While gasoline is on the rise with ‘summer blends’ soon to hit...
I chuckled as I pulled out a 5lb bag of flour and thought I should save this bag...it is going to be worth something one day...as bags of flour dropped from 5lb to 4lb to the new fangled 2lb.
The shampoo I recently bought was watered down too. In the 1970’s my Mom would buy gallon jugs of shampoo from Revco and then separate it out into smaller containers by half and then water it down to save money. Now, I guess I don't need to go through the trouble ...and still pay the same amount.
Similar was noted the recent purchase of toilet bowl cleaner. Gone is the clingy cleany to the watered down blue colored stuff.
Soup used to serve 4 and it now clearly is labeled to serve only 3 or even just 2.
A recent purchase of large eggs at Walmart left me holding only mediums compared to the prior eggs.
If you buy a 4lb. bag of flour at the 5lb. price, it shows up in the government’s inflation statistics, because the government calculates inflation by lb., and not by bag.
I saw the 4lb bag of sugar the other day.