Have you noticed your favourite product shrinking? You're not imagining things - ただの気のせい?最近いつもの商品が小さくなっていませんか?

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Supermarkets have been put on notice over a practice known as 'shrinkflation', which is a practice that is rife in the industry and is when a product is downsized but the price remains the same or even increases. To combat the tactic - the government is now seeking to strengthen unit pricing codes, making price and volume labels more readable, prominent and comparable, and introduce new penalties for those supermarkets - doing the wrong thing. - 商品が小さくなっているのに価格は変わらない…または値上げしている。「シュリンクフレーション」という商習慣を巡ってスーパーマーケットが通告されています。