Did Ocean Spray cranberry sauce jar, smooth and whole shrink?

Size FactsDid it shrink? Yes
Before250 g
After200 g
−20.0%smaller
Price per 100 g · if the price stayed the same+25.0%Hypothetical: the size cut alone. The source recorded no shelf prices.

How big a cut? The joint 13th-largest of 37 documented baking & spreads cuts (tied with 3 others); a bigger cut than 72% of all 1,366 cases in the library. See the biggest cuts →

When
2024 · reported 7 Dec 2024
Country
United Kingdom
Brand
Ocean Spray
Category
Baking & Spreads
Source
which.co.uk

Source and evidence

Which? — 'Tis the season for shrinkflation! Which? reveals the Christmas items that have shrunk (7 Dec 2024) which.co.uk

Source fetched 2026-10-14. All 51 Which? cases.

Both the smooth and the whole-berry sauce went from 250 g to 200 g (20% less) while the price stayed the same at Tesco, Sainsbury's and Morrisons. Ocean Spray told Which? it resized the jars to the category norm.

Evidence
Typeconsumer-group investigation (sizes and prices compared Oct 2023 vs Oct 2024)
Confidencehigh

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Against official inflation: ONS CPI (UK) “food” changed +2.0% (12 months to Dec 2024, a broad match for this category). The size cut alone raises the price per gram by +25.0% 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

“…Ocean Spray’s cranberry sauces have shrunk the most. Both its smooth and whole cranberry sauces went from 250g to 200g, meaning you get 20% less in a jar this year.”

More from the UK: the UK Shrinkflation Tracker has all 175 documented cases, sortable and filterable.

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ShrinkRadar, “Did Ocean Spray cranberry sauce jar, smooth and whole shrink? 250 g → 200 g”, https://shrinkradar.com/cases/ocean-spray-cranberry-sauce-jar-smooth-and-whole-uk-2024.html, accessed 2026-11-05. Original source: Which? — 'Tis the season for shrinkflation! Which? reveals the Christmas items that have shrunk (7 Dec 2024) (https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/shrinkflation-which-reveals-the-christmas-items-that-have-shrunk-adWZu2O4vkjm).

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