Did Tesco roast chicken drumsticks (UK) shrink?
Before you paid £0.87 per 100 g; after, £0.93 per 100 g: 6.5% more for the same amount.
How big a cut? The 15th-largest of 45 documented meat & fish cuts; a bigger cut than 71% of all 1,366 cases in the library. See the biggest cuts →
- When
- 2026 · reported 31 Aug 2026
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Brand
- Tesco
- Category
- Meat & Fish
- Source
- allsupers.co.uk
Source and evidence
Against official inflation: ONS CPI (UK) “meat” changed +0.1% (12 months to Aug 2026, a broad match for this category). This pack’s price per gram changed +6.5%, 6.4 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 Roast Chicken Drumsticks 430g (Tesco), size 430 g, regular price £3.75, price per unit £8.72/kg. Now: Tesco Roast Chicken Drumsticks 350g (Tesco), size 350 g, regular price £3.25, price per unit £9.29/kg. First detected: 31 August 2026. New pack since 31 August 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.
Topic guide: meat and fish shrinkflation, every documented case in one place, brand by brand.
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