Encore: Shrinkflation

Endless Thread

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🗓️ 25 November 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

From the supermarket to the housing market, products are getting smaller but prices are not. Why is this happening? And can it be stopped before the toilet paper roll disappears right before our very… reaching hands? In this encore episode, we're talking all things shrinkflation. This episode was originally released on June 26, 2020.

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0:00.0	WBWR's last scene is back with surprising news stories about people, places, and things
0:06.1	that have gone missing, all told by tenacious public radio storytellers who refuse to let
0:11.5	mysteries go unsolved.
0:13.7	Don't miss season three.
0:15.2	Out now.
0:16.2	Follow last scene wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:20.2	What up endless threaders.
0:22.0	Happy Black Friday.
0:24.2	Hopefully you're beached on a piece of large furniture somewhere, groaning and snoozing
0:29.1	after a day of getting positively stuffed.
0:32.8	Or maybe you're out there amongst the mad frothy mouths, crowds trying to get stuff on this
0:38.7	day of worship for consumers.
0:40.6	Right now you're getting a lot less stuff for the money you are putting down, and that
0:44.2	is part of why we are taking a brief break from our bot series to play you one of our episodes
0:49.6	that is more and more relevant in 2022.
0:53.5	Shrinkflation baby, it's back.
0:56.5	Go listen.
1:07.4	Benjo.
1:08.4	Am si.
1:09.4	Oh, that is no ring to it whatsoever.
1:14.8	So let me tell you about my friend.
1:17.0	Actually really about my friend's mom.
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