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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
Let me ask you something. Do you work for a company that packages consumer goods? Have you ever been in a meeting where package sizes are discussed and numbers and market research analyzed? I have.

Nope, i'm on the consumer side of packaged products, but I know the difference between a package for $1.00 that contained six items a year ago, but now contains five.

You should listen to Rush Limbaugh talk about the price controls of the Nixon era.

20% loss of material with no reduction of price is ~20% inflation.

207 posted on 06/26/2015 2:20:19 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp
20% loss of material with no reduction of price is ~20% inflation.

And from a business standpoint, I can say from long experience, that isn't discussed as a way of keeping up with inflation and risings costs, but as a way of shaving input costs to increase the quarterly revenues and satisfy the shareholders, who demand constant growth of those numbers. Blame capitalism. Better yet, invest in the stock of those companies.

221 posted on 06/26/2015 3:14:47 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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