northernbird

http://money.uk.msn.com/consumer/art...mentid=8912279

homewardbound

That's funny because I've been telling my dad that frozen peas had gone up loads in the past 6 months - I'm not sure he believed me! Now there's the proof!

Wol

Some things - like Uncle Toby's Muesli Bars - have shrunk to electron-microscope size over the past ten years. The box is the same though - the sound of the rattle is different!

Someone in the indutry can probably confirm, but my impression is that grocery boxes conform to a modular sizing so the contents don't dictate the package size?

More pertinently, Cascade Premium Light bottles have been reduced from 275cl to 230cl at the same price. The press release said it was "for customers' convenience: some find holding the bigger bottle too difficult". Who said humour was dead?

busterboy

I noticed this years ago. I call it The Cream Egg Swindle.

Pollyana

Wol

NOT a b****y laughing matter, m'dear:curse:

Pollyana

I'm thinking of all those hulking great Aussieblokes, standing around in the pub, whiging to eahc other about how the nasty bottles are too big for their poor lickle handy-wandy's to hold

Wol

Now *that* *is* a laughing matter <g>.

Unlike what I'm doing now: the 2008 tax return online......

busterboy

How can you do your tax return? We haven't got have the info we need yet, banks and super funds etc been very tardy with the end of year statements.

Pollyana

Done mine too, all my statements are online and there is so little money in my life that it doesn't earn more than single figures in interest (and thats single figures in cents!!)

Pollyana

Thats more of a matter!

Fly Away

Curly Wurlys are a quarter the size compared to 30 years ago... they are barely a mouthful now and when they were launched the advertising campaign actually emphasised how massive they were in comparision to other bars. I bet their comparative price hasn't come down though.:curse:

Shrinkage really annoys me.

nightnurse2

I remember wagon wheels being absolutely massive, you needed 2 hands to hold them.
Now they're gone in one bite

Wol

You don't need to have bank statements, you shouldknow what interest you've received. The only thing I will be waiting for - as usual - is a letter from the CBA about confirming my deductible super savings contribution, but that doesn't stop me from filling in all the boxes! Can't file it of course.

Wol

Ah! Your true S & M nature revealed.....