{"id":295255,"date":"2026-05-01T17:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/295255\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:58:18","slug":"shoppers-pay-more-for-less-as-package-sizes-shrink-at-the-grocery-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/295255\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoppers pay more for less as package sizes shrink at the grocery store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 New reports from the commerce department show inflation is on the rise, hitting a three year high.<\/p>\n<p>As costs rise, many consumers are noticing package sizes are getting smaller for some of the most popular items at the grocery store.<\/p>\n<p>A new analysis from Investors Observer tracked prices and package sizes from 2020 to 2026 and shows that consumers are paying more money for less product.<\/p>\n<p>Financial Analyst Sam Bourgi joined ARC Bakersfield to share insight into this trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 New reports from the commerce department show inflation is on the rise, hitting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-295255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}