[Petersweeney]

What’s the newest/biggest Insta Pot? My knockoff just doesn’t work anymore…..thx

[rsmurano]

charlieo1126@gmail-com - you are wrong and are promoting propaganda. Every government official that’s for defunding the police spend thousands a month for security. We need more police and we need more arrests and jail time for offenders, not keep letting them out on the streets to commit more crime

[Geodyssey]

Originally Posted by GrumpyOldMan

It's been a pretty common practice for a LONG time now to put less product in a larger package, the best example is cereal.

Inflation (more money / less goods) is obviously becoming an issue RECENTLY. That's the point.

"pretty common practice for a LONG time now", no. That's a cope.

[Jerseyborn]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

Has anyone else noticed that not only does just about everything cost quite a bit more at the grocery store, but the package size of most things are also getting smaller.

That's been going on for decades.

[FredJacobs]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

Has anyone else noticed that not only does just about everything cost quite a bit more at the grocery store, but the package size of most things are also getting smaller.

I fully understand the need to make a profit. I don't understand why, when given the choice to increase the price or reduce the size of the product they choose to make the product smaller.

My best example is Publix hoagy rolls. I always bought a half pound of sliced deli meat - enough to make to satisfying sandwiches. About a year ago, I reduced the meat purchase to 4/10ths of a pound because I could not get a 1/4 pound of meat on the smaller roll.

Last week, I bought more hoagy rolls and found that they were too small to fit enough meat for a satisfying sandwich. So, now they have removed me as a buyer of the bread.

Customers are always a lot smarter than the marketers think. We understand inflation and can deal with it. All pricing is temporary. If it too expensive, we will wait until it is on sale and then load up. Do I think that when inflation is ended that the marketers will increase the product size - fuhgeddaboudit!

[quietpine]

Everything is political if you make it so. Depends on how political you are.

[MrFlorida]

yes, they have been doing it for years...

[charlieo1126@gmail.com]

Originally Posted by rsmurano

charlieo1126@gmail-com - you are wrong and are promoting propaganda. Every government official that’s for defunding the police spend thousands a month for security. We need more police and we need more arrests and jail time for offenders, not keep letting them out on the streets to commit more crime

Has said about there investment and the senate bill endorsing by 150 different organizations and many members of congress

[DAVES]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

Has anyone else noticed that not only does just about everything cost quite a bit more at the grocery store, but the package size of most things are also getting smaller.

We've been though this before. Prime illustration. I still have coffee cans that I keep stuff like unsorted screws in. Prices are marked with an adjustiable stamp machine. They were a full pound and cost ninety-nine cents. Today they are 10 or so ounces and like 3.50.

[Finchs]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

Has anyone else noticed that not only does just about everything cost quite a bit more at the grocery store, but the package size of most things are also getting smaller.

I recently bought Scott Paper Towels and was aghast to find the rolls were now single-ply--you could use them for kleenex, they are that thin and flimsy. The boxes of kleenex, BTW, now for the same price you get 65 sheets instead of the 84 they used to hold.
This is undercover inflation, your money buys a lot less product than it did a few years ago.

[Nick B]

Originally Posted by B-flat

The best value in my opinion is Publix Ice Cream still a half gallon, not 1.5 quarts.

I know I’m getting a little off topic but since the 90s we’ve loved Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. We stopped buying it when they introduced a new flavor recently and sales from the the flavor called “Change is Brewing” will help fund efforts to defund the police. I’ll die before I buy another Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. The link is below called “You are being redirected.”

You are being redirected...

How do you raise money to defund something? Hmm.

[Nick B]

Originally Posted by Finchs

I recently bought Scott Paper Towels and was aghast to find the rolls were now single-ply--you could use them for kleenex, they are that thin and flimsy. The boxes of kleenex, BTW, now for the same price you get 65 sheets instead of the 84 they used to hold.
This is undercover inflation, your money buys a lot less product than it did a few years ago.

Capitalism at it finest.

[DAVES]

Originally Posted by FredJacobs

I fully understand the need to make a profit. I don't understand why, when given the choice to increase the price or reduce the size of the product they choose to make the product smaller.

My best example is Publix hoagy rolls. I always bought a half pound of sliced deli meat - enough to make to satisfying sandwiches. About a year ago, I reduced the meat purchase to 4/10ths of a pound because I could not get a 1/4 pound of meat on the smaller roll.

Last week, I bought more hoagy rolls and found that they were too small to fit enough meat for a satisfying sandwich. So, now they have removed me as a buyer of the bread.

Customers are always a lot smarter than the marketers think. We understand inflation and can deal with it. All pricing is temporary. If it too expensive, we will wait until it is on sale and then load up. Do I think that when inflation is ended that the marketers will increase the product size - fuhgeddaboudit!

It is far more complex than that. As I posted elsewhere coffee used to be sold by the pound. It is now 10-13 ounces. If, you were still selling a pound it would of course be more expensive. Few people bother to figure out the cost per ounce and would buy the lower priced but actually more expensive 10-13 ounce size. What to charge is carefully watched by suppliers. A size reduction, a price increase, is often tried by section, by territory.

Wait until it is on sale. The way that works, somethings only sell when they are on sale.
If, the normal price, on which they sell far less is not high enough you cannot run a sale
because it would mean you are losing money on every item sold-a quick way to go bankrupt. When, an item is,"On Sale," the manufacturer can anticipate having more in inventory and the retail store knows to buy more. It is all charted. On the last,"Sale," we sold 50% more our sales are up down from that date so we need to order this much more or less.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by charlieo1126@gmail.com

The ice cream change is coming : It’s to change the legal system by investing in mental health ,substance abuse ,counseling ,and health care all issues that affect many especially the poor given the chance people especially first time offenders can get better and even police forces know that mental health people showing up with the cops or without them can lower the temperature in many non criminal calls of stressed out people there are other ways to treat some offenders hold them accountable but help them get on track it’s better and cheaper then prison , thanks for the tip I’m going to buy a pint of it tomorrow go Red Sox

Was that an attempt at being witty?

[OhioBuckeye]

Originally Posted by Garywt

Ice cream has been doing this for years, now other items are doing it as well.

So, it’s Ice Cream that’s the blame for it, right?