French supermarket using ‘shrinkflation’ stickers to pressure PepsiCo and others

Re:French supermarket using ‘shrinkflation’ stickers to pres... by derefr on Saturday September 16, 2023 @12:15PM (#37536098)

I don't think that's how liquids are legally able to be marketed, at least in any country I'm aware of. A volume measurement on a bottle/can/etc of liquid — whether a drink, a medicine, windshield-wiper fluid, etc — should always be the volume of liquid you get by pouring the container's contents out into a measuring vessel. No real possibility of / benefit to using slack-fill. If they change the shape of a liquid container, it's for logistics reasons (better packing, less likely to puncture/explode, etc.)

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Re:French supermarket using ‘shrinkflation’ stickers to pres... by satvikpendem on Saturday September 16, 2023 @12:18PM (#37536133)

Manufacturers can label it as 900 milliliters so they're not lying, but the bottle looks like it's a liter bottle so the customer doesn't really check the listed amount. They should check though, is my point.

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Re:French supermarket using ‘shrinkflation’ stickers to pres... by jxramos on Saturday September 16, 2023 @12:24PM (#37536187)

I wish changes like this would also trigger a change in the barcode, that fundamentally by law a new unit size of the same product would be given a new number and that number would be on the receipt. If the number was tokenized like a VIN with sub strings representing volume that could be another way to catch this where the information is tied to data text rather than the physical product whose visuals can deceive when in a rushed shopping event.

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Re:French supermarket using ‘shrinkflation’ stickers to pres... by gruez on Saturday September 16, 2023 @12:51PM (#37536438)

Are people really going to OCR their receipts for years, hoping to catch an instance of "shrinkflation"?

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Re:French supermarket using ‘shrinkflation’ stickers to pres... by jxramos on Saturday September 16, 2023 @03:01PM (#37537611)

Probably not but it would enable that sort of analysis should anyone find a way to easily automate that process someday. It’s one mechanism for feedback that probably not everyone has to do but a few could and their efforts would benefit the wider consumer base I’d imagine. If someone posted that raw data and analysis publicly that would be a website I’d visit from time to time.

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