I usually just search “product shrinkflation reddit” on Google and 9/10 times will find the thread that says exactly what it is/ used to be. Unfortunately that site’s the place to find the answer to this question.
Literally me holding the onion I picked out
Not just sizes, but ingredients too. I used to drink those Naked Juice smoothies, which were originally just blended fruit with a little bit of apple juice added for liquid. They would write something on the back that said something like “this bottle contains 13 strawberries and 2 bananas”.
Then one day I noticed the drinks were much more runny that usual. I had to search for older pictures people had taken of their bottles, but sure enough all the numbers had changed - and apple juice was no longer a minor ingredient, it was the main one.
This is all IIRC, so dont crucify me if i misquote.
Something i saw being reported on recently (ABC Australia) was that while products can be tracked with shrinkflation by price per 100g, and they are looking at bringing in legislation to have this displayed if packaged sizes have changed (ie a 550g box is now a 475g box), they also note that manufacturors can change the amounts of ingredients and theres no way of telling which ir how much. They said factors include ingredient availability and supply cost increases, which are unavoidable in production, but also you cant tell if its just because they added more of a cheaper filler - or if they substituted it for a different thing completely.
The thing they were getting at is that shrinkflation is shady and scummy, but more scummy if dropping the nutritional content of a product because its cheaper to make and profit margins are bigger is much worse.Damn that sounds like much needed legislation. Zero chance of that happening in the US.
Yeah, I just bought new lotion for the winter. Exact same brand and product as the bottle I bought last year, but the smell and texture are noticeably different in a bad way
This was me yesterday standing in the cracker aisle. Price goes up size goes down.
Shrinkflation has been common for a while already, so it’s probably safe to assume the product is smaller. For food products, I try to shop at places that sell by weight instead of by package. It’s often cheaper that way too.
That’s why I use a grocery list app that lets me keep track of prices and package sizes. So I can be furious for a few minutes while contemplating whether I really need this thing and then resign myself to my fate of getting 27 g less for the same money.
When I buy based on Price-per-oz:
Surprise Mothafucka.
Joke’s on me, I don’t remember the old price-per-oz, either.
The trick is to realize what a good price per oz is for food or drink as a baseline for all products.
14.2 for frozen dinners or soup cans? Budget. 72 for olive oil? Pricey but a little goes a long way. 3.2 for cans of carbonated drink? Nice buy.
Literally me, holding a bag of frozen veggies. 🤔
People have this dumb idea that if you can’t prove a criminal is doing something criminal, you have to go along with what they say and pretend everything is on the up and up.
It’s so fucking dumb. We have brains, we know scams, we know scammers, like, I don’t need physical proof to know when someone is trying to fuck me over. I just know they are, and I break off all engagement. “Skeptics of Reddit” be like, “nu uh, that’s illogical, you can only act on anything where there is absolute irrefutable proof, otherwise you are so dumb!”, shiiiiet, I lived on the streets, people could smell being ripped off, and bullets would fucking fly, and they were rarely wrong either.
Im guessing those people didn’t live on the streets.
Tostinos pizzas used to be the perfect size and tasted good.
They shrank them. Then made them square. Then shrank them again.
Downsized Motherfucker!!
It’s an awesome series. Bought netflix because of this.
Classic billionaire behavior.
Do they finally catch the mind flayer?
