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Retail products (food, consumables) qty shrinking, price THE SAME! (no surprise)
wilfred:
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--- Quote from: wilfred on November 21, 2019, 07:35:51 am ---However buying 9000ml in 1000ml bottles is 9 bottles and 10 bottles in the 900ml size. It might cost the same per ml. I don't think it does because they can reflate the price up nearer the threshold they were avoiding crossing. For a supermarket that proudly stops single use plastic bags they conveniently ignore the additional plastic in the extra bottle. Don't get me started.
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So you are exactly the person who didn't and doesn't pay attention to per unit pricing, otherwise you would have noticed the the cost going up with the package getting smaller. Enjoy overpaying for your daily consumables.
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In my own convoluted way that's pretty much what I was saying. They only have to keep the package price below some fixed value. The per unit price is elastic as long as the ticket doesn't go over $5 say.
I buy them when they're 1/2 price . Which is quite often.
And you were spot on with the brand.
I wanted a rude username:
--- Quote from: 3roomlab on November 21, 2019, 11:00:17 am ---here in my country
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Sounds like Eastern Europe.
Gyro:
It's curious that, despite the shrinking sizes, the consumers of these products seem to keep getting larger. :D
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: Gyro on November 21, 2019, 11:48:16 am ---It's curious that, despite the shrinking sizes, the consumers of these products seem to keep getting larger. :D
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I've sometimes idly considered that companies might use shrinkflation to demonstrating that they are helping combat obesity.
That will probably appear as a newsthump article or Private Eye cartoon sometime.
Yansi:
--- Quote from: I wanted a rude username on November 21, 2019, 11:35:26 am ---
--- Quote from: 3roomlab on November 21, 2019, 11:00:17 am ---here in my country
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Sounds like Eastern Europe.
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Isn't it the exact opposite?
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