Did Persil Universal Megaperls Tiefenrein (Austria) shrink?
Before you paid €6.99 per kg; after, €8.69 per kg: 24.3% more for the same amount.
How big a cut? The 17th-largest of 100 documented laundry cuts; a bigger cut than 72% of all 1,366 cases in the library. See the biggest cuts →
- When
- 2024 · reported 2 Oct 2024
- Country
- Austria
- Brand
- Persil
- 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 kilogram changed +24.3%, 22.9 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
“Persil Universal Megaperls Und wieder ein Waschmittel. Und wieder Henkel. Einer Leserin fiel auf, dass die Verpackung der Persil Universal Megaperls Tiefenrein von 1,43 kg auf 1,15 kg geschrumpft ist - statt für 26 Waschgänge ist nur noch Pulver für 23 Waschgänge enthalten.”
More from Austria: the Austria shrinkflation list has all 37 documented cases, sortable and filterable.
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