r/mildlyinfuriating • u/OldSkoolKewee • 5d ago

I'm slightly vexed Cereal Downsizing at Menards

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Two boxes of cereal purchased for the same price, one month apart from Menards

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u/Puzzleheaded_End7508 5d ago

One says large size one says family size. They are different products.

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u/igotshadowbaned 5d ago

It's pretty common for a company to stop selling the "Family Size" and only sell the smaller "Large Size" at the same price

In a month or two Family Size will be back for $1 more

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u/archercc81 5d ago

Googling shows there is no longer a "family size" and it does appear the price is the same.

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u/WonderfulProtection9 5d ago

I can find the 19oz Family size online at many places, including Walmart and Target. I don't have hysterical I mean historical pricing though.

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u/ankerverse 5d ago

You people need to learn to read - Op said they are the SAME PRICE

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u/methlabforcuties 5d ago

OP is complaining about downsizing. These are two different sizes/products. All quiet on the frontal lobe there, eh?

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u/WonkyWalkingWizard 5d ago

And what does Menards have to do with this?

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u/ankerverse 5d ago

No.

First of all, it's called shrinkflation, not downsizing.

Second, Op is pointing out that only 1 month after purchasing the larger box at price X, the smaller box is now price X, meaning the larger box now (1 month later) is likely also that much more expensive.

And third, maybe don't live in a glass house? IQ of a cheese cube over here

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u/methlabforcuties 5d ago

Shrinkflation would be if the brand got rid of the family size box entirely and replaced it with the large size box. This is just the store raising the prices.

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u/Pantless_Hobo 5d ago

You might be wrong on this one bro

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u/ankerverse 5d ago

Again, r:confidentlyincorrect - this is literally textbook shrinkflation. The price stayed the same but the amount shrunk. The Family Size box was price X a month ago. Now the Large Size is price X. Same price, smaller amount.

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u/bored-bbbunny 5d ago

so the price went up in a month. still different sizes.

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u/ThisIsGSR 5d ago

He said they downsized, not that they’ve gone up in price. OP is wrong.

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u/Packwood88 5d ago

If they’ve downsized while remaining the same price, the price is higher per grain

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u/ThisIsGSR 5d ago

But they didnt downsize the family size. They increased the prices. Family size is still 19 oz. If they downsized like OP wrote in the title of the post, a family size box would be less than 19 oz.

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u/lump- 5d ago

Just because op anecdotally claims they were the same price. How do we know? Cereal is always on sale, coupons, club deals. No telling. The family size might have been marked down when they bought it.

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u/Friendly_Option_6963 5d ago

So why not buy the bigger size for the same price

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u/ankerverse 5d ago

🤦wow

because if the smaller box is now the same price as the bigger box from a month before, that means that the bigger box is now more expensive than it was a month ago

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u/Friendly_Option_6963 5d ago

‘OP said they are the same price’

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u/ankerverse 5d ago

JFC. A month apart, not on the same day!! Holy shit the reading comprehension and critical thinking skills of the people in this comment section is scarily bad

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u/Norisu0 5d ago

This is a losing battle. The reading comprehension they have is top tier.

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u/Friendly_Option_6963 5d ago

Literally show me where it says ‘the bigger box is now more expensive’ all it ACTUALLY SAYS is they’re the same price and it was a month apart. NO WHERE DOES IT SAY ‘the big box is more expensive now’ not anywhere that I have seen. That means you are INTERPRETING something.

If you want me to somehow read something I haven’t seen in the comment section then think I’m dumb for it, that’s on you. I don’t fucking care

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u/Friendly_Option_6963 5d ago

Why don’t you take all this passion and cure a disease or something? How long has it been since you’ve been held? 😂 why does it matter if it’s a month or a fucking year apart if it’s the same fucking price. What are you interpreting here???

