Two three-inch-wide frozen Maryland-style crab cakes in a cardboard box one-half-inch deep, six inches long three inches wide price is twelve dollars and ninety nine cents at Publix. You can’t haggle. Who the hell do they think is going to buy that thing?
The pain relief section at Wal Mart has bare shelving over eighty percent of the length of the aisle. You used to see that kind of thing only in newsreels of the 50’s showing you the “benefits” of communism in Moscow supermarkets.
or they do it with “shrinkflation”
producers quietly make their package sizes smaller, but still charge the same price
hamburger patties are thinner, buns are smaller, etc.
The “crab cake” is probably only 10% crab.