4. ์ž…์ด ํŠธ์ด๋Š” ์˜์–ด

24.10.18 Shrinkflation and Skimpflation

ํ•˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ 2024. 10. 28. 17:51

Rising inflation has been putting severe pressure on consumers worldwide.

์š”์ฆ˜ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€ ์ธ์ƒ์ด ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์„ ์‹ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์••๋ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* put severe pressure on : ~์„ ์‹ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์••๋ฐ•ํ•˜๋‹ค

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Meanwhile, the phenomenon known as “shrinkflation” has been gaining attention.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์™€์ค‘์— ‘์Šˆ๋งํฌํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜(shrinkflation)’์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํ˜„์ƒ์ด ์ฃผ๋ชฉ์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* gain attention : ์ฃผ๋ชฉ์„ ๋ฐ›๋‹ค

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Shrinkflation refers to a situation where the price of a product remains the same or even increases, while the weight, size, or quantity of the product decreases.

์Šˆ๋งํฌํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์€ ์ƒํ’ˆ์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ์ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ์˜ค๋ฅด๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ์ƒํ’ˆ์˜ ๋ฌด๊ฒŒ, ํฌ๊ธฐ ํ˜น์€ ์–‘์€ ์ค„์ด๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* remain the same or even increase : ์œ ์ง€๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋‹ค

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It can be difficult for the average consumer to notice when the amount of a product is reduced in this way.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ์ƒํ’ˆ์˜ ์–‘์„ ์ค„์ด๋ฉด, ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์€ ์•Œ์•„์ฐจ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์šธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* the average consumer : ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์†Œ๋น„์ž

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But no matter how small the change is, it will eventually become apparent to more observant consumers.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์•„๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๋ฏธ๋ฏธํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ผ ํ•ด๋„ ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ•œ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ˆˆ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฑ„๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* no matter how small : ์•„๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ์ž‘์•„๋„

* eventually become apparent to : ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์€ ~์—๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์ด๋‹ค

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Companies have resorted to this tactic due to rising costs for labor and raw materials, but it has led to a decline in consumer trust.

์ธ๊ฑด๋น„์™€ ์›์žฌ๋ฃŒ์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ƒ์Šน์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์ด ์–ด์ฉ” ์ˆ˜ ์—†์ด ํƒํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์˜ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๊ฐ€ ๋–จ์–ด์ง€๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* resort to this tactic : ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ „๋žต์„ ํƒํ•˜๋‹ค

* rising costs : ๋น„์šฉ ์ƒ์Šน

* labor and raw materials : ๋…ธ๋™ ๋ฐ ์›์žฌ๋ฃŒ

* a decline in consumer trust : ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋„ ์ €ํ•˜

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“Skimpflation” is a similar phenomenon, where prices rise, but the quality of goods or services declines.

์ด์™€ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ํ˜„์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ’์Šคํ‚ดํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜(skimpflation)‘์ด ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ƒ์Šนํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ƒํ’ˆ ํ˜น์€ ์„œ๋น„์Šค์˜ ์งˆ์€ ๋–จ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ํ˜„์ƒ์„ ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* the quality of goods or services : ์ƒํ’ˆ์ด๋‚˜ ์„œ๋น„์Šค์˜ ์งˆ

 

 

์˜์–ด๋ฅผ ๋”~์ž˜ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ์ฑ…์„ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•ด์„œ ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ~์”ฌ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ~ํ•˜์„ธ์š”~
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10์›” ์ž…ํŠธ์˜ ๊ต์žฌ ๊ตฌ๋งค์ฒ˜~~~๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ’›~~~

 

์œ„ ๋งํฌ๋กœ ๊ตฌ๋งค์‹œ ์ฟ ํŒกํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์Šค์˜ ์ผํ™˜์œผ๋กœ ์ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ์ผ์ •์•ก์˜ ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณต๋ฐ›์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค~~~
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