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Interesting Global News@lemmy.zipEnglish · 10 months ago

France's Carrefour puts up 'shrinkflation' warning signs

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France's Carrefour puts up 'shrinkflation' warning signs

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Interesting Global News@lemmy.zipEnglish · 10 months ago

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Carrefour is telling its customers which products are smaller than they used to be.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/w6iwQ
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230915054114/https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66809188

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Good. Shrinkflation really sucks. Arguably worse than just putting up the price. Because eventually the price will go up anyway when it cannot reasonably be shrunk any more, but now all the products are just anemic in their sizes.

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