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2022-06-08 Economy

Shrinkflation hits the nation AGAIN: Honey Bunches of Oats slashes amount of cereal in boxes by 17%, Haribo Gummy Bear packs are down to just 4 ounces and Angel Soft toilet paper cuts sheets from 425 in a roll to 320

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 You ain't seen nothing yet. What until global starvation hits with grain export giant Ukraine totally hamstrung by the Russian invasion. Food prices are REALLLY going to be interesting then!

Posted by Black Charlie Slairt1430 2022-06-08 00:33|| 2022-06-08 00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Little Debbie just lost their truck drivers to Walmart.$15,000 more income per year. Raw materials a problem now also. Packaging materials especially difficult. Orders cut. So your income is based on selling product. You still need income to live and cover expenses. Do as many independent truckers are doing, quit and work doing something else but the tight labor market is not going to last.

Posted by Dale 2022-06-08 04:06|| 2022-06-08 04:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Frito Lay chips will be reduced. Wise did the same. Special two dollar bag is now I believe 4 oz bag. Small vending bags hard to find but they are retailing at 99 cents.

Posted by Dale 2022-06-08 04:10|| 2022-06-08 04:10|| Front Page Top

#4 ...It was pointed out to me that even at $15/hr - if you remember, that's the magic number where all is right with the world and we will have achieved Nirvana - after taxes and insurance, you're only left with about 9.

And at that point, by mid July, those people will be paying to go to work. Unless something changes drastically between now and the end of summer, Labor Day this year will be a remarkably unfunny joke.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-06-08 06:30|| 2022-06-08 06:30|| Front Page Top

#5
Mention sizes and prices several months ago.

Coffee now 42 oz down from 48 oz.
In some cases, stores are applying the 42 oz Large Container price to the 22-24 oz smaller containers and not stocking the large ones.

Cans of corn now 15 oz down from 16 oz. and up 19 cents.

Bacon $7.04 LBS being sold in 12 oz packs instead of 16 oz.

BTW: Not surprising, Aunt Jemima, now WOKE renamed and called PERL MILLING Company, is NOT selling and the shelves are loaded. They also used the rebranding to lose 40ml (about 1.4 OZ) in size during their rebranding.

Even the Black Community is pissed off about the name change.

One Black customer comment I heard in Wally World, "They took a successful Black person off the label and renamed it like some damn White company. "

Posted by NN2N1 2022-06-08 07:38|| 2022-06-08 07:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Brace yourself at the pump, the liter is coming!

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-06-08 08:44|| 2022-06-08 08:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Who needs drivers?

Sam's Club to get 24/7 deliveries from fleet of self-driving trucks in Texas

Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-08 08:48|| 2022-06-08 08:48|| Front Page Top

#8 #7 Skidmark

Would that require a total retro-fit of the gas piping for auto connect/disconnecting and 24/7 unblocked access to fill the tanks.

Overflows will likely also increase.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-06-08 09:28|| 2022-06-08 09:28|| Front Page Top

#9 In this intense, as a beekeeper I don't care. This shit isn't made with real honey anyways. Cheep fraud fake chinese honey.

Screwing over their customers and American beekeepers. So what's new?

By the way McDonalds and Burger Queen did the same shrink fraud years ago.

Posted by Woodrow 2022-06-08 09:50|| 2022-06-08 09:50|| Front Page Top

#10 When Buffalo Wings came by the dozen.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-06-08 10:22|| 2022-06-08 10:22|| Front Page Top

#11 Electric display signs to go $10.00. Signage at the pump also will go $10.00 per gallon or liter. No effort to correct this problem. Electric is a failure already. $80,000 is a bit to much to even believe could work.

Posted by Dale 2022-06-08 13:49|| 2022-06-08 13:49|| Front Page Top

#12 Products are disappearing now. Fuel is killing business now. I don't see this working at all.

Posted by Dale 2022-06-08 13:51|| 2022-06-08 13:51|| Front Page Top

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