Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It’s a real worry when the prime minister blames the supermarkets for shrinkflation when they don’t manufacture or package the shrinking products (“ Albanese announces shrinkflation crackdown ”, October 3). He’s got that wrong, just like his proposed plan to target undeveloped supermarket sites.
Great planning means looking at infrastructure needs well into the future and that’s what the supermarkets are doing by buying up future sites, something governments are not good at doing – future hospitals, schools, and transport corridors left out of the equation. Oh, and the “mark the prices up and then deduct the discount” tactic has been used by all retailers for at least the past 20 years so it’s a bit late to get all high and mighty now. The contribution to price increases caused by the “fuel price cycles” is of greater concern.
Those costs flow through to everything we touch. If Anthony Albanese had the guts, he would get the ACCC to do a proper review and call the fuel companies to account. Alan Brown, Mosman Anthony Albanese will announce new plans to target shrinkflation and its impact on shoppers.
Credit: iStock With shrinkflation so rampant why is it that motor vehicles are going in the opposite direction – with the exception of the latest MX5? Tony Heathwood, Kiama Downs Bravo to the PM for planning to put the supermarket duopoly on notice about their shrinkf.
