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Salon
Salon
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Joy Saha

Cookie Monster's done with shrinkflation

Cookie Monster now has beef with the US economy. The beloved Sesame Street character took to X Monday to rant about “shrinkflation” — a portmanteau of the words shrink and inflation where items shrink in size or quantity, sometimes even quality, while their prices remain the same.

“Me hate shrinkflation! Me cookies are getting smaller,” Cookie Monster wrote. “Guess me going to have to eat double da cookies!”

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