I stopped at Acme this morning, as it’s the last day to take advantage of the Kellogg’s/Keebler deal. Just as a reminder, select Kellogg’s and Keebler items are only $1.50 each when you buy eight items, and you can stack coupons on top of the savings. I wanted the Nutri Grain bars and Keebler Graham Crackers–both of those items are essential to a stockpile in a household with a toddler and a preschooler.
Anyway, I noticed some new flavors of Nutri Grain bars, so I grabbed several boxes of those, in addition to the flavors we usually buy. I got 24 items in all, and yes, the deal stacks in increments of eight, so you don’t have to do separate transactions.
I got it home, and was stacking them on my stockpile shelves, when I noticed……….the newer flavors only have six bars per box, instead of the usual eight. Same price–two fewer bars. Shrug–how annoying. Not annoying enough to make me return them, since I basically paid nothing for them anyway, but annoying. I guess that Kellogg’s needed the 25% markup to include the antioxidants that are advertised on the front of the box.
So many items are shrinking:
A “half gallon” of ice cream is usually only 1.5 quarts, for most brands, a 25% reduction
A “pound” of coffee is down to 12 ounces for most brands, even as low as 9 or 10 oz for some
Baby wipes containers used to routinely carry 80 wipes, now it’s usually 72
Yogurts used to be 8 oz in most cases, now down to 5 or 6
Lipton tea bags, in their “new packaging” now has 8 fewer tea bags
If you thought maybe things looked smaller, no you don’t need glasses. Everything really is getting smaller. Keep this in mind as you shop, because it’s happening everywhere, every product line. So make sure when you’re purchasing something, that you look at the price per pound or price per unit. And even then, sometimes it doesn’t matter–
Scott toilet tissue is still 1000 sheets per roll……….they just shrunk the sheet size by about 1.5 inches!
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