The one affliction that Freddos seem to have avoided in the consumer goods market is ‘shrinkflation’, a move by manufacturers to reduce the size of products to retain flat prices in the face of rising inflation. Inflation figures are based off the accurate historical data, and predictions for the future are based on a static rise of inflation based on the average rate over the last 16 years (around 3.9%). Our human content creators are equipped with many decades of valuable expertise and experience. The team also has access to and use technologies to assist and enhance workflows. With Freddo prices not expected to hit 30p until after 2020 - even by the history of flagrant above-inflation prices rises - this is bad news. So next time you hear someone say those words 'How much does a Freddo cost?' maybe offer them a kind word before you answer.

Some of the staples of our childhood are being ruined before our eyes - and ruined well ahead of the rate of inflation. Proactive financial news and online broadcast teams provide fast, accessible, informative and actionable business and finance news content to a global investment audience. All our content is produced independently by our experienced and qualified teams of news journalists. Since relaunching in the 1990s, the base Freddo rate has always been 10p, although now we can do some of our own maths in line with the ‘Freddonomics’ principle; Proactive news team spans the world’s key finance and investing hubs with bureaus and studios in London, New York, Toronto, Vancouver, Sydney and Perth.Boult, Adam (8 July 2016). "This is how much a Freddo is set to cost by 2030". The Daily Telegraph. British people are known around the world for that one timeless question; a question that defines us; the question that determines the state of our once great nation: Although this price is still a long way above the price according to inflation since 2000, it's a start.

If the price of a Mars Bar had remained consistent with inflation, we'd be sitting at a fairly bitesize 44p. In 1930, the MacRobertson's chocolate company were looking to add a new product to their children's range. Initial designs for a chocolate mouse were rejected, as Harry Melbourne felt that women and children were afraid of mice and would dislike the product. [3] It was instead decided to produce a chocolate frog, branded as "Freddo Frog". [2] There were four varieties available: milk chocolate, white chocolate, half milk/half white, and milk chocolate with peanuts. New data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on 21 January showed that over 200 products, including chocolate brands Maltesers, M&Ms and Minstrels, all shrank in size between September 2015 and June 2017. Once upon a time, the cinema used to be something you didn't have to plan an entire weekend's budget around - with adult prices not too long ago sitting just below a fiver, kids were welcomed with something even cheaper. Although this is not an exact science - well, exact economics - by any stretch of the imagination, the price of a Big Mac is apparently a fantastic indicator of the rate of inflation across the UK over the last 15 years.

The Price of a Cinema Ticket

The classic Big Mac Index, courtesy of the Economist, was the saviour here. We gathered the historical data from BigMacIndex.org. 2000

There were a couple of dates handily filled in by some old news sources - AOL and BBC included - but we've filled in some of the gaps with first-hand experience and insider knowledge. BeanoPeople get so angry about this that it's hard *not* to find the information. Weight changes (similar for Mars) are consistently well recorded and, outside of the huge local store inflations, the RRP is accurate. Where possible, we've gone with the RRP - yes, we've seen the pictures of shops selling 65p Freddos and we're just as appalled as you are. Though some of us were more into football, music or those weird girly magazines, let's not pretend any of us were Dandy readers - we were Beano readers, and one of the last generations to truly appreciate the age of the comic.