The Shrinkflation Problem: How You're Paying More for Less at the Grocery Store
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Hosts Justin Klein & Luke Guerrero, CFA | Wealth Managers and Investment Advisors
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🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we will reveal how manufacturers secretly decrease the size of products like coffee and paper towels—resulting in a hidden price hike that contributes to overall inflation. (We will also look into policy options for increasing consumer transparency.)
Today's Stocks & Topics: Universal Technical Institute, Inc. (UTI), Market Wrap, American Bitcoin Corp (ABTC), The Shrinkflation Problem: How You're Paying More for Less at the Grocery Store, KBR, Inc. (KBR), How Interest Rates Affect the Economy, Dolly Varden Silver Corporation (DVS), Modine Manufacturing Company (MOD), Vertiv Holdings Co (VRT), Government Shutdown, Roth I-R-A & K1, U.S. Credit Markets.
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| 0:00.0 | On radio, on YouTube, streaming live on invest talk.com, and for our podcast subscribers, this is InvestTalk. Incependent Thinking, shared success. |
| 0:17.7 | InvestTalk is made possible by KPP Financial, a registered investment advisor firm, serving clients throughout the United States. |
| 0:27.0 | Here is KPP Financial Portfolio Manager, Luke Guerrero. |
| 0:33.5 | Good afternoon, fellow investors, and welcome back to Invest talk. My name is Luke Guerrero, and I'll be with you on this Tuesday, September 30th, 2025. |
| 0:47.1 | Now, it is 9.30. September 30th. That means a couple things. It means it's my mother's birthday, so a happy |
| 0:54.6 | birthday to her. But it also means we are officially through Q3, officially through the month of |
| 1:03.2 | September, and head it in, turn in the corner towards the end of the year. And what a year |
| 1:10.7 | it has been? Certainly there have been a lot of |
| 1:12.6 | changes. There's been a lot that has been noise, a lot that has been signals, a lot to sift through, |
| 1:18.3 | ups, downs, high volatility, low volatility, and through it all, we here at InvestTalk see our |
| 1:24.1 | singular mission that's trying to help you decipher what is going on in the world. |
| 1:30.4 | To figure out how it's going to affect you, how it's going to affect your finances, how it's going |
| 1:35.0 | to affect your portfolios, and how it's going to affect how you can achieve your financial goals. |
| 1:40.5 | And in order to do that, Justin and I come here each and every day, five days a |
| 1:45.1 | week, except on holidays. And we bring a mixture of educational and actual material to the table, |
| 1:51.0 | but you are the most important part of this show, your contributions, through your voicemails, |
| 1:58.4 | through your questions over on our InvestTalk YouTube channel, |
| 2:02.1 | your reviews, and also by bringing more people in to the InvestTalk family is the most |
| 2:08.7 | important part of this show. And so, as always, before we talk about today's market performance, |
| 2:15.8 | before we run down those show topics, |
| 2:18.5 | why don't we tackle this caller question now? |
| 2:21.3 | Big fan here from Orange County. |
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