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France's Carrefour puts up 'shrinkflation' warning signs
(www.bbc.com)
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This guy over at Mastodon conducted his own research about supermarket prices in Austria.
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/111071396799790275
That's some damning shit.
I can only imagine the shit going on in the US.
What this guy found in Austria is actually illegal under EU consumer protection law.
https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/unfair-treatment/unfair-pricing/index_en.htm#shortcut-3
Also, in the EU price tags in stores must also tell the price per standard unit of measurement, so you can compare different products regardless of package size.
You still need to notice the increase, hence Carrefour's warning.
That's extremely nice to have. I whish that this would apply to all product categories. Sometimes products from the same category are of different measurement units. E.g., one is in liter and one is in grams.