Shrinkflation is out of control

NarrativeBear@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 869 points –

Up untill a week ago Nofrills carried these "three packs" of salmon for $10. Now the same pack contains two for the same $10. I thought it felt light when I bought it yesterday.

This comes to about $0.02 increase per gram, and a $1.10 price increase overall. Or a 11% increase in price overall. Meanwhile inflation is at 6-7%?

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There's this fast food fried chicken chain called Raising Canes, used to serve massive strips. Now the price is 50% more expensive and 50% less chicken. They're extremely tiny, never going back again... yet all the zombies who love that place are relentlessly spending their money there anyway.

Edit: grammar

We tried that recently and I was disappointed. For the price I could just buy my own chicken and cook it and have it for a week.

Tried them once, succumbing to the hype, they didn't taste like anything at all

I think it's done like that on purpose so that their Canes sauce does a lot of the heavy lifting.

That's what I told my girlfriend when we had them for the first time a couple weeks ago. Chicken is fine, sauce is dope.