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Did Aldi gourmet baguette with olive oil (Spain) shrink?

Size FactsDid it shrink? Yes
Before300 g
After260 g
−13.3%smaller
Price per 100 g · observed+54.3%Shelf price €0.89 → €1.19, as recorded by the source.

Before you paid €0.30 per 100 g; after, €0.46 per 100 g: 54.3% more for the same amount.

How big a cut? The 9th-largest of 14 documented bread & bakery cuts; a bigger cut than 53% of all 1,366 cases in the library. See the biggest cuts →

When
2022–2023 · reported 17 Feb 2023
Country
Spain
Brand
Aldi
Category
Bread & Bakery
Source
cronista.com

Source and evidence

El Cronista — Alerta reduflación: detectan 10 productos afectados por la trampa de los envases (FACUA, 17 Feb 2023) cronista.com

Source fetched 2026-11-05.

FACUA: Aldi's gourmet olive-oil baguette cost €0.89 for 300 g in January 2022 and €1.19 for 260 g in January 2023 (+54% per kilo).

Evidence
Typeconsumer organisation shelf-price comparison (FACUA) reported by news site
Confidencehigh
Size cut alone, at the old price+15.4%

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Against official inflation: Eurostat HICP (ES) “bread and bakery products” changed +19.4% (12 months to Feb 2023). This pack’s price per gram changed +54.3%, 34.9 percentage points above the official rate, using the shelf prices the source recorded. Every case is compared the same way in the ShrinkRadar Index.

What the source says

“…Enero de 2023: 2,75 euros por 500 g. Barra de pan gourmet con aceite de oliva de Aldi: aumento de 54,3% el kilo Enero de 2022: 89 céntimos por 300 g. Enero de 2023: 1,19 euros por 260 g.”

Store brand: this is a Aldi own-label product. See all Aldi store-brand cases or store-brand shrinkflation across retailers.

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ShrinkRadar, “Did Aldi gourmet baguette with olive oil (Spain) shrink? 300 g → 260 g”, https://shrinkradar.com/cases/aldi-gourmet-baguette-with-olive-oil-spain-2022-2023.html, accessed 2026-11-05. Original source: El Cronista — Alerta reduflación: detectan 10 productos afectados por la trampa de los envases (FACUA, 17 Feb 2023) (https://www.cronista.com/espana/economia-finanzas/alerta-reduflacion-detectan-10-productos-afectados-por-la-trampa-de-los-envases).

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