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by stanleykm 102 days ago
Our economy is an oroborous of middlemen all using tariffs and inflation as excuses to raise their prices
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The ammount of shrinkflation in the last year is just stunning. Sometimes they bother to make the bottle/box/can incrementally imperceptibly smaller. Sometimes they just put less in. I track macros so I'm always looking at weights, and they're generically down 20%, while prices are up.