Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit
Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit
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Lester Kiewit and Brett Rogers address inflation, shrinkflation, and skimpflation
8 minutes Posted Feb 22, 2024 at 5:12 am.
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For many years, manufacturers of products (especially foodstuffs) have been stealthily increasing their prices by making their product sizes smaller and selling them at the same price, hoping that no one would notice. This practice is known as shrinkflation. But did you know that some companies resort to “skimpflation”? Lester Kiewit speaks to Brett Rogers about the sneaky ways in which companies try to fool consumers. 

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