Even though prices have shot up for things like almond, soy, and oat milk, the size of refrigerated versions have always been 1.89L.
But I noticed some strangeness on the Walmart (Canada) website while building my grocery list where one brand, that is priced less than another brand, had a higher cost per 100ml.
As I looked into it, I noticed that several varieties have gone from 1.89L to 1.75L.
I'm getting real sick and tired of this.
7 Comments
Pseudoscience@lemm.ee · 14 pts · 3y
What brand, if I may ask?
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 3y
I noticed Silk and Earth's Own, but only several varieties/flavours at the moment. I expect all of them to shrink down to 1.75L once they sell out of the 1.89L sizes.
Inky@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3y
For Silk I've seen the 1.75L containers for quite a while. They are limited to the special varieties with more expensive ingredients such as the one with additional protein. I doubt this is an example of shrinkflation
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y
I do see that their special protein variety is in a 1.75L container, but this was oat milk, not some special type. I don't ever remember seeing a 1.75L container for Soy/Almond/Oat milk.
It looks like me like they did a rebrand from "Oat Yeah" (1.89L) to "Original Oat" (1.75L) and shrunk the quantity. Would that make sense?
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
Sells for around $5. A power blender could make that for around $0.20 in ingredients.
You would have to make the equivalent of 80 of those 1.75l oat milks to pay off a refurbished vitamix blender. That's about a year for our house. We buy organic oats in full 25kg bags and vacuum pack them, so I am considering this.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y
Since the post, we have been making our own almond milk. Pennies for the same amount, and everyone here loves it. Non dairy milk at the store has become such a scam.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 2y
Hello,
Fyi, I crossposted your content to !personalfinance@lemmy.ml