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How Shrinkflation Hides Higher Grocery Prices
Episode 22 of Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Lucas and Luna unpack the quiet but corrosive phenomenon of shrinkflation — where package sizes shrink but prices stay the same (or rise). Using real examples from recent grocery store data, they explain how this hidden price increase fools the official CPI, why companies prefer it over raising sticker prices, and what shoppers can do to spot it. Ties in the latest CPI print of 332.4 and discusses how even core inflation readings miss this trick. A practical episode for anyone who's noticed their box of cereal feels lighter but costs…
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