Shrinkflation and Downsizing
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Don’t know about you, but I have definitely noticed this at my local grocery stores, and not just recently, this has been happening every now and then over the years — packaged product nominally stayed at the same price per pack but the pack has gotten smaller.
Product by product tracking: https://www.mouseprint.org/category/downsiz/
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@loki said in Shrinkflation and Downsizing:
Plenty of examples where the bigger quantity items costs more per unit than the smaller.Except at The Dollar Store.
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Maybe that's a sign of luxury, but I couldn't tell the exact price of most products we buy, and I rarely look at the price of a product before I put it into the shopping cart. It's different if it's a non-standard product; then I do sometimes scan and compare prices.
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@klaus said in Shrinkflation and Downsizing:
Maybe that's a sign of luxury, but I couldn't tell the exact price of most products we buy, and I rarely look at the price of a product before I put it into the shopping cart.
Me too but once I discovered that across brands the price per unit varies, it just becomes interesting to look at what is going on because if you care about price the price itself is meaningless without quantity taken into consideration.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@loki said in Shrinkflation and Downsizing:
if you care about price the price itself is meaningless without quantity taken into consideration.
Over here, the supermarkets have (by law) to specify the price per quantity, e.g., per kg or per unit or whatever, hence no calculator is needed for price comparison.
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I remember my mom complaining about it decades ago when cans of coffee were no longer a pound.
