The lowdown on downsized products
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Are your favorite items being downsized?
(AP Photo/Steven Senne / August 26, 2008)Whether it's ice cream, juice, or paper towels, many manufacturers are giving you less of what you want. There are indented container bottoms, smaller or fewer sheets of paper goods, thinner garbage bags and frothier products (add air, charge the same). Sometimes the new package is smaller (score one for full disclosure); other times it's the same size or is actually bigger than the old package.
Here are some packages that shrank in the past year or so.
-- Consumer Reports
Here are some packages that shrank in the past year or so.
-- Consumer Reports



