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by hankchinaski 1004 days ago
in the uk we measure the price of a basket of goods, which includes quantity adjustment. So packaging size is irrelevant. https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/meth...

>The simplest form of direct adjustment is quantity adjustment, which is used when there is a permanent size change in an item.