the Pringles now. Everything has increased in price now, local butchers used to 5 items for 20e for years, went in today and it was 5 items for 22e.

silver2020

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118622572#Comment_118622572

The RRP has dropped 8% it seems, but has anyone actually ever paid €3.25 for a tub of these.

But funny how the newspapers are highlighting higher prices, except for the average 9% increase in newspaper prices.