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Economy

Warpy

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1. It doesn't cover the worst sort of infation: product shrinkage

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Feb 11, 2022, 03:21 PM

Feb 2022

From the half gallon of ice cream that's now a quart and a half to the parially filled containers of this and that (and no, I'm not talking about how chips settle in the bag) to toilet paper that leaves almost an inch on either side of the spindle, inflation has been hitting us hard for the last few decades. Corporations just thought we were too stupid to notice

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Does everything really cost more? Find out with our inflation quiz. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2022 OP

It doesn't cover the worst sort of infation: product shrinkage Warpy Feb 2022 #1

The CPI data collectors look at the labels and actually weigh the contents progree Feb 2022 #2