Yeah understood. But what I was pointing out was the "Family Size" in 2002 was a 1 lb. bag. Now it seems its a 11.5 oz. bag. and over double the price.
I've seen the same with canned goods. More water in the can of green beans with less of the vegetable, yet charge more for less.
I've seen plastic peanut butter Containers suddenly acquire a conical shaped column in the bottom of the jar. Thus making the jar look the same size but have a good deal less product in the container yet they usually cost more.
Price rises are being hidden from consumers with packaging changes and "fake sales" tactics. (Buy 3 get one free but it still cost you more than the previous month's price for the same product.)
A year ago I bought 70 lbs of ground chuck at $1.99 a lb.
In the past year it has gone up to $2.88 a lb. It would cost over 200 dollars to buy what I paid just over 139 dollars for last October.
The small cans of tuna used to be 7.5 oz. Today they’re 5 oz. Be careful with them when storing them because the cans are very thin. Very thin metal. It’s so thin, you can’t use the lid to squeeze the liquid off the meat because it’ll bend on you. A couple years ago, store brand tuna was 45c but now it’s 79c for a smaller can.
Toilet paper, same thing. “Double rolls” are a joke. They’re small than what regular rolls used to be. I made my bathroom shelves to fit two stacked rolls but now there’s a 3/4ths in gap so they’re not only shorter in length but narrower. I’ve noticed the last two packages are so narrow that I have to carefully fold the paper so that it’s wider when using. Probaby too much information but we shouldn’t have to go to all that trouble for tp.
And don’t even get me started on the price of ground beef. I broke down this weekend and bought 10 lbs of the cheap stuff. I hadn’t bought ground meat in a year because it’s gone up double what it was.