This is something manufacturers and retailers have always done. You just get less for the same price. The really ballsy ones will change the package or the color or something and slap a "NEW!" label on it as well.
New and Improved!
It means the product sucks now because they found a cheaper way to make it... in China.
Cereal is a funny one. It used to come in a cardboard box. Now when you look at it, they removed the box and used bags. Then they shrunk the bag size, and removed the box. Then they sold it as economic or something.
The only cereals I see in my grocery store that come in bags are the generic shit cereals that no one buys. All the other cereals come in boxes with a bag inside. You must live in a really ghetto area if all the cereal comes in bags only.
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