My trouble with supermarket self checkouts: We used to go to the store, pick out our items and a employee would ring them up and bag them. Then you had to bag

My trouble with supermarket self checkouts: We used to go to the store, pick out our items and a employee would ring them up and bag them. Then you had to bag them yourself. Now you have to ring them up as well. Hedonic quality adjustment failed to capture this (and other examples of) 'enshittification' taking place and thus underestimates inflation. During Covid consumers became accustomed to worse service and longer waits and business realized what they could get away with and now run skeleton crews. The lower quality of these offerings haven't been factored in to the official inflation statistics, on the other hand if the iPad gets a little faster they are quick to hedonic quality adjust inflation down.