Shrinkflation Tracker
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Shrinkflation Tracker
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Re: Shrinkflation Tracker
#2Great idea! I'm afraid this would require at least a hundred employees to keep it current and useful, though. But, as a society, we definitely need this. Maybe if some government agency could back it up?
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#3For junk food which is what this mostly tracks, shrinkflation is good for people’s healths.
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#4Oddly, search only covers brand names?
https://www.shrinkflation.io/search?query=soap https://www.shrinkflation.io/search?query=dove <- result has 'soap' in name
Re: Shrinkflation Tracker
#5For junk food which is what this mostly tracks, shrinkflation is good for people’s healths.
Well, till you need to get 2 burgers instead of one to feel full...
Re: Shrinkflation Tracker
#6Great idea! I'm afraid this would require at least a hundred employees to keep it current and useful, though. But, as a society, we definitely need this. Maybe if some government agency could back it up?
A ton of automated scraping is what it needs. Just the main UK supermarket chains would do, as it seems rather British in the choice of products even though there's no pricing actually shown.
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#7itd be interesting if tracking price is also included, although I can imagine that would be insanely difficult to keep track of for many reasons. I love this idea and hope it continues to grow.
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#9Great idea! I'm afraid this would require at least a hundred employees to keep it current and useful, though. But, as a society, we definitely need this. Maybe if some government agency could back it up?
Why would this benefit society? Price per unit is a trivial calculation, and most grocery stores already show it on the price tag.
Change in price over time is irrelevant for making a decision on whether or not something is worth the utility to price ratio now. If you are trying to time the market on junk food, then it is best to simply avoid it.
If, for some reason, you want to prevent Mondelez, or whichever other manufacturer, from earning more profit margin than it historically has, then you can look up their public financials most of the time:
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MDLZ/mondelez/prof...
Re: Shrinkflation Tracker
#10For junk food which is what this mostly tracks, shrinkflation is good for people’s healths.
>inflation is a good thing and here's why