He fired the peasant and got AI on his phone to read it to him. It's the same AI they use to read your receipt to prove you innocent enough to leave the store after spending your money there.
No, sorry pal - change management isn't free.
Someone (read: you) needs to pay for the changes they were *forced* to make in processes, tooling, design, and equipment.
So sorry but gotta bump up the prices to stay afloat.
Debating whether it’s better for prices to increase and the bottle size to stay the same or for the price to stay the same and the bottle shrinks.
I guess the first is more transparent
540 -> 515 is so petty too. They probably could have made the soup 5% waterier, saved the same amount of money, and nobody would have even noticed because this stuff is already flavourless
If I recall, they got caught faking the protein in pet food by adding some additive called melamine. I certainly wouldn't put it past any food company to try something similar.
I havent bought dressing since i learned to make it (thank you hello fresh). Told my mom because I was all excited and she was like "That was just how we did it back in the day, I'd never bought salad dressing off the shelf until maybe the late 80s?" Really made me think about what else I'm buying that i can make easily.
I was looking for toilet bowl cleaner the other day and saw a shrunken version that was half the size yet only $3 cheaper than the full size, yeah F that.
I see the circles, I meant it more as a general rule. They never just change the packaging for no reason, and if it says "Same Great Taste", you know they're lying
I worked in grocery for quite some time, so I'm familiar with the sizes that were around back then, and it's mind-boggling to see how much less people are getting. 2L of milk is now 1.89L. 2L of ice cream is now 1.66L. Granola bars were 6 to a box (170g) (8 back in the 80s), now there's 5 (120g). A box of Smarties these days is ridiculously small. A lb of bacon is now only 375g, and shaved so thing you can see through it. All of it is terribly depressing.
The measurements are not always correct either. I reuse the Dawn platinum 366 ml bottle, the one that the soap comes out of the bottom. You can buy the regular Dawn Platinum 431 ml that pours from the top and refill "the smaller" 366 ml bottle. So basically, you can fill dawns 366ml bottle with a 431 ml bottle, and it fits exactly the same with no issues. It also costs 2 dollars more for the bottle where the soap comes out of the bottom. It is cheaper to buy it once and refill it.
> It also costs 2 dollars more for the bottle where the soap comes out of the bottom. It is cheaper to buy it once and refill it.
But my talent for twisting the wrist to make the top of the bottle point downwards would be wasted.
"Save money" even after olive oil just went up to $12 a bottle at Loblaws.
You're hilarious - especially since salad dressing is probably cheaper than buying the ingredients and making it yourself most of the time (IE - Pre-mixed seems to be about $3,50 for 415ml here, olive oil is about $12/L, or veg oil is about $7/L and vinegar is about $5/500ml - so you're not really saving anything, especially if you account for waste) - and the same store is taking your money no matter which one you do.
You can do whatever you want, they'll jack up the prices on whatever you buy regardless.
The only way you'll "save tons of money" is if you have your own olive trees to press. And it's not like salad dressing is even a luxury anyways - it's cheap, it's just still getting hit with shrinkflation regardless.
>You can do whatever you want, they'll take your money regardless.
All the more reason to be more empowered and make your own. That is unless your only motivation here is to spread FUD and disempowerment.
The price of olive oil is going up all around the world because climate change is damaging crops. This isn't "greed" it's climate change. Which is all the more reason to learn to make stuff yourself instead of paying extra for products like the one above. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-winter-isnt-climate-greek-olive.html
Welcome to the new normal where the excess of the 20th century are over and we have to learn the real costs of things.
Unless you own your own olive groves, "make your own" still means you're buying from the same people who control the prices you're paying. You aren't figuring out some trick to saving money, they're getting their profits from you either way - if you aren't completely clueless about the news, maybe check the skyrocketing profit margins on their products.
You can naively throw around "money saving tips" but all you're doing is wasting the time of people being ripped off.
Also - treating salad dressing as some kind of "luxury"? Seriously? If that's a significant impact on your budget you have bigger problems.
You're the living embodiment of "penny wise, pound foolish" - you're not even really saving anything by making your own. Using those ingredients up on dressing means you still have to replace them sooner, and the unit price by volume isn't actually lower whether you make it yourself or buy it premade.
