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In economics, shrinkflation, also known as package downsizing, weight-out, [2] and price pack architecture [3] is the process of items shrinking in size or quantity while the prices remain the same. [4] [5] The word is a portmanteau of the words shrink and inflation. Skimpflation involves a reformulation or other reduction in quality. [6]
Dollar General has extra reason to protect profit margins after suffering from inventory shrink in 2023. It reported an operating profit decrease of 41.1% to $433.5 Million in its third quarter.
In accounting, shrinkage or shrink occurs when a retailer has fewer items in stock than were expected by the inventory list. This can be caused by clerical error, or from goods being damaged, lost, or stolen between the point of manufacture (or purchase from a supplier) and the point of sale. [1]
Another factor in Supermciro's fall is its shrinking gross margin. Management points to the ramping up of its new liquid-cooled technology as a source of the shrinkage, but it will take most of ...
Even discount retailer Dollar General (NYSE: DG) has struggled with lower margins due to its economically pressured core consumer, and the heightened "shrink" (largely theft) it's experienced ...
In statistics, shrinkage is the reduction in the effects of sampling variation. In regression analysis, a fitted relationship appears to perform less well on a new data set than on the data set used for fitting. [1]
On the other hand, several other crypto miners have reeled under shrinking margins due to higher energy and hardware costs, missing the year's rally. Bitcoin more than doubles in 2024 on spot ETF ...
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).