{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Bitch Fest with Joseph Tito","title":"The Shrink Ray & The Loyalty Leash","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":545,"description":"I opened a bag of chips on Saturday and it exhaled. Half air. And on the front, in a little yellow starburst, it said NEW LOOK. Girl, the look is the same. There's just less of you.\nThis week we're going to the grocery store. Not to yell at the people who work there. Leave them alone. The kid on cash did not decide what butter costs. We're going after the people who decide what things cost, how much of it you actually get, and what the store knows about you when you walk in.\nThe Competition Bureau just opened a call for information on grocery pricing. Shrinkflation. Skimpflation. Loyalty programs. Algorithms. In my grocery store. I go in for milk, I come out analyzed.\nThe ice cream tub that stopped talking. The toilet paper hole that keeps growing. Brenda from product, who got a bonus for making your lasagna sadder. Why a discount has to be \"loaded\" like a dishwasher. The digital price tags on every shelf, and the law Manitoba actually had to pass so a store can't charge you more because of what it knows about you.\nAnd I'm in this one. I've done food campaigns. I've stood in my own kitchen and told you something was a great deal without checking the grams. I've never been in that meeting. But I've been the ad that came out of it.\nPlus what to actually do: answer the Bureau, read the small number on the shelf tag, take a picture of the price, and stop yelling at the cashier. She's on your side. She's just wearing their shirt.\nThis episode is brought to you by Cheekbone Beauty, an Indigenous-run brand founded by Jen Harper. Get 20% off Cheekbone through the free BTC Magazine app (App Store or Google Play), and read our interview with Jen while you're in there.\nSend me your shrink. The product, the before, the after. I want the worst one in Ontario.\nBOOK SIGNING: Sunday, October 18, 2 to 4 PM at Hillcrest Mall in Richmond Hill. I'll be signing The Dad Diaries and reading a passage. Come say hi.\nTHE DAD DIARIES, my memoir, is out now. It's the story of how I became a...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/pjdNhff-jB9W_FoIGPgsPM04TETA0h8rcpin_t7UyC4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xNDYy/NTM1Y2U2MzE2NzMx/NTVlYTdmZDBkZjdm/NTUwNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}