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Re: Shrinkflation Tracker

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Post by hankchinaski »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #35

So is shrinkflation actually included in official inflation numbers? If all bars of soap in the country become smaller by 10%, does 'official' inflation number go up? Are the folks tracking official inflation index equipped to measure all the various products per kilo, etc?

in the uk we measure the price of a basket of goods, which includes quantity adjustment. So packaging size is irrelevant. https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/meth...

>The simplest form of direct adjustment is quantity adjustment, which is used when there is a permanent size change in an item.

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Post by masfuerte »

imglorp wrote: post #60
kepano wrote: post #44

In a high-inflation environment your profits are constantly shrinking. The problem also affects small and independent makers of all kinds. If you are an indie maker and priced your product at $10 in 2020, you're now effectively making $8.38 USD[1]. Assuming inflation will remain elevated and you want to maintain the same margins, you need to either: 1. increase prices 2. reduce quality/quantity/features 3. reduce sup…

There's more malfeasance here. 5. They expansively tier their product line with minor variation to remove the idea of a standard offering. Eg there are some 33 sizes of M&Ms so nobody could say "get me a bag of M&Ms" any more. Forget comparing cell service plans. * https://www.measuringhow.com/m-and-m-bag-sizes-guide/ 6. They generate different model names for sale at different retailers to obstruct comparison shoppi…

Shoe and boot manufacturers also do 6.

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Post by n8cpdx »

kepano wrote: post #44

In a high-inflation environment your profits are constantly shrinking. The problem also affects small and independent makers of all kinds. If you are an indie maker and priced your product at $10 in 2020, you're now effectively making $8.38 USD[1]. Assuming inflation will remain elevated and you want to maintain the same margins, you need to either: 1. increase prices 2. reduce quality/quantity/features 3. reduce sup…

Most of the products on the site appear to be candy/junk that shouldn’t be consumed in large quantities anyway. There is probably substantial social good being done by making the default portions of pringles and chocolate smaller.

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Post by lotsofpulp »

waffleiron wrote: post #79
lotsofpulp wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and... >In 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight. Of these over 650 million were obese. >39% of adults aged 18 years and over were overweight in 2016, and 13% were obese. https://www.who.int/news/item/06-07-2022-un-report--global-h... >The number of people affected by hunger globally rose to as many as 828 million in 2021 I wou…

Another statistic from your source > Around 2.3 billion people in the world (29.3%) were moderately or severely food insecure in 2021 It’s easy to talk on a forum like this, where the median salary is massive compared to global/country median, that poor people shouldn’t be able to afford as much bad food. I think when you do so you’ve lost touch with the average person who is affected by things like shrinkflation.

I never meant to imply poor people, as in starvation poor, should not be able to afford as much bad food.

But generally, the people eating burgers in developed countries have a choice of eating healthier foods, and choose to eat burgers instead.

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Post by vmilner »

Sainsbury’s don’t like changing the weights encoded in their urls so although Cadburys 180g “Price locked” Fruit and Nut has been shrinkflated for over a year the link is still:

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/cadbury-dairy-mi...

…www.Sainsbury's.co.uk/gol-ui/product/cadbury-dairy-milk-fruit---nut-200g

My

Re: Shrinkflation Tracker

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Post by wppick »

Another source of shrinkflation is changing ingredients. Something that used to be 50% water is now 75% water as an example. Another is changing from olive oil to canola or palm or, and things like that.

Re: Shrinkflation Tracker

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Post by purplecats »

wppick wrote: post #97

Another source of shrinkflation is changing ingredients. Something that used to be 50% water is now 75% water as an example. Another is changing from olive oil to canola or palm or, and things like that.

we need github tracking for the changes in metadata for products, like we do for legislation or the terms of use (like the one that unity deleted)

Re: Shrinkflation Tracker

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Post by Crunchified »

MikusR wrote: post #57

In EU prices for food stuff have to also list price per KG.

Here in the US, while unit pricing is commonly displayed, I frequently find that a store will use a wide variety of units, thereby negating the ability to easily compare items in this way. For the same type of product I may see cost per ounce, cost per pound, cost per each, cost per dozen, etc. for various sizes and brands. It's maddening, insulting, and probably in most cases malicious.
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