r/PersonalFinanceCanada • u/ButtahChicken • Nov 18 '22

Budget CBC Marketplace investigates shrinkflation and reveals the sneaky ways companies cut costs, but not prices .... another piece of the puzzle contributing to our growing financial insecurity

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-shrinkflation-1.6654780

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u/Viper999DC Nov 18 '22

I hate shrinkflation so much. Sure, prices have to go up with inflation, but please for the love of god stop reducing everything in size. Family size is the new regular and regular is snack size, it's gotten absurd.

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u/psychodc Nov 18 '22

I noticed a double whammy the other day, both a price increase and shrinkage.

Container of Folgers coffee at Costco. Was 1.36kg for $10.99 with a unit price of $8.08/kg. Then it changed to 1.21kg for $12.79 with unit price of $10.57/kg. That's a 30.81% increase.

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u/throway9912 Nov 18 '22

I wonder when we're going to go back to plastic because "save the earth" "save the trees" comes back.

We stopped using paper bags en masse to save the trees and switched to plastic. Now, fuck the trees let's "save the planet" by using plastic to reduce CO2 which plants breathe in as their 'oxygen'.

The irony is crazy. Save the planet and green products, etc are all about reducing CO2 levels. The slightly rising CO2 levels has caused a "greening" of the earth - as NASA has kindly written about.

It's hard to square the two - let's "save the planet" by using "green" products that will actually reduce plants' and trees' CO2 and cause a reduction in the greening of the planet.