Shrinkflation
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Clem72
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Sounds about right, it's literally like a buck. You can buy a McDouble with cheese for like $2.50 (which would be 2/10s or almost a quarter pounder for half the price of a quarter pounder).
I don't eat McDonalds except once or twice a year, and I don't think I have had a regular single patty burger from them since they were selling for $0.29 20 years ago. Used to go to and buy a whole bag full for the gedunk a couple times a week.
Hijinx
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The previous 12 ounces WAS a lb. at one time.
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I drew the line at .06qts and bought the competitors product instead
Shrinkflation database tracks diminishing size of food products
The Shrinkflation Tracker, by Sam Lader, is on a mission to stop manufacturers quietly putting less food inside product packaging without a corresponding fall in price to consumers. The practice is out of control, so much so that even major retailers are beginning to warn customers against lest they suspect complicity in the practice.
Among the brands named and shamed by the site are Pringles (7% shrink in the weight of chips in a tube), Dove soap (20% shrink in bar size) and Colgate (25%!). From the packaging and candy brands, the site appears to be for products in Britain and Ireland. Hopefully a U.S. section will be forthcoming.
A supermarket chain is shaming suppliers like PepsiCo over ‘shrinkflation’—by labeling examples on shelves
Now, the French supermarket chain Carrefour is exposing examples of it for shoppers, with labels on shelves reading: “This product has seen its volume or weight fall and the effective price from the supplier rise.”
Dozens of products have been hit with the labels since Monday, according to Reuters.
“The aim in stigmatizing these products is to be able to tell manufacturers to rethink their pricing policy,” Stefen Bompais, director of client communications at Carrefour, told the news agency. Carrefour will soon enter annual price negotiations with Nestlé, Unilever, PepsiCo, and other owners of well-known brands.
Among the shrinkflation examples it’s showing shoppers are Guigoz infant formula, produced by Nestlé, and a bottle of sugar-free peach-flavored Lipton iced tea, produced by PepsiCo.
Despite the cost of raw materials falling, consumers goods companies have not been cooperating with efforts to cut prices, Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard has argued. He’s found in ally in French finance minister Bruno Le Maire, who’s urged corporations to lower prices—and pointed a finger at Unilever, Nestle and PepsiCo for not complying.
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the poor dad
Ima half to try this. Also gonna start measuring my bolts to see if 1/2” is now 31/32”.
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the poor dad
15/32”!!!
Clem72
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Tracker didn't last too long. Another victim of shrinkflation, that website reduced the size of their contents by 99%
SamSpade
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Shrinkflation has ALWAYS been the case. I remember a conversation I had with my Dad. He mentioned that stuff like spaghetti sauce - the “regular” size - was 32 ounces. Then 28. Then 23 for some reason. Then they just stopped, raised the price and went back to 32.
Of course, during COVID, cereal boxes were thinner front to back, so you got less but the box LOOKED the same and the price didn’t change.
I can barely think of a time when I didn’t see something like this - ground coffee in cans, canned vegetables, pizza sizes. Always.
Of course, during COVID, cereal boxes were thinner front to back, so you got less but the box LOOKED the same and the price didn’t change.
I can barely think of a time when I didn’t see something like this - ground coffee in cans, canned vegetables, pizza sizes. Always.
I think the 15oz cans of pumpkin are now 13oz.