Did Findus colin d'Alaska à la bordelaise (France) shrink?
Size FactsDid it shrink? Yes
Before400 g
After380 g
−5.0%smaller
Price per 100 g · if the price stayed the same+5.3%Hypothetical: the size cut alone. The source recorded no shelf prices.
How big a cut? The 34th-largest of 35 documented frozen foods cuts; a bigger cut than 6% of all 1,366 cases in the library. See the biggest cuts →
- When
- 2023 · reported 7 Feb 2024
- Country
- France
- Brand
- Findus
- Category
- Frozen Foods
- Source
- foodwatch.org
Source and evidence
Against official inflation: Eurostat HICP (FR) “ready-made food” changed +4.0% (12 months to Feb 2024, a broad match for this category). The size cut alone raises the price per gram by +5.3% if the shelf price stayed the same (the source recorded no prices). Every case is compared the same way in the ShrinkRadar Index.
What the source says
“…Ce produit a aussi subi de la shrinkflation puisque son poids est passé de 400g à 380g sur la même période, rapetissant de 5%.”
More from France: the France shrinkflation list has all 21 documented cases, sortable and filterable.
Topic guide: frozen food shrinkflation, every documented case in one place, brand by brand.
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