why are sweets getting smaller and smaller but the prices are getting bigger and bigger .we should as a nation stand up and complain.and fight for more chocalate.....
2006-06-26 10:30:58 · 46 answers · asked by n.lynch292@btinternet.com 1 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Instead or raising the prices the companies lower the portion to get a larger profit. The ice cream companies are doing the same, instead of 64 oz containers they are usually 48 oz now.
But you're supposed to be too dumb to notice... now they have to kill you. Sorry.
2006-06-26 10:35:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Until recently, most of the chocolategrown in Africa was grown and harvested by slave labout. Consumer pressure put an end to companies like Cadburies buying cocoa from suppliers who use slave labour, so the price of cocoa has gone up.
A bar of chocolate will cost less than 50p because its a good phsycological price for the product, so to keep the price low the bar has to get smaller. Plus a few years ago a bright spark at Crespo realised that if they put one less olive in each jar, the company could save a quarter of a million dollars per year. Other comapnies now use this as a strategy; supply less for the same price.
2006-06-26 10:41:31 · answer #2 · answered by sarah c 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think a lot of chocolate bars are going that way.. Oh Henry was 85g at one point... then they went down to 72g.. then the last time I bought one I think it was 65g... and I've noticed that on other bars too. Everybody is trying to save money.. especially with fuel costs driving prices higher..and I guess making the bars smaller looks better to the consumer than raising prices. But, everything is going that way... chips.. other snacks... I don't know if there's much consumers can do.. if we complain that the bars are smaller, and they leave them at the larger size.. then the price will go up... so, we have to make a choice.. pay the same money for a smaller bar.. pay out more and more and more.. for the same size bar....
2006-06-26 10:35:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not just the chocolate! My husband and I just recently got a bag of the assorted Frito Lay chips and when we pulled the bag out, we sorta looked at each other and said "did the bags get smaller?!" I think it's ridiculous the amount they they are charging for just about everything now a days.
I guess they are all affraid to get sued for making America larger. Maybe that's why they are so expensive..to help cover the attorney fees.
2006-06-26 10:35:09 · answer #4 · answered by SmilingG 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For at least 40 years the pattern has been:
Candy bars get smaller but the price stays the same.
Cany bars get big again, they say "now even bigger" on the wrapper and the price goes up.
Repeat ad infinitum.
2006-06-26 10:35:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cost of sugar and cocoa are rising. Rather than raising the price of the candy bars the manufacturers make them a little smaller in the hopes that buyers won't mind as much.
2006-06-26 10:34:51 · answer #6 · answered by renegadedustbunny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the companies are trying to rip us off. It might be the government telling them to increase prices of unhealthy food to dissolve the obese population or something. I reckon it's because the companies are greedy. They want to make a load of profit but they can't do that if they keep the prices the same and the size bigger.
2006-06-26 10:39:04 · answer #7 · answered by Evil J.Twin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, probably because people are more aware of their health and diet, and watch more of what they eat so the demand is skinking so they make a smaller product because is less calories, while at the same time there is more competition with similar products and qualities from not only locar competitors but international as well, so they have to cut on cost, and the easiest way to do it is to make a smaller presentation.
Also, you have to take in consideration that today the dollar is getting weaker and weaker and the inflation is on the roof so you have to pay more and more as the time passes.
2006-06-26 10:39:53 · answer #8 · answered by E_Derevko 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason it now costs $3.00 for a gallon of gas.
PROFIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We should as a nation stand up and fight about that. If the gas prices would come down we could afford an extra candy bar.
2006-06-26 10:39:17 · answer #9 · answered by marvs36 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. Mars bars and cadbury dairy milk bars have shrunk in size by a few grams in the last year or so. We still must pay 45p (average) to buy these bars and the manufacturers are decreasing the size, so we are getting less for our money.
2006-06-26 10:33:51 · answer #10 · answered by Orichalcos 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