According to Kommersant, food manufacturers continue (this has happened before) to reduce the size or weight of the package, while maintaining the same cost of goods. Rosbalt Like already told in 2019 that bottles of some drinks were reduced from 1 liter to 0.9 liters, and instead of a package of ten eggs, they began to sell them in nine.
As the newspaper writes today, the volume of sweets, coffee, dairy products, pasta is reduced by 5-50 g, and beer is already sold in cans of 0.43 liters. Given the scale of production, this allows us to maintain profitability and not scare away the increasingly impoverished Russians.
The publication gives the following examples: Nestle sells Rossiya chocolate weighing 82 g, it previously weighed 85 g, and the volume of instant coffee has decreased from 95 g to 85 g. Danone has reduced the volume of Activia drinking yoghurts from 270 g to 260 g, Makfa introduced 400g instead of 450g pasta packs, Heineken introduced beer in a 0.43 liter can.
It is also known that Mars has begun supplying pet food in 75g packs (previously 85g). For some brands of cookies, the weight of packs has decreased from 126 g to 112 g, butter – from 180 g to 150 g, sour cream – from 315 g to 300 g.
It is reported that more than 20% of “new positions” in the dairy category on the market are a consequence of lower volumes.
In addition to Kommersant, the Russians themselves also report a decrease in the volume of packages and their weight. Moreover, they find blatant blasphemy – vodka at 38 degrees.
And an attempt on traditional values - the same 0.4 liter vodka …
In social networks, people give other examples of “shrinkage and shrinkage” of products in stores for the same prices. Spelling and punctuation of the authors …
Denis: “I’m used to the fact that my favorite beer has long been not “one and a half” – but 1.35 liters. Now I discovered: it sits harmoniously in one refrigerator in a stall near the house in two formats (for the same price): 1.3 and (ta-dam!) 1.25 liters. Discouraged.”
Kolya: “Just today I ordered tomatoes in their own juice from Sbermarket 680 g. And 670 g arrived.”
dimar75: “We have a lot of unnecessary laws. But why not accept the right one – oblige to indicate the price per kg or liter on the price tag. And that’s it! pack at least 397 gr.
dimar75, but then how to deceive?
Frobro: “Has anyone noticed that the diameter of the buns and cutlets in Makovsky burgers has drastically decreased over the past year and a half. At the same time, the cardboard remained the same, which is why the burgers in the box hang out.
pavelhunt: “The sluggishness of the sun-faced is so great that it can simultaneously increase both the chocolate ration from 85 g to 8o g, and the beer ration from 500 ml to 430 ml.”
shnaps: “… and reduce the price of a 900-gram (800 ml) bottle of vegetable oil from 79 to 110. True, it is already 119 rubles.”
dmitryab: “Even with a magnifying glass, you have to study whether it is imported or not, because these … foreign flags are sharpened to sculpt. With pasta, it’s especially trouble.”
TNT: “Red fish such as trout and salmon are packed in large beautiful cartons with a net weight of 200, 180, 150 and even 100 grams! At this rate, they will soon be selling the smell of delicacies.”
westdm: “It’s the same with sliced cheese, a beautifully packaged box, and there, bitch, 5 pieces of this cheese, at a price of 120 rubles.”
Ship76: “Milk. There was a liter in the package, it became 0.95, then 0.9, and now 0.85, and I have already seen 0.8. This is fine?”.
Igor32: “A pack of favorite dumplings has gradually decreased from 900g to 700g.”
CountPantalon: “We already sell milk for 0.8 liters, and sour cream instead of 400 grams has become 300. Prices, of course, are not the same as the old ones, but also increased.”
Lokki3: “Reduce the weight of the product (for example, canned peas or corn) put less by adding more water. The total weight of the product remains the same on the price tag. There were 400 grams of fish in mayonnaise. left 400 grams of fish in mayonnaise. Only in small print it says that the fish there are 280 grams. Or 250. Or even less over time.”
gelezo131: “And it started with 100 grams …”
Jardis: “We have long been calling such “underweights”: “Putin’s” kilogram, liter, ten (people’s “love”, as it were, hints). Manufacturers, of course, … the basics, but “the fish rots from the head”: the unwillingness of the country’s leaders to fight this bacchanalia leads to this. Nothing: the people have a good memory, they won’t forget anything.”
ERRATA: “After 2014, for obvious reasons (sanctions, import substitution), manufacturers drastically reduced the quality of products, and so slowly over 7 years they have reduced it to zero by now, now there’s even nowhere to reduce it (although I have already seen meat products completely from dick understand what, there is clearly even regretted toilet paper). Now they began to reduce weight every year … It’s like before the price was set for a kg, then for 100 g, now I even see a price list for 50 g, soon they will write a price tag for 10 grams or finally per gram … How is it all (tired) … “
Kodt: “This is a consequence of the economic breakthrough, part of the products came off due to great effort :)”.
Earlier, Rosbalt Like spoke about the unprecedented scale and intensity of the discussion in social networks of the results of the competition in women’s figure skating at the Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Source: Rosbalt
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