Did Lenor laundry scent beads (Austria) shrink?
Before you paid €3.80 per 100 g; after, €4.37 per 100 g: 14.8% more for the same amount.
How big a cut? The 11th-largest of 100 documented laundry cuts; a bigger cut than 83% of all 1,366 cases in the library. See the biggest cuts →
- When
- 2024 · reported 2 Oct 2024
- Country
- Austria
- Brand
- Lenor
- Category
- Laundry
- Source
- konsument.at
Source and evidence
Against official inflation: Eurostat HICP (AT) “household cleaning and maintenance products” changed +1.5% (12 months to Oct 2024). This pack’s price per gram changed +14.8%, 13.4 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
“…Mit der neuen Verpackung haben sich die Verpackungsgrößen verändert und wir haben die unverbindlichen Preisempfehlungen angepasst. Die Plastikflasche enthielt 210 Gramm Duftperlen zu einem UVP von 7,99 €.”
More from Austria: the Austria shrinkflation list has all 37 documented cases, sortable and filterable.
Topic guide: laundry detergent shrinkflation, every documented case in one place, brand by brand.
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1600 → 1491 ml−6.8%
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900 → 850 ml−5.6%
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