The White House on Monday seized a post from Cookie Monster that complained about “shrinkflation.”
‘C is for consumers who are fooled,’ says official white house account It was posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, in response to an earlier post by a “Sesame Street” character. “President Biden is calling on companies to put a stop to shrinkflation.”
Cookie Monster on Monday X’s account has been posted That “shrinkflation” was making him depressed.
“I hate shrinkflation! My cookies are getting smaller,” she wrote with a sad emoji.
“Shrinkflation” refers to when companies make their products smaller while maintaining the same price.
The White House criticized “shrinkflation” in a pre-Super Bowl video last month.
“Some companies are trying to move quickly, chipping away at their products and hoping they don’t get noticed,” Biden said in the video. “Give it a break. The American people are tired of being played for. I’m calling on corporations to stop this.”
Cookie Monster’s post also drew responses from Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, and Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pennsylvania).
“Me too, Cookie Monster,” Brown wrote to X. “Big companies reduce the size of their products without lowering prices in order to pay their CEO’s bonuses. People in my state of Ohio are fed up. They should get all the cookies they paid for.”
Casey replied to Cookie Monster, “That’s what I mean.”
According to the Labor Department’s Consumer Price Index (CPI), inflation reached a 40-year high of 9.1% in June 2022, but has fallen to 3.1% as of January.
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