Over the last few months, the intrepid editors over at Consumerist have done an outstanding job of tracking the trend of smaller sizes for the same price. They call it the Grocery Shrink Ray and they've seen it hit everything from coffee, to peanut butter to yogurt (it also strikes non-edible products such as toothpaste and contact lens solution).
One of the debates that occurs around this topic of shrinking package sizes is whether it would be more honest for companies to simply raise the prices on their products instead of charging the same for a smaller amount. In the face of rising costs, Turkey Hill Dairy has decided to succumb to the dreaded shrinking size trend for their ice cream packages, as prices for ice cream's have risen dramatically in recent days. They announced this size reduction with a heart-felt letter penned by company President, Quintin Frey that was posted on their blog.
On the other side of the coin is Hershey's, who announced recently a price hike of 10-11% across their entire product line. This comes on the heels of a 13% increase last February.
These days, rising prices are an inevitability. Do you prefer to experience it through higher prices or lesser amounts for the same price?
Most of the time when I eat ice cream, I eat it straight out of the container with an iced tea spoon. This habit totally wigged my first boyfriend out and he always insisted that I scoop what I wanted out of the carton and into a bowl. After he moved out, I reverted to my old habits, cozily wrapping a folded kitchen towel around the container as an insulating handle. I come by this particular tendency honestly, as that's just the way we always did it in my house while I was growing. It's akin to the how my mom's family used to eat cheesecake when she was growing up. Her mom would plunk a frozen cake down on the kitchen table and everyone would sit around it with forks, picking at the defrosting edges. 
Have you ever lived in a place and gotten attached to a particular food product that is made in that region? And then you move away and discover that you can't get that product in your new locale? It leaves a void in your life (I have a 
We're not planning to have an ice cream theme day, not until it gets a little closer to summer and warmer weather, but the fact that it's cold out doesn't mean that we're not going to get an ice cream fix between now and then. And 
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