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It's not just reducing the amount of the product, a lot of products also reformulate to make things cheaper to produce while keeping the price to the consumer the same.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/oct/21/shrinkflation-...

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aka shitflation

I’ve seen it called “skimpflation”. Skimp on ingredients instead of shrinking the product.

That's a good one but there are other forms too. 1. You turn up to buy the store brand of x commodity food but it's out of stock. Stockflation? 2. Bad service. Long waiting times at a restaurant for example.

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