Now that you have to buy more packages of your favorite orange juice, ice cream, and butter to get the same amount of the product as you used to get in one package… you’re bound to have more garbage, right? Just a little bit more?

Well, that’s just too bad for you, because even the trash bags are not immune from the evil grocery shrink ray.

Reader annelise13 says:

As I was picking up an 80-pack of Glad trash bags at the store last week, I thought to myself “Didn’t there used to be around 90 per package for this exact same price?” Sure enough, when I checked the old box back at my house there were 96 in it!

You can’t win, can you?

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