This post was going to be 1,000 words, but in keeping with its theme, I decided to shrink it to 700. This is not to shortchange my subscribers, whom I love (especially the paying ones, and you know who you are). It’s only to channel what I want to get into today, which is the ongoing shrinkage that American grocery shoppers are being subject to. It doesn’t matter whether you get your food at Wegmans in Buffalo or Ralph’s in Los Angeles or Publix in Raleigh. Or Kroger’s in Columbus. Or ShopRite in Hackensack. Have you noticed that many of your favorite products are getting smaller before your eyes? It has been going on for years, but to this shopper (someone who clips coupons, stocks up on specials and always – always – keeps close tabs on when Hellmann’s is on sale), it seems to be approaching epidemic proportions. So much so that this phenomenon has a name:
Hard to trust an author who lies about word count which by my calculation, and Word's, comes out here at 774. One Graham cracker (red box) over the line?
Hard to trust an author who lies about word count which by my calculation, and Word's, comes out here at 774. One Graham cracker (red box) over the line?
Word is wrong and so are you. You can’t count that high, anyway. But I sill love you.
Thank you very little.