Sundray@lemmus.org to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agoMars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in actionwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1302
arrow-up1302external-linkMars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in actionwww.bbc.comSundray@lemmus.org to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agomessage-square51fedilink
minus-square🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-23 hours agoIf people weren’t buying more of them, they wouldn’t’ve changed the size. What people say they want and what they actually purchase are often different. edit: Yet again, Lemmy proves ignorance is rampant and people have absolutely no concept of the real world.
minus-squarebrygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 hours agoYou are assuming both options were on the market for consumers to choose from. These are unilateral decisions.
minus-square🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoI am making no such assumption, and you clearly do not know how businesses operate. I’m not fond of much of what they do, but I’m speaking in realities, not idealations.
minus-squareMidnight Wolf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·6 hours agoMe: doesn’t buy them Candy: shrinks anyway Me: “but the internet says that won’t happen!”
minus-squarenogooduser@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·5 hours ago If people weren’t buying more of them, they wouldn’t’ve changed the size. That’s not a valid conclusion. The only thing that we can say for sure is that the companies benefit from shrinkflation in some way otherwise they wouldn’t do it. If sales drop due to the smaller sizes but they still make more profit overall then you can be sure that we’d be getting smaller bars.
minus-squareParlimentOfDoom@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·6 hours agoCompanies have been trying to cheap out in manufacturing costd since manufacturing was invented. Don’t blame the consumer when the candy bar cartel shrinks their shit then lies about it.
minus-squareBillCheddar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 hours agoAre you 15? Or do you just lack all common sense and ability to understand the universe around you? I’m serious. What you’ve written is so far from reality that I feel compelled to make sure you’re OK and not like, IDK, stroking out somewhere.
If people weren’t buying more of them, they wouldn’t’ve changed the size.
What people say they want and what they actually purchase are often different.
edit: Yet again, Lemmy proves ignorance is rampant and people have absolutely no concept of the real world.
You are assuming both options were on the market for consumers to choose from.
These are unilateral decisions.
I am making no such assumption, and you clearly do not know how businesses operate.
I’m not fond of much of what they do, but I’m speaking in realities, not idealations.
Me: doesn’t buy them
Candy: shrinks anyway
Me: “but the internet says that won’t happen!”
That’s not a valid conclusion.
The only thing that we can say for sure is that the companies benefit from shrinkflation in some way otherwise they wouldn’t do it.
If sales drop due to the smaller sizes but they still make more profit overall then you can be sure that we’d be getting smaller bars.
Companies have been trying to cheap out in manufacturing costd since manufacturing was invented.
Don’t blame the consumer when the candy bar cartel shrinks their shit then lies about it.
Are you 15? Or do you just lack all common sense and ability to understand the universe around you?
I’m serious. What you’ve written is so far from reality that I feel compelled to make sure you’re OK and not like, IDK, stroking out somewhere.