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A recent report confirms previous studies and what many shoppers have endured — perhaps unknowingly — for quite some time. The report identifies as much as 20% of products have been the subject of shrinkflation over the last five years. Naturally, getting less product for the same or even higher price means much lower value for consumers, who are already seeing their grocery budgets stretched to or beyond the breaking point. Federal legislators could implement a solution that is virtually cost-free for the government and consumers. As is the law in some other countries, manufacturers could be mandated to prominently display on labels products that have been affected by shrinkflation, showing the percentage reduction and the resulting increased price per unit (ounce, pound, dozen, etc.). Including revised per-unit information would ensure price increases instituted (read: sneaked in) at the same time as size reductions would also be obvious to consumers. They may not boycott the product, but at least they would be armed with better information on which to base continuing purchase decisions or change brands. How about it, Jagmeet Singh? You’re so seized with fighting for “struggling Canadians,” when will your Dippers introduce such a private member’s bill and force Comrade Justin Trudeau to acquiesce and pass it?
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MIKE ALAIN
(A little more transparency would certainly be welcome.)
Schoolyard bully
Russia’s Vladimir Putin hypocritically criticizes then punishes Ukraine when the latter’s forces dare to strike back against Russia’s deliberate targeting and killing of civilians and destruction of infrastructure with barrages of missiles or drones. According to his own words, Putin is astonished and angry, as though Ukraine really has no right to self-defense. It reveals a great yet misplaced sense of entitlement by Putin; indeed, the classical high-school bully. And Putin will absurdly justify its first-strike attacks against Ukrainian civilians as a necessity of ‘de-nazifying’ their democratically elected government. I say, first ‘de-nazify’ Russia’s Kremlin and especially its presidency, as they are in bed with far-right European political parties like the German AfD!
FRANK STERLE JR.
(Putin’s rhetoric is difficult to swallow.)
No messin’ around
I believe the best decision for our water problem is to replace the worn-out pipe with new pipe. Let’s do it before the ground freezes and makes the job more expensive and takes much longer. We can spend millions fixing the old pipe, and still at the end it will have to be replaced. We have cash in the reserve fund, let’s fix this!
MARILYN MALLOW
(That may, ultimately, be the best course of action.)
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