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For straight-up size changes, sure. Here's one that got me recently. The El Monterey frozen burrito, Steak & 3-Cheese version. It used to be just steak and che
by function_seven 5y ago
For straight-up size changes, sure.
Here's one that got me recently. The El Monterey frozen burrito, Steak & 3-Cheese version. It used to be just steak and cheese as the filling. And some chilies. https://i.imgur.com/os3RK8y.png https://i.imgur.com/os3RK8y.png
They swapped that out for one with rice included. It tastes worse, has less protein, almost certainly less cheese, but still sells for the same price. https://i.imgur.com/hgGTNVI.png https://i.imgur.com/hgGTNVI.png
No mention on their website of this at all. If it were an improvement, I'd expect the marketing department to tout it. But it's not. Instead of raising the frozen burrito price from $1 to $1.19 or whatever, they replaced expensive ingredients with rice.
It's still the same SKU, weighs the same, and sells for the same price. I'm sure the CPI impact is 0.
- shoemakersteve 5y agoI've noticed over the last couple of years that frozen meals, especially pasta or anything with sauce, has had their sauce slowly replaced with water. Now there's usually not even enough sauce to cover all the noodles. I went through a phase where I basically wasn't cooking ever so I ate a lot of them. I'm actually thankful though, the fact that they became pretty gross made me finally decide that I needed to start cooking again.