Quote of the Week

“Watching spreadsheets morph is like witnessing convergent evolution – a digital life-form that used to stick to the ocean is now crawling up onto land and trying to eat the world.” Clive Thompson (The New Spreadsheet Revolution, Wired magazine, June 2022)

Fun With Words

Do you find that you are paying more for your groceries but getting less in the package? Here’s a new word for this scam that corporations are doing to us “Shrinkflation”. Heard it coined on one of the nightly news casts.

If you put the word in a Google search you will get some very interesting articles to read.

“In economics, shrinkflation, also known as the grocery shrink ray, deflation or package downsizing, is the process of items shrinking in size or quantity, or even sometimes reformulating or reducing quality, while their prices remain the same or increase.” Wikipedia