Up untill a week ago Nofrills carried these “three packs” of salmon for $10. Now the same pack contains two for the same $10. I thought it felt light when I bought it yesterday.
This comes to about $0.02 increase per gram, and a $1.10 price increase overall. Or a 11% increase in price overall. Meanwhile inflation is at 6-7%?
Some countries have outlawed this behavior. If the seller/producer wants to decrease the package contents and keep the package size and price the same, they can (of course), but they must write on the package that the contents have decreased in large bright characters that are hard to miss. Something like this:
255gnow 200gI’m not sure where you are (assuming USA, based on the packaging), but it’s not illegal in the USA, since consumer protection is near to nonexistent.
Pretty sure this is Canada, no frills is a franchise chain under Loblaws. Loblaws is the kind of company that increases a product price by 20% and then puts up a “same price everyday” sign to gaslight customers.
Bob Loblaw Lobs Law Bomb.
Meanwhile Kroger raises their prices and then puts a giant yellow tag on them labeled “Everyday Low Prices”.
It’s not on sale, it’s always more expensive than it was before, but they want you to think it’s a discount.
Cool business move… NOT!
(Should we even be bringing back the ‘not’?)
In the US it’s actually illegal for companies to do something that benefits the consumer