Reese’s heir vs. chocolate skimpflation
Planet Money
- Published
- April 4, 2026
- Duration
- 33:42
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Jun 10, 2026
Discusses Live event info and tickets here. When ingredient costs skyrocket, companies have three basic option…
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Live event info and tickets here. When ingredient costs skyrocket, companies have three basic options: They can raise their prices (a sort of product-specific inflation), shrink the size of the products (often called “shrinkflation”), or, sometimes, find more creative ways to reduce costs by degrading the quality of their products - which our very own Gre…
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Live event info and tickets here. When ingredient costs skyrocket, companies have three basic options: They can raise their prices (a sort of product-specific inflation), shrink the size of the products (often called “shrinkflation”), or, sometimes, find more creative ways to reduce costs by degrading the quality of their products - which our very own Greg Rosalsky has dubbed as “skimpflation.” The latest alleged culprit? Hershey’s.The Hershey Company is using ingredients in some of their Reese’