Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action

• ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Me: doesn’t buy them

  Candy: shrinks anyway

  Me: “but the internet says that won’t happen!”

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• nogooduser@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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• BillCheddar@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You are assuming both options were on the market for consumers to choose from.

  These are unilateral decisions.

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  • SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I always skip the smaller bags of chips in favor of the biggest ones available. Same goes for Little Debbie’s offerings.

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  • daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • MrShankles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      You “make no such assumptions” of whether both sizes were available in 1991, but you do assume that the user has no idea how businesses operate. You’re not speaking in reality at all, you’re just arguing nonsensically

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