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UK shrinkflation hits an absurd milestone
Shrinkflation e.g. your favourite chocolate bar price is unchanged but weight sneakily reduced by 10%.
Now... underpants. H&M Cotton-rich short trunks Large were 33in at waist and are now (on the sample I bought today) 30in.
And unlike the chocolate bar which is marked e.g. "25g", the shorts' packaging lacks any figure to reveal the reduction in the number of inches you are getting.
What next? 11-inch rulers? :)
- JSDevOps 2y agoDefinitely chocolate bars. Any kind.
- roland35 2y agoEat less chocolate, lose some weight around the waist! Seems like synergy to me :)
- readyplayernull 2y agoAt least there aren't selling us half empty packages like other snacks. There should be a tax on empty space.
- chrisjj 2y agoYes. Walkers Crisps are the worst. But even the EU Excess Packaging Directive did not help that. And now we have lost that - upon Brexit.
- csomar 2y agoWell, since now you are eating less chocolate, your waist should have thinned. So the garment followed up.
- chrisjj 2y agoUnfortunately the chcolate bar quantity increased to cover the shrink ;)
- kazinator 2y ago> What next? 11-inch rulers? :) Speaking of short feet; do you remember? Subway tried peddling "foot-long" sandwiches less than 12 inches. They were hit by a class action suit which they settled back in 2015.