Posted on 07/25/2022 8:17:21 AM PDT by Red Badger
Where’s the beef?
Food Ping!.................
Hiding under a french-fry................
Yes. And it's been going on for many years. A pre-packaged pack of hot dogs is not 16 oz. It's 14 oz. Look at the size or net weight of many items and they are now smaller but the prices are the same...except lately.
...and larger ridges in applesauce and pasta sauce jars hiding under the labels.
I notice that nuts that used to be sold in 16 oz bags are now in 12 oz bags.
Duh. Our favorite restaurant serves the best fried oysters. Last year it was 10-12 for $10. Recently $12 for 4.
I've got news for them. Shrinkflation has been going on for years now.
ah, nuts, that hits home
And the amount of water in ham and even fish is way up...and the ice coating frozen chicken is much thicker, to add weight.
This has been going on for a while. I used to be a TV news reporter, and I did stories on this ten years ago, showing items like soup, candy bars, Doritos, and a “half-gallon” of ice cream. I think people are noticing it more even more now because it’s coupled with rampant inflation.
Going out to eat is something that we have also shrunk. Lousy service, smaller portions of subpar fare at elevated prices has made our home cooking far more desirable.
I used to have a problem storing paper towels on top
of one of our cabinets—twelve rolls would fit but an
extra six roll pack would hang halfway off the top of
the cabinet.
Not any more—eighteen rolls fit perfectly.
My cabinet does not lie!
(This post was shrunk in size in honor of shrink-flation.)
;-)
Yeah, the reality is it’s leading to layoffs.
That’s always annoyed me, to look at the label of ham or chicken and see that it’s been injected with some ridiculous percentage of water, for which they’re charging the price of meat. There was a time when people went to jail for that.
I have parrots so nut prices are always on my mind. They are eating more pasta and little peanut butter and apple sandwiches these days as the almond, walnuts, cashews and pistachio nuts get more expensive. Planted pecan trees for them some years ago but they aren’t old enough to produce much yet.
But the media said this is normal and to stop complaining because it’s worse elsewhere....
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