知道缩水式通胀(Shrinkflation)是一回事。但在食品杂货店中收到缩水式通胀警告则是另一回事。
“缩水式通胀”是指公司以相同的(或更高的)价格为顾客提供更少的商品。在高通胀期间,这种策略在消费品供应商当中变得普遍。
现在,法国连锁超市家乐福(Carrefour)为购物者列举了缩水式通胀的例子,该公司在货架上的标签中写道:“本产品容量或重量减少,但供应商实际价格上涨。”
据路透社(Reuters)报道,自9月11日以来,有数十种产品已经被贴上了这种标签。
家乐福的客户沟通主管斯蒂芬·邦佩斯对路透社表示:“给这些商品贴上标签的目的是告诉制造商重新思考他们的定价政策。”家乐福很快将与雀巢(Nestlé)、联合利华(Unilever)、百事公司(PepsiCo)和其他知名品牌的所有者进行年度价格谈判。
家乐福向购物者展示的缩水式通胀的例子包括雀巢生产的古戈氏(Guigoz)婴儿配方奶粉和百事公司生产的无糖蜜桃口味立顿(Lipton)冰茶。
家乐福的首席执行官亚历山大·邦帕尔称,虽然原材料成本下降,但消费品公司却并没有配合降价。他的观点得到了法国财政部的部长布鲁诺·勒梅尔的认可。勒梅尔呼吁公司降价,并指责联合利华、雀巢和百事公司不配合。
当然,包括家乐福在内的许多零售商,自有品牌的缩水式通胀也遭到了消费者群体的指责。但欧洲各国政府正在日益努力帮助受到生活成本上涨影响的消费者,措施包括向大公司施压,要求他们降价。(财富中文网)
译者:刘进龙
审校:汪皓
知道缩水式通胀(Shrinkflation)是一回事。但在食品杂货店中收到缩水式通胀警告则是另一回事。
“缩水式通胀”是指公司以相同的(或更高的)价格为顾客提供更少的商品。在高通胀期间,这种策略在消费品供应商当中变得普遍。
现在,法国连锁超市家乐福(Carrefour)为购物者列举了缩水式通胀的例子,该公司在货架上的标签中写道:“本产品容量或重量减少,但供应商实际价格上涨。”
据路透社(Reuters)报道,自9月11日以来,有数十种产品已经被贴上了这种标签。
家乐福的客户沟通主管斯蒂芬·邦佩斯对路透社表示:“给这些商品贴上标签的目的是告诉制造商重新思考他们的定价政策。”家乐福很快将与雀巢(Nestlé)、联合利华(Unilever)、百事公司(PepsiCo)和其他知名品牌的所有者进行年度价格谈判。
家乐福向购物者展示的缩水式通胀的例子包括雀巢生产的古戈氏(Guigoz)婴儿配方奶粉和百事公司生产的无糖蜜桃口味立顿(Lipton)冰茶。
家乐福的首席执行官亚历山大·邦帕尔称,虽然原材料成本下降,但消费品公司却并没有配合降价。他的观点得到了法国财政部的部长布鲁诺·勒梅尔的认可。勒梅尔呼吁公司降价,并指责联合利华、雀巢和百事公司不配合。
当然,包括家乐福在内的许多零售商,自有品牌的缩水式通胀也遭到了消费者群体的指责。但欧洲各国政府正在日益努力帮助受到生活成本上涨影响的消费者,措施包括向大公司施压,要求他们降价。(财富中文网)
译者:刘进龙
审校:汪皓
It’s one thing to know about shrinkflation. It’s another to be warned about it in the grocery store.
“Shrinkflation” refers to companies giving customers less of their products for the same (or higher) price. The tactic has become widespread among consumer goods suppliers amid high inflation.
Now, the French supermarket chain Carrefour is exposing examples of it for shoppers, with labels on shelves reading: “This product has seen its volume or weight fall and the effective price from the supplier rise.”
Dozens of products have been hit with the labels since September 11, according to Reuters.
“The aim in stigmatizing these products is to be able to tell manufacturers to rethink their pricing policy,” Stefen Bompais, director of client communications at Carrefour, told the news agency. Carrefour will soon enter annual price negotiations with Nestlé, Unilever, PepsiCo, and other owners of well-known brands.
Among the shrinkflation examples it’s showing shoppers are Guigoz infant formula, produced by Nestlé, and a bottle of sugar-free peach-flavored Lipton iced tea, produced by PepsiCo.
Despite the cost of raw materials falling, consumers goods companies have not been cooperating with efforts to cut prices, Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard has argued. He’s found in ally in French finance minister Bruno Le Maire, who’s urged corporations to lower prices—and pointed a finger at Unilever, Nestle and PepsiCo for not complying.
Of course, retailers themselves have been accused by consumer groups of shrinkflation with their own products—among them, Carrefour. But European governments are increasingly trying to help consumers hurt by the rising cost of living, in part by pressuring big companies to lower prices.