re: The price is the same...shrinkflation

I noticed it with shrinking candy bars back in the 60s.

The best solution is shoplift if you live in San Francisco. Seems i read the cops won't touch you as long as you steal less than $900.

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Thanks Biden

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All this shite started when his EO destroyed Oil & Gas. Gas prices have steadily gone up and with that everything else has steadily followed. Companies are not going to eat the extra cost of shipping and manufacturing. Just like always the consumer will be the ones the hardest hit

Crazy thing is that they have been doing this at dollar stores for years to make things equal to price your expecting to pay there.

If you have ever been to a Dollar Tree you can see this going down the aisles.

Shampoo that might be 3 dollars at Walmart in 30 oz bottle will be less than 10 ounces at the Dollar Tree.

I saw the same thing for Men’s Dove soap. Walmart has a 6 or 8 pack that comes out to 1.25 a bar, but the Dollar Tree had the same bar but in a smaller size for a Dollar a bar.

Just wait until we start switching to the metric system for Gas with Gallons replacing liters.

A gallon is equal to 3.7 liters so prepare to see a gradual shift to hide increases in gas prices.

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They stopped that bull shite with Trump. Started back up when you voted for Biden and gas prices skyrocketed.

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I don't understand how people can get through typing sentences like this. I'd crack up halfway and be unable to finish the joke.

This is marketing. This is normal. It's not good, but it has been normal.

i read inflation is also a right wing conspiracy

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The most obvious for me has always been coffee.

Used to come in 1lb bricks or bags. Now a 12 oz bag is the standard size.

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Walton & Johnson used to play a recording of some midwestern baw who called into Jimmy Dean about them going from a 16oz roll of breakfast sausage to a 12oz roll. He was legit aggravated. He was talking about how big his wife and daughter were and he’d have to start spending more $ on breakfast sausage.

Wish I could find that recording. Any of y’all remember that recording they played? John was still alive. It was in the last 15 years.

The hell do you use those for, so you don’t lose your 10 MM sockets?

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notice that they can change the height of the supermarket shelves, so that it will be harder to notice the items getting smaller

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You'd be fricking AMAZED at the frickery that goes down in your average grocery store. I used to sell shite to grocery stores that was designed to discreetly eat at your brain to get you to stay longer and buy more shite.

Just a few off the top of my head

-We'd sell bread and cinnamon roll odor dispensers to hide in the endcaps of the aisles near the bakery so you'd get that olfactory hit to buy some delicious fresh baked goods, even when the ovens weren't running.
-We had government mandated safety tubes on all the fluorescent bulbs in the meat cases. You don't want shards of glass in your meat, do you? Ours were specially tinted, though, to make meat look unnaturally red and delicious laying there in the case. You ever noticed the colored lights on the guest of honor at a funeral home to fool the crowd into thinking they look natural? Same exact concept.
-We sold CDs of music specially chosen for the songs' tempo. Too slow, and you didn't want to buy as much. Too fast and you'd subconsciously want to leave the store faster. It didn't really matter WHAT the music was, as long as the volume was just loud enough to hear, but not loud enough to catch your attention. It was all about the tempo. The Goldilocks tempo maximized the overall customer spend. It also happened to be almost exactly average human heart rate.
-We sold little sprayers for the produce section. If you take the exact same stuff and mist a little water on it every now and then, the spend goes up. Wet vegetables are apparently deliciouser than dry vegetables.
-We had these little white noise generators that we'd put down the aisles to cut down on distraction and cross-chatter over the aisles. The idea was to keep you focused on the cattle chute you were walking down and keep your attention on those sweet, sweet products you could be loading in your cart.

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-We sold CDs of music specially chosen for the songs' tempo. Too slow, and you didn't want to buy as much. Too fast and you'd subconsciously want to leave the store faster. It didn't really matter WHAT the music was, as long as the volume was just loud enough to hear, but not loud enough to catch your attention. It was all about the tempo. The Goldilocks tempo maximized the overall customer spend. It also happened to be almost exactly average human heart rate.

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i can believe this. i was an overnight stocker at walmart and from 6 AM or so it sounded like they were playing club music