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Smith's

Frazzles Crispy Bacon Multipack

Significant erosion·shrink only
33/ 100

Then vs now

Then · 2021
n/a for 8 bags
n/a
Now · 2021
n/a for 6 bags
n/a
+33%
hidden price rise per bagif the shelf price held flat

The pack shrank from 8 bags to 6 bags with no price cut on record. Hold the shelf price flat and that is a hidden 33% price rise per bag.

Brand head-to-head

Crisp multipack bags

6 bagsin the pack now
down from 8 bags, a 25% smaller pack
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Smith's
Frazzles Crispy Bacon Multipack
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6 bagsin the pack now
down from 8 bags, a 25% smaller pack
This pack
5 bagsin the pack now
down from 6 bags, a 17% smaller pack
20 bagsin the pack now
down from 24 bags, a 17% smaller pack
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Four lunchbox multipacks that lost bags in the 2021-2023 cull while the box and the price held. The question is not that crisps got dearer, it is which brand quietly handed your kids the fewest bags for the same money.

Like-for-like rivals ranked by pack size. Sources on each pack's own page.

How the score is built

Shrink · quantityCounts
Price per measure moved +33% between the earliest and latest pack on record.
Skimp · qualityNo data
No recipe change on record for this product.

Value Erosion Score 33/100 is scored on the one pillar we have data for, and labelled as such. How we score.

The receipts

  1. Oct 2021Pack
    6 bags
    price not on record
  2. Jan 2021Pack
    8 bags
    price not on record

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