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Originally Posted by Mikeee
Also some manufacturers are making the packages slightly smaller to avoid raising prices.
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This is a great point and worth emphasizing. This is a type of silent inflation. They keep the box or can the same size but put a little less in it.
A while back, I had an opportunity to teach this lesson to DW. There was a display of pasta sauce jars at the market. I noticed there were 2 different bottle shapes for the same product. Sure enough, the bottle with straight sides was the old design and held a little more than the newer bottle with indented sides. But they were all being sold for the same price. I thought about complaining because it was really false advertising but it wasn't worth it. The posted unit price only applied to the larger bottle, not the new smaller bottle which really had a higher unit price.