Did Febreze air freshener spray (Austria) shrink?
Before you paid €1.32 per 100 ml; after, €2.14 per 100 ml: 62.2% more for the same amount.
How big a cut? The joint 3rd-largest of 10 documented household cuts (tied with 1 other); a bigger cut than 96% of all 1,366 cases in the library. See the biggest cuts →
- When
- 2024 · reported 2 Oct 2024
- Country
- Austria
- Brand
- Febreze
- Category
- Household
- Source
- konsument.at
Source and evidence
Against official inflation: Eurostat HICP (AT) “other non-durable household goods” changed +2.6% (12 months to Oct 2024). This pack’s price per millilitre changed +62.2%, 59.6 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
“…Wir erreichen diese Verbesserungen mit einer veränderten Zusammensetzung der eigentlichen Febreze-Flüssigkeit und des Treibmittels. Im Ergebnis enthalten die Flaschen nun 185 ml statt früher 300 ml, bei – wie oben beschrieben – nach wie vor 60 Sprühstößen pro Flasche.”
More from Austria: the Austria shrinkflation list has all 37 documented cases, sortable and filterable.
Topic guide: cleaning products and dish soap shrinkflation, every documented case in one place, brand by brand.
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