[stockpirate]

What a load of crap, and here’s why.

1. Containers have become smaller while prices remain the same, INFLATION, less product for the same price.

2. Fuel and food are no longer in the inflation list of items.

3. Go out and eat, the portions are smaller. When Panda Express first opened the portions were a lot larger, now they use smaller containers.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I opened two cans of beans not long ago. Same price, same weight, same size.

Can #1 was packed to the top with beans.
Can #2 was 3/4 full of beans and water the rest of the way.

I’ve also noticed that in canned tuna and many other products.

Several years ago I bought a certain brand of dish washing soap.
Then one day the IMPROVED(!) the bottle by making it easier to grasp by making the diameter of the container smaller. So, for the same price as the large bottle, I now got 1/4 less for the same price!

[1rudeboy]

One of the reasons inflation is “lower” is because fuel prices have dropped. So much for your #2.

[pinqy27]

1. Containers have become smaller while prices remain the same, INFLATION, less product for the same price.
That's accounted for in the calculations. Changes in quality, which include size, are adjusted. If a $1.00 can of tuna goes from 5 oz to 4.8 oz and stays a dollar, that is recorded as a 4.2% price increase.

2. Fuel and food are no longer in the inflation list of items
Yes they are.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm

Number 3 is addressed in point one.