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The average size of an office has shrunk roughly 50% since then.

In its latest quarterly earnings report, Starbucks said its operating margins had shrunk by 5 percentage points year over year to 9.4% largely because of inflation and tariffs.

They would have been pushed into smaller waterways, where they had to compete with newly arrived crocodiles as well as cope with shrinking populations of their megafaunal prey.

Meanwhile, Target is coming off years of declining sales and foot traffic, shrinking profits, and a steady deterioration in the store experience.

The U.S. is a major beef producer, but cattle herds have been shrinking for years, partly because of drought, pushing up prices.