Food packages are shrinking

It's more than the rising prices that are clobbering consumers ["Food, gas prices sting NYers," News, March 31]. The article fails to consider the ever-shrinking quantities in the packaging of a host of products consumers must purchase to feed their families.

Item after item has shrunk in the past couple of years, with no notice by consumer watchdog government agencies. Coffee has gone from one pound to 13 ounces to 10.5 ounces. Tuna cans have shrunk to five ounces from six; orange juice containers have gone from a half gallon to 59 ounces. I could go on. This is all with no reduction in price. Why hasn't this been investigated?

I wrote a letter to one tuna company, and it wrote back with the less-than-satisfactory explanation that everyone is doing it.

Ken Dolan

Smithtown