That reminds me of almost every bag of chips these days is the same as well.
They want to make the same profit or a bit more, with half the product. Companies who do this are still rich as hell, which I can never understand the level of greed but then again comparing to banks they seem a smaller player.
As for hiding inflation, I think its just all around. You see more outsourced things that costed companies without totally ruining the product still.
Yes thanks for bringing up:
OUTSOURCINGYou know why the EU pushes for common european workforce, very simple. The same thing in America , bringing companies into China and India.
They want to get cheap labor so that the production cost would be less. Of course the price of the final goods won't be cheaper, because the inflation will grow. In fact it will grow, it's just that it wont grow in an exponential way, halting hyperinflation, but nevertheless, it wont stop it.
So OUTSOURCING is just another covert way to hide inflation.