But there's another, less noticeable, trend that's just as painful to your pocketbook even when a product's cost looks stable: shrinkflation. About one-third of roughly 100 common consumer ...
NEW YORK — PepsiCo is unshrinking shrinkflation. The owner of Lay's, Doritos, Tostitos and Ruffles chips will put more chips in some bags to claw back customers tired of higher prices with ...
PepsiCo says it is boosting the volume of some of its packages of chips, after being accused last year of "shrinkflation," or reducing the size of products without lowering the price. In the ...
A mixture of higher prices, a resilient US shopper, and a little shrinkflation drove a solid quarter from Procter & Gamble (PG). The maker of Tide Pods and Dawn Powerwash reported better-than ...
One thing a vast majority have noticed is that the price of certain products might not have changed but they got smaller, otherwise known as ‘shrinkflation’. A recent analysis by LendingTree ...
The company’s decision comes as consumers online are complaining of widespread “shrinkflation,” that is, paying the same retail price — or more — for a product that’s now smaller.
As food companies have seen their costs rise substantially over the past few years, many have used two sneaky strategies, dubbed shrinkflation and skimpflation, to avoid having to raise the prices ...
I was puzzled by the fresh outrage. Hasn’t shrinkflation been with us forever? Don’t manufacturers wrestling with competition and inflationary pressures always resort to sneaky downsizing ...