If the old size is not present, what do you compare with?
the relevant regulations that mandate package weight in the US has been a thing longer than I’ve been alive. So you compare it to the weight of the old package.
There’s also some justification for using the same size packaging- they’d have to retool some of the filling machines, for example. or at least, adjust them, which adds increased associated production costs. But again, you’re talking about a government executive pushing extremely intrusive interference into a company’s operations.
Is shrinkflation pretty scummy? absolutely. but there’s really no workable way to stop it, that doesn’t have a lot of much worse consequences.
the relevant regulations that mandate package weight in the US has been a thing longer than I’ve been alive. So you compare it to the weight of the old package.
There’s also some justification for using the same size packaging- they’d have to retool some of the filling machines, for example. or at least, adjust them, which adds increased associated production costs. But again, you’re talking about a government executive pushing extremely intrusive interference into a company’s operations.
Is shrinkflation pretty scummy? absolutely. but there’s really no workable way to stop it, that doesn’t have a lot of much worse consequences.