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Comment on Shrinkflation hits IKEA Family by removing 5% discount
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ll argue that it’s not shrinkflation if the thing is free. It’s just them not giving you free stuff anymore.
rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you sign up for the free family program… Yes?
Fisk400@feddit.nu 7 months ago
Shrinkflation also has an element of being sneaky with it. Making the product cheaper or smaller without changing the price or packaging so that they can sneak the relative price increase past the customer.
This is them plainly telling the consumer that shit will be 5% more expensive now. That’s just regular old inflation.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 7 months ago
Shrinkflation tend to be shrinking in quantity, but yes whilr ikea can’t shrink their furniture, they can shrink their quality. Whether they indeed shrink the quality it’s up to debate tho.
Selmafudd@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They did shrink their Expedit into the Kallax