Yorkies now girl sized

Orion · 20-11-2014 11:55AM #1

Just got a Yorkie out of a vending machine - as soon as I picked it up I noticed a size difference. It's down to 44g now. it's about 60% of the size it was 2 years ago. Price is the same of course. Robbing ba$tards Nestle. That's the last yorkie I'm buying.

What other bars have shrunk this year?

Akrasia · 20-11-2014 11:57AM

44gs of chocolate should be enough for anyone

won't someone please think of the children!

20-11-2014 11:57AM

All of them have, haven't they??
Even toffypops

NomadicGray · 20-11-2014 11:57AM

This 9 bar I bought is missing at least an ounce

podgemonster · 20-11-2014 11:58AM

Orion wrote: »

Just got a Yorkie out of a vending machine - as soon as I picked it up I noticed a size difference. It's down to 44g now. it's about 60% of the size it was 2 years ago. Price is the same of course. Robbing ba$tards Nestle. That's the last yorkie I'm buying.

What other bars have shrunk this year?

I used to think the same was happening with Cornettos but then I realised I was just growing up and my hands had just gotten bigger.

Frynge · 20-11-2014 11:58AM

NomadicGray wrote: »

This 9 bar I bought is missing at least an ounce

That's what happened when you buy 9 bars at 8 bar prices.

fastrac · 20-11-2014 11:59AM

Lidly/Aldi for the chocolate

Grayson · 20-11-2014 11:59AM

Orion wrote: »

Just got a Yorkie out of a vending machine - as soon as I picked it up I noticed a size difference. It's down to 44g now. it's about 60% of the size it was 2 years ago. Price is the same of course. Robbing ba$tards Nestle. That's the last yorkie I'm buying.

What other bars have shrunk this year?

Girl sized? Obviously you're misogynistic. Girls can take as much in their mouth as men can

To the twitter storm!

(and this has been happening for ages. Sorry about the DM link)

anncoates · 20-11-2014 12:00PM

Nobody can convince me that Twix and Mars bars are not smaller these days.

kowloon · 20-11-2014 12:06PM

bluewolf wrote: »

All of them have, haven't they??
Even toffypops

That's that wound reopened.

jimgoose · 20-11-2014 12:08PM

Do you know what gets properly up my left nostril? Do you?? Well then I shall tell you. When you buy a four-pack of, say, Twirl, and you open it up later-on to have one with your tea, and you find that they're about two-thirds the size of regular single bars. What in the almighty tangential fuck is that about? Are ye selling multipacks of the bar or not? Don't piss on my back and then send me a bill on Irish Water headed paper!! :mad:

the evasion_kid · 20-11-2014 12:12PM

Most bars are definitely smaller,cadbury and nestle are claiming its to combat obesity

Augmerson · 20-11-2014 12:14PM

Orion wrote: »

Just got a Yorkie out of a vending machine - as soon as I picked it up I noticed a size difference. It's down to 44g now. it's about 60% of the size it was 2 years ago. Price is the same of course. Robbing ba$tards Nestle. That's the last yorkie I'm buying.

What other bars have shrunk this year?

There's your problem chief.

20-11-2014 12:15PM

King size twix is the way to go

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 20-11-2014 12:20PM

Are you sure you aren't just getting larger?

blackwhite · 20-11-2014 12:28PM

I was reading something about this recently.

The price of cocoa has been steadily increasing over the past few years, so the costs to produce chocolate bars has been going up.

The confectionery companies are afraid of increasing prices, because they think it'll deter customers, so instead they are making the bars smaller - in the belief that customers won't notice this change as quickly as they'd notice a change in price.

Eutow · 20-11-2014 12:31PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Do you know what gets properly up my left nostril? Do you?? Well then I shall tell you. When you buy a four-pack of, say, Twirl, and you open it up later-on to have one with your tea, and you find that they're about two-thirds the size of regular single bars. What in the almighty tangential fuck is that about? Are ye selling multipacks of the bar or not? Don't piss on my back and then send me a bill on Irish Water headed paper!! :mad:

Same with multi-pack crisps, always smaller. We are being robbed.

bluewolf wrote: »

King size twix is the way to go

They are now the same size as a regular Twix was years ago. Remember how big King Size Mars and Marathon bars were years ago.

DoYouEvenLift · 20-11-2014 12:32PM

the evasion_kid wrote: »

Most bars are definitely smaller,cadbury and nestle are claiming its to combat obesity

Lmfao, yet they don't reduce the price to go with the changes. Education on correct nutrition and exercise habits combat obesity, if they're going to try to play that card then I hope they're also contributing to education in some way.

blackwhite wrote: »

I was reading something about this recently.

The price of cocoa has been steadily increasing over the past few years, so the costs to produce chocolate bars has been going up.