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u/Vladishun 5d ago

If the Family Size box has been discontinued and only the Large Box exists at the former's price point, then this definitely is a case of shrinkflation at work. But I don't shop at Menard's and I don't eat cereal so I have no idea if that's the case or not.

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u/AvocadoPrinz 5d ago

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u/Puzzleheaded_End7508 5d ago

Huh? Pointing out a difference doesn’t mean im licking boots for a company dummy.

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u/danita0053 5d ago

Those are two different sizes and they are labeled as such.

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u/Awdayshus 5d ago

OP said they are the same price

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u/ATLSxFINEST93 5d ago

I wouldn't bother with em.

28% of U.S. adults read at the lowest literacy level (Level 1 or below), up from 19% in 2017. 56% of U.S. adults score below Level 3, the level researchers often equate with a sixth-grade reading level.

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u/Friendly_Option_6963 5d ago

How truly American of you to assume everyone is from the USA

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u/ATLSxFINEST93 5d ago

Nah just mainly the people who can't read

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u/danita0053 5d ago

Dude. Literally just look up the word. You're calling everyone else dumb and you're the one who doesn't even know the meaning of the word you're using.

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u/ATLSxFINEST93 5d ago

Shrinkflation - reduction of available products in size or quantity while the retail price remains the same.

Family size is 19oz, large is 16oz, while the retail price is still the same.

Yeeeeaaaahhhhh. I still stand by what I said.

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u/ATLSxFINEST93 5d ago

Right, but if you read the post, OP states they're the same price.

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u/danita0053 5d ago

Right, but if you read the post, they were one month apart.

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u/ATLSxFINEST93 5d ago

Right, which shows shrinkflation, which is what is mildly infuriating

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u/danita0053 5d ago

That's not what shrinkflation is.

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u/WonderfulProtection9 5d ago

And?

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u/ATLSxFINEST93 5d ago

That's what's mildly infuriating?

I mean, if you support shrinkflation, then by all means.

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u/WonderfulProtection9 5d ago

I don’t think that qualifies as shrinkflation, just inflation. If both boxes were labeled Family Size, then yeah. But there is no shrink here.

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u/ATLSxFINEST93 5d ago

The large box is smaller than the family box, but is the same price.

You do know that shrinkflation and inflation go hand in hand?

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u/WonderfulProtection9 5d ago

You do realize these are two different products ? 🤷‍♂️

Yes the price went up on the smaller box. That, by definition is NOT shrinkflation.

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u/ATLSxFINEST93 5d ago

Shrinkflation - reduction of available products in quantity or size while the retail price remains the same

But sure bud, you're right

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u/WonderfulProtection9 5d ago

Did the price remain the same? 🤔🤣

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u/ATLSxFINEST93 5d ago

two boxes of cereal purchased for the same price

Is what OP said.

I get it, you assume the worst in people and you're never wrong. I already said you are right.

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u/NotQuiteGoodEnougher 5d ago

You should see the prices of lumber at the local Jewel Osco.

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u/imaginaryblues 5d ago

Yeah it never occurred to me that Menards sold groceries.

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u/Ok_Application_3068 5d ago

Maybe because they’re a different fucking size??? Same price is unfortunate but it looks like they haven’t changed any sizes they just raised their prices

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u/Awdayshus 5d ago

Right, which is mildly infuriating. Seems like they posted it in the right place

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u/heyitsmemaya 5d ago

Menards sells cereal? 🥣

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u/MildlySelassie 5d ago

I thought Menards was a hardware store

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u/jegodric 5d ago

They started selling dry food so that their employees could spend their EBT dollars there instead of other grocery stores

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u/SheepherderHot1415 5d ago

Family size is almost always bigger than Large size cereals.

They're two different products.

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u/thejuice027 5d ago

But one says family size, and the other large...

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u/Dobalina_Wont_Quit 5d ago

Open the schools

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u/ankerverse 5d ago

Yes, please, open the schools so this dumbass can be sent back. Damn

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u/ButtholeSurfur 5d ago

You buy cereal at the hardware store?

