grte to Canada · edit-22 years agoAlmost half of Canadians living paycheque to paycheque as Tory support grows: pollwww.winnipegfreepress.comexternal-linkmessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1115arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1108arrow-down1external-linkAlmost half of Canadians living paycheque to paycheque as Tory support grows: pollwww.winnipegfreepress.comgrte to Canada · edit-22 years agomessage-square78fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareN-E-Nlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoGovernments mandating lower prices when taxes are raised won’t go well either. They’ll simply lower the quality of the goods and the same price
minus-squaredevrandomlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoAbsolutely agree. “Shrinkflation” is already a real problem used by many companies to give the appearance of not raising prices.
minus-squarestreetfestivallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 years agoAlso ‘skimpflation’ - like reducing the proportion of expensive ingredients or reducing the quality of ingredients
Governments mandating lower prices when taxes are raised won’t go well either. They’ll simply lower the quality of the goods and the same price
Absolutely agree. “Shrinkflation” is already a real problem used by many companies to give the appearance of not raising prices.
Also ‘skimpflation’ - like reducing the proportion of expensive ingredients or reducing the quality of ingredients