The beloved “Sesame Street” character griped on social media that his cookies were getting smaller. “Me hate shrinkflation,” he said. Some politicians agreed.
  • secundnature@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    We need to be passing consumer protection legislation to make companies stop doing things like this. Just “calling on them” to end the process isn’t going to do anything to fix the problem. Companies have no incentive to do the right thing for their customers. The only thing they care about is short term profit.