Many food manufacturers are tricking their price increases.
So that consumers do not notice this, the quantities are, for example, secretly reduced.
A muesli manufacturer was particularly bold.
Hamburg - A large majority of consumers
voted
Seitenbacher's
fruit muesli
“sham package of the year”.
As the
consumer center in Hamburg announced
on Monday morning after evaluating an online vote, 54.5 percent of the participants voted for the muesli.
Seitenbacher has reduced the filling quantity from 1,000 to 750 grams.
At the same time, the price per pack has risen, so that the muesli has become 75 percent more expensive - with "virtually identical recipe".
The
Milka Easter Bunny
and
Santa Claus
from
Mondelez
landed in second place
, followed by the popular
children's chocolate
from
Ferrero
(18.5 percent) - here, too, consumer advocates denounced opaque price increases.
4.3 percent of those who voted voted for the
Whiskas
crispy bags from
Mars
and 3.9 percent for the
Bifi mini salami
from Jack Link's.
A total of 21,400 consumers took part in the vote, with almost 11,700 votes for muesli alone.
A year
ago
, among others, the margarine
Rama
, the pasta dish
Miracoli
,
Kellogg's Frosties
and again Mondelez with
Milka Darkmilk won
the race.
Last summer, consumers waddled, among other things, the
Vitalis fruit
muesli
from
Dr.
Oetker exits
.
Striking: The
Nussini bars
of
Milka
one was also
Mondelez
-Product it.
The consumer association warned that “tricks” such as hidden price increases are “hardly noticeable when shopping normally” for consumers.
A transparency platform, for example, would help, in which the manufacturers must report reductions in fill quantities in advance.
In principle, the manufacturers give a non-binding price recommendation for their products.
The dealers determine the final sales prices.
Seitenbacher
had claimed to the Hamburg consumer center that a new product had been introduced with the “fruit muesli”.
But the list of ingredients for the breakfast cereal was almost identical to that of the cheaper predecessor product, explained the consumer center.
In the meantime, the "fruit muesli" should no longer be produced.
However, according to research by consumer advocates, it is still available in some supermarkets.
There is a lot of laughter on the web. *
Consumer advice center: 3000 complaints about fraudulent packaging in the past year
Last year, according to the information, around 3,000 complaints about fraudulent packaging were received by the Hamburg consumer center.
For more than 17 years, the Hamburg consumer advocates have kept a nationwide unique sham packaging list with hidden price increases based on consumer complaints.
(
dpa / AFP
)
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