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More Than 2,500 Products ‘Have Shrunk’

  • July 24, 2017

If you haven’t checked your coffee can label lately, you might want to do so, as the BBC reports that over 2,500 products have shrunk in size in the past five years while being sold at the same price. Going by the nom de plume, “shrinkflation,” the phenomenon is happening to all kinds of products, from sugar to chocolate to paper products — and your coffee. While there isn’t much we can do about shrinking products short of staging a rally urging companies to...