Shrinkflation: don’t want to upset customers with price rises? Just make your product smaller

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/17/shrinkflation-price-rises-product-smaller

Would be nice if there was legislation that prevented companies from doing this, so price increases couldn't be concealed so easily.

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8 Comments

withersailor@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 3y

“Rather than increasing the price our customers pay, we chose to keep our product price the same.”

Oh, they're thinking of the customers! /s

unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 3y
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joelfromaus@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 3y (2 replies)

But wont somebody think of the profit margins!!

AnonUserRSS@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

That CEO needs a bigger house okay!

joelfromaus@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 3y

Some of servants have to share bathrooms! It's like living in poverty.

baseball2020@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Disallow the packaging artwork to be resized more than once a year. I would love to see the shrink as a cropped area on the packaging

RustyRaven@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 3y

But they haven't made the pack size smaller, they just introduced a fun new size that was so popular they stopped selling the old size pack!

Sacah@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 3y

I don't mind this, I'd prefer to get a little less than a price increase, but I'd like to be made aware of that. Not sure who or how would be best to notify customers though.