{"id":1507271,"date":"2022-06-08T07:49:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T11:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1507271"},"modified":"2022-06-08T07:49:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T11:49:24","slug":"shrinkflation-cereal-brand-cuts-amount-per-box-by-17-toilet-paper-brand-slashes-roll-size-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shrinkflation-cereal-brand-cuts-amount-per-box-by-17-toilet-paper-brand-slashes-roll-size-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrinkflation: Cereal Brand Cuts Amount Per Box By 17%; Toilet Paper Brand Slashes Roll Size 24%"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshrinkflation-cereal-brand-cuts-amount-per-box-by-17-toilet-paper-brand-slashes-roll-size-24%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1507271&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>There\u2019s inflation and then there\u2019s <em>shrinkflation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Inflation is easy to spot: The product you bought last month now costs a dime more.<\/p>\n<p>But shrinkflation is much more nefarious. The product you bought last month is the same price \u2014 the package may even appear to be the same size \u2014 but there\u2019s less of it. In some cases, a good bit less.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNotable brands to \u2018shrinkflate\u2019 their products in recent months as the American dollar continues to lessen in value include Charmin, Bounty, and Gatorade, which have all been downsized in recent months but have retained their previous prices,\u201d the Daily Mail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10893107\/Shrinkflation-hits-Honey-Bunches-Oats-Kleenex-latest-victims.html\">reported<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoining the parade of downsized products is cereal stalwart Honey Bunches of Oats, which has seen the weight of its standard box, previously 14.5 ounces, lessen to 12 ounces \u2014 a reduction of roughly 17 percent,\u201d the U.K. paper said.<\/p>\n<p>Angel Soft toilet paper has also reduced its size from 425 sheets per roll to 320, while Bounty paper towels have cut their rolls from 165 sheets per roll to 147 late last year.\u00a0Gatorade also cut its size from 32 ounces to 28 ounces.<\/p>\n<p>The fascinating thing is that companies often go to great lengths to keep their product containers the same size.<\/p>\n<p>Folger\u2019s coffee has also slashed its amount per canister, drawing controversy .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast month, the company elected to dramatically drop the number of ounces displayed on those canisters \u2013 previously 51 ounces, now 43.5 ounces \u2013 while keeping the number of cups that it says each package will yield, at 400, the same,\u201d the Daily Mail wrote. \u201cWhen confronted about the 7.5 ounce reduction per canister last month on social media, which should see a decrease of more than a dozen cups of coffee, the company cited a new, more efficient bean pressing technology as to why the cup count has not been changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have employed a new, roasting technology that makes the most out of every bean \u2014 resulting in lighter-weight coffee grounds that deliver the same taste you love across the same number of brewed cups,\u201d the company wrote on Twitter. \u201cThrough the use of this new roasting process, we\u2019re able to get more coffee flavor from each bean while providing the same amount of coffee servings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe total weight of our coffee products will be reduced, but the amount of coffee you receive, by way of total servings, will remain the exact same. Hope this clears up any confusion,\u201d the company continued.<\/p>\n<p>That didn\u2019t go over too well with customers.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Give me a break! A lighter coffee ground? You\u2019re greedy, I\u2019ll switch brands!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Melbeach (@Melbeach10) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Melbeach10\/status\/1534141882841718784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s inflation and then there\u2019s shrinkflation. Inflation is easy to spot: The product you bought last month now costs a dime more. But shrinkflation is much more nefarious. The product you bought last month is the same price \u2014 the package may even appear to be the same size \u2014 but there\u2019s less of it. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1508728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1508728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}