Did Lay's Nature crisps, 300 g bag (France) shrink?
Before you paid €0.97 per 100 g; after, €1.28 per 100 g: 32.4% more for the same amount.
How big a cut? The joint 24th-largest of 94 documented chips & snacks cuts (tied with 6 others); a bigger cut than 62% of all 1,366 cases in the library. See the biggest cuts →
- When
- 2023 · reported 5 Sep 2023
- Country
- France
- Brand
- Lay's
- Category
- Chips & Snacks
- Source
- bfmtv.com
Source and evidence
Against official inflation: Eurostat HICP (FR) “processed food excluding alcohol and tobacco” changed +12.1% (12 months to Sep 2023, a broad match for this category). This pack’s price per gram changed +32.4%, 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
“…Comme les chips et les tortillas vendues par le groupe américain Pepsico. En mai, le paquet de chips Lay's nature de 300 grammes s'est allégé de 50 grammes. Son prix de vente est quant à lui passé de 2,90 euros à 3,20 euros. Soit une hausse au kilo de plus de 32%.”
More from France: the France shrinkflation list has all 21 documented cases, sortable and filterable.
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