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I think Consumer Reports back in the 1980s would print examples. FWIW, Consumerist called it the "grocery shrink ray". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumeris
by eesmith 5y ago
I think Consumer Reports back in the 1980s would print examples.
FWIW, Consumerist called it the "grocery shrink ray". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumerist#grocery_shrink_ray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumerist#grocery_shrink_ray attributes is to Meghann Marco in 2008.
- eesmith 5y agoOh, and in 1983 Stephen J. Gould in "Hen's teeth and horse's toes" wrote the essay "Phyletic Size Decrease in Hershey Bars" about the diminishing size of Hershey bars between 1949 to 1979. Here's a link to one copy at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/hensteethhorsest00goulrich/page/312/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/hensteethhorsest00goulrich/page/... .