Inflation Anybody? If You Said Yes, You’re In The Majority…. The Government However Says “There Is No Inflation” To The Old Folks Struggling On Social Security, While Giving Itself An Inflationary Pay Increase (We Know For Sure It Wasn’t Based On Merit)…..Those Dirty Slimmy Skunk Smelling Sewer Rats, We’ll Soon See If The New Rats Smell Any Different
Posted By thestatedtruth.com on January 5, 2011
We have noticed the same kind of thing recently with a variety of products from yogurt to crackers and potato chips…..It’s the old candy bar trick all over again.
Two months ago Zero Hedge first touched upon the topic of relative “value deflation” whereby prices for products are kept constant, even as the actual product provided is far less. Back then we recalled the experience of one Walmart shopper who shared the following story: “I noted with interest that the Wal-Mart I shop at had cleared the shelves of “Great Value” brand coffee in 39 oz cans for about 2 weeks. Today the new can appeared, with the following differences: 1.) Can is now 33.9 oz, down from 39 oz. Also conspicuously missing is the conversion of 2lb, 7oz therefore no comparison in pounds is easily made. 2.) Price for this smaller can is up from $9.88 to $10.48, by my rustic math an approximate 20% increase! 3.) Contents of can are no longer ‘Premium Columbian’ Decaffeinated. Now labeled ‘100% Classic Decaf’.” Indeed, for people attuned to change in prices much more than to changes in amounts, this is the best, if most despicable, way to mask what is rapidly becoming an accelerating inflation problem (and with food prices now officially at their highest levels ever merely compounding the problem). Today, media finally draws attention to this increasingly more troubling development.
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