The shelf price of popular German biscuits Choco Leibniz will stay the same despite manufacturers Bahlsen choosing to remove one biscuit from each pack. Read this and the rest of today's consumer and personal finance news below - and leave your thoughts in the comments box.
The shelf price of popular German biscuits Choco Leibniz will stay the same despite manufacturers Bahlsen choosing to remove one biscuit from each pack.The old 125g packs - available in milk chocolate, white chocolate, orange chocolate and dark chocolate - contained nine biscuits, with the new 111g packs containing eight.Despite this, prices have remained at £1.85 at supermarkets including Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury's, according to Assosia.
Speaking to the Grocer, a spokeswoman for Bahlsen claimed that rising input costs were to blame for the shrinkflation, adding that shelf prices were at the discretion of the retailer.'Bahlsen is a mid-sized family-owned manufacturer, and along with the entire industry has been, and continues to be, under enormous cost pressures,' she said.'Prices for essential raw materials, such as cocoa, have risen significantly and recently reached unprecedented highs in Europe.
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