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France's Carrefour puts up 'shrinkflation' warning signs (www.bbc.com)
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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What this guy found in Austria is actually illegal under EU consumer protection law.

Misleading price reduction claims

Price reduction claims such as “was € 50, now € 25” can be misleading if the initial selling price (known as “anchor price”) has been inflated. In all EU countries traders are obliged, when offering a discount, to indicate the lowest price applied to the item at least 30 days before the announcement of the price reduction. This information allows you as a consumer to assess whether the discount is genuine or not.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/unfair-treatment/unfair-pricing/index_en.htm#shortcut-3

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

We're so fucked.