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The ones that ticks me off the most is ice cream. I love the stuff, almost to the point of addiction, my one weak point when it comes to sweets. But I grew up on half gallons, and I refuse to pay $3 or $4 (or more) for 1.5 pints of ice cream, so I buy much less ice cream today than ever. At the rate it's going, in another ten years, a Hoodsie cup will be the full size package! What they're saving in ice cream, they're losing in sales, from me at least. Screw 'em!
The average household size in 1950 was 3.4 persons. Now it is around 2.4 persons. Anyone think that matters?
No, except maybe as an excuse for what they're doing, which is nothing more than raising prices by selling us less at the same price.
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Common decency would require that people not post blabber and nonsense as if it had come down on stone tablets from the mountaintop. Those who post in such a manner are leaving themselves open to correction and criticism by those who know better. That's how the forum works.
Boy, a little full of ourselves, aren't we? The attitude you've just displayed here is the perfect example of that which you claim to be correcting and criticizing. Talk about a soapbox! Wow.
No, except maybe as an excuse for what they're doing, which is nothing more than raising prices by selling us less at the same price.
You don't think that smaller family sizes justified smaller containers? That seems a little odd. And seniors and young marrieds delaying parenthood barking for years about how hard it was to prepare healthful meals for just two? All that should have been simply ignored in the marketplace?
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Boy, a little full of ourselves, aren't we? The attitude you've just displayed here is the perfect example of that which you claim to be correcting and criticizing. Talk about a soapbox! Wow.
Who's been pumping out the disinformation here about the CPI-U and those who prepare it? Do you think that sort of rot should just be allowed to pass? People who don't want to be corrected should not post claims that are misleading, incomplete, or just plain incorrect. Is that asking too much?
It's called the Supermarket Shrink-Ray and it's been going on for years. It's aggravating; I'd rather pay more for the same size container.
It also makes some of my older recipes nearly impossible to reproduce if they call for a 6 oz can of X or a 10 oz packet of Y, since those same packages are now, for example, 5 oz and 8.7 oz. That may not sound like a big deal but if you're baking or making confectionery, it is.
This is another way of increasing prices... 4-5 years ago I used to purchase a packet full of chips, now condition is that half of the packet is full of air and chips are moving freely inside, at the same cost as it was 4-5 years ago.
This is another way of increasing prices... 4-5 years ago I used to purchase a packet full of chips, now condition is that half of the packet is full of air and chips are moving freely inside, at the same cost as it was 4-5 years ago.
Free market, private enterprise, competition, etc you are more than welcome to sell orange juice by the 50 gallon drum or a crate of 200 bar soaps by freight; it is not big governments place to price fix or ration food. Communism kills.
I actually like smaller sizing of Twinkies and other Frankenfoods. IceCream getting smaller is fine, too because we are only sposed to eat cup, so a tub will last awhile. For yogurt and laundry soap, I make my own. I buy store brand so I rarely use coupons and mix water with frozen orange juice so pre made boxed OJ pricing isn't on my radar. I don't live in a food desert, so I never stock up, just buy for few days worth, and perishables rarely go to waste. I could save more money by car pooling but did that already for 15 years.
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