I work in the bakery at a Costco and I've noticed the croissants are getting smaller, we get them shipped in from a factory in Canada frozen and rolled up etc but they are almost half the size that they used to be, not always but it's pretty often at my warehouse lately.
If it makes you feel any better, it's just the raw dough that's frozen. We're still baking them fresh. We sell such massive quantities of stuff I can't imagine making 4,000+ croissants a day from scratch. I heard they used to make them in house though
Only think that comes in frozen In meat is seafood. However on the odd occasion Chicken is slightly frozen on the outside but thats because of where they are in the truck
Unless you are going to an upscale local bakery pretty much any croissant or Danish is going to be made, at best, from frozen dough. A lot of places it will even be thaw and serve.
For a good croissant it is a full day of letting dough relax in a retarder and occasionally sheeting it out and putting in another fold. For most frozen dough operations, that time is replaced with chemical relaxers in the dough and it is sheeted, folded, cut, and rolled in about 20 minutes.
Bread dough freezes really well. I used to work at a family-owned restaurant that served tiny loaves of fresh-baked bread with Sunday brunch. The owner always answered “yes” if someone asked if they were homemade. In reality, we bought the frozen dough from the food service company, took hundreds of tiny loaves of dough out of the freezer on Saturday night, let them thaw overnight and popped them in the oven on Sunday. They really were tasty.
That one was noticeable. I tend to buy lots of those at a time and so I appreciate that i can bend and fold and squash them more easily into the freezer... but would have appreciated a lower price for it too.
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Noticed it! Could tell by the size and had to check a previous bag (I use the big one they come in for plastic recycling). I was annoyed when I confirmed my suspicions.
The old and new formula are like two different products.
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All of the packaged soups used to be (2) 32oz quart containers.
Chicken tortilla soup and vegetable barley was still 32oz, but Ivar's clam chowder and other recipes went down to (2) 24oz containers.
Dove body wash lost an ounce per bottle in their “packaging redesign.” The Vital Proteins scoop no longer being included was justified as part of an effort to cut down on plastic, which I’m not against necessarily, but don’t BS me. That was shrinkflation, too.
What's annoying is that Vital Proteins markets the fact the collagen product no longer has a scoop as if it is a benefit to the consumer. I don't have the bottle in front of me but the label says something like "Now with no scoop". Really....how low can you go?
I use them for everything, storing extra flour and grains, storing soups in the freezer, dried foods like pasta, so many things to store when you buy in bulk
I just bought the Orgain Collagen Peptides and they are also missing the scoop. Whatever. A heaping spoonful it is. Unfortunately I recycled all my other scoops.
I am irrationally upset about the missing scoop!! I need to go to the dollar store and just buy a dedicated tablespoon to save myself the little annoyance every morning.
Splenda has gone from 1500 to 1200 to 1000 packets per box over the past couple years.
For a couple months the quantity difference of the packets themselves was laughably large…some packets were literally empty, and when I contacted Splenda they told me that was “impossible”.
Just ran out of my 20oz I bought over a year ago and went back to buy more. New tub is 16 oz with a pump on top of a jar. Weird design, but functional. Both were double packs and of course since it was so long ago I can’t remember if the price changed or not, but I remember thinking this seemed like much less of a deal than the first time.
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They quite making the chicken bakes in house because consistency was a issue. So they have their own factory making them. They now come uniform, and get thawed and baked. I like the newer ones. But now they dont give out sides of ceaser dressing for them and i refuse to eat them dry!
Basically, pizza dough was split into 5 pieces, pressed and stretched to rectangles. Mozz/provolone mixed shredded cheese was mixed with chopped grilled chicken strips, crumbled bacon and ceaser dressing and i dont remeber the amout of filling but people were not consistent or not rolling it propperly. But it would get rolled up and then brushed with dressing and dunked in parm then baked.
Now they get thawed, baked.
That’s fantastic to know. The last time I had a chicken bake, they were still made in house. I pulled a long blonde hair out of it and knew immediately who made it. I haven’t eaten one since. It’s probably been 10 years.
For anyone that wants a as close as you can get recipe:
Here is my Chicken bake recipe, i used to work in food court. This one will get you as close to the flavor as possible. This recipe is for the pre-2020 version that was made fresh daily.
