The emerging official name for the phenomenon is "shrinkflation".
The most infuriating example I ever saw was in the familiar red and white metal boxes of McCormick ground black pepper. It has been sold for decades in the same iconic tin, but they dropped the contents from 4oz to 3oz. That and many other examples here:
The emerging official name for the phenomenon is "shrinkflation".
The most infuriating example I ever saw was in the familiar red and white metal boxes of McCormick ground black pepper. It has been sold for decades in the same iconic tin, but they dropped the contents from 4oz to 3oz. That and many other examples here:
Here We Downsize Again 2015 – Part 3 (Mouse Print 8/24/2015)
Man i just bought mccormick pure vanilla extract and when i opened the box, they’ve switched out glass bottles for PET or PP plastic. Gross.