Deflation

[AtW]

Prices don't increase shocker!

Cadbury is cutting the size of its Dairy Milk bar and is blaming "economic reasons" for the decision to downsize.

The firm says it's having to slash the size of its products because if it didn't, prices would have to rise.

It means that a 140g bar of Dairy Milk, which costs 99p, is reduced to 120g and has two fewer squares .

Some Malteser bags have had fewer chocolates in them for a while now, though the price has stayed the same.

Consumer Focus says cutting product sizes can damage consumers' trust in the brands they love.

More from the source: BBC - Newsbeat - Cadbury downsizes Dairy Milk bars and other products

[OwlHoot]

Consumer Focus says cutting product sizes can damage consumers' trust in the brands they love.

Tell me about it - In the Middle Ages the CEO of Cadbury would have been put in the stocks, with one of his rubbishy chocolate bars hung round his neck, while the locals threw rotten vegetables at him. All this sneaky downsizing is nothing less than fraud!

And in a month or two they'll have the cheek to put it back to the original size and claim "10% extra free!!". Tossers.

[AtW]

I bet petrol stations wishes they can reduce actual amount of fuel in a liter, or wait last time I refulled at Shell garage recommended for better fuels I had easily 3-4 liters more than usual billed

[Alf W]

You wait until they start making it to the disgusting recipe they use to knock out chocolate in America.

I won't buy the stuff since Kraft bought them and sold out all the workers.

[TimberWolf]

Do the inflation indexes take weight into account, or is it just a bar of chocolate regardless of how small the bars are getting?

Anyone fancy a schooner of beer?

[amcdonald]

I bet petrol stations wishes they can reduce actual amount of fuel in a liter, or wait last time I refulled at Shell garage recommended for better fuels I had easily 3-4 liters more than usual billed

Don't Tescos already do that by adding 'fuel additives#

[AtW]

Don't Tescos already do that by adding 'fuel additives#

Don't know, I don't like Tesco and don't trust their fuel - BP's ultimate diesel was actually adding up 10% more milage and car felt more powerful, used it for the last 6 years until they closed local BP station - ******* Bob Dudley thinks he can make more money by exploring extreme weather artic with his new dodgy mates from Soviet Russia rather than selling fuel to British citizens

[AtW]

Do the inflation indexes take weight into account, or is it just a bar of chocolate regardless of how small the bars are getting?

That's a very good point.

The answer however is that inflation measurement takes into account stuff like plasma TVs, price of DVDs etc rather than fuel, food, mortgages/rents, taxes and other essentials like chocolate

[Freamon]

Do the inflation indexes take weight into account

Yes.

Anyway it's not inflation pushing the price of chocolate up, it's the lazy Russians and their rubbish harvest.

[AtW]

Anyway it's not inflation pushing the price of chocolate up, it's the lazy Russians and their rubbish harvest.

Yes, let's blame the harvest - not some chap from the City who uses leveraged loans at cheap rate (check LIBOR) to buy all future supply of beans to make a killing