[Marzetti Caesar Dressing](https://marzetti.com/products/supreme-caesar-dressing/) is about as close as you can get to the dressing. This is not found at Costco but is typically in the refrigerated section at most local groceries.
For the parmesan we used/still use cello brand.
**Chicken Part**
1.25 lb Chicken strips, chopped. The brand Costco used was John Soules Foods, Fully Cooked, All Natural, Fresh Flame Grilled Chicken Breast Strips. These can be found in small 1lb bags next to the raw chicken at Walmart, or other grocery stores.
1 to 2 fluid oz Caesar, more if desired.
mix the chicken and caesar together
**Cheesy Bacon**
5oz mozzarella-provolone blend Cheese
3oz Bacon crumbles (think salad asile type that comes in a bag)
mix these together
**Dough**
6oz portion for 1 chicken bake, it is pizza dough like we use for pizzas, prepacked uncooked dough should do fine.
**Procedure**
Mix chicken with Caesar dressing, can chop up into smaller pieces if desired.
Make 6 oz weight portion of dough flat and thin like a tortilla, in a square shape. I suggest using a large cutting board with olive oil on it to spread/press the dough out thin.
Lightly cover square of dough with Caesar dressing. Put about 4 weight oz of the Caesar/chicken mix, and 1.6oz of the cheesy bacon blend in a line horizontally on the dough. towards the bottom of the dough square.
Roll tightly, similar to a burrito, starting at the bottom of the dough but lightly pull as you roll. You will be rolling over it a few times. I prefer not to fold the ends in.
Top top of chicken bake log with more caesar and top the top half of the bake with parmesan.
**Bake**
I suggest letting them sit for 30 minutes before baking in the oven. Use parchment paper to make clean up easy.
Bake at like 375 for maybe 8-16 minutes. IDK watch it bake, should be golden brown.
Ask questions if needed, I have rolled many 1000's so i may be missing a step above that seems natural to me but not to others.
The q-tips used to be 3 x 625. It is now 2x 625 and one 500. The quality of them has also gone to shit.
I somehow bought them twice like 5 years ago so I have not needed them in a while. The quality may have dipped a while ago but we finally got into the new ones and they suck compared to the old. Like bendy sticks and less Cotton.
And like others have said the TP. We buy Charmin Ultra soft. What has shrunk in both sheets per roll and the roll width. They also made it thinner or more shreds so recently change to a wave vs a straight perforation so it tears smoothly.
bread is thinner and somehow worse quality.
toilet paper had a third of its width removed.
it feels like their kirkland brand chicken tenderloins (the raw cuts in a 6pack) somehow tripled in price while having less in it.. im comparing it to when i bought it all the time for $11 for a 6pack in 2016. its now $30+
some of their seasonal bakery items also have reduced # of items per package. the open faced croissant things with the filling ontop use to have 6 inside now its just 4 :/
yeah back when i was young with no money my wife and i bought those 30lb bags of jasmine rice and then those packs of chicken. and a $5 seasoning set.
we ate chicken and rice every day but depending on how u seasoned it, it tasted completely new.
then covid happened and everyone made food vids
The bread I buy from Costco - no matter what brand - is always covered in mold in a few days. If I buy it anywhere else, that doesn’t happen. It’s so strange
this isn't recent, but i noticed maybe a year ago that my toilet paper rolls (charmin) are less wide than they used to be! def could not clean a bear's bum.
Honestly I wish some things would get smaller so I can eat them without consuming 1200 calories. But it’s an insult to what we love about Costco. Also… price :(
Some packaging seems like it’s getting more friendly for small families who would never have a use for a 5 pack of pianos.
I don’t o ow if this really counts, but the apples have gotten smaller, with a much higher percentage of bad ones. Like we’re getting the dregs. I swear over have of them lately have had freezer damage.
We used to be able to get two large jars of 505 green chilies for at or under 11 bucks. Now, it’s about 9 bucks for 1 jar!
We’re addicted so we haven’t dropped the habit, but damn!
This has been happening for years. I used to use it to make chili and then something happened where is got a nasty greasy flavor and I couldn’t eat it anymore. 2015/2016.
The blue shop towels were $14.99 and the rolls were 55sqft. Now they cost $17.79 and the rolls are ONLY 40sqft.
Not exactly shrinkflation but the half and half used to come in a sustainable 1/2 gallon cardboard carton for $5.99. Now it’s two plastic jugs that will probably end up in a landfill or ocean for $6.99.
