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Culips Everyday English Podcast

Chatterbox #279 – Shrinkflation

Culips Everyday English Podcast

Culips English Podcast

Education, Courses, Self-improvement, Language Learning

4.8979 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Have you noticed your usual grocery items are smaller than they used to be, but cost the same? You may not have heard of shrinkflation before, but it’s something that’s affecting everyone and people aren’t happy about it! In this Chatterbox episode, Andrew and Anna discuss the issue of shrinkflation. Culips’ Chatterbox series helps you learn English from native speakers, with detailed expressions you can add to your own vocabulary that will surely impress your English-speaking friends! Fun facts You may get excited when your favourite cereal is re-branded with fancy new packaging, but this is actually one of the smart ways companies disguise reduced contents. Coca Cola did this in 2019, reducing their bottles from 2 litres to 1.75 litres. Expressions included in the study guide Evil twin Perfect storm At the heart of [something] To get laid off To fall victim to [something/someone] To vote with your pocketbook Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke For Free, Step On by Jahzzar Photo Credit: Jonas Augustin (Unsplash.com)

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0:00.0

Hello everyone. My name is Andrew. And my name is Anna. And you're listening to the

0:08.4

Culeps English podcast. cast.

0:20.0

Hello there everyone, welcome back to Culeps. This is Chatterbox. The Culeps series for intermediate and advanced English learners that features natural

0:26.0

unedited conversations between native speakers about an interesting topic or a current event or maybe even a hot issue.

0:36.0

And today I'm joined by my co-host Anna.

0:39.2

Hey there, Anna.

0:40.5

Hey Andrew, how's it going? I'm doing fantastic.

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How are you?

0:45.0

I'm really good, thank you.

0:46.0

Anna, today we have kind of a current event and a hot topic to talk about.

0:52.0

It is something that is related to the pandemic.

0:56.7

It's also an economic issue and I think it's going to be an interesting conversation and maybe something that our listeners have never really even heard about before.

1:08.6

Our topic for today is shrinkflation. It's a little bit difficult to pronounce even.

1:15.0

Shrink flation. Shrink flation. Okay so we'll get into all of the details

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about what shrinkflation is and what our opinions and

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thoughts about this topic are in just a moment but before we do that I want to

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let all of our listeners know about the transcript and study guide that's available for this episode for all QLULPS members.

1:41.0

And following along with the study guide while you listen to us here today

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everyone is the best way to study with us and by becoming a Q-Lops member you'll be

1:51.1

able to support us and keep allowing us to make English lessons for people all over the world.

1:58.0

There are also a bunch of fantastic bonuses that you'll get when you become a member. So to sign up and get the

2:06.0

study guide just visit QLips.com. We also wanted to give a big shout out to our listener Nah-heung from South Korea,

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