30% increase on many grocery goods here. But youβll never be able to tell from the price alone because they shrinkflate away so normies donβt get the pitch forks out.
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Ouch! Seeing the same here.
Over here (europe) they are masters of illusions, crafting unique looking bottles that hide the fact that your shampoo/soap/detergent now contains 10-20% less while seemingly looking similar.
Here they use exact same package but just fill it less.
Trying to find ways to hide inflation. They just cant any longer. That's why their money will die.
Let's be clear about who "they" are
It is not only shrinkflation, it is worse they change ingredients for worse so that the price doesn't increase as much.
Def. Quality goes down too
Insane price increases here too. Defo over official 2%.
I've noticed the thining out of the bottle on the bottom of Fanta recently. Packets of crisps are more air than crisps. A Mars has shrunk but the price has increased, like a Fredo. And they also sell chocolate bars in packets of 4 to add to the illusion of getting more for less.
With bottled water/pop in the UK, most people seem to be fixated on the problem with bottle caps and not noticing the size of the bottles getting smaller.
Does it say milk chocolate or chocolate candy on the wrappers?
Milk chocolate. Although, i think it varies across brands
I donβt know about UK but in the states thereβs a legal definition of milk chocolate and it has to due with ratio of cocoa butter to chocolate and since cocoa butter is more expensive now many brands substitute seed oils, highly processed crap. That makes them ineligible for the milk chocolate label. So they are forced to say chocolate candy. Thatβs how you know which chocolate is full of π©
Jeez GM!
So you need something like sats to see the real price. By the way, people see value in their own way everyone values some things more and others less.
Same here, restaurants using worse ingredients, you can feel the food getting worse to maintain the price π«
I was behind this old fella in the grocery line. His bill was $154. He was genuinely in shock, asked the cashier if he got the 50% discount on his meat and stood there after paying going over his receipt for 5 minutes. This is not good.
There is a limit to the ability to shrinkflate. At some point the pitchforks will surface.
Hammer out your shields π‘ and sharpen your pitchforks π±, my friends
Inflation isn't 2%. It's a 30% grocery hike hidden in smaller bags. They can manipulate the CPI, but they can't hide empty shelves.
What specifically has risen 30%?
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Food is getting so fucking expensive. Everything is.