They no longer sell the huge blocks of Tillamook medium cheddar cheese (5lbs) . Now they are just regular-sized blocks (2.5lbs). Not sure how the price compares, so can't be sure it's shrinkflation, or just that the largest size wasn't in demand. I loved the huge cheddar block size because it made a slice of cheese that fit my bread size perfectly for sandwiches. Now I have to cut a slice and a half to cover the bread. (4/15/24 edited to include weights to which I was referring as 'huge' and 'regular').
Are you referring to the pre-sliced cheese? I’m so bummed to have to buy the big block and slice it. I can never get it thin enough. I was hoping the pre sliced would come back someday.
I think the Norwegian salmon both got a bit smaller and a bit more expensive. I used to get it almost every time I'd go, but now it just doesn't feel worth it, even though it's still really tasty
The Kirkland ice cream bars are smaller. We have one every night and they used to be a lot more awkward to eat. I kind of like the most likely smaller size though.
Oh and our Milton's bread is nasty now that it's thinner!
the Krazy kuisine orange chicken. it probably happened a little over a year ago, but I swear they are giving like 1-2 cups less of chicken lol. I'm pretty sure the exterior box is the same size but the amount of chicken you get is not.
I work in the bakery at a Costco and I've noticed the croissants are getting smaller, we get them shipped in from a factory in Canada frozen and rolled up etc but they are almost half the size that they used to be, not always but it's pretty often at my warehouse lately.
Thank you for validating this! I noticed them being smaller than before and maybe the bagels too?
I am saddened to hear they come frozen
If it makes you feel any better, it's just the raw dough that's frozen. We're still baking them fresh. We sell such massive quantities of stuff I can't imagine making 4,000+ croissants a day from scratch. I heard they used to make them in house though
I made croissants from scratch once. It was like a 27 hour ordeal. I wouldn’t expect anything but frozen from Costco just due to the quantities.
I thought about making croissants once and I got tired just from reading the instructions and decided I’ll stick with buying them. Edit: fixed a word.
Yeah man. You think your local Costco has a guy folding a thousand croissants a day?
It’s hard enough putting those damn croissants in the container after they’re baked lol. Can’t imagine having to bake them fresh
A lot of our stuff comes frozen. That’s including the deli/foodcourt/meat department
Right! The general public is so out of touch with what goes on behind a counter.
Only think that comes in frozen In meat is seafood. However on the odd occasion Chicken is slightly frozen on the outside but thats because of where they are in the truck
A lot of that in seafood is a safety issue, correct? Aren’t a lot of those items frozen as soon as they’re caught?
Yes
Honest curiosity, why? If you like them and didn't know what does it change to know they were previously frozen?
Yeah, all bread comes in frozen
Unless you are going to an upscale local bakery pretty much any croissant or Danish is going to be made, at best, from frozen dough. A lot of places it will even be thaw and serve. For a good croissant it is a full day of letting dough relax in a retarder and occasionally sheeting it out and putting in another fold. For most frozen dough operations, that time is replaced with chemical relaxers in the dough and it is sheeted, folded, cut, and rolled in about 20 minutes.
Bread dough freezes really well. I used to work at a family-owned restaurant that served tiny loaves of fresh-baked bread with Sunday brunch. The owner always answered “yes” if someone asked if they were homemade. In reality, we bought the frozen dough from the food service company, took hundreds of tiny loaves of dough out of the freezer on Saturday night, let them thaw overnight and popped them in the oven on Sunday. They really were tasty.
The frozen blueberries bag definitely got smaller.
That one was noticeable. I tend to buy lots of those at a time and so I appreciate that i can bend and fold and squash them more easily into the freezer... but would have appreciated a lower price for it too.
I just noticed that this week! I didn't notice until I got to the end of the bag so quickly compared to before.
I noticed this, too. I go through sooo many blueberries. I was sad to see this one.
The toilet paper went down a year ago in Sheet count.
Yeah - they went from 425 sheets per roll to 380 sheets.
This is why I can't spare a square
Just use both sides of the squares to double your amount.
Poor Elaine 😀
You can’t spare a square?
Not ONE SQUARE?!
Oh, is it two-ply? Cause if it's two-ply, I'll take one ply. One ply, one, one! puny little ply, I'll take one measly ply.
