Submitted on Tuesday 29th March 2016
Rejected on Sunday 10th April 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
If a company makes a product smaller, they must declare so on the packaging.
Companies have been making household goods smaller without passing savings onto customers. While cost cutting has long been a business practice, doing so in a deceitful way is not acceptable when customers are trying to make informed decisions on the value of a product.
Hovis best of both bread 6.25% reduction
Innocent orange juice 10% reduction
Cathedral city cheddar cheese 12.5% reduction
Imperial Leather soap 20% reduction
Surf washing powder 20% reduction
Tether 80 teabags reduced to 75
As of April 2015
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can't accept your petition because the UK Government and Parliament aren't responsible for the issue you raise. The UK Government and Parliament are not responsible for product sizes, this is the responsibility of individual companies. You could contact the companies you mention to ask them to declare changes on their packaging.
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