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Of course the supermarket also does shrinkflation but I bet they never put the stickers there.

> Consumer groups say “shrinkflation” is a widespread practice, which supermarkets like Carrefour are also guilty of in their private label products.



Most supermarkets in France operate at low single digit net margin on most products. If something goes up 20% it's very rarely on them


How is number of digits in their margin of any relevance? They post record profits with these tiny margins: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/carrefour-p...




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