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cachukis

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7. I don't often see the other side represented.

Reply to brush (Original post)

Fri Apr 18, 2025, 08:43 PM

16 hrs ago

They understand their own economics. They have ends to meet.
How do they do it with maintaining customers?
They know customers can tolerate their own benefits when they get them.
The farmer let's an apple go to sell a bushel.

But is best to be wary because if you don't buy it, they reduce the price.

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Anyone else noice food packagers are up to their old tricks in the inflation wars? [View all] brush 17 hrs ago OP

I don't think canetoad 16 hrs ago #1

Yep, they figure out ways to gouge us. brush 16 hrs ago #2

Opened a box of Walmart soda crackers yesterday. Disaffected 16 hrs ago #3

Walmart pressures their suppliers to provide these downsized custom skus of products. nt Shermann 16 hrs ago #5

They actually included an unfilled sleeve? That's so obvious. brush 16 hrs ago #6

No, I should have been clearer about that. Disaffected 16 hrs ago #11

That's about the same thing. I mean soda crackers are not expensive... brush 16 hrs ago #12

They're already 3/4 of the size they were in the 1970's. haele 16 hrs ago #4

Heaalthier? Yeah, right. brush 16 hrs ago #10

I don't often see the other side represented. cachukis 16 hrs ago #7

I always look at the weight. Woodwizard 16 hrs ago #8

I can't figure out why restaurant portions are getting larger while supermarket portions are getting smaller. Shermann 16 hrs ago #9

Food packages are shrinking wendyb-NC 14 hrs ago #13

shrinkflation Celerity 13 hrs ago #14

Anyone who uses recipes to cook knows they have been doing this for decades. Ms. Toad 13 hrs ago #15

Ok, you win FHRRK 13 hrs ago #16