everything is SHRINKING

[Plum Crazy]

Just opened a can of B & M baked beans-50% more liquid than beans. I always buy B&M because of the thickness of the sauce. Back to homemade for me.

[zimmy]

Things may not be as bad as they seem.

FOOD COST

The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas reports that in 1919 the average American had to work 158 minutes to buy a three-pound chicken; nowadays, 15 minutes gets you the bird.

U.S. consumers spend roughly 9 percent of their income on food compared with 11 percent in the United Kingdom, 17 percent in Japan, 27 percent in South Africa and 53 percent in India. (2009)

[Raven]

Budweiser is shrinking there Cans real SOON....

and here is the official confirmation as to what
i was getting at...

[Quote]The “shrink ray,” as the advocacy site Consumerist.com calls it, has been applied to all sorts of products over the years. Cereal boxes, bags of chips, orange juice containers, plastic soda bottles, ice cream cartons—these and countless other goods have been carefully redesigned so that manufacturers can create the illusion consumers are getting the same amount of product, even as the packages hold less than the previous models. It’s a way for manufacturers to boost revenues without appearing — to the average consumer, at least — to raise prices.

Read more: Budweiser’s New Pitch: Less Beer, Pay More | TIME.com