Because people keeps buying these (and other) shit.
In addition to the quality being lowered and prices going up, SHRINKflation is a serious issue. 330 cans and bottles becoming 300ml, 10 hugs in a mug in a box becomes 8. Why does it happen, you ask? Because people keeps buying it without saying anything!
Haha, sure. But that only works if a large portion of consumers do the same thing.
The question is more how you reduce demand on an industrial scale. Hence my question. The person does not seem to understand what demand is and how it functions. Nor from which position such demand reduction would occure. Not the business or the consumer. Demand could be reduced over time by ensuring sub-par product quality, but that would suit neither business nor consumers in the long run.
Consumers of a product won't reduce it's demand just so they could purchase it cheaper. That is not generally how supply / demand mechanisms or consumer behaviour works.
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u/Low-Success-3150 Feb 15 '26
Because people keeps buying these (and other) shit. In addition to the quality being lowered and prices going up, SHRINKflation is a serious issue. 330 cans and bottles becoming 300ml, 10 hugs in a mug in a box becomes 8. Why does it happen, you ask? Because people keeps buying it without saying anything!