Published: June 5, 2026 • 4:30 PM IST · Updated: June 5, 2026 • 7:54 PM ISTBy TheBriefWire Editorial Team
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At some point during the fog of 2021 or 2022, I noticed that my son's preferred brand of fruit snacks had switched from including 0.9 ounces per pouch to 0.8 ounces per pouch.
Most shrinkflation is meant to fly under the radar, but in this case, I just happened to notice it.
It's tangible evidence that your money is not going as far as it did in the very recent past.
A little over a year ago, AMD launched the Radeon RX 9070 for a suggested retail price of $549. This month, it's launching the similarly named Radeon RX 9070 GRE for a suggested retail price of $549. This new card (actually the US launch of a GPU that's been available in China for a year or so) has 85 percent as many GPU cores, 75 percent as much memory, and 66 percent as much memory bandwidth...