9 Downsized Everyday Grocery Products
The old package of Chips Deluxe Cookies had a net weight of 13.3 ounces. Then a little while after introducing their new look packaging, Chips Deluxe Cookies shrunk to 11.6 ounces.
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Not only are there fewer sheets in a roll of Charmin toilet paper, the rolls also became narrower.
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A year ago, Jif shrunk its jar of peanut butter from 18 ounces to 16 ounces.
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While the price remained the same, a bag of Lay’s potato chips was reduced by half an ounce to 10 ounces a little over a year ago.
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The big jar of Maxwell House coffee used to be 34.5 ounces, but shrunk to 30.6 ounces with the new “flavor lock pack.”
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Kashi only reduced the size of its Strawberry Fields cereal box from 10.4 ounces to 10.3 ounces a few years ago, but the nutrition labels also indicate that the number of servings per container dropped from 9 to about 5, due to denser and heavier whole grain flakes, while still charging $4.95 for a box.
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Kraft also downsized its Original BBQ sauce by half an ounce to 17.5 ounces in 2012.
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In the spring, all Tide detergents got downsized from 100 fluid ounces to 92 fluid ounces, reducing the number of loads to 48 from 60.
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Looking at the front of these two bottles, you wouldn’t be able to tell that there’s now only 60 fluid ounces of juice, down from 64 ounces. But if you look at the same bottles from the side, you’ll notice that the top half of the bottle is skinnier.
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