Posted on 05/04/2025 9:07:45 AM PDT by Chickensoup
At the store today for the first time saw SINGLE SERVING chip bags for sale.
160 calories per bag.
Kennedys influence is already present in the stores.
We have not seen these sizes fire sale individually in stores in 30 to 40 years
I don’t think Kennedy had anything to do with it. It’s shrinkflation.
Perhaps. However he has talked about portions.
“Promo” loaves? Who’d promote white bread? They all taste the same. However, I suppose it could have been advertising. This was in the NY-NJ area.
There’s no great shame in being wrong. It happens. Especially when you’re talking about the relatively random and highly personally influenced event of seeing some random product at a store. Like I can’t remember the last time I laid eyes on a bucket of cottage cheese (I’m assuming it still comes in those little buckets), but I recognize that’s because I think cottage cheese is gross and would never buy it. So my brain has just edited it out. I’m sure I actually I pass it all the time, it might even be near something I do buy, but I don’t want it so it’s just “stuff I ain’t getting”. The human brain is very good at editing out things you aren’t interested in. At least I’m assuming cottage cheese still exists. Maybe it ceased. That would be good.
So I have no doubt at all the little bags were there the whole time. Maybe not placed as prominently. Or maybe ignored by a brain that had no interest in little bags of chips. No big deal.
Yes, they used to be 3/$1. They were in a wire bin. Have no idea what they cost these days. Teeny tiny bags. Perfect for small children packed lunches.
I always like them for road trips. A little nosh and if something “bad” happens they don’t make a big mess.
They aren’t all that.
Just checked in with the mom, she says you are right. Courtesy samples were a thing then. She says if you had a new baby, the pharmacist would send over a whole box of congratulatory samples, including the now toxic baby powder in a little tin. Little tin of aspirin, tiny soap, etc. “Probably cost you $100 on ebay today.”
Yes, except I have actively looked for the smaller size servings for a number of years.
In this area they have not been available in the stores I shop.
As I said several people in line ... and the cashier in the store were commenting on them.
I wasn’t the only one noticing.
I rarely see any snack items for sale that are actually one serving. When you read the label most items are 2 or 3 servings.
I swear when I was a kid sodas, chips, candy bars normal size were much smaller than now.
Could be a store or regional thing. I remember ages upon ages ago when I first went to New Mexico I found out they had all kind of sizes of soda we didn’t have in AZ. 1 liter bottles and tiny cans and other part steps. Now I knew some of those sizes were common in CA. And it made sense that bigger cities would have bigger variety. Why in blazes they wound up in NM I got no idea.
But really, in the end. Various layers of small bags of chips, from the “I think there’s 8 chips in there” to the “is that actually small?” have been a constant on the shelves where I shop for ages.
Au contraire, mon frère. I've been buying them at Food Lion ever since shrinkflation started.
They’ve been in my stores for years.
They have always been on the shelves where I live.
In fact, you can buy big bags filled with little bags.
They have always been on the shelves where I live.
Our stores sale 1 ounce to 1 1/2 ounce bags.
Ok, I looked it up. Advertising tins. Today you can get a sample of original baby powder for around $20 and it includes the dreaded, hazardous substance talc as the active ingredient. With the recommedation to “use freely” right on the can. :D
Are you perhaps thinking of Hovis bread?
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