Did Miracle-Gro plant food canister shrink?
Before you paid $2.00 per lb; after, $2.35 per lb: 17.6% more for the same amount.
How big a cut? The 6th-largest of 10 documented household cuts; a bigger cut than 59% of all 1,366 cases in the library. See the biggest cuts →
- When
- 2022 · reported 6 Jun 2022
- Country
- United States
- Brand
- Miracle-Gro
- Category
- Household
- Source
- mouseprint.org
Source and evidence
Against official inflation: BLS CPI-U (US) “miscellaneous household products” changed +11.0% (12 months to Jun 2022). This pack’s price per pound changed +17.6%, 6.7 percentage points above the official rate, using the shelf prices the source recorded. Every case is compared the same way in the ShrinkRadar Index.
What the source says
“…This year, if you are not careful, your $9.98 purchase price won’t go nearly as far if you pick up the wrong package. *MOUSE PRINT: There were five-pound canisters side-by-side with ones that were only four-and-one-quarter pounds — 12 ounces less. That may be a sure way to grow company margins at the expense of customers.”
More from the US: the US Shrinkflation Tracker has all 296 documented cases, sortable and filterable.
Topic guide: cleaning products and dish soap shrinkflation, every documented case in one place, brand by brand.
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