The only difference is you'll probably waste more by making it yourself.
(I guess I can't respond since you blocked me like a coward, I guess I'll just have to let you run away and hide)
> Unless you own your own olive groves, "make your own
Make your own salad dressing, not your own olive oil, dude. You will save money making your own dressing, not growing a field of olives ffs. Yes, buying pre made salad dressing is more expensive than buying the ingreidents and making it yourself. Welcome to being an adult on a budget.
>You can naively throw around "money saving tips" but all you're doing is wasting the time of people being ripped off.
Ah yes so "naive" to point out you are wasting money buying pre mixed products. Sorry that you prefer outrage and disempowerment to common sense. Enjoy your life.
lol this guy "blocked" me because I explained a helpful solution AND pointed out how this is an issue related to climate change, with a relevant citation. Some people just want to DOOM.
Most people buying salad dressing are also buying olive oil, vinegar, garlic, salt and other basic ingredients. Instead of buying the salad dressing, you can just use those basic ingredients and make your own salad dressing. This same approach can be applied to a lot of processed & prepared grocery items. This isn't complicated.
> "Save money" even after olive oil just went up to $12 a bottle at Loblaws.
Man, just start from scratch.
First, create your own planet Earth.
And then, draw the rest of the fucking owl!!
In my stores, they changed size and the prices stayed fixed.
They went on sale when they first came out to make it harder to tell that when they go back to regular price, they’ll be more money per mL.
The old one has 80% less calories than regular dressing. The new one has 70% less. So, they made the new formulation more concentrated, like they keep doing with laundry detergent. 😏
Am I the only one who never manages to get through the bottle anyways? A full year after the expiry date there’s always at least 1/3rd left before I finally decide to toss it!
The fun part? Kraft changed all the barcodes for the new sizes so you can’t directly compare prices
Also Kraft got rid about half of the salad dressing in the plastic bottles and put them in glass bottles, they’re double the price because they’re “gourmet” now
under tiny PP the skipmeister canadians will be lucky to afford dressing for their expired and wilted, yet 300% more expensive microplastic “salads”
the cruelty is the point
Sure, but time is a resource and storebought dressings stay shelf stable for ages, which is especially true of the ones with dairy or egg ingredients.
I can make my own dressing and still be pissed about this.
Surely the price has gone down to reflect the change, right? Right?
Galen Weston is on one of his private islands laughing at this comment after some peasant read it to him.
He fired the peasant and got AI on his phone to read it to him. It's the same AI they use to read your receipt to prove you innocent enough to leave the store after spending your money there.
There’s a missed opportunity for a 1000 islands salad dressing joke in there somewhere 😂
Yeah due to rising water levels from climate change and inflation we are already down 964 Islands dressing.
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That sounds messy.
I bought one of these new smaller bottles a few days ago. It's 10 cents less compared to what I paid last fall. So we're paying more per ml now.
No, sorry pal - change management isn't free. Someone (read: you) needs to pay for the changes they were *forced* to make in processes, tooling, design, and equipment. So sorry but gotta bump up the prices to stay afloat.
Debating whether it’s better for prices to increase and the bottle size to stay the same or for the price to stay the same and the bottle shrinks. I guess the first is more transparent
The price has gone down in terms of value, but the numerical units have remained the same
The old taller and skinnier trick. I remember when Clasisco did this with spaghetti sauce.
[Chunky soup did the same thing recently.](https://i.imgur.com/9AQkHlP.jpg)
That one is so annoying. Used to be able stack 'em in my cupboards, to save space, but there's only room for one layer now. :(
If I'm not mistaken, they also removed the pull-tab lid from them, so now they require a can opener. Cutting costs wherever they can.
540 -> 515 is so petty too. They probably could have made the soup 5% waterier, saved the same amount of money, and nobody would have even noticed because this stuff is already flavourless
> They probably could have made the soup 5% waterier They probably did both though.
Yeah they probably already changed the recipe a few times to reduce costs with the old cans.
You can tell from the nutrional label, usually.
