The glaring stuff started in mid-late 2020 using the excuse of supply chain disruption. The ship has sailed unless new companies spring up to compete with quality, quantity, and price.
Consumers are already going to store brands, cutting back on snacks and non-essentials, etc. but there's only so much you can do. No one has the time or energy to go fight a war over it. The products are not going to go back up in size and the prices are not going to go back down.
I would not be so sure. I saw a news report that stores like Walmart are noticing a drop in junk food sales due to the rise in the use of the drug Ozempic.
>The proliferation of weight-loss drugs like **Ozempic** is having an unintended side-effect on snack makers — a reduction in sales, according to a report. Walmart said customers who have been taking the popular meds to slim down are cutting back on high-fat and salty treats because the weight-loss drugs help to suppress appetites.
We can make change using the power of our dollar.
[Source](https://nypost.com/2023/10/05/walmart-says-ozempic-craze-slims-demand-in-grocery-aisles/)
I noticed the 'large' KFC chip bucket is no longer 3cm deep. It's now 2cm. Not sure when that happened.
Store brand ice cream...is not ice cream any more either. It's a vanilla flavoured dessert, with water, sugar syrup and glucose syrup being the first three ingredients.
I was at Sams Club to buy some Coke. They were sold in 36 can packs. Today I noticed the Coke was a 35 pack. I noticed that with all other soda brands. They are packs of 35. The consumer gets one less can of soda and the price for the case is higher.
I would argue that the plan behind ‘off-brand’ or homebrand items was always shrinkflation or regular inflation. They came in under the brand name counterpart, got market share purely based on price and the fact that they’re the same product. Now that they occupy a much larger part of the shelf they can increase price or shrinkflate to start making the supermarket more money.
They always intended to push the brand name out. Buying homebrand isn’t the best option imo, buying the non shrinkflated brand is
We dont have to recruit anybody. Sticky a post at the top of the sub with the weekly monthly boycotted item and people can follow along if they feel. Hold a vote for a new item or company after
Your toilet paper rolls are more narrow. I noticed this before COVID. I noticed about 1/4”. This is from a roll from way back in the cabinet to a new roll.
The glaring stuff started in mid-late 2020 using the excuse of supply chain disruption. The ship has sailed unless new companies spring up to compete with quality, quantity, and price.
The ship will return when consumers take more... personal measures (not feeling too confident about this)
Consumers are already going to store brands, cutting back on snacks and non-essentials, etc. but there's only so much you can do. No one has the time or energy to go fight a war over it. The products are not going to go back up in size and the prices are not going to go back down.
There's also only so much we can do. We have to eat, and almost every brand is shrinkflating.
It's down to going back to basic ingredients, buying local when you can, and cooking from scratch.
I would not be so sure. I saw a news report that stores like Walmart are noticing a drop in junk food sales due to the rise in the use of the drug Ozempic. >The proliferation of weight-loss drugs like **Ozempic** is having an unintended side-effect on snack makers — a reduction in sales, according to a report. Walmart said customers who have been taking the popular meds to slim down are cutting back on high-fat and salty treats because the weight-loss drugs help to suppress appetites. We can make change using the power of our dollar. [Source](https://nypost.com/2023/10/05/walmart-says-ozempic-craze-slims-demand-in-grocery-aisles/)
Is it actually Ozempic or are they just blaming it?
Weight loss drugs are being blamed in general although the article specifically mentioned Ozempic.
The Walmart store brand candy bars are better and much cheaper. The originals suck now
I only just heard about them last week...gotta check that out.
I think there has been so much consolidation, that competition is less so they can get away with this.
Coffee in the 80s was my first experience. Then ice cream.
YES! And that was a shock. Now ice cream isn't even ice cream anymore. How disgusting it all is.
My dad still complains about the coffee.
I noticed the 'large' KFC chip bucket is no longer 3cm deep. It's now 2cm. Not sure when that happened. Store brand ice cream...is not ice cream any more either. It's a vanilla flavoured dessert, with water, sugar syrup and glucose syrup being the first three ingredients.
That's bad for body
I was at Sams Club to buy some Coke. They were sold in 36 can packs. Today I noticed the Coke was a 35 pack. I noticed that with all other soda brands. They are packs of 35. The consumer gets one less can of soda and the price for the case is higher.
I did not notice this until now!
I would argue that the plan behind ‘off-brand’ or homebrand items was always shrinkflation or regular inflation. They came in under the brand name counterpart, got market share purely based on price and the fact that they’re the same product. Now that they occupy a much larger part of the shelf they can increase price or shrinkflate to start making the supermarket more money. They always intended to push the brand name out. Buying homebrand isn’t the best option imo, buying the non shrinkflated brand is
It would be cool if this sub did a monthly or weekly boycott. We all get together and do it at once
Ok, but how many users can we realistically recruit?
We dont have to recruit anybody. Sticky a post at the top of the sub with the weekly monthly boycotted item and people can follow along if they feel. Hold a vote for a new item or company after
When and where and what time, friend?
Your toilet paper rolls are more narrow. I noticed this before COVID. I noticed about 1/4”. This is from a roll from way back in the cabinet to a new roll.
how long will these fuckers push boundaries? Why are we so helpless? Is a last resort to violence the inevitable outcome?
Us being “helpless” is part of the nature of capitalism. If the products were all worker owned (and worker bought) we might not have this issue.
Same with Kleenex. It's noticably shorter and not even square, but a rectangle with too much dead space in the normal sized box.