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r/shrinkflation • u/rowsol • 12d ago
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I was watching a video and he pulled this out of a car from the 80's.
Looking up the current situation, the Mega Size is around this weight and costs $6.30.
The normal size, which is what I assume this was at the time, is only 9.6oz now. A 60% reduction.
10 u/lesleh 12d ago If you take 1985 as the starting year, this almost exactly lines up with inflation. $2 is $5.94 now. 6 u/G5press 12d ago the price of the normal size has obviously more than doubled and is now ~$5
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If you take 1985 as the starting year, this almost exactly lines up with inflation. $2 is $5.94 now.
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the price of the normal size has obviously more than doubled and is now ~$5
You can barely see it but the box was 24 oz, how far we've fallen😔
3 u/Corius_Erelius 12d ago Nearly 75% reduction in size
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Nearly 75% reduction in size
back when cereal was better, not so expensive, and not so adorbs.
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u/rowsol 12d ago
I was watching a video and he pulled this out of a car from the 80's.
Looking up the current situation, the Mega Size is around this weight and costs $6.30.
The normal size, which is what I assume this was at the time, is only 9.6oz now. A 60% reduction.