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I've never seen this happen, and I look at the price every time I buy groceries.

Wow. This is ridiculously derailing the general discussion, but I don’t know whether you can PM me an email address or something, but when I get back to Stockholm tomorrow I could photograph and send you any number of images showing this happening.

It does indicate both how blind Swedes are to the faults in their own country, and how passionately defensive they are though.

Edit: This doesn’t seem to me to be highly relevant to the general discussion on shrinkflation, but to avoid the very active downvotes I’ll post to imgur tomorrow evening (when back in town).

You could post it on a site like imgur and post the link here. No need to derail the discussion.

I merely presented anecdata contrary to your experience, that does not in any way indicate any kind of blindness to faults or mean I'm passionately defensive.

If you shop in stores that break the law you should take it up with the store manager, store owner, Stockholm's konsumentvägledare [0], or Konsumentverket [1]. They're violating the law [2]. I hope you had a nice vacation outside of Stockholm, no need to add an extra errand to your list when you're back in town.

[0] https://www.stockholm.se/ByggBo/konsument/Kontakta-konsument...

[1] https://www.konsumentverket.se/aktuella-konsumentproblem/anm...

[2] https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-lagar/dokument/svensk-f...

Here in NL the stores often display the price per kg. I don't think there is a law but dutch people are just cheap, we feel like we get something extra for free out of it. (joking)

At least one supermarket forbids taking pictures tho.

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