@rbreich@foodwatch_int @yle_fi_bot published a piece with Foodwatch regarding this. I've noticed for many years that companies are trying to shift away from sugar because of sugar tax is increasing, but exposing people to more artificial sweeteners...
@rbreich Shrinkflation, inflation, a soft landing isn't happening. We making less than $150k are losing ground and the number of people living paycheck to paycheck now is at 63-70% depending on which source. Many I know who should be retired are back working, many more working are working two jobs and still finding difficult today. Most businesses are down 20-60%. Bidenomics isn't helping, Congress and the Fed aren't helping and you just wait, residential and commercial mortgage defaults are so very high it's not funny.
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Hmmm, i would like this dont't say: in my country bottle with Cola (even though under another brand name) still selling in different, but standart containers. For example, bottle with Cola still selling with literage 1.5 Liter. But there also and bottle and cans with literage 0.5 liter and misc. But, yes, 2 liter in bottle with Cola i don't see already long ago...
@rbreich this is what you get in a corporate country. When companies can make more money by doing less they will. Don’t blame inflation with Biden when it’s a world issue.
@rbreich The corporations are just responding to the devaluation of the dollar. They know increasing prices will piss off their customers, so they reduce portion sizes because that is easier than explaining to customers that they had to increase prices because of piss poor government policy hurting production of the necessary ingredients and the devalution of the dollar meaning that the real price of food has increased relative to the dollar which is becoming increasingly worthless. The federal reserve and fractional reserve banking are at fault here, not the food companies that are simply responding to cash push inflation and demand pull inflation like any business would.
Robert I usually in total agreement with you. But all the crap you listed is, literally, CRAP. No one should be buying it. The best response: DO NOT BUY CRAP. Whether you get ripped off a little bit or a lot, it is still CRAP