If you put these warnings on the products won't customers buy less of them and then Carrefour will have to sit on unsold goods? Do they want to trade short term profits for better deals in the future? Did they have to decrease their margins or did they lose a lot of sales due to the price hike?
> Consumer groups say "shrinkflation" is a widespread practice, which
> supermarkets like Carrefour are also guilty of in their private label products.
Funny though that they would have the gall to complain when they do the same thing on their own products. It sounds risky as people might notice how they do it as well.
For a reference point, a supermarket here stopped selling Mars Inc. products altogether because of the absurd prices. For a couple months all the M&Ms, bounties, maltesers, and god knows what else all got substituted by store brand on the shelves. These were not quite as good as the brand-name ones, but it turns out that at a quarter the price people are willing to put up with that.
It's now some time later and Mars products have returned to the shelves, at roughly half the price they were before.
> If you put these warnings on the products won't customers buy less of them
Yes and that's the point. It's a tactic to pressure the manufacturer. Carrefour sells plenty of other things to keep them afloat for a long while.
> Consumer groups say "shrinkflation" is a widespread practice, which > supermarkets like Carrefour are also guilty of in their private label products.
Funny though that they would have the gall to complain when they do the same thing on their own products. It sounds risky as people might notice how they do it as well.