The confectionery companies are afraid of increasing prices, because they think it'll deter customers, so instead they are making the bars smaller - in the belief that customers won't notice this change as quickly as they'd notice a change in price.

My freddos, nooo!!!

Misty Moon · 20-11-2014 12:33PM

Only we do notice. I remember years ago when Yorkie started being advertised as having even bigger chunks. Well, that was true, but they'd done it by reducing the number of chunks. I used to have a nice little routine breaking it all up into individual chunks (I am a girl, after all) before settling down with a cup of tea to enjoy it. Sad though it may be, it bothered me so much to get to the end of breaking it into pieces before my hands felt like they were finished, I actually wrote to them to complain. Astonishingly, they didn't care much. :rolleyes:

Permabear · 20-11-2014 12:39PM

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kylith · 20-11-2014 12:41PM

blackwhite wrote: »

I was reading something about this recently.

The price of cocoa has been steadily increasing over the past few years, so the costs to produce chocolate bars has been going up.

The confectionery companies are afraid of increasing prices, because they think it'll deter customers, so instead they are making the bars smaller - in the belief that customers won't notice this change as quickly as they'd notice a change in price.

Yep. Before long chocolate will be the preserve of the wealthy.

Orion · 20-11-2014 12:41PM

Grayson wrote: »

Girl sized? Obviously you're misogynistic. Girls can take as much in their mouth as men can

To the twitter storm!

That was deliberate based on their "Not for Girls" slogan

Orion · 20-11-2014 12:43PM

Elijah Slow Poetry wrote: »

Are you sure you aren't just getting larger?

My hands aren't. The rest of me might be

Eutow · 20-11-2014 12:44PM

I'm just waiting for the sad day when Twix will be just one piece instead of two, and Yorkie to be two small chunks of chocolate.

20-11-2014 12:45PM

They have peanut yorkies now.

I didn't have the balls to buy one.

Permabear · 20-11-2014 12:48PM

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blackwhite · 20-11-2014 12:48PM

kylith wrote: »

Yep. Before long chocolate will be the preserve of the wealthy.

From what I read, there's issues regarding the profitability of cocoa for farmers (meaning a lot are changing to farming rubber instead), and the susceptibility of the crop to disease that are putting massive constraints on the supply of cocoa.

There's a lot of specialists in crop genetics working on a more disease resistant strain of the plant, which would also be more attractive to farmers.
Unless there's some success in the field then prices are going to continue to rise and rise.

The recent Ebola outbreak caused a massive spike in cocoa prices, due to West Africa producing a significant proportion of the world's cocoa.

verywell · 20-11-2014 12:48PM

Deleted User wrote: »

They have peanut yorkies now.

I didn't have the balls to buy one.

:eek: Need this in my life!

well probably not really but hay hoo

20-11-2014 12:50PM

blackwhite wrote: »

I was reading something about this recently.

The price of cocoa has been steadily increasing over the past few years, so the costs to produce chocolate bars has been going up.

The confectionery companies are afraid of increasing prices, because they think it'll deter customers, so instead they are making the bars smaller - in the belief that customers won't notice this change as quickly as they'd notice a change in price.

When in a typical convenience shop it's over a quid for a bar I think most people have noticed the prices going up.

jimgoose · 20-11-2014 12:51PM

Deleted User wrote: »

They have peanut yorkies now...

I think this calls for a quick Tim Allen-esque Ugh Ugh Uuuugghhh...

blackwhite · 20-11-2014 12:58PM

Deleted User wrote: »

When in a typical convenience shop it's over a quid for a bar I think most people have noticed the prices going up.

True - but not enough of an increase to have any sort of impact on demand.

If prices had increased in line with the increases in the price of cocoa they'd have gone up an awful lot more.

The companies involved can do one of four things:

- increase prices in line with inflation, decrease product size, and maintain their margins. Hope that customers accept the inflation-linked price and that size decrease doesn't impact on demand

- increase prices in line with cocoa prices (which are significantly ahead of inflation), maintain product size and maintain margins. Hope that customers are willing to pay the significantly higher price and that demand doesn't fall.

- increase prices in line with inflation and maintain product size. Margins are decreased, and company profits fall away. Eventually company will become loss-making if cocoa prices continue to rise.

- freeze prices and maintain product size. Margins disappear and company eventually starts to make a loss on products sold as production costs continue to increase.

Option three and four are not viable for any company. Ignoring inflation (at the very least) means that the company will eventually be losing money on everything it sells.

From the market analysis that I read, the data shows that the confectioners have generally decided to keep their prices roughly in line with inflation, whilst decreasing the product size so that their cost per product (and thus their margins) remain in line with the selling price.

EDIT:

Just looking online - the price of cocoa has increased by over 100% in the last 10 years

http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/cocoa.aspx?timeframe=10y

Yorkies now girl sized

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