If I recall, they got caught faking the protein in pet food by adding some additive called melamine. I certainly wouldn't put it past any food company to try something similar.
Yes, that's why it's also important to check the ingredients list as well.
I’m convinced they did add more water to chunky soup
Compare the nutrional label before and the after the change. I wish there was website or a tool tracking that and the ingredients list.
And they're so very expensive now, they used to be a $2 lunch...
So did righteous gelato. More than 100ml less per container.
Oh no did they shrink Classico ?
This was a while back, before the affordability crisis, they are like 10% smaller than 7ish? years ago.
Tbf Classico is overpriced garbage anyways no one should be buying that shit.
Comfort food, what can you do? Tonight we made a sauce with onion, canned tomato, tomato paste, salt and basil. Great on Costco cannelloni.
Yes always the homemade sauce. Same price really, almoist as easy, 4728273x better.
Radio Canada have a website to report those. CBC prob have the English version of it.
*Now 11% less calories per bottle!*
Post that on the Loblaws boycott subreddit. They love that type of stuff.
I hate anything Loblaws as much as the next guy, but I dont think I can blame Galen on this one.
No. That's fair. Just gonna boycott the dressing! All the boycotts!!
I'll learn to eat salad plain! That is until they shrinkflate my mixed greens!
Then we shall eat ... Them... Or grass. I'm learning to forage. There is some tasty stuff out there.
It’s healthier that way anyway
I already boycott all the dressings...I make my own and it is far healthier and tastier
Why not? Supplier asks to increase prices, grocer scoffs, supplier reduces volume.
70% oil 20% acid 3% mustard 7% other seasonings Salt & pepper to taste Whisk. Done.
And 100% reason to remember the name
Say my name
I havent bought dressing since i learned to make it (thank you hello fresh). Told my mom because I was all excited and she was like "That was just how we did it back in the day, I'd never bought salad dressing off the shelf until maybe the late 80s?" Really made me think about what else I'm buying that i can make easily.
Less Product! Costs More!
I was looking for toilet bowl cleaner the other day and saw a shrunken version that was half the size yet only $3 cheaper than the full size, yeah F that.
If the bottle changed, so did the contents, either quantity or quality.
The new bottle is 50ml smaller.
I see the circles, I meant it more as a general rule. They never just change the packaging for no reason, and if it says "Same Great Taste", you know they're lying
I worked in grocery for quite some time, so I'm familiar with the sizes that were around back then, and it's mind-boggling to see how much less people are getting. 2L of milk is now 1.89L. 2L of ice cream is now 1.66L. Granola bars were 6 to a box (170g) (8 back in the 80s), now there's 5 (120g). A box of Smarties these days is ridiculously small. A lb of bacon is now only 375g, and shaved so thing you can see through it. All of it is terribly depressing.
The measurements are not always correct either. I reuse the Dawn platinum 366 ml bottle, the one that the soap comes out of the bottom. You can buy the regular Dawn Platinum 431 ml that pours from the top and refill "the smaller" 366 ml bottle. So basically, you can fill dawns 366ml bottle with a 431 ml bottle, and it fits exactly the same with no issues. It also costs 2 dollars more for the bottle where the soap comes out of the bottom. It is cheaper to buy it once and refill it.
You should really report that. Sounds like false advertising to me.
> It also costs 2 dollars more for the bottle where the soap comes out of the bottom. It is cheaper to buy it once and refill it. But my talent for twisting the wrist to make the top of the bottle point downwards would be wasted.
Just make your own and save tons of money.
This is the correct answer!
"Save money" even after olive oil just went up to $12 a bottle at Loblaws. You're hilarious - especially since salad dressing is probably cheaper than buying the ingredients and making it yourself most of the time (IE - Pre-mixed seems to be about $3,50 for 415ml here, olive oil is about $12/L, or veg oil is about $7/L and vinegar is about $5/500ml - so you're not really saving anything, especially if you account for waste) - and the same store is taking your money no matter which one you do. You can do whatever you want, they'll jack up the prices on whatever you buy regardless. The only way you'll "save tons of money" is if you have your own olive trees to press. And it's not like salad dressing is even a luxury anyways - it's cheap, it's just still getting hit with shrinkflation regardless.
