Donate

Play Live Radio

Next Up:

0:00

0:00 0:00

Available On Air Stations

KHSU 90.5 and KHSQ 107.7 may experience intermittent outages today as our engineering team updates infrastructure. Livestreams are unaffected. Thank you for your patience.

Shrinking Food

NPR

Published March 8, 2001 at 9:00 PM PST

Grocery shopper and commentator Kelly Cresap has noticed that his favorite loaf of bread has gotten smaller. He says the food industry's practice of shrinking product sizes -- and maintaining prices -- keeps him guessing.