• N-E-N@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Governments mandating lower prices when taxes are raised won’t go well either. They’ll simply lower the quality of the goods and the same price

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      1 year ago

      Absolutely agree. “Shrinkflation” is already a real problem used by many companies to give the appearance of not raising prices.

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        1 year ago

        Also ‘skimpflation’ - like reducing the proportion of expensive ingredients or reducing the quality of ingredients