One or more of the local supermarkets has for years has offered a free box of 5lbs of matzah if you spend some amount on groceries before Pesach. When we were shopping on Sunday we noticed the box is a little small. Lo and behold, instead of 5lbs, the package now contains 4lbs of matzah. We have always gotten a 5lb box. My parents had 5lb boxes of matzah in the house. Amazingly, for literally decades, none of the manufacturers thought they could get away with "shrinkflation" and selfishly make more $ by selling you less in the package until the Biden presidency. Has absolutely nothing to do with the roaring rate of inflation caused by mismanagement of the economy, of course.
The same is true of Trader Joe's bananas, which have been $.19 cents each for decades until they recently went up to $.23 each. Government mis-spending is not to to blame. As the AP points out, "Such concerns go well-beyond bananas. Researchers expect food prices and inflation overall to rise as temperatures climb with climate change." If it wasn't climate change, my money would have been on racism or sexism as the cause for the price increase, as those two get the blame for just about everything these days.
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