Posted on 10/17/2021 9:20:49 AM PDT by Hojczyk
More air in that bag of chips? Fewer flakes in your cereal box? You're not imagining it: "Shrinkflation," a tactic used by industry to hide price increases, is back in vogue.
Facing the post-pandemic inflationary surge, partly fueled by bottlenecks in global supply and trouble finding workers, companies are under more pressure to deal with rising costs.
Consumer advocate Edgar Dworsky, who has followed the phenomenon he calls downsizing for quarter of a century, says he has identified dozens of products in recent months that have seen sneaky price increases.
It's definitely more insidious because shrinkage, at least for me, is less noticeable than a price increase," Jonathan Khoo, 44, a software designer in Oregon, told AFP.
But "it's the delay in finding out that you've been played" that makes the tactic "much worse" than a straightforward price hike, he said.
He found goods ranging from Charmin toilet paper rolls to Cheerios cereal, to Royal Canin canned cat food, where the size or weight has shrunk, but the price remains the same.
In September, food giant General Mills, maker of Cheerios, flagged the soaring costs for materials and labor to justify conventional price increases but also changes to "PPA" -- price pack architecture -- a technical term for the adjustment of size or quantities.
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Cans of coffee are smaller.
This has been going on for years…cookies were sold by the pound in the old days…now you get 8.5 oz in some packages…
Somebody supported these stupid Democrat sons of bitches.
Probably the same idiots who come here writing that the Republicans are in charge.
I noticed that conical shaped containers yogurt containers push the bottom up to hold less while making the container appear to be the same size.
A few I have seen get smaller...
Coffee
Sugar
Bar soap
Bacon
Charcoal bags
Chips
Gif of Kamala and Joe B....
Harris: “They’re paying more and getting less and the next elections are fixed in advance so our side wins again.
I
just
can’t
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laughing.
Oops. Leaked again. Urinary stress incontinence from laughing. I change underwear several times a day.”
Biden: “People near me try to get me to do that but I’m the President and I don’t have to.”
This article is a rerun, runs every 10 years or so. Old inflation made new.
shrinking items list....
They’ll have to remove the travel size displays. Too much competition showing up the small real size of items.
Drive thru patron: “Thanks for the sample of the fries. I’ll take an order now like I tried to tell you.”
Worker: “That was your order, sir. The new size.”
Dawn dish soap has about an inch and a haft of empty bottle at the top. A half gallon of ice cream is a quart and a half, yeah we noticed.
If you are a crazy hoarder like me then you get to see a lot of old product vs new product comparisons in your house.
The other trend is cheaper packing materials—weaker cardboard, plastic etc.
This is not a new practice. Manufacturers have been doing this since forever. It’s just that people are paying attention now.
I don’t know... Seems like 5# of sugar and a # of bacon has been standard for my 50 years. It’s now 4#s of sugar and 12oz bacon is creeping in.
The bargain basement fig newtons I buy have shrunk...
They are soon going to look like something you would hand to toddlers...
How many tons of packaging material is wasted each year doing this, I wonder? And not just yogurt either, but lots of items.
I'm not stupid. You don't need to gaslight me. Just make the damn containers proportionally smaller. At least they'll fit easier in my fridge and pantries.
A half a gallon of Ice Cream went to 60 ounces under Barry the Muslim, now it is at 56 ounces!
True. From 10 years ago: Downsized Packages: Same Price Buys Less
Yeah, some commodities are “slow” to change, or don’t, for other reasons.
The slow shrink on half-gallon ice cream ....
https://ominthenews.com/the-return-of-shrinkflation/
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