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I particularly enjoyed the line of corporate bullshit of a confectionery manufacturer that said they made the package smaller for healthier serving sizes!
Beyond pissing in your pocket and telling you it’s raining…….more like shitting on you leg and calling it a brown kitten!
 
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Tony C. Tony C.
I am as outraged as anyone by this issue, which, by the way. has been going on for a long, long time. But at the risk of being pedantic, the OP posted products from two different manufacturers, and with any prices for context, so it's really not a good example.
I agree, not a solid comparison- but being of a generation when it was assumed that a “carton” of milk was always a 1/2 gallon, a “dozen” bagels was always 12 and a “pound” of coffee was always 16oz, I have become increasingly dismayed by blindly grabbing a bag of coffee and discovering it’s 12oz, a sleeve of bagels and finding 10, and now my carton of milk being 52oz.
And yes it has been happening for a while but to be slapped on the face with the reaming at 10pm while trying to get my late night snack-on was just too much to bear.
 
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Pastorbottle Pastorbottle
I particularly enjoyed the line of corporate bullshit of a confectionery manufacturer that said they made the package smaller for healthier serving sizes!
Beyond pissing in your pocket and telling you it’s raining…….more like shitting on you leg and calling it a brown kitten!
Love this one. Particularly when they downsize the “standard” candy bar and keep the price the same, then a short while later bring out the “king size” which is the same size as the old standard but for 50% more.
 
Meme-Dweller
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Shrinkflation sucks donkey butt

They even removed the warranty card holder!

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hen
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My wife also complains about shrinkflation every night.

I feel your pain, brother. Only solution is to buy a bigger car.
 
speedb
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whats the deal with bags of chips? it's just chip flavoured air!
 
Pvt-Public
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Hershey started it years ago. They started shrinking the size of a chocolate bar to keep the price at a nickel. Finally they just had to raise the price.
 
Canuck
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In Canada, we have a similar but different problem. That being there are 25.4 grams in an ounce. Shrink the contents of a package by 2 ounces, and it is likely noticed. Shrink the contents of a package 10 grams, and it hardly gets noticed! But that phenomenon seems to pop up every time we go shopping! Same slippery slope, just less steep!
 
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This sucks but companies can either: 1) raise prices; 2) sell you less for the same amount; or, 3) both.

The disastrous monetary policy of many parts of the West is what is driving this. Blaming individual companies, who have labour, material, shipping, and other costs that they have no more control over than anyone feels good in the moment but looks past the central issue of governments mailing cheques to people for years, shutting down the economy for a period, engaging in wars all over the globe, deficit spending into the trillions, and artificially holding the interest rate at almost zero since 2008...

This isn't a phenomenon of one side of the political spectrum or the other as nearly every government globally has been doing the same thing. We are in line for a very rude course correction...
 
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I think they are doing you a favour oat milk and cereal at night is a ticket to type 2 diabetes.😉
 
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Pastorbottle Pastorbottle
Corporate greed is also a significant factor……a jihad on bastard corporate bean counters!
100% yes inflation in play but corporations use it as cover to screw us even more.
 
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Oat Milk and complaining about the shrinking packet…….


Time for my

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Walrus
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STANDY STANDY
Oat Milk and complaining about the shrinking packet…….


Time for my

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This is only page 2. Too early for cats
 
sjg22
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Walrus Walrus
100% yes inflation in play but corporations use it as cover to screw us even more.
If a company that isn’t a monopoly starts getting “greedy” and charges more money for less, their competitors that do not do that will absolutely destroy them.

Labour is getting more expensive, and input costs to make the oat milk are increasing. Therefore to make the same level of return on investment, and keep the business going, they either need to raise their price or decrease the volume they're providing at the same price; it's just basic economics. It's not "greed" - they make oat milk to make money - it's not a charity. Thus they will pass along their cost increases to the customer. This narrative that it's "big oat milk" screwing the consumer is just not accurate in most instances. It's a matter of them passing along the rising cost of making the product to the end purchaser in order to continue to run a profitable busjness.
 
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