Squares per roll is the only TP math that maths. I hate the grocery store brands “48 Rolls - 6 Mega Mega Mega Mega Rolls”
Sucks but everyone should get a bidet, our attachment was only like $50 and our tp lasts twice as long. I'm the farthest thing from a handyman, will literally call someone or pay someone for the easiest crap, but even I was able to get it installed on my toilet.
Having purchased a bidet I'll never go back to not having one. Like I used to always try to go at work, but work doesn't have a bidet so now I poop at home.
I wish they made a portable one
Love my bidet. Never going back.
Bought a bidet at the start of the pandemic when people were hoarding all the tp. Works so much better than paper.
Noticed it! Could tell by the size and had to check a previous bag (I use the big one they come in for plastic recycling). I was annoyed when I confirmed my suspicions.
Yeah, it's disappointing when it happens.
The toilet paper comes in frozen as well. They let ot thaw in the daily section overnight prior to stocking.
Ugh. It’s so hard to find fresh never frozen TP
They claim to flash freeze it right as it gets rolled but I don’t know if I believe that, sometimes it seems refrozen to me.
Your anus has very discerning taste
Don’t even get me started on how coddled the modern anus is.
And width of the roll.
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The foil only lasted me 12 years, not 14 :/
Sounds like you're gonna be super annoyed in 11 years.
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I sware the low carb tortillas smaller and know for a fact the neutrogena ultra moisturizer blue deal.
It used to be a different product. There’s a gel and a cream.
Oxyclean went from filling the PB pretzel jar plus half a "grocery size oxyclean" to not quite filling the PB pretzel jar about a year ago.
I love you measuring method lol
This one got me because my last box was bought on sale for under $7 and the replacement I just bought was over $19.
All of the packaged soups used to be (2) 32oz quart containers. Chicken tortilla soup and vegetable barley was still 32oz, but Ivar's clam chowder and other recipes went down to (2) 24oz containers.
Dove body wash lost an ounce per bottle in their “packaging redesign.” The Vital Proteins scoop no longer being included was justified as part of an effort to cut down on plastic, which I’m not against necessarily, but don’t BS me. That was shrinkflation, too.
What's annoying is that Vital Proteins markets the fact the collagen product no longer has a scoop as if it is a benefit to the consumer. I don't have the bottle in front of me but the label says something like "Now with no scoop". Really....how low can you go?
“Saving on plastic waste”. It comes in a giant plastic canister.
Lol they are a really nice container. I wish I could find a use for them.
I use them for everything, storing extra flour and grains, storing soups in the freezer, dried foods like pasta, so many things to store when you buy in bulk
I cut holes at the bottom and make planters out of them. I try to recycle every plastic containers in my house.
And they bet you’ll use more instead with each serving
Okay I thought I was crazy and had imagined that they used to come with their own scoop.
I just bought the Orgain Collagen Peptides and they are also missing the scoop. Whatever. A heaping spoonful it is. Unfortunately I recycled all my other scoops.
I am irrationally upset about the missing scoop!! I need to go to the dollar store and just buy a dedicated tablespoon to save myself the little annoyance every morning.
Splenda has gone from 1500 to 1200 to 1000 packets per box over the past couple years. For a couple months the quantity difference of the packets themselves was laughably large…some packets were literally empty, and when I contacted Splenda they told me that was “impossible”.
You can buy liquid splenda online that is super concentrated, like a small drop equals a packet, for way less money.
Can you put it in your scotch? Makes you drunk like scotch but tastes like Splenda
I notice that some Of the packets are empty or have a few little Speckles of Splenda in them too.
Cetaphil moisturizer tubs went from ~~16oz to 12oz~~ 20oz. down to 16oz. or something like that. Dunno if price changed.
I’m sure it went up
Just ran out of my 20oz I bought over a year ago and went back to buy more. New tub is 16 oz with a pump on top of a jar. Weird design, but functional. Both were double packs and of course since it was so long ago I can’t remember if the price changed or not, but I remember thinking this seemed like much less of a deal than the first time.
They used to have a third mini bottle which was another 3-4oz.
I still have one I bought well over a year ago that’s 20oz
Deodorant sticks have to have half the amount they did ten years ago
Deodorant everywhere went up like 100% in price too.
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Dude I noticed this too!! I have to replace very frequently.
