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Pastorbottle
·Peanut butter is awful shit anything that inflicts less of it upon the world can only be a good thing!
Shrinkflation
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JwRosenthal
·Peanut butter is awful shit anything that inflicts less of it upon the world can only be a good thing!
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ahartfie
··The black sheep in the Spee-ee-eee-eedmaster flockPeanut butter is awful shit anything that inflicts less of it upon the world can only be a good thing!
😝
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JwRosenthal
·I'll give you another recent example:
I know that I'm among friends here (some days it feels like you all are my closest friends, and I don't think I'm alone in that). So I can freely admit to all of you that I have what, in the end, may turn out to be a terminal addiction to Reese's peanut butter cups. I buy them in the big bag, 60 at a time, and keep a few in a dish on the kitchen counter.
I had a chance to do a little comparison about three weeks ago. This is what I found:
Same bag (or so I thought). But do a little math, and the result is truly appalling: the bag is 12 ounces lighter, for the same price.
I am doubly upset, as I know that I'm too deep down this particular rabbit hole: I can't give them up. I am a hapless victim of the system, ruthlessly manipulated by rapacious candy executives.
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ahartfie
··The black sheep in the Spee-ee-eee-eedmaster flockI buy them in the big bag, 60 at a time, and keep a few in a dish on the kitchen counter.
I had a chance to do a little comparison about three weeks ago. This is what I found:
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ahartfie
··The black sheep in the Spee-ee-eee-eedmaster flockOr hie thee to Costco.
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Walrus
·Yes of course politicians like to point fingers at grocery chains despite spending trillions of dollars into debt and directly leading to inflation.
The accusation doesn’t make it so. Especially when the accuser is fundamentally benefitting from that narrative.
Did these companies just suddenly decide to be greedy? Very coincidental that an easy target like wealthy grocery chain owners would be pointed to by politicians at a time where EVERYTHING is going up in price, including fuel and labour (both do which directly impact grocery store costs), along with raw materials, etc.
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Pastorbottle
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Pastorbottle
·Hey! Watch what you say about the sacred butter of the peanut- or I’ll summon the god of lactose intolerance upon thee to turn that double cream you love so much it into room clearing, eye watering, bowel churning putridity.
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Pvt-Public
·Painting the entire corporate world with a single brush is going to yield problematic conclusions
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The Father
·Dude your drinking oatmilk. What are you some kinda hippie?
Man up drink some Jersey whole milk.
People thst drink oatmilk are prime candidates to get fυcked. And I’m not talking about the female companionship type either.
oatmilk ? My God man.
Just having some fun here. Not serious
Man up drink some Jersey whole milk.
People thst drink oatmilk are prime candidates to get fυcked. And I’m not talking about the female companionship type either.
oatmilk ? My God man.
Just having some fun here. Not serious
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hen
·REVOLUTION NOW!
Just kidding... or am I 😉
Just kidding... or am I 😉
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JwRosenthal
·Dude your drinking oatmilk. What are you some kinda hippie?
Man up drink some Jersey whole milk.
People thst drink oatmilk are prime candidates to get fυcked. And I’m not talking about the female companionship type either.
oatmilk ? My God man.
Just having some fun here. Not serious
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Canuck
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gostang9
·Not sure if you have it down there or not, but here on grocery shelves they are required to show a price per unit of measurement, so for something like oat milk it would be cents per ml of liquid. This allows consumers to sort of ignore the packaged price and just follow the price per unit. For issues like shrinkflation, you can immediately see the price per unit jump. Makes it more difficult for these companies to hide their increases.
Having price per fixed unit clearly labelled is helpful indeed. I've been focusing on eating healthy lately, and sure do wish there was a common agreed 'serving size' for certain food types. Quick glance at calories on packaging labels can be very misleading as well, when each brand chooses a different serving size.
On unrelated note: we moved to Michigan last year and my wife really misses how the LCBO always clearly identifies the sugar gr/L of wines on the shelves. She's frugal, and prefers savory over sweet. Her instructions were always "get the cheapest white wine with lowest sugar content...!". Hard to do in Michigan as it isn't labelled, and nearly impossible to find while perusing any shopping aisle.
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Pastorbottle
·We too have price per unit tickets on the shelves here in Oz, they get around it by doing it in fine print, so as to to make it almost unreadable.
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SC1
·Still trying to figure out where the teets are on an oat.
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kkt
·It's been going on for a long time. Here's Andy Rooney of 60 Minutes on shrinkflation of coffee.
https://www.google.com/search?q=and...ate=ive&vld=cid:01f8f8d8,vid:gph_9qWYQdA,st:0
My grandmother's pumpkin pie recipe called for a 16-oz can of evaporated milk. Normal 1-pound can right? But that was in the 1950s. By the time I was making the recipe as a boy in the late 1960s, the cans were 15 ounces. Now they're down to 12 ounces. Going to have to start using two cans soon.
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ErichPryde
··Seamasters ForeverApparently there's a "reason" for it. 🙄
https://www.mouseprint.org/2006/10/09/house-paint-introducing-the-116-oz-gallon/
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JwRosenthal
·Apparently there's a "reason" for it. 🙄
https://www.mouseprint.org/2006/10/09/house-paint-introducing-the-116-oz-gallon/
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