An anecdote to see if this is part of a big pattern driven by capitalist greed.

I eat a lot of #Carman's Classic Fruit and Nut Toasted #Muesli. I'd been buying it from Coles and felt the fruit-and-nut content had diminished a little recently.

Then, a week or so back, I bought a bag from #Supabarn in Lyneham (née IGA) and was surprised how very fruity it was. I bought another bag from them today, and it was the same (quite possibly the same batch).

This got me wondering.

Given how #Coles and #Woolworths squeeze producers, are there some products for which the producers use the same packaging to produce a good version for general retail and a less good version to sell to the supermarkets so the can retain a margin? If I shop elsewhere, will I find that the fish in tins of tuna (which I only buy for someone else) aren't always now 50% water?

#Canberra #Australia #groceries #supermarket #shrinkflation

Dr. Carman & Elizabeth Carman [1914 Oct. 24]
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photograph shows Dr. Edwin Carman (d. 1939) of Freeport, Long Island with his daughter Elizabeth. His wife, Florence Conklin Carman, was accused of murdering Lulu Bailey in his office in June 1914. Mrs. Carman was later acquitted. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Long Island is a densely populated continental island in southeastern New York state, extending into the Atlantic Ocean. It constitutes a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land area. The island extends from New York Harbor 118 miles (190 km) eastward into the ocean with a maximum north–south width of 23 miles (37 km). With a land area of 1,401 square miles (3,630 km2), it is the largest island in the contiguous United States and the 11th largest island in the U.S.

#DrCarman #ElizabethCarman #Photograph #Murder #Acquittal #BainNewsService #glassnegatives #news #photography #Carman #Freeport #LongIsland
https://www.loc.gov/item/2014697860/

Dr. Carman at inquest [1914]
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photograph shows Dr. Edwin Carman (d. 1939) of Freeport, Long Island. His wife, Florence Conklin Carman, was accused of murdering Lulu Bailey in his office in June 1914. Mrs. Carman was later acquitted. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

#Inquest #Photograph #Courtroom #EdwinCarman #FlorenceConklin #DrCarman #EarlythCentury #FormalSetting #glassnegatives #news #photography #Bailey #Carman #Conklin #Freeport
https://www.loc.gov/item/2014696836/

F.C. Burnell [1914]
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photograph shows F.C. Burnell at the inquest of Florence Conklin Carman, wife of Dr. Edwin Carman. She was accused of murdering Lulu Bailey in Cr. Carman's office in June 1914. Mrs. Carman was later acquitted. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

#FlorenceConklinCarman #LuluBailey #FCBurnell #DrEdwinCarman #EdwinCarman #glassnegatives #news #photography #Bailey #Burnell #Carman #Conklin
https://www.loc.gov/item/2014696744/

Levy & Carman [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
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1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photograph shows Dr. Edwin Carman (d. 1939) of Freeport, Long Island with his wife's (Florence Conklin Carman) defense attorney, George M. Levy. Mrs. Carman was accused of murdering Lulu Bailey in Carman's office in June 1914. Mrs. Carman was later acquitted. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and New York Times, July 17, 1914)

George Morton Levy was an American lawyer and promoter of harness racing who founded the Roosevelt Raceway. He was inducted into the United States Harness Racing Hall of Fame in 1967. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Morton_Levy

#Levy #Carman #Photograph #Murder #Acquittal #Historical #DrEdwinCarman #GeorgeMLevy #Trial #Lawyer #glassnegatives #news #photography #EdwinCarman #Freeport
https://www.loc.gov/item/2014696741/

Mrs. Florence Carman [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
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1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photograph shows Florence Conklin Carman, wife of Dr. Edwin Carman (d. 1939) of Freeport, Long Island. She was accused of murdering Lulu Bailey in her husband's office in June 1914. Mrs. Carman was later acquitted. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

#FlorenceCarman #Photograph #Portrait #Floral #Paisley #DrEdwinCarman #Murder #LuluBailey #EarlythCentury #glassnegatives #news #photography #Carman #EdwinCarman #Florence #Freeport
https://www.loc.gov/item/2014696509/

Celia Coleman, Carman case [1914]
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photograph shows Celia Coleman, the maid of Mrs. Florence Conklin Carman who was accused of killing Lulu Bailey. Coleman testified during the 1914 trial of Mrs Carman that she heard her employer confess to killing Lulu Bailey. Photograph probably taken in Mineola, Long Island, New York, where the trial took place.

Long Island is a densely populated continental island in southeastern New York state, extending into the Atlantic Ocean. It constitutes a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land area. The island extends from New York Harbor 118 miles (190 km) eastward into the ocean with a maximum north–south width of 23 miles (37 km). With a land area of 1,401 square miles (3,630 km2), it is the largest island in the contiguous United States and the 11th largest island in the U.S.

#CeliaColeman #Carmancase #Photograph #Mineola #Trial #LuluBailey #FlorenceConklinCarman #glassnegatives #news #photography #Carman #Celia #Coleman #Conklin #Florence #LongIsland
https://www.loc.gov/item/2014697862/