Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands

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Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands
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Price per litre / kg etc is in Australia too

It is but it does nothing to curb shrinkflation in my experience.

I'm trying to think of a way to mandate this kind of notification but I can't think of a way to do it that could be both clear and mandated. Perhaps if the price per changes there needs to be a history listed on the label.

One big problem with it is that in the short-term it discourages sales, so groceries aren't incentivised to do it except as a stunt like this, so they won't want the notices to be prominent. Ultimately they still want you to buy the stuff because then they make money.

I think a price most recently changed date next to price per unit would be great.

Yeah I mean a price per unit history over the past X period, at least a year if I had my way, so if it changes a lot you end up with a clear list. That's actually not bad. Over time people would learn to read it and be educated about it and there might be more public pressure against it.