It might be time to panic-buy your favourite Cadbury chocolate bars in bulk, because Cadbury UK's parent company (Mondelez International) has warned that Brexit could lead to higher prices, or shrinkflation.
What’s shrinkflation? It's the practice of selling smaller products for the same price. Mondelez has done this before, when its new-look Toblerone was revealed to have wider gaps between its iconic chocolate triangles, reducing the weight from 400g to 360g but selling at the same price. A pack of six Cadbury Creme Eggs – an Easter favourite – was also reduced to five eggs with only a slight decrease in the recommended retail price, from £3.05 to £2.85. The company has pointed to rising commodity costs, the falling value of the pound and an increase in cocoa prices, while Brexit is expected to make it increasingly costly to do business with other countries in the future.
