Did Tesco Finest mini San Marzano tomatoes (UK) shrink?
Before you paid £0.80 per 100 g; after, £0.98 per 100 g: 22.7% more for the same amount.
How big a cut? The 35th-largest of 99 documented pasta, rice & meals cuts; a bigger cut than 71% of all 1,366 cases in the library. See the biggest cuts →
- When
- 2026 · reported 26 May 2026
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Brand
- Tesco
- Category
- Pasta, Rice & Meals
- Source
- allsupers.co.uk
Source and evidence
Against official inflation: ONS CPI (UK) “pasta products and couscous” changed +4.1% (12 months to May 2026, a broad match for this category). This pack’s price per gram changed +22.7%, 18.6 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: Tesco Finest Mini San Marzano Tomatoes 270G (Tesco), size 270 g, regular price £2.15, price per unit £7.96/kg. Now: Tesco Finest Mini San Marzano Tomatoes 220G (Tesco), size 220 g, regular price £2.15, price per unit £9.77/kg. First detected: 26 May 2026. New pack since 25 May 2026.”
Store brand: this is a Tesco own-label product. See all Tesco store-brand cases or store-brand shrinkflation across retailers.
More from the UK: the UK Shrinkflation Tracker has all 175 documented cases, sortable and filterable.
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