Most of us are wise to the fact that when you go to a grocery store these days, the size of the packaging of goods such as potato chips, cheese, cereal, frozen food, etc. gets smaller, yet the prices rise faster than a hot air balloon. The corporations who run this country must think we’re all a bunch of suckers. Maybe we are, because we let them get away with it — or our politicians do. But what are we to do? We have to eat.
A visit to the local supermarket is like a game of double your money. Eggs for example. I bought some last week labeled “large organic.” Pre-COVID, they’d have been labeled “small organic.” Are the chickens getting smaller or are they trained to lay smaller eggs?
A benchmark for the shrinking product is that noble American candy bar, you know the one that “satisfies.” It is now a shadow of its former self. Pre-COVID, it could have doubled as a small surfboard; post-COVID, it would not satisfy a starving mouse.