'Shrink ray' hits consumers' wallets »
Posted By TechnologyExpert 3 months, 1 week ago in Business & FinanceWith fuel and delivery costs rising, food manufacturers are faced with raising their prices or giving you less, and it seems that less is the growing trend.
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UnusualSuspect3 months, 1 week ago
The idea of shrinking everything, or giving us fewer of an item in a package without telling us seems shady to me. I'd prefer the increase in price, I guess. I mean, who are they fooling by giving us less, when we can see that there's less, right? And naturally, they're doing both now, reducing what's in the package, and increasing the costs...we can't win!
And how far can they go, anyway? I buy these Sorrento cheese sticks, and I know they're getting a bit shorter, maybe an 1/8", maybe 1/4", but they can't keep it up forever. Pretty soon the sticks I started buying at 5" long will be, what, 1 1/2" long? I won't buy them!
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SUBMRNR3 months, 1 week ago
I agree that this is a form of deception...yet it's always been a matter of "buyer beware". Read the labels...read the store postings for cost per unit. "Remember when?" consumers were more savvy and hammered them to post those comparisons! Please...take some responsibility for you own purchases...g
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Mdiar3 months, 1 week ago
Not just North Americans. Anglo-Saxons in general! Look up the stats on the UK and Australia. I think Australia even managed to surpass the US not so long ago.
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saintetienne3 months, 1 week ago
"Getting down sized instead of up sized at fast food restaurants could help with the obesity problem that North Americans are facing."
So would pushing themselves away from the table and exercising more. And if you believe THAT fantasy is going to happen, I've got a junior Senator from Illinois for you to vote for. He speaks of "Hope" and "Change We Can Believe In".
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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Teech3 months ago
...." I've got a junior Senator from Illinois for you to vote for. He speaks of "Hope" and "Change We Can Believe In".
Yeah, what a fool! Like McCain, he should be preaching a 20 trillion national debt, more war in Iraq, Iran, and maybe Pakistan to really stimulate the war economy, the exporting of another 500,000 jobs, a dollar that can double as toilet paper, $10 per gallon gas to help the starving oil companies and stimulate production, drilling in the ANWR when Bush's own Department of Energy has stated that this would lower the cost by 4 PENNIES per gallon over 20 years, and more tax cuts for the ultra rich so that money can finally "trickle down" to the drones who don't earn it anyway because they have no jobs.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! You're right. What a fool that senator is.
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SUBMRNR3 months, 1 week ago
nice thought...but as we move into the "bubble" world of don't touch, don't feel...we are moving towards the space suit mentality...so where does taste come into it?
p.s. don't forget your air bags, your knee pads, your elbow pads, your helmet, or that I may not like your cologne...so don't wear it!
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MRCOFFEECAKE3 months, 1 week ago
Yup. just try to buy a 16 oz. package of cheese.
It has been downsized by Kraft etc. to 14 oz. and now it has shrunk to 12 oz. (for the same $3.59).
This is the worst economy we have suffered through in our lifetimes, and we're not even at the halfway point yet. If we're lucky we'll begin our recover after Christmas 2010.
Bush's denial didn't help, but he has still done nothing about the reality.
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willottica3 months, 1 week ago
careful, looks like the amount of SPAM in a can is unchanged.
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saintetienne3 months, 1 week ago
"A lot of manufacturers are raising prices AND giving you less."
Stop buying the product then. Prices will come down fast.
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saintetienne3 months, 1 week ago
"greed rules the day"
No, consumers "rule the day". Stop buying what you feel you're being "victimized" with, and it'll go away real fast.
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saintetienne3 months, 1 week ago
I've never read so many witless comments.
Fast food? Packages of cheese? Cheese sticks?
You people need a lesson in nutrition ALMOST as much as you need an education about economics.
Here's a simple suggestion that might help with both: Cut back on your food consumption and change your diet.
There, see? That wasn't so hard. I can almost HEAR the arteries clearing up and the wallets getting fatter.
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saneman3 months, 1 week ago
This is a very good time for everybody to cut back on eating. I don't really think that anybody needs to eat more than 1 meal a day and maybe one meal every other day as long as they take vitamins and herbs. Just think about what that would do with the health care in this country. Medical clinics would stop looking like shopping malls. Just think about all the crap we shovel into our systems. We should be able to fast at least every other day and clean out our digestive systems as a result.
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canadianrancher573 months ago
I shouldn't even comment on this since my breakfast is usually oatmeal, and if not oatmeal it is bacon and eggs or a cheese omlet. My brother buys prepared cereal and has complained that the price of Quaker Harvest Crunch has increased alot in the last few years and the amount in the package has gone from 900 grams to 725grams which is a big decline. The only thing about this that causes me any problem is when they are doing their figuring for inflation do they take into account that maybe some prices are not moving up much but amount of product is moving down, it would be hard to get an honest picture without honest comparism. Just something of a sidenote, our packages of bacon used to be 454 grams or 1 pound now they are 500 grams or slightly larger than a pound.
If you ever see a guy in the grocery store with a calculator that's likely me.
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thaw3 months ago
it's unfortunate that the manufactures have had to resort to this kind of boarderline trickery. but, it does actually make "finacial" sense, to not have to retool to make smaller pkg sizes. and increasing the price would, or does, only create bad publicity. (as evident by what is happening right here in this thread).
this is a fact of life that was going to happen anyway. (price increases) so now is the time to rethink the shopping list. and pay more attention to what we actually buy, to get the best for our bucks.
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