A Coles customer has taken aim at the supermarket giant, accusing it of making two significant changes to a popular cheese buy.
Sharing on X, formerly known as Twitter, the shopper claimed that the Coles had dramatically reduced the size of its own brand of its cheese Sandwich Slices.
A photo posted by the customer shows that a cheese slice from a pack they recently purchased was roughly half the size of a piece of sandwich bread.
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They also claimed that the slices are no longer wrapped in plastic, meaning they can’t be packed for a lunchbox snack.
“Oh Coles, what have you done here?” the customer asked in the X post.
“Plastic cheese lost its plastic, and shrunk (to match inflation?).
“So apart from the broken shellac fingernail I found in your chips, I now have to deal with “sandwich” cheese that only fits on a cracker and can’t be put into a lunch box.”
Until recently, the Coles website stated that the pack of 84 slices retails for $12.50 and that each slice is “individually wrapped for your convenience”. That reference has since been removed.
7NEWS.com.au understands that there has been no change to the dimensions of the Coles cheese slices and they have always been this same size.
Coles also sells 12-packs of the cheese slices – which weigh 250g – but these are a different product to what customers will find in the 84-slice packs.