In addition to hiking prices and shrinking product sizes, some food companies have also been quietly downgrading ingredients to reduce manufacturing costs in a process known as ‘skimpflation.’
In addition to hiking prices and shrinking product sizes, some food companies have also been quietly downgrading ingredients to reduce manufacturing costs in a process known as ‘skimpflation.’
Yes, all that is true, but there are also instances in which they are the middleman taking a cut out of proportion to their value add. It was just one example out of many.