Shrinkflation

Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.1 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 29 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?

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0:00.0	Produced by the iLab at WBUR Boston.
0:07.0	Benjo.
0:10.0	Am Siv.
0:11.0	Oh, that is no ring to it whatsoever.
0:16.8	So let me tell you about my friend.
0:18.8	Actually, really about my friend's mom.
0:21.1	My name is Melanie and I live in California.
0:23.8	Melanie is the kind of lady who has a label maker and she knows how to use it.
0:28.4	Which sounds like my dad who writes my name and phone number on all of my belongings
0:32.9	even as I approach the age of 40.
0:35.3	It drives me insane.
0:36.8	He uses a permanent marker.
0:38.8	Of course.
0:39.8	Dad, stop.
0:42.9	It gets at this idea right that as a parent, you need to be super organized.
0:47.4	Which includes shopping smart.
0:50.4	Melanie's attention to detail is legit.
0:53.0	And recently, she made a discovery in the bathroom.
0:57.2	And had to do with her favorite brand of toilet paper, Charmin Ultra Soft.
1:04.9	Which she usually gets at Costco.
1:07.0	But when the pandemic hit, she couldn't find it.
1:09.8	Tail is all this time.
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