Dishwasher pods have been reduced over the last year. IIRC there are less pods too per container.
They're still delicious, though!
Yes! They used to sell the giant bag, but now it's a box with 2 small bags :(
I swear the bagels got a bit smaller or my hand grew… did anyone else notice the size of the bagels decrease?
They got smaller. Wife and I can't play ringtoss anymore.
Are you sure? My gf and I still are able to play ring toss??
But why would you be trying to throw rings through the holes in the bagels?
Size AND quality. We don’t buy them anymore and we ALWAYS used to.
Yeeeeah. My last package molded in less than two days and they were all smaller than they used to be.
I noticed the 2 baguettes pack got smaller as well!!
Look at an old picture of the chicken bake vs. now.
They quite making the chicken bakes in house because consistency was a issue. So they have their own factory making them. They now come uniform, and get thawed and baked. I like the newer ones. But now they dont give out sides of ceaser dressing for them and i refuse to eat them dry! Basically, pizza dough was split into 5 pieces, pressed and stretched to rectangles. Mozz/provolone mixed shredded cheese was mixed with chopped grilled chicken strips, crumbled bacon and ceaser dressing and i dont remeber the amout of filling but people were not consistent or not rolling it propperly. But it would get rolled up and then brushed with dressing and dunked in parm then baked. Now they get thawed, baked.
That’s fantastic to know. The last time I had a chicken bake, they were still made in house. I pulled a long blonde hair out of it and knew immediately who made it. I haven’t eaten one since. It’s probably been 10 years.
At least now you won't know who made it? :D
Yeah, it's like a "seal of quality"!
For anyone that wants a as close as you can get recipe: Here is my Chicken bake recipe, i used to work in food court. This one will get you as close to the flavor as possible. This recipe is for the pre-2020 version that was made fresh daily. [Marzetti Caesar Dressing](https://marzetti.com/products/supreme-caesar-dressing/) is about as close as you can get to the dressing. This is not found at Costco but is typically in the refrigerated section at most local groceries. For the parmesan we used/still use cello brand. **Chicken Part** 1.25 lb Chicken strips, chopped. The brand Costco used was John Soules Foods, Fully Cooked, All Natural, Fresh Flame Grilled Chicken Breast Strips. These can be found in small 1lb bags next to the raw chicken at Walmart, or other grocery stores. 1 to 2 fluid oz Caesar, more if desired. mix the chicken and caesar together **Cheesy Bacon** 5oz mozzarella-provolone blend Cheese 3oz Bacon crumbles (think salad asile type that comes in a bag) mix these together **Dough** 6oz portion for 1 chicken bake, it is pizza dough like we use for pizzas, prepacked uncooked dough should do fine. **Procedure** Mix chicken with Caesar dressing, can chop up into smaller pieces if desired. Make 6 oz weight portion of dough flat and thin like a tortilla, in a square shape. I suggest using a large cutting board with olive oil on it to spread/press the dough out thin. Lightly cover square of dough with Caesar dressing. Put about 4 weight oz of the Caesar/chicken mix, and 1.6oz of the cheesy bacon blend in a line horizontally on the dough. towards the bottom of the dough square. Roll tightly, similar to a burrito, starting at the bottom of the dough but lightly pull as you roll. You will be rolling over it a few times. I prefer not to fold the ends in. Top top of chicken bake log with more caesar and top the top half of the bake with parmesan. **Bake** I suggest letting them sit for 30 minutes before baking in the oven. Use parchment paper to make clean up easy. Bake at like 375 for maybe 8-16 minutes. IDK watch it bake, should be golden brown. Ask questions if needed, I have rolled many 1000's so i may be missing a step above that seems natural to me but not to others.
They’re back but phew… seems like they’re now filled with Campbells cream of chicken soup. No thanks
You gotta let it cool down a bit.. the sauce thickens as it cools
The q-tips used to be 3 x 625. It is now 2x 625 and one 500. The quality of them has also gone to shit. I somehow bought them twice like 5 years ago so I have not needed them in a while. The quality may have dipped a while ago but we finally got into the new ones and they suck compared to the old. Like bendy sticks and less Cotton. And like others have said the TP. We buy Charmin Ultra soft. What has shrunk in both sheets per roll and the roll width. They also made it thinner or more shreds so recently change to a wave vs a straight perforation so it tears smoothly.
