Did Scrub Daddy Sponge Daddy dual-sided sponges (UK) shrink?
Before you paid £1.10 per sponge; after, £1.17 per sponge: 6.1% more for the same amount.
How big a cut? The joint 5th-largest of 52 documented dish & cleaning cuts (tied with 1 other); a bigger cut than 84% of all 1,366 cases in the library. See the biggest cuts →
- When
- 2026 · reported 14 Jul 2026
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Brand
- Scrub Daddy
- Category
- Dish & Cleaning
- Source
- allsupers.co.uk
Source and evidence
Against official inflation: ONS CPI (UK) “cleaning and maintenance products” changed +4.3% (12 months to Jul 2026). This pack’s price per unit changed +6.1%, 1.8 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
“Before: Scrub Daddy Sponge Daddy Dual Sided Sponge 4 Pack (Tesco), size 4 st, regular price £4.40, price per unit £1.10/st. Now: Scrub Daddy Sponge Dual sided Scrubber Sponge Daddy 3 pack (Tesco), size 3 st, regular price £3.50, price per unit £1.17/st. First detected: 14 July 2026. New pack since 14 July 2026.”
More from the UK: the UK Shrinkflation Tracker has all 175 documented cases, sortable and filterable.
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