MSM company reveals product shrinkage

[Luis337]

From the Mises blog.


No company wants to raise prices. Reducing the quantity sold makes more sense. CNN has looked at many common items from dish soap to lunch meat to find that many have 20% less stuff in them than before. It’s a form of an inflation tax several steps removed from the real culprits.

http://blog.mises.org/15410/prodcut-shrinkage/

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/pf/1101/gallery.downsized_consumer_products/index.html

[Low Pan]

been going on since 2007 and the crash. First thing I noticed was Eddy's Ice Cream. The Ice Cream was the same price as always but was 20% less volume. Right then and there I stopped buying Ice Cream each week. Now that I think about it, I don't think I've bought Ice Cream since.

[Ponce]

I first saw it at the dollar store with their tinfoil..... from 40 square feet down to 32 and now 26.

[Neuro]

I first saw it at the dollar store with their tinfoil..... from 40 square feet down to 32 and now 26.
Damn!!!!

[Low Pan]

I first saw it at the dollar store with their tinfoil..... from 40 square feet down to 32 and now 26.


dang Ponce, that's a 35% decrease in volume!

[Ponce]

And that was from four years ago.........I have many many of of those rolls in my garage.