shrinkflation: when product sizes shrink, but prices stay the same.. A community to share instances of shrinkflation, which is when a product has shrunk in size and the price has stayed the same (or gone higher!).
209K members. The best post we have captured here reached 12K upvotes, which works out to 57 per 1,000 members.
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Pasta sauce getting 8% smaller and water is now first ingredient vs tomatoes
How is this not illegal?
Subway finally getting hurt by their $15 footlongs.
McDonalds No Longer Offering Free Refills
I did a walmart pick up and look at the substitution
Sewing kits are now affected by Shrinkflation :(
I measured a 8 inch tortilla… Guess what I found?
12.6% decrease in size by weight with a price increase does not make me Feel Good (UK)
Behold, a saviour
McDonald's suffers worst U.S. sales decline since 2020, warns of 'anti-American sentiment' abroad
Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.
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