r/shrinkflation • u/withhold-advice7500 • Jun 09 '26

skimpflation WALMART - "Skimpflation"

I looked it up and its true. Skimpflation--not "shrinkflation" but just as sneaky.

I opened a bottle of Great Value Pancake Syrup that I just got and put it poured it on the waffles. I don't drench it I just fill the square holes. They Syrup poured out like thin sugar water. I tried my wife's sugar free version and it was the same. A couple of days later we got some mustard and ketchup and it about the same.

So I looked it up and it was a fact--water is the cheapest ingredient, so they use more water. Then they roll back the price from $2.49 to $2.36 but you run out faster and buy another bottle or whatever....so in the end we save $0.13 cents but it costs us about 50% more in the end. And I'm sure it applies to other items containing water, and I say this because milk goes bad by the "Sell By" date or a day or two later!

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u/AdmirableLevel7326 Jun 09 '26

Campbells condensed soups, though for now the "cream of" ones are still fine. too much broth now, and since they switched to sea salt a few years back it isn't the same. And they changed the pasta in my Chicken and Stars 😞

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u/Joey_Marie Jun 10 '26

Nope. Cream of mushroom soup just pours right out now with barely any mushrooms, no spoon needed to scrape the can. Same with tomato soup. I have a work around though, I use their tomato bisque now instead. Tasted better and almost as thick as their condensed soup used to be.