Nice to see that the NYT is finally catching up to the rest of us... well... some of us.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Food-Inflation-Kept-Hidden-in-nytimes-38795748.html?x=0 See my post:
"Where We Are Economically" (Oct 15th, 2010).
(And that wasn't the first time I referred to the smaller packaging.)
And the term that the "writers" of the NYT missed is "price shock" - the avoidance of which is why they shrink the packages and charge the same amount.