Paul Goble
Staunton,
January 24 – Russians are learning three words long familiar to Western
consumers facing rising prices, especially when as in Russia today, prices in grocery
stores are going up far more rapidly than the government admits the overall
rate of inflation to be, the SerpomPo Telegram Channel says.
The
three are:
Daunsayzing
(“downsizing” in English) which refers to the practice of reducing the number
of items in a package or the size of the package but nonetheless charging the
same for it. Russians have had that experience with eggs (kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5C4498FDC331E).
Daunkvoliting (“downqualiting”
in English) or the practice of substituting cheaper ingredients for ones
customers have traditionally expected such as using palm oil in place of olive
oil.
And
Apsorting (“upsorting” in English),
in which prices are raised when the producer substitutes more expensive
components for less expensive ones but the cost goes up more than the
difference.The first already has its own page of the Russian-language of Wikipedia; the second and third haven’t yet had that confirmation.
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