shrinking products

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

anyone else notice stuffs shrinking and still rising in prices?

food / meals are shrinking
good example krispy kreme donuts are smaller than prior years

toilet paper is wider not longer.

stuff like meat is getting smaller

[Lokaror]

Has been happening for a long time. They really kicked both the quality control, price raising and product shrinkage around the pandemic, atleast where i live.

[ṼṏẌṏḭḊ]

Pringles have shrunk. Can't even get that next pop.

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They put less cream in regular oreos. It's now a very thin layer of cream now.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Dr. Johnny Fever:

They put less cream in regular oreos. It's now a very thin layer of cream now.

Not the mega stuffed ones.

[Ulfrinn]

They can either raise prices, shrink sizes, or do a little of both. But you're paying more for less one way or the other. How do you want it?

[zabloing]

Well, at least there are no more mean tweets from the president, right...?

[Xautos]

shrinkflation has been going on in the UK for over a decade now. same price for a smaller product, in order for these companies to get more greedy

[Lokaror]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Ulfrinn:

They can either raise prices, shrink sizes, or do a little of both. But you're paying more for less one way or the other. How do you want it?

Ideally companies wouldn't gouge.

[ṼṏẌṏḭḊ]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von lankaras:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von ṼṏẌṏḭḊ:

Pringles have shrunk. Can't even get that next pop.

Shrinkles. Once you pop, you'll see it's a flop.

lmao, Shrinkles. They should be made to change their name to that.

[Ulfrinn]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Lokaror:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Ulfrinn:

They can either raise prices, shrink sizes, or do a little of both. But you're paying more for less one way or the other. How do you want it?

Ideally companies wouldn't gouge.

It's not gouging. The costs to produce, sell, and transport those products has gone up. That means you are going to pay more for them, or receive less for what you pay for. That's how these things have always worked. Even gas prices going up an extra 10 cents a gallon for an item that has to be transported 1,000 miles in a truck that gets 10 miles to a gallon is going to cost an additional $10 spread out over the cost of the size of that load.

Why would the person marketing those products still give you the same stuff at the same price when it costs them more to produce it and get it to you?

[Lokaror]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Ulfrinn:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Lokaror:

Ideally companies wouldn't gouge.

It's not gouging. The costs to produce, sell, and transport those products has gone up. That means you are going to pay more for them, or receive less for what you pay for. That's how these things have always worked. Even gas prices going up an extra 10 cents a gallon for an item that has to be transported 1,000 miles in a truck that gets 10 miles to a gallon is going to cost an additional $10 spread out over the cost of the size of that load.

Why would the person marketing those products still give you the same stuff at the same price when it costs them more to produce it and get it to you?

I'm aware of how fuel costs and production costs work. I just also think that many companies are going above and beyond that because they know they can get away with it. There is gouging beyond production costs and fuel costs rising.

[De Hollandse Ezel]

scrinklflation indeed.

-there are 3 ways inflations happen.

1 increase in price
2 decrease in product size
3 decrease in product quality (lesser ingredients)

the advantage of 2 and 3 is that customers are less aware of it.
who reads the ingredients list of a product each day?
and who notices that bag of crisps now containing 190g instead of 200g?

but over time these things add up... a double snickers of today (2 in one pack) is smaller than a single snickers from 1980..

bags of crisps now contain usually 140g.. and a large contains 200g
in 2000 a normal bag contained 230g.and a large 340g.

[Irene ❤]

Mcdonald burger meat patty
50% height reduction
and same price.

err.. actually no. For same price you get less drink / fries now. The shrinked burger cost the whole meal.

[Kobs]

It's been a trend for the last decade, someone found a way to make more profit by shrinking it's product and raising it's price
what I find insulting is the fact that they still tell you it's the same size like on toilet paper with their double rolls which are close to half now Or they come out with "super size" when the product is back to where it was normal but they sell it 1-1/2 the price
Large packets of cookies are no more, now you have a fancy box with a plastic tray inside holding 12 cookies which btw takes 2 or 3 times the plastic but hey f** the environment we're making profit

[Kargor]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Fumo Christmas Bnnuy n Frends:

anyone else notice stuffs shrinking and still rising in prices?

food / meals are shrinking
good example krispy kreme donuts are smaller than prior years

Shrinkflation. It's (one) way to raise prices without changing the price sticker.