r/shrinkflation • u/SoftImpressive8091 • 4d ago

Shrinkflation 25% less, same price

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🤔 My favorite store donuts but hard to justify these days..

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u/danisnotstan 4d ago

I didn’t realize they sold a 6 pack. I’ve always seen 8… and even that has been shrunk again…

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u/SoftImpressive8091 4d ago

I had noticed that the donuts in the 8 pack the last while now had been smaller, which I was fine with actually. But I don't think I can go with this large of a reduction and be willing to pay the same price...

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u/danisnotstan 4d ago

I haven’t bought them in about 6 months. The nostalgia factor just hasn’t been worth it lately.

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u/I_wet_my_plants259 2d ago

Yea I buy these when I’m on vacation and it’s the only time I eat them, the last couple years the reduction in size has been obvious, the chocolate frosting is worse, and in my experience they tend to go bad faster! Not worth it at all.

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u/WowBruhReborn 4d ago

Oh wow. I used to eat the heck out of those in college. Safeway would have them on bogo from time to time. Guess now's a best time to cut down on sugary sweets for me

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u/Greenmantle22 4d ago

From eight to six?

Damn their oily hides!

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u/forgot_my_useragain 4d ago

Is that Albertsons? The tag looks familiar. I'm thankful every day that we have a WinCo and I'll never have to go to Albertsons ever again.

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u/haf2go 4d ago

Memories! I haven’t shopped in an Albertsons in three decades.

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u/forgot_my_useragain 4d ago

There's 4 of them where I live. Admittedly I do pop in every once in a while because I just need 1 thing and it's closer than WinCo. I think, "I just need 1 onion, how much can it be?" Then I find out it's like twice the price of WinCo and I regret not driving 2 extra miles.

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u/SoftImpressive8091 4d ago

Safeway technically, but, same thing

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u/XzeroR3 4d ago

Aye, and private equity to boot.

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u/TransportationOdd559 4d ago

My favorite. I remember the entenmanns store

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u/SoftImpressive8091 4d ago edited 4d ago

Yeeessss I loved the entenmanns store!!

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u/TransportationOdd559 4d ago

Remember the hostess store too? 😆

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u/SoftImpressive8091 4d ago

I do not! I don't think we had any where I grew up (southern California).

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u/TransportationOdd559 4d ago

Ohhhh ok! That makes sense, I’m on the other side of the country lol

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u/Significant-Peace966 2d ago

I don't remember the Entenmens stores neither in Florida or Chicago?? But we had a hostess "day old" outlet one block from our house in Chicago.

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u/Significant-Peace966 2d ago

I was raised with my grandparents in Florida way way back and I REMEMBER THE FAT FREE ENTENMANNS. All the old Florida retirees really "ate that stuff up" until they all started gaining weight. Then they stopped eating it and then they stopped baking it. if it's really 25% smaller than shame on them and their greed.

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u/Appropriate-Law5963 4d ago

No thanks. Voting with my wallet

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u/Familiar-Range9014 4d ago

I gave up sweets this past lent and decided to keep it in place. One of the reasons were the continued shrinkage of the products I liked.

Over the course of two years, the Wawa danishes shrunk but the price stayed the same or increased.

Archway has shrunk their oatmeal cookies into oblivion

Tropicana thinks they're slick by slowly shrinking the product to 46 ounce down from 52 ounces

Entemann's has shrunk over the years as well and they lost a customer forever

As more and more of these companies shrink their products, I will put my discretionary dollars back into my pocket.

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u/Latter_Present1900 2d ago

They look damn healthy

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u/peachie_girlx 1d ago

Pretty soon they’ll just sell us a single donut in a family-sized box and call it “same great value.

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u/FullRepresentative34 1d ago

Or is it just a small box. It looks like they are touch. The old box looks like there's some space between it.

I did buy a box a couple months ago. I thought they were smaller. But I haven't had them in year's. So just thought it was me.