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French supermarket Carrefour has put stickers on its shelves this week warning shoppers of "shrinkflation" - where packet contents are getting smaller while prices are not.
Lipton Ice Tea, Lindt chocolate and Viennetta ice cream are among the products being named and shamed.
Shoppers are being told if bottles are smaller or pack contents lighter.
Carrefour said it wanted to put pressure on the firms making the products to keep prices down.
"Obviously, the aim in stigmatising these products is to be able to tell manufacturers to rethink their pricing policy," said Stefen Bompais, director of client communications at Carrefour.
Carrefour has identified 26 products that have shrunk, without a price reduction to match, made by food giants including Nestle, PepsiCo and Unilever.
Carrefour said Guigoz infant milk formula produced by Nestle had gone from a pack size of 900g to 830g, for example.
A bottle of sugar-free peach-flavoured Lipton Ice Tea, produced by PepsiCo, shrank to 1.25 litres from 1.5 litres, the supermarket said.
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We're going to start seeing a lot of these "shrinkflated" products on our supermarket shelves in the near future. Particularly in the US where I'm located, as far as I'm concerned.
Lipton Ice Tea, Lindt chocolate and Viennetta ice cream are among the products being named and shamed.
Shoppers are being told if bottles are smaller or pack contents lighter.
Carrefour said it wanted to put pressure on the firms making the products to keep prices down.
"Obviously, the aim in stigmatising these products is to be able to tell manufacturers to rethink their pricing policy," said Stefen Bompais, director of client communications at Carrefour.
Carrefour has identified 26 products that have shrunk, without a price reduction to match, made by food giants including Nestle, PepsiCo and Unilever.
Carrefour said Guigoz infant milk formula produced by Nestle had gone from a pack size of 900g to 830g, for example.
A bottle of sugar-free peach-flavoured Lipton Ice Tea, produced by PepsiCo, shrank to 1.25 litres from 1.5 litres, the supermarket said.
France's Carrefour puts up 'shrinkflation' warning signs
Carrefour is telling its customers which products are smaller than they used to be.
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We're going to start seeing a lot of these "shrinkflated" products on our supermarket shelves in the near future. Particularly in the US where I'm located, as far as I'm concerned.
