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I wondered why this article doesn't have a very obvious thing for the topic it's trying to cover - a photo of mentioned stickers. Perhaps because it's a rewrite of another article originally for European audience - for example https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/14/carrefour-p... CNN removed the French photo and also introduced a mistake - when they converted "1.5 litres" for US audience they wrote "0.3 gal…
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No, the client being to lazy to make uninformed decisions him- or herself is the mess here. Most countries require a price per liter/per kilo anyway, so you always can compare. And if you can’t, more regulation won’t make that happen, either, see the failed "Nutri Score".
no-one commits the price for litre/kg to memory
Also, if you don’t commit to price comparison, how can "shrinkflation" be a problem? If you can buy whatever groceries you want anyway, just buy the ones that make you feel comfortable regarding their price policy...?
My pet peeve is that price per round measurement unit (eg kilogram) is in tiny writing compared to product cost, even though they are arguably equally important. Given that the former is mandated, they should also mandate that they appear in equal size fonts on price labels.
Yeah Safeway typically shows price per unit, but Trader Joe’s (which is often thought of as a ‘friendly’ grocery) never does. I wish they did!
When ppl notice inflation, they swap to enshitification.
When ppl notice enshitification, they will create new brands at higher price points.
And so the cycle continues.
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Only if smaller sizes actually reduced people’s weight which seems unlikely.
Are you suggesting that people will simply buy more units, at a higher total price? That would be a novel result in economic history. Local taxes on soda in American cities have demonstrably lowered sales of those drinks, in those jurisdictions. Buyers are sensitive to price. In fact, demand for sugary drinks is highly elastic. A tax of just 1¢/oz in Oakland caused a 27% decline in sales, without countervailing incre…
These stickers would make me angry at the market itself. If they are bad products, why are you trying to sell them to me? Carry something from a brand that doesn't employ dark patterns to deceive me. It's literally the job of the market to editorialize and choose the best options for the limited shelf space.
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Also, French supermarkets have a long history of bullying AAA labels, nudging customers to buy their "home label" copy cat alternatives instead.
That's all supermarkets. That's kind of the whole point, as margins are better and allows you to negotiate better rates from labelled brands. This is a big reason why Costco is able to outperform it peers.
The only other business I’ve seen with such a constant flow of customers is In n out. Sure its good to have healthy margin but when you are getting 10x the number of daily transactions as your nearest comparable business in the area, you are playing a different game from them entirely.
When ppl noticed they raise prices, they swapped to shrinkflation. When ppl notice inflation, they swap to enshitification. When ppl notice enshitification, they will create new brands at higher price points. And so the cycle continues.
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Yeah Safeway typically shows price per unit, but Trader Joe’s (which is often thought of as a ‘friendly’ grocery) never does. I wish they did!
In the EU its mandatory everywhere.