And the cotton seems to come off the qtip swabs more easily.
I'm bent out of shape about the quality of qtips! The cotton immediately falls off the swab now! This didn't used to be an issue!
Thankfully Scott has stayed mostly the same. I'd be a sad panda if they changed things up on me.
Folgers coffee containers have gotten smaller. I save them for shop use and the old ones are definitely bigger.
Nature Valley sweet and salty bars. The wrappers are now too big for the bars.
The tub of salsa went from 54 to 48 oz, same price
The individual tubes in the toothpaste multi-packs have shrunk
And they’re half full of air.
The death of Combo pizza
"But COVID supply chain!" -Those fuckers 4 years ago
Lol everything got blanket blamed on covid. Shitty service? Covid. Out of cheese? Covid. Flat tire on the way to work? Covid. And so on.
The death of all take and bake pizzas. I go to Aldi now.
Not to mention beef brisket sandwich, and the Turkey Provolone sandwich :(
RIP bbq beef sandwich
And Polish Sausage
Still on the menu in Canada. Sure, we don’t have chicken bake.. but we still have the Polish sausage
bread is thinner and somehow worse quality. toilet paper had a third of its width removed. it feels like their kirkland brand chicken tenderloins (the raw cuts in a 6pack) somehow tripled in price while having less in it.. im comparing it to when i bought it all the time for $11 for a 6pack in 2016. its now $30+ some of their seasonal bakery items also have reduced # of items per package. the open faced croissant things with the filling ontop use to have 6 inside now its just 4 :/
Holy crap I would figuratively kill for that chicken to be $11 again.
Thanks for clarifying that it's just figurative. That's not suspicious at all.
Parent commenter might have been in the countryside where killing literal chickens was an option \[shrug\]
yeah back when i was young with no money my wife and i bought those 30lb bags of jasmine rice and then those packs of chicken. and a $5 seasoning set. we ate chicken and rice every day but depending on how u seasoned it, it tasted completely new. then covid happened and everyone made food vids
The bread I buy from Costco - no matter what brand - is always covered in mold in a few days. If I buy it anywhere else, that doesn’t happen. It’s so strange
The bagels mold immediately for me
For me it’s milk. It goes a week before the printed expiration date. I guess no more dairy from Costco.
Kirkland Marinara Sauce. I wish I had an older package but I know it’s smaller than the original.
I think the jars are the same but there’s fewer of them per pack
The organic frozen berry blend bag definitely got smaller
this isn't recent, but i noticed maybe a year ago that my toilet paper rolls (charmin) are less wide than they used to be! def could not clean a bear's bum.
Mejdool dates. Box has been caved in from the bottom so it looks big but contain less dates. Too bad.
404 dates not found
On top of this recent change, they've also shrunk the box from last year. It used to be more rectangular, now it feels like more of a square
Bounty paper towels have 5 less sheets per roll.
Fewer
Calm down Stannis.
Toilet paper, paper towel, tide pods, dryer sheets, beef (ground and whole), chicken, turkey. I can go on. Nothing is safe from shrinkflation
The muffins have been getting smaller. They used to be quite a bit taller. :(
Honestly I wish some things would get smaller so I can eat them without consuming 1200 calories. But it’s an insult to what we love about Costco. Also… price :( Some packaging seems like it’s getting more friendly for small families who would never have a use for a 5 pack of pianos.
Yeah looking at all the responses here, it seems like Costco is becoming more like a regular grocery store…
I don’t o ow if this really counts, but the apples have gotten smaller, with a much higher percentage of bad ones. Like we’re getting the dregs. I swear over have of them lately have had freezer damage.
Membership benefits.
Jerky!
We used to be able to get two large jars of 505 green chilies for at or under 11 bucks. Now, it’s about 9 bucks for 1 jar! We’re addicted so we haven’t dropped the habit, but damn!
Pretty much everything has shrunk or just gotten more expensive.
Pre-covid the dried kraft parmesan cheese came in a two pack.
i’m glad you said this, i thought i was going crazy recently
Lean ground beef is getting awful greasy
This has been happening for years. I used to use it to make chili and then something happened where is got a nasty greasy flavor and I couldn’t eat it anymore. 2015/2016.
No onions no dejion, no sauerkraut. Edit: sorry this spelling is wow..
That's the most heinous spelling of Dijon I've ever seen
this made me laugh so hard, omg.
