{"id":882,"date":"2026-05-13T18:39:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=882"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:39:58","slug":"milka-maker-milked-shoppers-over-size-of-chocolate-bars-german-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=882","title":{"rendered":"Milka maker milked shoppers over size of chocolate bars, German court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brand owner Mondel\u0113z was accused of reducing weight of Alpine Milk bar from 100g to 90g without significantly altering the packaging<\/p>\n<p>Many chocolate lovers consider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/jan\/27\/food-labels-shrinkflation-smaller-worse\">shrinkflation<\/a> a serious crime \u2013 and they have been vindicated after a German court ruled that the makers of Milka cheated consumers by cutting the bar\u2019s size, while keeping the wrapper the same.<\/p>\n<p>The three-week case in a regional court was brought by Hamburg\u2019s consumer protection office. It accused the chocolate brand\u2019s US owner Mondel\u0113z of deceiving shoppers by cutting the weight of Milka\u2019s classic Alpine Milk bar from 100g to 90g without significantly altering the distinctive purple packaging.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/food\/2026\/may\/13\/milka-maker-milked-shoppers-over-size-of-chocolate-bars-german-court-rules\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brand owner Mondel\u0113z was accused of reducing weight of Alpine Milk bar from 100g to 90g without significantly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}