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If you’ve been to the grocery store recently, you’ve probably noticed shrinkflation. A cereal box looks the same. The price may even be the same. But when you get home, you realize there’s, well, less inside. Consumers eventually gave that phenomenon a name.
Then came another term that started simmering: skimpflation. Instead of reducing quantity, companies reduced quality or service. The product still looked familiar, but the experience changed; that was probably worse. These words became popular because they described something people had already been seeing for years. Once this “behavior” had a name, it became much easier to recognize it. And what about 3D printing? Does it have its own version? Well, it’s not shrinkflation or skimpfl