The shifting basket is probably why there's so much wailing and gnashing of teeth over people fixating on the price of eggs, because it's a stable observable metric that the average person can point to and understand.
"Oh, eggs are three times as expensive as normal and I'm supposed to believe inflation is at 2%? Something must be fishy here."
Yeah and they can't use shrinkage to hide it either. Seen all kinds of quantity shifts, bottles that used to be 200ml are now 130ml and other weird numbers, like going from 8 burger buns in a package to 5.
The shifting basket is probably why there's so much wailing and gnashing of teeth over people fixating on the price of eggs, because it's a stable observable metric that the average person can point to and understand.
"Oh, eggs are three times as expensive as normal and I'm supposed to believe inflation is at 2%? Something must be fishy here."
Yeah and they can't use shrinkage to hide it either. Seen all kinds of quantity shifts, bottles that used to be 200ml are now 130ml and other weird numbers, like going from 8 burger buns in a package to 5.