Based.
I know everyone uses this word now, but I’ll never think of anything except Nazis circa 2016.
:(
I’m sorry for triggering that association. A lot of internet culture has been co-opted by those jerks. I didn’t mean it that way.
They took the pepe frogs for a while too, but I’ve been seeing them come back. Nature is healing.
Fuckkkk thatttt, pepe is still alive and well on twitch, and racists are not tolerated (at least in any of the channels I frequent). They can pry that frog from my cold, dead hands.
I’m glad people are reclaiming him finally. He was never a racist symbol.
Yeah. I’m old and have been on the internet since well before the creation of both Pepe and based. That’s why I still use this term. I think we should try to reclaim these things - if we let them change our behavior, we lose.
No one can take the pepe frogs from us
Nah, I’m glad to know you didn’t know. I’m also glad I’m not alone.
…2016 will not be soon forgotten
I’ve tried to get my thinking to update, but I too just think Nazi when I see it.
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It’s been an internet thing for long before 2016 (at least mid 00s in my memory), so I don’t associate it with them.
I’ve slowly realized that many people on the internet use it casually, but like you, I always assumed they were alt-right (new main right) or libertarian at a minimum for a long time.
It was taken away from the alt-right, this is a good thing.
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Based on what…?
I would LOVE to see more of this. Looking at you GATORADE, with your half-inch-deep plastic rim on the bottom and new hourglass bottle shape. 32oz sized bottles are 28oz now and MORE expensive. Fuck shrinkflation to death.
Yeah for some reason drinks seem the most effected by shrinkflation, I hate going to the drinks aisles these days because everything seems so overpriced, even just regular tap/spring water
Potato chips have the same, you can’t know how much is in them because they blow them up with gasses in order to “preserve” them.
Ehh, it still says how many grams is in there, I’ve never really understood this gas-argument
Except the grams aren’t always accurate: https://globalnews.ca/news/9958974/customer-takes-to-tiktok-after-buying-half-full-no-name-bag-of-chips/.
Is the gas to prevent them from being crushed in transit?
Yes.
And it works, so the quotes around “preserve” are absolute bullshit.
And before you accuse me of being a shill for big chip, try putting both a sealed bag of your chips and an unsealed but folded closed bag of chips in your backpack with your laptop and books for a day walking around, and see which one has larger, more complete chips at the end of the experiment.
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If only smart glass is as popular as mobile phones. When Google introduced their smart glass, I dreamt of a day when a price history overlay is displayed when looking at a barcode, like how Keepa is doing for Amazon.
I also like German price display which has effective price, as in Eur per liter for drinks, making it dead simple to compare products. A smart glass will make it available everywhere.
Back to Carrefour, I really like that they are pushing pro consumer actions. However, we all know too well that they won’t do the same when it’s their products which are shrinking. Still better than no action though.
Price per litre / kg etc is in Australia too
USA has unit prices as well. Can’t imagine shopping without that.
I’d love to see this naming and shaming becoming a standard. I want to know if the product I’m buying has changed and while I try to do this myself, it can be tricky to keep track of all the products I buy and it’s not like I’m scanning the exact weight every time and memorizing it, just that it’s generally the same weight. These scumbag companies are always trying to sneak by all these changes over time, it’s great to finally get a spotlight shining on it. If some sort of legislation can be made to force companies to note changes in products made in the last 6 months on the label, that would be great.
I want to know if the product I’m buying has changed and while
Makes me think of a local git diff since your last purchase(s). See at a glance if it has changed, and what has changed.
Exactly my thought for a long time. A law which mandates companies to…I don’t know…put on a label, occupying at least 1/3 of the whole packaging with giant red/white font to say at least for 3-6 months: “The net weight/contenct was reduced by 15%.”
A simple QR code should do the trick. People can even make apps for tracking the changes.
maybe even a barcode, some sort of universal product code that apps could read easily
“What do you mean I should put the same barcode on these 2 clearly diffrent 1.25 litter coke bottle that we stopped selling a year ago and the new 1.15 litter bottle?
That’s absurd!
Also, fuck you.”
Man, the French really don’t fuck around, do they?
Though the article says that Carrefour themselves do it for their house brands, so does that mean they’ll also apply it to themselves? XD
Uhhh, no. They are gonna shame others, but not themselves. Capitalism my dude.
