Did Ziploc bags box (2021) shrink?
How big a cut? The 5th-largest of 6 documented bags, foil & wrap cuts; a bigger cut than 17% of all 1,366 cases in the library. See the biggest cuts →
- When
- 2021 · reported 9 Aug 2021
- Country
- United States
- Brand
- Ziploc
- Category
- Bags, Foil & Wrap
- Source
- mouseprint.org
Source and evidence
Against official inflation: BLS CPI-U (US) “miscellaneous household products” changed −2.3% (12 months to Aug 2021). The size cut alone raises the price per bag by +8.0% if the shelf price stayed the same (the source recorded no prices). Every case is compared the same way in the ShrinkRadar Index.
What the source says
“…reduction — this time, down to just 20 ounces. *MOUSE PRINT: Ziploc Bags It is really hard to keep track of the number of bags in each box of these products. Ziploc removed four bags from their boxes of 54. *MOUSE PRINT: Walmart Chicken Caesar Salad Laura G.”
More from the US: the US Shrinkflation Tracker has all 296 documented cases, sortable and filterable.
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