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Does this apply to digital services too? Isn't it basically making inflation illegal?

I think it means that you need to keep the size the same and increase the price or keep the price per unit the same and decrease the size. I don't think digital services are considered to have shrinkflation.

I'm getting a kick out of the idea of Amazon charging the same amount for ebooks but the font size slowly shrinking over time

You laugh, but if pixels (or ink) was the expensive part of making a book I'm absolutely sure we'd see this.

Actually we do see it... Compare hard-covers to soft-covers and then to trade paperbacks...

I suppose you could make thinner and denser font in last one to make it even cheaper.

I think the closest analog to this is digital services getting worse rather than more expensive. For example, recently rather than increasing the price of Amazon Prime Video, the price has remained the same, but the product is worse (now has ads).

That said, I don’t think this bill would target something like that, as it clearly discusses the “size” and “amount” of a product.

I agree, but it would be a total quagmire if they allowed it to extend to digital services and other non-traditional uses of the term. Seems like it would have to relate to buying typical consumer commodity goods only or things would get weird.

When I was a kid, a season was 26 episodes, although they did have fill up and clip show episodes. Nowadays you're lucky to get 6 episodes, but sometimes these are really good episodes.

Episode runtimes are up to the full hour thanks to streaming and lack of ads (the golden age is probably passing sadly) instead of being 20 minutes with room for 10 minutes of ads to fill the 30minute broadcast slot.

I recently moved to Ireland, and what I noticed in the stores is that all products have a second €/unit price on the shelf label. So a per KG, per L, per gram, per unit, etc.

It makes it easy to compare different versions/brands/sizes of the same product and select the most optimum version for you. It's a nice touch. Not sure if this is a EU thing, or just a store policy.

I've seen that in American grocery stores as well. I think it's pretty standard. The main issue is that you constantly have to be alert and remember prices across trips.

It might vary from state to state. Here in California it's pretty inconsistent. Anecdotally, in Virginia it was almost always there for every product.

I'm in California and it seems consistent across the large grocery store chains to me.

I have seen this in every store in a bunch of EU member states, so my guess is it's an EU thing

America has per weight pricing on labels but the units are often inconsistent.

Kroger and dollar stores have this

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