https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/shrinkflation-grocery-stores-consumer-prices-rise HYPERLINK has full article snip Not only do Americans have to deal with inflation, now thanks to "shrinkflation," you’ll be getting even less bang for your buck. More companies are looking to avoid raising prices to scare off consumers, so they are instead turning to "shrinkflation" — giving consumers less product for the same price or more. end snip Yet another fallout from Democrat votes. In addition to paying more for things, we now get less of it. I wonder if the Democrat party will run on this? I can see it now Vote Democrat, we give you less but you pay more
Walmart Great Value Paper Towels dropped from 168 sheets per roll to only 120, while the price stayed the same. Frito-Lay just shrunk regular bags of Dorito's from 9.75 ounces to 9.25 ounces. Both are currently for sale at Target for the same price. Hershey cut down its 18 ounce pack of dark chocolate Kisses by almost two ounces. Hefty's mega pack went from 90 bags to 80 bags, at the same price. A two-pack of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups used to weigh 1.6 ounces. Now it's just 1.5 ounces. General Mills shrunk its "family size" boxes from 19.3 ounces to 18.1 ounces – a drop of nearly 10%. Tillamook decreased the size of its ice-cream cartons from 56 ounces to 48 ounces. Some of Royal Canin's cans of cat food now weigh 5.1 ounces, down from 5.9 ounces – but they still cost the same. Charmin toilet paper originally had 650 sheets per roll. It now only contains around half of that – and even its "Mega Rolls" and "Super Mega Rolls" don't have as many sheets as the original. The sheets have reportedly gotten smaller, too. Cadbury changed the shape of its famous Dairy Milk bars in 2013 – and changed the size of them, too. The individual pieces now have rounded edges and contain nearly 10% less chocolate than before. https://www.businessinsider.com/shr...dy-bars-chocolate-toilet-paper-cadbury-2021-7 And our President will launch into a bout of dementia induced rage if you ask him about it.
And I can claim from past experience, even if this inflation is settled those weights will never return and the prices will never come down.. Example, UPS Shipping raised shipping rates via excuse, fuel surcharge Charge in 2008 because of the sudden increase in fuel prices! Since then, the fuel prices dropped and stabilized but oddly the shipping rates NEVER returned to pre 2008 rates The same bullshit will happen again.. Inflation has to be dealt with quickly or it will affect future prices forever..
This isn't a new phenomena and it far from unique to the US so I'm not sure you can lay the blame entirely at the feet of the current US administration (regardless of how generally bad they might be). If anything, the technique itself is a function of unregulated free-market capitalism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkflation
Now there is DNC curse, always give them the perfect opportunity to do it DNC motto “Never let a good crisis go to waste.”
That's nothing new, happened under EVERY administration. If you haven't noticed, you must not have done much shopping. In other news, GDP growth was 5.7% last year, and 6.9% in the fourth quarter. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/27/economy/us-fourth-quarter-2021-gdp/index.html What say you? Or do you only create economic doom and gloom threads to bash Biden?
pump in government dollars, did you expect anything else. That is nothing that deserves the spiking the ball In the real world, not academia, we use P+L statements and what has been done, and continues to be done by this admin is not positive. Borrowing money that taxpayers must repay, and then having them spend it does nothing for the prosperity of the nation. it digs deeper the hole The government cannot borrow their way out of this disaster. Only the private sector, when left the heck alone can bail out this mess. Your Democrat vote helped create this disaster
Wait, you think this is something new ? This has literally been happening for DECADES You will make up anything to try to hurt dems. Next thing you'll be posting that cars have gotten smaller since the 50's and Joe Biden should be impeached for that
Biden campaigned on raising corporate taxes from 21%(trump's tax cut) to 28% which they had previously been. One year later...zippo.
Thankfully I don't really eat chips anymore like I used to, but holy crap have chip bags shrunken in size... What is considered a "family sized bag" now might even be smaller than what used to be a regular sized bag... and the price has gone up on those as well... so IOW a higher price for a smaller amount of product.
"Downsizing" has been going on for Ages. Here is an article discussing "Downsizing" from 2015: https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2015/09/packaging-downsizing-less-is-not-more/index.htm LONG before this current "inflation" crisis. Thus, totally LMAO at anybody (such as the authors of the linked article) trying to act like "Downsizing" is a "New Phenomenon" So, give me a break... http://www.politicalforum.com/index...lation&o=date&c[title_only]=1&c[user][0]=6512
Bingo. Candy is another product that has increased in price astronomically... I remember being able to buy a small thing of peanut butter cups by the check out isle for around 40 cents... It's now somewhere above $1.20 if I remember correctly... it's insane... and like you said, the weight of the product is decreased as well (receiving less product).
Well we can analyze history or talk about current events. This section of PF is the Current Events section.
This is OLD news and a well known strategy They lower the size of the packaging to increase the per kg/lb price until the get to where that is no longer feasible then announce a new “economy” pack which actually has a higher per kg price We passed a law so that the per kg price was displayed at shops
In the 50s gas was 30 cents a gallon, now it's more than 10x that. If you had just voted for Trump we'd all be back in Chrysler Imperials by now. Lock Biden up.
Our resident Dem claims: 1) Trumps economy. Trump caused this. What an economic mess Trump created 2) Not Biden’s economy, the President has very little control over the economy. The world is experiencing same effects of inflation etc etc 3) omg GDP is up Thank you Mr. Prezzident!!!!! …and with every day they blather on, oblivious that all these claims contradict each other
been happening for years, did you think this was something new? "The 11-Inch Foot" 2019 https://nowiknow.com/the-11-inch-foot/