easysurfer
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Was over at the grocery store in the morning.
Saw a loaf of bread for about $3.30. The saw a 1/2 loaf of bread for about $2.30. Oh there were also shrinkflationed hamburger buns too.
I guess this is like when folks can't afford a full tank of gas, so fill only 1/4 or 1/2 tank. Still costs the same. Or in the case of shrunken groceries, maybe costs even more.
https://www.weatherforddemocrat.com...cle_19ccd674-a674-56ab-83bd-86bcdcb4b5b2.html
Saw a loaf of bread for about $3.30. The saw a 1/2 loaf of bread for about $2.30. Oh there were also shrinkflationed hamburger buns too.
I guess this is like when folks can't afford a full tank of gas, so fill only 1/4 or 1/2 tank. Still costs the same. Or in the case of shrunken groceries, maybe costs even more.
Maybe you’ve noticed that your bag of chips from the grocery store just doesn’t seem as full, or the roll of toilet paper doesn’t last as long, but yet the price on the product hasn’t risen like everything else, so that’s a good thing, right?
Experts are saying that this might just be the way that companies are cutting costs without consumers recognizing it using a tactic called “shrinkflation,” which is a phrase that is easily described as package downsizing. It is done in a manner in which manufacturers quietly shrink package sizes without lowering prices.
Shrinkflation usually increases in times of high inflation as companies are grasping with higher costs themselves and with the added high gas prices, some are looking to make up the difference somehow.
Most of the time this strategy works as manufacturers know consumers are more likely to notice price increases, but don’t always catch the smaller details like a slight change to the amount of tissues in a box or the weight of a bag of chips.
https://www.weatherforddemocrat.com...cle_19ccd674-a674-56ab-83bd-86bcdcb4b5b2.html