{"id":6601,"date":"2024-03-05T03:45:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T03:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/cookie-monster-and-ohio-senator-make-odd-allies-in-shrinkflation-complaint\/"},"modified":"2024-03-05T03:45:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T03:45:28","slug":"cookie-monster-and-ohio-senator-make-odd-allies-in-shrinkflation-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/cookie-monster-and-ohio-senator-make-odd-allies-in-shrinkflation-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Cookie Monster and Ohio senator make odd allies in shrinkflation complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic senator Sherrod Brown endorsed the Sesame Street star\u2019s complaint on products getting smaller as prices remain same<\/p>\n<p>The Ohio Democratic senator Sherrod Brown <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSherrodBrown\/status\/1764699382828380318?s=20\">endorsed<\/a> a key voice in the American public square \u2013 Cookie Monster \u2013 in a complaint about shrinkflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe hate shrinkflation!\u201d the Sesame Street character <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeCookieMonster\/status\/1764692032914690276\">posted<\/a> on social media on Monday, referring to an economic phenomenon Merriam-Webster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/shrinkflation\">defines<\/a> as \u201cthe practice of reducing a product\u2019s amount or volume per unit while continuing to offer it at the same price\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/mar\/04\/cookie-monster-shrinkflation-sherrod-brown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic senator Sherrod Brown endorsed the Sesame Street star\u2019s complaint on products getting smaller as prices remain same The Ohio Democratic senator Sherrod Brown endorsed a key voice in the American public square \u2013 Cookie Monster \u2013 in a complaint about shrinkflation. \u201cMe hate shrinkflation!\u201d the Sesame Street character posted on social media on Monday, &#8230; <a title=\"Cookie Monster and Ohio senator make odd allies in shrinkflation complaint\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/cookie-monster-and-ohio-senator-make-odd-allies-in-shrinkflation-complaint\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cookie Monster and Ohio senator make odd allies in shrinkflation complaint\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}