If you go to grocery stores periodically you may have
noticed certain deceptive packaging in food items. As you are aware, inflation stats do not include the rise in food
and gasoline. However, manufacturers,
in order to keep cost down have packaged their goods differently. Examples:
paper towels use to be 13 x 11 and were slowly downsized to 11 x 11 and
then 11 x 10 and some have gone to 11 x 9.5.
Toilet paper rolls use to be 4 x 4.25 and then downsized to 4 x 4 and
some have gone to 4 x 3.9. Some drinks
that used to be 64 ounces are now 59 ounces, although the bottle looks closely
to the 64 ounces. Cereal is doing the
same downsizing. Consumers may not
notice this deception, but manufacturers do not want to raise prices and lose
customers so they downsize their product but charge the same or just a little
more. So, as a consumer you are paying
more for less. Something people do not
talk about since government would like you to think that inflation is under
control. Just like some auto
manufacturers would like to tell you how far a particular car will go on a full
tank of gas, without telling you that they just gave the car a larger gas tank. But, if the consumers are as dumb as the
voters, nobody will really notice.
Monday, March 10, 2014
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