Did Lipton Ice Tea bottle (France) shrink?

Size FactsDid it shrink? Yes
Before1.5 l
After1.25 l
−16.7%smaller
Price per l · if the price stayed the same+20.0%Hypothetical: the size cut alone. The source recorded no shelf prices.

How big a cut? The joint 19th-largest of 38 documented juice & drinks cuts (tied with 3 others); a bigger cut than 62% of all 1,366 cases in the library. See the biggest cuts →

When
2023 · reported Sep 2023
Country
France
Brand
Lipton
Category
Juice & Drinks
Source
cuisine.journaldesfemmes.fr

Source and evidence

Carrefour dénonce les marques qui réduisent les quantités tout en augmentant le prix de leurs produits cuisine.journaldesfemmes.fr

Source fetched 2026-10-20.

One of 26 products Carrefour flagged on its shelves from 11 September 2023; the price per litre rose more than 40%.

Evidence
Typeretailer shelf label (Carrefour 'shrinkflation' notice), reported by Journal des Femmes
Confidencehigh

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Against official inflation: Eurostat HICP (FR) “non-alcoholic beverages” changed +10.9% (12 months to Sep 2023). The size cut alone raises the price per litre by +20.0% 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

“…Autre exemple : une bouteille de Lipton IceTea a vu son prix au litre augmenter de plus de 40% alors que sa contenance passe de 1,5 à 1,25 litre.\n\n\"Une opération de communication\"\n\nSi la démarche de Carrefour participe à la transparence entre distributeur…”

More from France: the France shrinkflation list has all 21 documented cases, sortable and filterable.

Topic guide: juice, soda and drinks shrinkflation, every documented case in one place, brand by brand.

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ShrinkRadar, “Did Lipton Ice Tea bottle (France) shrink? 1.5 l → 1.25 l”, https://shrinkradar.com/cases/lipton-ice-tea-bottle-france-fr-2023.html, accessed 2026-11-05. Original source: Carrefour dénonce les marques qui réduisent les quantités tout en augmentant le prix de leurs produits (https://cuisine.journaldesfemmes.fr/gastronomie/2947005-ces-26-produits-ont-une-subi-une-shrinkflation-et-c-est-carrefour-qui-le-revele/).

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