Heard on the radio today, that Toblerone are removing one triangle slice from there Poundland £1 bars.
No extra VAT on the bars, instead you'll lose 15% of you choc.
How are the chubbers ever going to cope.
I can see this being a trend for fooling the consumer into thinking, they're not getting the VAT increase on their goods.
Doomed!
You're all doomed!
[url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/dec/17/confectionery-companies-downsizing-vat ]Old news i'm afraid.
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.....well, 2 weeks old.
Buy loose sprouts, the bastards can't stop me!
Why be affraid of old news?
Odd phrase that. 🙂
The news in itself isn't scary. I am just generally afraid* 
*Copyright Rich Hall.
Will 29" wheels now be sold at 26"
Don't be scared Jamie. They can't get us, as long as we stay logged onto the forum and wear our tinfoil hats.
There's already a 15% increase on bannings here.
Foil up gurls and wannabes.
😯 Careful Sharki... such insight may break teh interned!
it's not surprising, those red boxes of cereal bars that poundstretcher sells have been getting smaller and smaller.... same with numbers of niknak packets in the multipacks. DOOOOOMED!
Manufacturers have been doing it since the day of positive inflation to make us old farts believe that things were better (and bigger) in the old days...
Don't be scared Jamie. They can't get us, as long as we stay logged onto the forum and wear our tinfoil hats.
Let's hope tinfoil is still the same size, otherwise we won't have enough for everyone.
I am knackered then as I do have a physically large head (and so do my children hence the need for 3 caesarean sections), gulp!
I've got a pin head so will get a large Apple pie from Tesco's and reuse the foil tray.
Manufacturers have been doing it for years, particularly with products which are largely made of commodity goods such as cocoa, as there is a perceived price above which sales will rapidly diminish. A classic example is the decreasing size of Cadbury Cream Eggs over the years. Cadbury also used to make their Dairy Milk bars thinner rather than put the price up - this led Rowntree-Mackintosh (now Nestle) to find out through market research that chocolate lovers thought that Dairy Milk was too thin and unsubstantial, which in turn led to Rowntrees who had never been successful in the chocolate bar sector identifying a market gap into which they launched a product called Yorkie.
Buy loose sprouts, the bastards can't stop me!
Correct.
Sprouts are non-vatable.