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

Factoring in 35 years of inflation. A $0.50 mars bar in 1991 is $1.21 today. The cost of a Mars bar today is at least $1.50 USD (after converting from UK pounds) and that’s being generous.

Companies are greedier than ever and there seems to be no stopping it (meaning because of the oligarchy in the US, Congress will never do a damn thing about it, and certainly the spoiled man-baby’s executive branch will do nothing about it), and no end in sight of it.

Fuck them all.

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theparadox@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I would also be surprised if the cost of production, now using cheaper ingredients and far more automation, hadn’t also decreased.

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- Airfried@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Oh absolutely. Productivity has tripled in many western countries during that time. Wages never kept up with that but prices sure did…
  
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  - PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.au ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Don’t say it in cop voice. Say:
    
    we made everything drastically more productive and the pedophiles stole all the gains. We keep letting them.
    
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    Airfried@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    We’re saying the same thing. The productivity surplus is getting stolen by the Epstein class. I’m not trying to sugarcoat anything.
    
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- OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Not to mention less cacao
  
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ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
In 1991 those were closer to 30 cents.

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- ulkesh@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I was 12, so I didn’t have 3 cents to rub together, let alone 30. I assumed it was similar to candy bars when I was in high school, which were about $0.50 at the time.
  
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  - ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I was only like 9, but I remember that shit. Lol.
    
    Least those were the prices here in the Midwest. Thirtyish cent candy bars, 25 cent bags of small chips, 35 cent cans of coca cola, 59 cents for a 20 ounce. If hamburger was a dollar a pound, it’s because it wasn’t on sale that week.
    
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PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.au ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
We’ve had the technology to stop this since 1791. Arguments about maturity could be made that put an industrial version as late as 1917.

That’s still over a century ago.

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