“President Joe Biden is weighing how hard to hammer big food companies over painfully high grocery prices in his upcoming State of the Union Address,” Politico reports.
“But some some aides remain wary of focusing too much on food inflation, given how little power the president has to singlehandedly force down prices.
”“Biden embraced the concept of ‘shrinkflation’ in a Super Bowl message targeting major snack food corporations — as the president framed it, there are now ‘fewer chips’ in your bag, while companies are ‘still charging you just as much.'”