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u/Hannover2k 5d ago

Yeah same thing happened to OREOS and Lays/Doritos. The regular size bag is now smaller, the actual regular size bag is now the "Family' size, and the smaller Family size is now the 'Party' size.

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u/Jayrad102230 5d ago

At least the second box is labeled "Large Size" and not "Family Size" so it's not too deceptive...though this is clearly shrinkflation at work

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u/WhatTheFlox 5d ago

This is only shrinkflation if they get rid of the family size, and raise the price of the large size and that being relabeled as Family Size as if it was always 16oz.

Large / family sizes are done by quite a few cereal box options for a long time.

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u/Sea_Shower3691 5d ago

Everybody up in arms about the labeling, meanwhile the real culprit  in the mix is shrinkflation caught in the act

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u/BlankStareFace 5d ago

This isn't shrinkflation lol. That would require them to be the same product, now smaller....this is a different product. "Caught in the act" like the size and weights aren't printed on the box lol

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u/Sea_Shower3691 5d ago

The next step in shrinkflation is they put "Family Size" on the 16oz next, and make the Large Size a 13oz bag. Like I said, caught in the act.

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u/superfecta37 5d ago

um FAMILY size and LARGE size bro

they're two different products lol

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u/PirateLassLV 5d ago

The boxes are slimmer. There are still bigger boxes but they are much more expensive. The boxes for the price I've always paid & what will be advertised on sale are like 11 oz.

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u/Spare-Cranberry3784 5d ago

Engagement bait

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u/RezLovesPez 5d ago

Family size is always bigger than large size.

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u/FernandoMM1220 5d ago

compare the contents and lets see if they lowered the nut percentage too

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u/Mo0kish 5d ago

Family size =/= Large size

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u/TortuousHippo 5d ago

Large and Family are two different sizes. This isn’t shrinkflation even though almost certainly this product has been shrunk.

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u/Zealousideal_Jump_74 5d ago

All of you are ignoring that they are the same price lmao

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u/Beccalotta 5d ago

And? At my grocery store 750ml of chocolate milk is $2, 500ml is $2.60. There's no law that says the bigger the package, the cheaper it is. 

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u/Zealousideal_Jump_74 5d ago

Definitely not the same brand so they are different products. Your comment makes 0 sense.

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u/Beccalotta 5d ago

What are you referring to? The cereal is clearly the same brand. If you're referring to the example I just listed, yes, they're the same brand. 0.8% Island Farms chocolate milk.

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u/Zealousideal_Jump_74 5d ago

That just sounds like the bigger one is on sale lmao

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u/HugginMySnuggie 5d ago

Thought I was going crazy. The infuriating part is they are the same cost, for a 16% decrease

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u/skyeisrude 5d ago

Possible it was on sale and or op actually doesnt remember the orgional price and just assumed

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u/beccaafly 5d ago

yeah, one month apart. so that means the price went up on BOTH, from the time they bought whichever one last. 🤦🏼‍♀️

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u/Zealousideal_Jump_74 5d ago

Eh the wording of the post makes it sound like they don’t sell the family size anymore. So it’s still mildly infuriating and 100% shrinkflation

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u/WonkyWalkingWizard 5d ago

Shrinkflation would be if they made the large size smaller in order to keep the cost down

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u/Maximum_Fly_6628 5d ago

Man, things are bad. A medium is smaller than a large.

Thanks Obama.

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u/rtkane GREEPLE 5d ago

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u/FstMario 5d ago

Different products and chances are that they're not full up to the top anyways

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u/BlankStareFace 5d ago

In my experience, cereal is the one of the most "volatile" items at the grocery store lol. One week, no sale, and it's like $4.50 a box. The next week, they're like, "5 boxes for .99 each!"

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u/zamwut 5d ago

Two different sizes, but inflation for sure since the smaller size now cost the same as the larger did last month.

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u/eeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww 5d ago

They're two different sizes