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It seems somewhat out of linguistic character for them to use the English-"shrink"-based portmanteau, but hopefully there's a universal commonality (especially coupled with the hashtag format) that makes this move more effective.
Not at all, contemporary French is stuffed with Englishisms, the regular -er verb liker (to like on Facebook) being one of my favourites.
We need laws to require special labelling with the price per net pound or price per net kiloggram clearly shown, and the previous price. Something like: $2.99/Kg (since 18/09/2023) $2.79/Kg (previous price)
It also allowed me to spot some shady pricing practices, the recent one: dishwasher tablets are 10% cheaper when buying a bunch of smaller packages, rather than a big one. I still buy the latter as it results in less waste but it pisses me off to know how unnecessary and bad for the environment these practices are.
It’s incredible to me that MBAs are still able to pitch “what if we made the product deceptively smaller but charged the same price?”, and don’t get thrown out a window. As if that’s a novel sustainable long-term strategy in CPG.
Don't worry, in a few months they will make a package that says "Now with 20% more".
https://www.cdiscount.com/au-quotidien/alimentaire/nestle-cr...
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Mostly bad for business because of the massive data and engineering effort required.
A job guarantee for software engineers.
I've always thought "from -> to" so I'm curious when people use "to Is it more common in the UK? Is there a name for this?
This is great, shrinkflation is one of these disgusting practices that play on the human psyche to trick people. But also carrefour (and large retailers like them) are notorious for abusing their power when buying, and are a large part of the systemic problem. I don't know how much this is negotiating technique.
> I don't know how much this is negotiating technique. 100%. What else would it be?
(If you have much faster turn over than other places your customer's shop that could also reinforce the perception that you are complicit.)
It’s incredible to me that MBAs are still able to pitch “what if we made the product deceptively smaller but charged the same price?”, and don’t get thrown out a window. As if that’s a novel sustainable long-term strategy in CPG.
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Coming up with unique identifiers for every single specific recognizable product would be an incredible feat, that would have huge impacts beyond this. Now I'd totally expect a brand to just renew identifiers at random and break any tracking that doesn't help them.
>>Coming up with unique identifiers for every single specific recognizable product would be an incredible feat You mean like....barcodes that are on pretty much every item ever?
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Every brand is doing this
On Reddit, someone said that even Carrefour is doing this with their own labeled products. Seems like just a negotiation tactic against their suppliers versus doing something pro-consumer.