Did Galaxy Minstrels sharing pouch shrink?
Before you paid £1.40 per 100 g; after, £1.48 per 100 g: 5.9% more for the same amount.
How big a cut? The joint 177th-largest of 189 documented chocolate & candy cuts (tied with 1 other); a bigger cut than 9% of all 1,366 cases in the library. See the biggest cuts →
- When
- 2025 · reported 25 Feb 2025
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Brand
- Galaxy
- Category
- Chocolate & Candy
- Source
- thegrocer.co.uk
Source and evidence
Against official inflation: ONS CPI (UK) “sugar, jam, honey, syrups, chocolate and confectionery” changed +9.5% (12 months to Feb 2025). This pack’s price per gram changed +5.9%, 3.6 percentage points below 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
“…Both of these examples are equivalent to a 10.1% price increase per gram of product. Galaxy Minstrels Pouch 125g has been swapped for a 118g pack in Asda , with the price remaining stable at £1.75, equivalent to a 10.8% price increase.”
More from the UK: the UK Shrinkflation Tracker has all 175 documented cases, sortable and filterable.
Topic guide: chocolate shrinkflation, every documented case in one place, brand by brand.
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