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A 24% reduction for the same price SeventhGen
greed keep the Fuckn “toy surprise inside” greedy Greedy
We used to call it 'pulling a white castle'
We also pay attention to products, sizes, ozs, getting smaller & it ticks me off that they think we don’t notice.
P&G found out the hard way what happens when you reduce the number of tampons in a box but charge the same $
NPR listeners dont eat Reese’s puffs!
Its also terrible for the environment. More packaging, less product.
ManBearSquid1 The other day I went to Target to buy a pack of seltzer cans, the sleeve was only 8 cans, not the usual 12
Learned in the Boy Scouts, at age 13 (four decades ago), to shop by unit price in finding the best value. This has been going on a long time.
Wait, I thought there was no inflation? Which is it
This is not new, it's a common practice for cost control.
Free market capitalism doing what it
When was the last time you bought a pound of coffee ?
Victory gin.
Absolute b******* like we have unlimited space for landfills. Nothing like the grocery stores destroying your environment creating the food then they make you live with giant trash piles. All while succeeding in murdering most of the wildlife on the planet with their garbage.
If the Cheerios boxes get any thinner, they'll have to put them in sideways with tweezers.
Used to be you got one candy bar. Now you get two, adding up to slightly less. Not enough to bother one consumer, but when a million sell it adds up.
Companies have been doing this for years. Soup cans are smaller. Evaporated milk cans are smaller. All products are less ounces, etc. but the price always goes up. Sad.
LADYBUNNY77 Which is why you shouldn't look at the price tag but at the price per gram or ounces.
Corrupt, inflation is hidden tax on Middle class. Simple. So Biden made worse and he did nothing except mess in domestic and ForeignPolicy policy. ShameOnBidenadministration
brouhaha Packaging is also worse. You can’t pick up a cereal box anymore without crushing it because the cardboard is so thin. Similar with bottled water. We should really just go back to buying such things in bulk and using reusable and robust containers.
This has been going on forever!
GASP--- THEY'VE GOTTEN TO THE EARRINGS
ErinStahl3 bitcoin helps with your shrinkage problem.
The size of Oreo Cookies has gone down along with the packaging. This might be a good thing...
This little slider is what BurgerKing is selling as a cheeseburger these days. SMH.
Shrunken foods- •Entenmanns donuts • DiGiorno pizzas • Hostess_Snacks zingers •Almost all ice cream is now smaller than a 1/2 gallon •Maxwell House coffee shrunk cans
OJ no longer comes in a quart container
I look at the price/ounce tag.
Oh, we notice
Going in for decades. They make the front of the box the same size and adjust the width so it looks the same.
We bought tositos salsa this week - same size jar but it was nearly 1/3 thin liquid. We notice.
30 years ago as a new mom my friends and I commiserated about shrinking diaper packages but no shrinking prices. One friend even called customer service. 'It is what Moms tell us they want' she was told.🥴
We notice & hate it! Shysters
I pay attention to the size. They aren’t fooling anyone. I remember several years back when milk started getting expensive, ice cream companies were making the same sized carton but with a 2” hollow bottom. They finally gave up & now openly insult us with amount & price.