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shitflation

shitflation noun: the practice of products being made with lower-quality materials so they break down quickly, forcing consumers to buy replacements more often.

Noun

shitflation (uncountable)

  1. The practice of products being made with lower-quality materials so they break down quickly, forcing consumers to buy replacements more often.
    • What shitflation (and shrinkflation) speaks to is the dissolution of our methodologies to calculate price increases. In that regard, it is an insidious phenomenon, reminiscent of the breakdown in price signalling that helped contribute to the fall of the USSR.2022 October 6, Dario Garcia Giner, “When Currencies (and Nations) Fall; The Case of Lebanon’s Bad Data”, in The Blind Spot, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2022
    • Skimpflation involves a reformulation or other reduction in quality. The term shitflation, which refers to the case of maintaining the price of a product while reducing quality, can also be found in the literature (Giner 2022).[2024 May, Jacek Białek, Anna Bobel, Dagmara Oprych-Franków, “Immeasurability of shrinkflation in the CPI?”, in 18th meeting of the Ottawa group on price indices

Origin of shitflation

Blend of shit + inflation.

Questions about shitflation

What does shitflation mean?
Shitflation means the practice of products being made with lower-quality materials so they break down quickly, forcing consumers to buy replacements more often.
What part of speech is shitflation?
Shitflation is a noun.

Words near shitflation in the dictionary

  1. shitfights
  2. shitfire
  3. shitfires
  4. shitfit
  5. shitfits
  6. shitflation
  7. shitflood
  8. shitfloods
  9. shitfluencer
  10. shitfluencers
  11. shitfuck

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