Posted on 03/12/2022 7:55:46 AM PST by Hojczyk
Food company Frito-Lay has cut down the number of chips in each bag of Doritos as record inflation has raised production expenses.
A bag of Doritos has five fewer chips than it used to, the company told Quartz. "Inflation is hitting everyone. … We took just a little bit out of the bag so we can give you the same price and you can keep enjoying your chips," a Frito-Lay representative said.
Other ubiquitous consumer products have fallen victim to "shrinkflation," Quartz reported. Bounty has cut three sheets from each roll of paper towels, and a box of Wheat Thins now has 28 fewer crackers.
Under the Biden administration, inflation has skyrocketed. Inflation reached a 40-year high last month, even before Russia's invasion of Ukraine caused energy prices to surge. The cost of food accounts for much of the inflation, with grocery prices up 8.6 percent from last year.
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Pray for Trump
Free Republic should raise its quarterly goal to $100,000 to account for Bidenflation.
Also, start a $1.25 / day club.
Doritos didn’t come about until 67..... just saying. So not really ... all your life....lol. I just read this crap on wiki....lol. But I get your point...... and me and my cold dead cheese powdered cover hands too.... lol.
I'll have to hunt down another source - the Twittsewer censors may have already neutralized it.
But the bags are bigger filled with more air.
I pictured them doing this by just running their production lines as usual, but having a stoner eat five chips from each bag before they sealed them.
Yup—we old timers just laugh at all the fear porn.
If it was going to kill us it would have done so already....
“The beer bottle trick is especially insidious. The bottom of the bottle is now indented, allowing for only 11.2 oz instead of the standard 12 oz.
I have not seen that in domestic made Beer since Lucky Lager. There probably are a few out there. More common in Euro. made beer like Guinness, Stella due to the metric system we’re 330ml is a common size.
We buy saltines at the dollar store. It used to be $1 for a normal saltine-sized box with 4 individually wrapped packs. Then about 4-6 months ago the packs got about 3” shorter (in the old-sized box, so it was obvious). Then the price went up to $1.25. Now a box of saltines is half the size and contains only 2 packs.
I saw no insult. You were explaining in a concise manner one way how a business increases profits. It applies to large, medium, and small business. Reduce product or services in some small way, it adds up. If the consumer dislikes it, they can not buy or go elsewhere.
I LOVE CAPITALISM! I reduced costs in small practical ways at all 3 of my small companies, while maintaining a valuable service and taking care of my employees. I retired at 50. I'm 72.
Back in the day, nacho cheese was the only flavor. We went to the Midwest for summer vacation in ‘78. I believe, and there were sour cream and chive Doritos. And then they were gone. They were the best.
Fair point. However I was 17 in 67, and now 72. Close enough... :)
Actual LOL! Thanks.
Worthless thread without pictures of the Doritos babe(s).
Worthless thread without pictures of the Doritos babe(s).
1/10th of a penny is about the size of each chip by the time the stocker gets finished jamming the bags into the shelf space...
Unless they've got a generic in the same blue bag or a new product called "No Ranch" Doritos...they're the same I've bought for years, only with MUCH less seasoning(hardly any in fact) from top of the bag to the bottom.
The local Spartan store sells their own Ranch version...not as good as the name brand, but at least they're fairly well-seasoned.
Could have been a bad bag, don't know...others would have to chime in.
I've noticed quantity/quality shrinking across the board on a lot of products I've bought over the years, while the prices keep going up,up,up.
Thats what I’m thinking.
That’s true.
Somebody has the job of counting those chips?
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