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Did Dean's shortbread petticoat tails and fingers (UK) shrink?

Size FactsDid it shrink? Yes
Before150 g
After125 g
−16.7%smaller
Price per 100 g · observed+20.0%Shelf price £2.10 → £2.10, as recorded by the source.

Before you paid £1.40 per 100 g; after, £1.68 per 100 g: 20.0% more for the same amount.

How big a cut? The 24th-largest of 56 documented cookies & crackers cuts; a bigger cut than 62% of all 1,366 cases in the library. See the biggest cuts →

When
2026 · reported 19 May 2026
Country
United Kingdom
Brand
Dean's
Category
Cookies & Crackers
Source
allsupers.co.uk

Source and evidence

Dean's Shortbread Petticoat Tails 125g: 150 g → 125 g — Shrinkflation | Allsupers | Allsupers allsupers.co.uk

Source fetched 2026-10-21. All 59 Allsupers cases.

Petticoat tails £2.10 and fingers £1.20 at Morrisons, both unchanged. Found by Allsupers' automated check of Morrisons listings: the old listing disappeared and a smaller pack of the same product appeared (new pack since 19 May 2026); regular price £2.10 before, £2.10 after. Other matching Allsupers records: record 1615.

Evidence
Typeautomated supermarket price tracker (Allsupers register; retailer listings, regular prices recorded)
Confidencemedium
Size cut alone, at the old price+20.0%

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Against official inflation: ONS CPI (UK) “other bakery products” changed −0.4% (12 months to May 2026). This pack’s price per gram changed +20.0%, 20.4 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

“Before: Dean's Shortbread Petticoat Tails (Morrisons), size 150 g, regular price £2.10, price per unit £14.00/kg. Now: Dean's Shortbread Petticoat Tails 125g (Morrisons), size 125 g, regular price £2.10, price per unit £16.80/kg. First detected: 25 May 2026. New pack since 19 May 2026.”

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ShrinkRadar, “Did Dean's shortbread petticoat tails and fingers (UK) shrink? 150 g → 125 g”, https://shrinkradar.com/cases/dean-s-shortbread-petticoat-tails-and-fingers-uk-uk-2026.html, accessed 2026-11-05. Original source: Dean's Shortbread Petticoat Tails 125g: 150 g → 125 g — Shrinkflation | Allsupers | Allsupers (https://allsupers.co.uk/research/shrinkflation/ean_swap/1614).

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