Tbf, their stated purpose is to bring attention to the price discrepancy on diminished products. I would assume they believe their pricing is fair in that respect.
Yeah, no… Carrefour conglomerate is peak capitalism, so I can only assume this action is a way to push people to their own brand stuff.
It appears to be in some mystic arcane language but I have been able to translate it:
This product has seen its liters
REDUCED
and the price charged by our supplier
INCREASE
WE COMMIT TO RENEGOTIATING THIS RATE
Carrefour are fucking thieves and their own low-price brands are also shrinkflationated carcinogenic crap.
They don’t really have anything to teach.
After seeing so, so many french brands and retailers remain in Russia after that country invaded Ukraine (the rest of it, as they occupied Crimea already), I just started assuming all large french companies are complete total shits and have been boycotting them since then.
Were I live there a lot of large french retailers, so this actually has made a significant difference in my purchasing habits.
I don’t think any company gets “really big” playing by the rules.
Can you name a single large company that is not complete total shit ? Because I can’t
Valve?
Where’s half-life 3
Checkmate atheists
Rekt
It helps that Valve hasn’t gone public
Where’s Half Life 3?
I know only one case where this shrinkflation thing was stopped - one beer company decided to sell 0.4l cans, because “that’s what the customers want”. It turned out pretty fast that wasn’t what their customers wanted :)
Good for them. I made tacos for the first time in ages a couple of days ago, and I could not believe the size of the shells now. I would have called them child-sized, they were so small. It’s disgusting.
Sounds like you just bought normal sized tortillas, like they use in Mexico. “Child-sized”? Lol.
Do they use hard shells in Mexico?
Yes but for tostadas not hard shell tacos.
Motherfucker, have you never had a big ass burrito? The real Mexicans make their own tortillas, and if they feel like it, they’ll make one big enough to be used as a bedroll.
Bedrollitos are the best
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The French supermarket chain Carrefour has put labels on its shelves this week warning shoppers of “shrinkflation”, the phenomenon where manufacturers reduce pack sizes rather than increase prices.
It has slapped price warnings on products from Lindt chocolates to Lipton iced tea to pressure top consumer goods suppliers Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever to tackle the issue in advance of much-anticipated contract talks.
Since Monday, Carrefour has been putting stickers on products that have shrunk in size but cost more even after raw materials prices have eased, to rally consumer support as retailers prepare to face the world’s biggest brands in negotiations due to start soon and end by 15 October.
“Obviously, the aim in stigmatising these products is to be able to tell manufacturers to rethink their pricing policy,” Stefen Bompais, the director of client communications at Carrefour, said in an interview.
The Carrefour chief executive, Alexandre Bompard, who also heads the retail industry lobby group FDC, has repeatedly said consumer goods companies are not cooperating in efforts to cut the price of thousands of staples despite a fall in the cost of raw materials.
In this he is backed by the French finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, who in June summoned 75 big retailers and consumer groups to his ministry urging them to cut prices.
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Geat idea! There’s no reason this couldn’t be done everywhere by citizens with access to sticker printing services… I’ve spotted a few products myself in the past year and wouldn’t be against sticking some labels on them to warn my fellow shoppers :)
Reduflation
To be fair, most likely of these ‘foods’ look like complete junk. Over-processed shit. Huge mark-ups on what amounts to packaging and cheap fat/sugar/industrial flavours.
Baby formula was listed. The shrinkflation has affected more than just junk food.
Yeah I understand but the highlight items seem to be mostly crap.
And? What’s your point?
If people stopped eating shit over-processed foods they would probably save money and definitely be healthier
Or they’d spend more money and be less healthy. A food being “over-processed” doesn’t mean jack shit on its own nor does it mean it’s more expensive.
Lurpak shrank all their butter by 20%. In looks it’s barely noticeable. In reality it’s a 25% price hike.
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Shrinkflation is largely a myth. Items do not shrink relative to inflation, in fact the majority of claimed products are larger now than they were 50 years ago.
People often cite certain chocolate bar sizes with comparing the size today to that from the 90s. It’s not a fair comparison and not an example of shrinkflation. Mars bars have dropped 20% in size since the 90s but still are 4% larger today then when they originally came out.
Neither are small boxes of cereal. When I worked at Wal-Mart 9 years ago those same thin boxes gave me grief when putting them out on the shelves.
