Have groceries gone up? Backed up with 4 years worth of data

[shakenbake]

@cvmeds I just buy the 415g lays value size now that costs 4.99. It’s cheaper than the regular size even on sale.

 

[gingerberry]

@tirynn Or the trend I see is that you only save if you buy 2.

 

[moviez5]

@gingerberry This is likely done to curb price-matching, since most stores that price match exclude those items from their policy.

 

[marcyhoney]

@tirynn While keeping the physical packet size the same to make it harder to notice

 

[rubyinprogress]

@marcyhoney Shoutout to boxed chicken wings in particular. Same size box until recently, yet the quantity therein just has gotten smaller, and smaller, and smaller...

 

[brideforchrist]

@tirynn /r/shrinkflation

 

[bensherie]

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[livin4christ2]

@tirynn The classic grocery shrinkray

 

[rubyinprogress]

@tirynn Hot dog packaging stands out to me. Buns are typically sold in groups of 6 or 12. Sure, whatever.

Hot dogs used to be typically sold in groups of .......6 or 12. Convenient, eh?

I haven't been able to regularly find hot dogs that aren't in packs of 5, 8 or 10 for a while. At least a year, maybe two.

It sticks out like a sore thumb because the two complementary items no longer match conveniently.

 

[michelet]

@rubyinprogress I remember telling jokes about mismatched hot dogs and hot dog buns in the mid-90s. This is not a recent occurrence.

 

[apzimmermann]

@tirynn CBC Marketplace brought this issue up a couple of years ago in an episode

 

[tidbit87]

@tirynn This. Inflation first starts with declining product sizes for equal prices, prices only rise once they’re unable to keep the people unaware of the rising price

 

[benjamin213]

@tirynn Yet the narrative will be OP's , because people are fucking stupid.