Even worse is the shrinkflation with stealth price increase. Haagen Dazs recently reduced the size of their ice cream containers from 500ml to 450 ml while kee

Even worse is the shrinkflation with stealth price increase. Haagen Dazs recently reduced the size of their ice cream containers from 500ml to 450 ml while keeping the price the same. Fine. They succumbed to shrinkflation. But it's only at the checkout counter where you get hit with the stealth price increase. In Canada, they tax individual items of certain foods but don't tax family-size portions of those foods. It turns out that 500ml is the limit for family-sized portion of ice cream container. Buying less than 500ml results in the store charging tax on the item (Ontario HST is 13%). So Haagen Dazs is getting a bit more and the government gets some where before they got nothing. see https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/shrinkflation-canada-taxes https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/shrinkflation-canada-ta...