Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action

Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Food products probably. In clothes or cars, for example, it’s a bit harder to pull off. With clothes, it seems more like skimpflation - some items definitely had thinner-feeling fabric right after COVID, although it got better again. With cars, they just raise the price, so that’s inflation.

  If costs go up you have to do one of the three. You’re probably not getting angry phone calls because your Mars bar went down by 1g, but might if it’s more expensive or tastes like shit, so that’s the advantage there.

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  • spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I wish shrinkflation worked on cars and trucks, they just keep getting bigger and bigger.

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