Man uses the shoe aisle to explain a troubling economic trend in middle-class American life

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Man uses the shoe aisle to explain a troubling economic trend in middle-class American life

It’s been proven that over the past few years, Americans have been dealing with shrinkflation, where food companies reduce the sizes of their products while the price remains the same at the grocery store. You see this in fast food restaurants when you pick up a burger and feel like your hand has grown a few inches, and at the supermarket when you buy a box of cookies, it weighs less than it did a few weeks ago. Companies use this strategy when …