This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition 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.
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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
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
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.
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.