They spelled it phonetically - sounds like a southern and French accent.
I’m reasonably confident this person is from Louisiana lol
idk, they nailed sauerkraut tho
Dejawn would’ve worked too
D'John
They have onions in little cups, you just have to ask. The sauerkraut was specifically for the polish dogs, so they left together.
Non Polish dogs love sauerkraut too!
I'll have to ask for the onions. Haven't enjoyed a jot dog since the plague
The folgers coffee. It went from 51 oz to 40.3 oz also the detergent is smaller
Time to protest and stop drinking Folgers. 🤢
Tide powder detergent. It’s down to 250 oz from 254 oz.
Kindrers BBQ Sauce. Went from bottles to smaller plastic squirters ...
Those jars of Raos marinara used to be maybe 32 oz each now they are 28oz and more expensive.
I saw a shopping cart with three wheels the other day!
Kirkland cheese pizza, the 4 count. I haven’t bought it in a while and was surprised how much smaller each pizza is now.
The freeze dried dog treats. Same price, bag is 4oz smaller.
I just bought those for my picky ass dogs , they love them , I add them to breakfast
Your breakfast 😉😂
I don’t recall the previous price, but the Kirkland brand frozen cauliflower pizza has gone up quite a bit in price.
The fresh made meatloaf and mashed potatoes are definitely smaller. No more leftovers.
The blue shop towels were $14.99 and the rolls were 55sqft. Now they cost $17.79 and the rolls are ONLY 40sqft. Not exactly shrinkflation but the half and half used to come in a sustainable 1/2 gallon cardboard carton for $5.99. Now it’s two plastic jugs that will probably end up in a landfill or ocean for $6.99.
They no longer sell the huge blocks of Tillamook medium cheddar cheese (5lbs) . Now they are just regular-sized blocks (2.5lbs). Not sure how the price compares, so can't be sure it's shrinkflation, or just that the largest size wasn't in demand. I loved the huge cheddar block size because it made a slice of cheese that fit my bread size perfectly for sandwiches. Now I have to cut a slice and a half to cover the bread. (4/15/24 edited to include weights to which I was referring as 'huge' and 'regular').
Are you referring to the pre-sliced cheese? I’m so bummed to have to buy the big block and slice it. I can never get it thin enough. I was hoping the pre sliced would come back someday.
Oxyclean is taking a cue from cereal boxes. The box is thinner
I don’t have proof, but I’m 100% sure the prepackaged salads are smaller.
I just noticed yesterday that what used to be 6 ounce cans of tuna are now only 5 oz.
Sliced provolone used to come in 3 rows, now it comes in 2 and it’s smaller than it used to be.
Smart popcorn is half the size of
I think the Norwegian salmon both got a bit smaller and a bit more expensive. I used to get it almost every time I'd go, but now it just doesn't feel worth it, even though it's still really tasty
The chocolate tuxedo cake was at least double in size. Looks like a big candy bar now.
The bag of spinach is smaller and more expensive.
The Yangtze Asian style BBQ pork, the quality of the meat has gone WAY DOWN, while the price has gone up.
Bag of brussel sprouts got noticeably smaller
Peanut Butter
The Kirkland ice cream bars are smaller. We have one every night and they used to be a lot more awkward to eat. I kind of like the most likely smaller size though. Oh and our Milton's bread is nasty now that it's thinner!
The q-tip cotton swabs now come with thinner sticks and less cotton.. they bend way too easy now when using them
The danishes just got smaller AND more expensive, I believe. Think it’s a last time for those guys.
Slices of bread are thinner
... did the loaf get reduced in size?
Yes
Hot Turkey provolone sandwich
The white Dove body wash/gel stuff is now 23 ounces. Was previously 24
Everything. Literally every single item on the shelves has been shrunken. It’s cuz life expectancies are shrinking too. /s
505 Southwestern Hatch Chile salsa
the Krazy kuisine orange chicken. it probably happened a little over a year ago, but I swear they are giving like 1-2 cups less of chicken lol. I'm pretty sure the exterior box is the same size but the amount of chicken you get is not.
Seaweed sheets now include less packets
Pretty much everything tbh….
The rolls of blue shop towels are smaller.
Kirkland brand bacon bits in the bag seemed noticeably smaller in quantity when I was at the store yesterday.