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The Tale of Two Bobs

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Cough Syrup Shrink-Flation

The New York Times had a nice profile of this fellow named Edgar Dorsky, who is a 71-year-old semi-retired lawyer. He only makes $7,000 a year and buys everything on sale and whatnot and tracks all this shrink-flation on his website. And most of the time they don't, like I wouldn't notice if cough syrup was suddenly packaged in a smaller bottle. So yeah, I wanted to talk about it a little. Is it bother you, Elizabeth? Yeah, because I feel like it's sort of deceiving consumers.

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