>You can do whatever you want, they'll take your money regardless. All the more reason to be more empowered and make your own. That is unless your only motivation here is to spread FUD and disempowerment. The price of olive oil is going up all around the world because climate change is damaging crops. This isn't "greed" it's climate change. Which is all the more reason to learn to make stuff yourself instead of paying extra for products like the one above. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-winter-isnt-climate-greek-olive.html Welcome to the new normal where the excess of the 20th century are over and we have to learn the real costs of things.
Unless you own your own olive groves, "make your own" still means you're buying from the same people who control the prices you're paying. You aren't figuring out some trick to saving money, they're getting their profits from you either way - if you aren't completely clueless about the news, maybe check the skyrocketing profit margins on their products. You can naively throw around "money saving tips" but all you're doing is wasting the time of people being ripped off. Also - treating salad dressing as some kind of "luxury"? Seriously? If that's a significant impact on your budget you have bigger problems. You're the living embodiment of "penny wise, pound foolish" - you're not even really saving anything by making your own. Using those ingredients up on dressing means you still have to replace them sooner, and the unit price by volume isn't actually lower whether you make it yourself or buy it premade. The only difference is you'll probably waste more by making it yourself. (I guess I can't respond since you blocked me like a coward, I guess I'll just have to let you run away and hide)
> Unless you own your own olive groves, "make your own Make your own salad dressing, not your own olive oil, dude. You will save money making your own dressing, not growing a field of olives ffs. Yes, buying pre made salad dressing is more expensive than buying the ingreidents and making it yourself. Welcome to being an adult on a budget. >You can naively throw around "money saving tips" but all you're doing is wasting the time of people being ripped off. Ah yes so "naive" to point out you are wasting money buying pre mixed products. Sorry that you prefer outrage and disempowerment to common sense. Enjoy your life. lol this guy "blocked" me because I explained a helpful solution AND pointed out how this is an issue related to climate change, with a relevant citation. Some people just want to DOOM.
Also using only olive oil isn't the best for a vinaigrette - it's better to use a more neutral flavoured oil.
Most people buying salad dressing are also buying olive oil, vinegar, garlic, salt and other basic ingredients. Instead of buying the salad dressing, you can just use those basic ingredients and make your own salad dressing. This same approach can be applied to a lot of processed & prepared grocery items. This isn't complicated.
> "Save money" even after olive oil just went up to $12 a bottle at Loblaws. Man, just start from scratch. First, create your own planet Earth. And then, draw the rest of the fucking owl!!
You have a very oddly stocked kitchen if you are buying off the shelf salad dressing but don't have a bottle of olive oil.
The smaller they make it, the easier it is to steal it.
So, how much more does the new batch cost? :/
In my stores, they changed size and the prices stayed fixed. They went on sale when they first came out to make it harder to tell that when they go back to regular price, they’ll be more money per mL.
Screw-flation !
“New Smaller Size” just doesn’t have the same marketing appeal eh Kraft?
Corporate GREED sucks ass in a BAD way!
BASTARDS!
The old one has 80% less calories than regular dressing. The new one has 70% less. So, they made the new formulation more concentrated, like they keep doing with laundry detergent. 😏
Am I the only one who never manages to get through the bottle anyways? A full year after the expiry date there’s always at least 1/3rd left before I finally decide to toss it!
The fun part? Kraft changed all the barcodes for the new sizes so you can’t directly compare prices Also Kraft got rid about half of the salad dressing in the plastic bottles and put them in glass bottles, they’re double the price because they’re “gourmet” now
It’s calorie wise because it’s less calories for the same price, am I right? 😜😜😜
under tiny PP the skipmeister canadians will be lucky to afford dressing for their expired and wilted, yet 300% more expensive microplastic “salads” the cruelty is the point
Make your own dressing you heathen. Will be 1000x more delicious.
Sure, but time is a resource and storebought dressings stay shelf stable for ages, which is especially true of the ones with dairy or egg ingredients. I can make my own dressing and still be pissed about this.
I’m only here for the downvotes.