{"id":332272,"date":"2025-12-23T22:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332272\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T22:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:35:09","slug":"every-year-they-get-smaller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332272\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Every year they get smaller!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Britons have hit out at chocolate companies saying every year festive favourites are &#8220;getting smaller&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>For many families, Christmas traditions haven\u2019t changed, but the products on supermarket shelves certainly have. <\/p>\n<p>A wave of shrinkflation has swept through some of Britain\u2019s most-loved festive treats, with weights dropping and prices rising across major brands. <\/p>\n<p>Manufacturers say soaring production and ingredient costs have forced their hand, but shoppers say it feels like they\u2019re getting less for more.<\/p>\n<p> For example, shoppers will find out this year that they\u2019re getting 50g less chocolate than last Christmas. <\/p>\n<p>While the new tub dropped from 600g to 550g, supermarket prices have increased from \u00a36 to \u00a37.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH THE CLIP ABOVE FOR MORE <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britons have hit out at chocolate companies saying every year festive favourites are &#8220;getting smaller&#8221;. For many families,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,3462,93209,1294,50,56,54,55,88857],"class_list":["post-332272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-christmas","tag-clips","tag-economy","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-video-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}