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The truth behind what is really shrinking in your shopping basket

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Feel like everything in the supermarket is getting smaller? Getting through those packets of biscuits quicker than you used to? Turns out you are not the only one.

A watchdog has found that products ranging from mouthwash to teabags are being downsized and downgraded as manufacturers and retailers cut costs.

Which? found that over three quarters of people (77%) have noticed “shrinkflation”, and 36% had noticed “skimpflation”.

What items are getting smaller?

Shrinkflation revealed - how many of these have you noticed?

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