Why do chocolate bars keep getting smaller?

Question

The standard bar used to be two ounces; now they are about 1.5 ounces. They have covertly reduced the weight and hidden it by hoping we cannot convert grammes to ounces. Bring back our bigger bars.

Answer 1

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Perhaps because the people who are eating them are getting bigger.

Answer 2

Maybe they stayed the same, but the rest of the world got bigger.

Answer 3

Because thats how they screw you over if the bar is smaller youll have to buy 2

Answer 4

and they cost even more money ! profit, profit ! and more profit .

Answer 5

They know everyone is hooked, we are all a bunch of chocolate
junkies and will buy the smaller bars.

Answer 6

I know what you mean--I got a breakfast burrito at McDonalds this morning.I haven't gotten one in awhile.It was about half the size of what it use to be.I know this doesn't really answer your question but it's the first thing I thought of when I read your question...lol

Answer 7

lol you shoulkd have seen them in the 1950's they were a nickle and were almost a meal , now they are barley a bite , its called making money

Answer 8

ha ha.Wagon Wheels used 2 be massive'man!iAnd the Bounty bars used ti be massive!the sticky fingerd bosses down at the chocolate factory have gotten greedy!...well who wouldnt in a chocolate factory??

Answer 9

Cos we got greedier... Now they make the usual bars smaller to make the king sized bars look bigger!

Answer 10

well you've noticed that the bars are getting smaller, but you should have noticed that the price is getting higher

Answer 11

i know, i mean, when you bite into it, it gets smaller!! What a rip-off!! lol

Answer 12

Because it's getting more expensive to produce. So people still can buy them for the same price.

Answer 13

its not just choc bars..

Answer 14

I believe, your right when the weight got converted they gradually reduced the size. It is smaller because the chocolate bar companies don't sell as much as before. Reason is, all our money is strapped by the cost of living. We buy our groceries and there is no money left for treats. Parent are more careful as to how much junk food their children eat also. The chocolate bar companies want 80% profit now. The difference in the size is visual to older people but not to the real young.

Answer 15

Most likely chocolate is getting smaller because people know that chocolate is addicting to people and if they keep selling it at huge amounts, lots of people will be getting obese. I like chocolate, though I don't eat way, way, way, way, way too much! Yum!

Answer 16

THEY DON'T
YOU'RE JUST GETTING FATTER

Answer 17

you know i thought they had and i only thought it was my imagination

Answer 18

They are trying to get us to eat smaller portions. Not fair is it? We should be making our own choices. What's worse is that they are making us pay the same amount for their smaller bars. and expecting us not to notice. Some serious cost cutting going on as well I think.

Answer 19

When I was a little child.... 'Wagon Wheels' looks huge and it was a treat eating them as they looked bigger than my hand.

Years passed... when I got one 'wagon wheels' and I just looked at it in dismay. It was no longer bigger than my hand and it was smaller.

I think its probably our eyes have gotten bigger! haha. Well like the first answer - world has gotten bigger.

Thats why the sweet companies have brought out 'double' and 'triple' or 'kingsize' bars now.

Can't believe how much they cost now... soon it'll be a fiver for a kingsize Mars bar!! Wish they stayed the same price as they were in our childhood days and we all would be living like kings and queens but then again the companies need to make their money otherwise there would be no 'Wagon Wheels' or 'Mars' bars!

Just go out and buy yourself a 'kingsize' bar or a box!!! haha

Answer 20

Calories.
Too many people are getting fat. That's why.

Answer 21

they dont your hands are bigger

Answer 22

I can remember wagon wheels being the size of a small plate and now they are about half the size...

Answer 23

I know what a rip off.I think its to do with all the obesity