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This is what we need in Canada: France's Carrefour puts up 'shrinkflation' warning signs (www.bbc.co.uk)
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French supermarket Carrefour has put stickers on its shelves this week warning shoppers of "shrinkflation" - where packet contents are getting smaller while prices are not.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But it is unlikely that UK supermarkets would follow in Carrefour's footsteps, according to retail expert Ged Futter, because the strategy risks "poisoning" relationships between retailers and food firms. "This is a very blunt way of of trying to compete," he said. "To do that with your manufacturers, it won't help."

One of the many reasons why consumer and worker's rights are doomed in the Anglo-Saxon world: standing up for them is "rude"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The second capitalists gather together they are bound to conspire to fuck over ordinary folks.

That's not Marx - that's literally Adam Smith, the guy who hypothesized the invisible hand of the market that has since been turned into a complete strawman leading people to believe capitalism will somehow fix itself.

Spoiler: It won't.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which Adam Smith then follows by saying the craftspeople need to form guilds (unions) in response, which is the only scenario where the invisible hand approach could work

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The invisible hand was really just mentioned once in relation to the dynamics of trade between states, the whole concept is just taken out of context.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Funny that he thought that the capitalists need to conspire. It turns out the ordinary folks will try to fuck over each other no matter what. The only workaround is for the ordinary folks to reach a "gentleman's agreement" to not try and fuck over each other (i.e. form a union), but that proves difficult as it means having to not fuck over each other while establishing the union – a cross too difficult for most ordinary people to bear.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Yep. Way nicer to fuck over your customer instead. Everyone in the supply chain is happy until the end of it.