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Corporations realized a few years ago that as long as they have a recognizable brand that they don’t have to actually have a good or affordable product anymore. You see this with chips and other luxury foods like pop.
Nothing will change until their bottom line gets utterly destroyed

Look at it this way. When the minimum wage was RAISED from 5.15 to 7.25 an hour the 2 cheeseburger meal was $2.99. That’s less than half of an hours work.

Now minimum is still 7.25 and that combo is easily over $7.25

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XEAL@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This realization keeps pissing me off so much:

Big companies don’t want to make a living, they want to make themselves rich.

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ZzyzxRoad@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It was $11 and change the other day for two of those little cheeseburgers and medium fry, no drink. Which, the medium fry is now a small. It’s tiny.

There’s one day a week where I work late and I just don’t feel like cooking and I’m starving, and I just wanted to grab something quickly. I could have gotten a whole rotisserie chicken at the grocery store for $10. Except those are also tiny now, come in bags that leak grease instead of the cartons they used to come in, and the last two times I’ve gotten them have had several feathers fried to the wing. Which is why I didn’t stop and get one ffs. Every goddamn thing is a rip off.

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OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Drink water, cook at home, the healthiest for your body and your wallet

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- M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Well looking at how much the price of all staples in the grocery store has gone up in the last decade, I would say it is neither now.
  
  Junk is still cheap though…
  
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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Drink water
  
  Flavor can be nice sometimes…
  
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  - MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    a long time ago, I sat in on a lecture from a nutritionist and some of the stuff he said really stuck with me.
    
    One of those things was that he was very opposed to things like juice, it’s high in sugar and most of the “good stuff” from the fruit had been stripped away, making it tasty but ultimately not a very nutritious option. his advice was: if you want apple juice, instead, just eat an apple and drink water. Rinse and repeat for whatever beverage.
    
    Personally, I quit coca-cola, it was a slow process, but it was for the best. Now I drink plenty of water and I just have to work on my diet a little and I should be fairly well-off in terms of nutritional health. Yes, flavor is nice sometimes, but ultimately, you’re doing yourself a disservice. Even “calorie free” water flavorings have drawbacks, the chemicals used to artificially sweeten things have their fair share of problems; at the very least they a lot of controversial information about how “safe” they really are, and what effects they impose on your health.
    
    Drink water, eat fruit, eat veggies. These are things that people of almost every walk of life do not do enough of… unless you’re a vegan… I suppose. (I’m not)
    
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    FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    There are options other than water, juice and soda. Tea, for example. It doesn’t require anything to sweeten it if you don’t want to do so and it tastes good.
    
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