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Bottles of Gatorade are pictured, left, a 32 fluid ounce and 28 fluid ounce, in Glenside, Pa., Monday, June 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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No, you're not imagining it — package sizes are shrinking
By DEE-ANN DURBIN - AP Business Writer
Tue,06/07/22-1:21PM , 212 Reads
It’s the inflation you’re not supposed to see.

From toilet paper to yogurt and coffee to corn chips, manufacturers are quietly shrinking package sizes without lowering prices. It’s dubbed “shrinkflation,” and it’s accelerating worldwide.
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Hundreds of Muscovites line up outside the first McDonald's restaurant in the Soviet Union on its opening day, in Moscow, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 1990. Two months after the Berlin Wall fell, another powerful symbol opened its doors in the middle of Moscow: a gleaming new McDonald’s. It was the first American fast-food restaurant to enter the Soviet Union. But now, McDonald's is temporarily closing its 850 restaurants in Russia in response to the Ukraine invasion. (AP Photo, File)

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Once a powerful symbol in Russia, McDonald's withdraws
By DEE-ANN DURBIN - AP Business Writer
Mon,05/16/22-3:52PM , 536 Reads
Two months after the Berlin Wall fell, another powerful symbol opened its doors in the middle of Moscow: a gleaming new McDonald’s.
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Boxes of General Mills' Lucky Charms cereal are seen on a shelf at a Costco Warehouse in Robinson Township, Pa., Thursday, May 14, 2020. On Saturday, April 16, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said that it is investigating Lucky Charms cereal after dozens of customers complained of illness after eating the product. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

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FDA investigating Lucky Charms after reports of illness
By DEE-ANN DURBIN - AP Business Writer
Sat,04/16/22-5:11PM , 244 Reads
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating Lucky Charms cereal after dozens of customers complained of illness after eating it.

The FDA said Saturday it has received more than 100 complaints related to Lucky Charms so far this year.
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Pam Blauman-Schmitz, who was a union rep at Starbucks in the mid-1980's, poses for a photo in front of a Starbucks coffee shop Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, in Seattle. Starbucks, now facing union elections at more than 100 U.S. stores, has spent decades fighting unionization. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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Labor foe Schultz returns as Starbucks union effort grows
By DEE-ANN DURBIN - AP Business Writer
Fri,03/18/22-4:13PM , 182 Reads
From the time he bought Starbucks in 1987 to the time he stepped down as chairman in 2018, Howard Schultz consistently — and successfully — fought attempts to unionize Starbucks’ U.S. stores and roasting plants.
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