I noticed when Fanta went from 2L to 1.5L bottles in Canada. It's too bad, I liked their grape and cream sodas.

Sugar coated bad news, sad.

You mean "Slimming", not "sliming"

It's not really a conspiracy...production costs around the world have gone up in the past decade, partially driven by the price of oil I think.

People don't want to pay higher prices. Companies don't want to make less-money...so portions are reduced.

lol the last womans comments r so stupid , they are doing exactly what they did before, the objective for a bissiness in the us system is always to make as much profit as possible.

also it is a fact that other costs go up year on year so why wouldn't the food so long as the company states what u r paying for then its not really an issue only if they lied on the boxes.

Most of that stuff shouldn't even be considered food.

The words were definitely laid into the mouths of those shoppers. It sounds very scripted. How dishonest of the makers of the programme.

*money

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I don't get how anything is wrong with this. You don't like it? Go to your local farmer's market. Guaranteed direct market driven pricing there.

I agree with the intent of this video.

Like everyone, I don't want my food prices to go up BUT if they go up, I see the difference and adjust my grocery accordingly. Most people would never notice the package size difference, especially if the package shape is designed to actually look bigger. The fact is, they don't want the consumer to notice so they hide/disguise the idea of the package decrease. Completely dishonest in my opinion. If the commodity price goes up, reflect the price in the product so the consumer can be aware and make purposeful decisions on their product shopping.

I have been very aware of this lately. Here are some examples:

1). Chocolate bars - The new trend is to offer "Slim" chocolate bars (you know, for people who want a more controlled portion size). These chocolate bars sell at the same price as a normal bar but is half the bar.

2). Chocolate Bars again - The other day, I went out to buy a 4-pack of bars (4 family members) at Wal-mart, they were $2.50 for a bag/package. but when I looked at the weights. some brands of bars drastically less. Snickers won the heaviest at about 4.2 while some packs weighed as little as 1.8 - Less product, same price. http://videosift.com/video/Mars-Bar-11-6-Downsize AND http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30wsqtiBrVw

3) Restaurants - The Big Mac is roughly half the size it used to be, McDonalds has taken it's "BIG" burger and transformed it into the Lil' Mac - http://videosift.com/video/I-Want-My-BIG-MAC-Back-Super-Shrink-Me

4). Have you been for a Banana Split lately at Dairy Queen? What used to be the headliner treat and the biggest Sunday around has become a joke! The banana split still has three blobs of ice-cream ice-milk with a banana but the toppings have been drastically reduced to a table-spoon of topping on each blob, not even enough to cover the Ice cream.Slightly enemic on the toppings - if you ask for a little extra, be prepared to ad a couple more dollars to the already to high of a price $4.50

Of course, this is in every product - since I do the shopping for my family, I always look at size and weight. Normally, the "Brand Name" always has the smaller package/higher price, while generic and store brands almost always end up the better deal.

http://consumerist.com/tag/grocery-shrink-ray/ has plenty of example of this sneaky and dishonest practice.

Exact same thing happened in a local supermarket with all soda bottles a few years ago.

@RhesusMonk quote about it : " They should put up signs 'Now with 25% less'"

Well said.>> ^mfsteele:

I noticed when Fanta went from 2L to 1.5L bottles in Canada. It's too bad, I liked their grape and cream sodas.