Nowadays, as inflation reached a 40-year high in a lot of countries across the globe, many are struggling to make ends meet. Meanwhile, companies are continuing to scam everyday people, making life more difficult while most of us are counting our pennies.
Shrinkflation is a strategy often used by businesses to subtly lower a product's size or weight in order to make savings without raising the overall price. There’s also an uncommon kind of shrinkflation when a business substitutes less expensive ingredients or increases the amount of water while reducing the amount of other ingredients in their products.
#5 Wtf, Crayola??? I Spent $9 On A Set Of Colored Pencils With A Good Variety Of Colors, Only To Find Out The Pencils Aren't Full Size. Nowhere Does The Packaging Indicate They're Colored Golf Pencils
With that being said, a lot of concerned people online tend to think that companies should be striving to become more clear about being transparent given their practices, especially price increases as well as explaining why they are happening in the first place.
#7 I Noticed The Cans Were Shaped Differently — Taller But Narrower — Then Found Some Older Chunky Cans Hidden In The Back
Still, in some countries, like Brazil, companies cannot get away with reducing the product’s size or quantity without them having to state that on their labels for the next 6 months.
While some countries have laws to protect their consumer rights to a great extent, do you think other countries should be following that example in times like these as well?
#13 Chobani Raised Their Prices And Then Cut The Amount Of Toppings By 2/3rds On The Flips. Won't Be Buying These Anymore
#14 Yeah, Nobody Is Gonna Notice The One Missing Chocolate Bar. First Time Posting On Here, So Sorry If Something Similar Has Been Posted Before
