These were like 50 bucks a year ago (lemmy.world)

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[-] malloc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I wish companies would be transparent in their supply chain logistic costs.

Financial news is flooded with “X multibillion dollar company hitting record breaking profits compared YoY” type headlines. Sure some companies might be taking advantage of “inflation” to bump the price of products and pocket the profit but some others might actually need to bump their price to stay competitive.

With no insight into this, it’s impossible to discern which companies are scumbags and which ones are just surviving.

[-] siberianlaika@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well, Purina is Nestle so you know they're scumbags.

[-] BigPapaE@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Obligatory "Fuck Nestle"

[-] dystop@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

"our costs have gone up amidst am inflationary environment and we have had no choice but to increase prices. Oh hey don't look at our financial statements, the fact that we made record profits is irrelevant."

[-] Charliechonch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It makes me really sad because my girl passed away last year and my boy is getting bored and wants a friend but I just can't afford to pay for the food. I've been thinking about fostering senior pitbulls instead because I would have a better chance of hanging on to them until they passed away if I fostered seniors. At least the Foster company pays for any medical treatment and food that the dog needs

[-] RarePepeCollector@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Those pitbulls would attack you dog. Either dumb or just don't care. I don't care if this offends you, for the sake of animal safety you need to hear it.

[-] gamenac@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Why do you such a strong stance against pitbulls? It sounds like the poster above may already be someone who has cared for/is caring for that specific breed of dog. If they are comfortable with it and are good owners, why would it matter?

[-] malcriada_lala@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

my dogs on prescription food. it hurts to buy

[-] Protegee9850@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Full stop the best thing I did was talk to a pet nutritionist and getting a meal plan made for my boy. Super affordable, easy to make up in bulk and freeze each week - and honestly it feels good to feed my boy something that resembles actual food. Turkey, carrots/zucchini, rice and vitamin powder - all told about an hour each week to prepare, portion out and freeze; and I'm pretty dang sure it comes out cheaper than the dried stuff in the long run.

[-] KarinSpaink@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Can you share the recipe?

[-] JerkedCake@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Another option is to read the labels of some of the premium refrigerated pup foods and get the ingredients from those without going to a pet nutritionist.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Good boy's eating better than me.

[-] MercuryUprising@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is what my poor grandma used to feed the farm dogs in her area. It was the off cuts of meat boiled and deboned and served with grains and veggies. Looked like prison slop, but the dogs loved it, and it still seems more appetizing than dried pellets of "food."

[-] lavendedreams@waveform.social 1 points 1 year ago

God damn. My girl passed away a couple years ago. I honestly don't know if I could afford to continue to feed her if she was still alive - this was the exact dog food she got.

[-] stewie3128@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Please don't feed that to your dog.

[-] instamat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

What’s the recourse? Do we start feeding our dogs homemade dog food instead?

[-] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yea pretty much. As much as I mull over solutions it always comes back to returning to our roots, which happens to be impossible at this point with the current population crisis. I'd imagine redistributing the wealth to alleviate these things would be extremely hard, would probly take a war to get going, or start multiple little wars in the process. It's really pretty bad. Worse than people like to think. I dont know where we go from here. That's part of the problem and why we maintain the status quo.

For now you can probly start approximating what is in that food with your scraps, like back in the day. I don't really know and I hate not knowing shit lol. (Why I'm here)

[-] instamat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We have to go full Star Trek and remove profit and personal gain as the motive for doing everything. In the meantime I guess it’s time to start reading up on what a dog’s diet should be.

[-] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Haha i agree, but getting there is the hard part. Theres so much infrastructure built up around a messed up system that all we can do is slowly change and crawl towards our ultimate goals.

I'd be curious to see someones experience on this, and get the lowdown on if it's cheaper and more efficient, and if so, how much money they saved etc.

[-] Mistymtn421@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That would be nice, although remember what started it all in 2063 :/

[-] instamat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

First contact?

[-] Mistymtn421@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oops wrong date! Meant 2053!

<After the war ended in 2053, humanity slowly began to rebuild civilization and the planet, eliminating sickness, hunger, poverty, and despair within two generations. Earth was mostly restored by the 22nd century as the United Earth Government formed, however there were still some lingering effects from the post atomic horror. Star Trek: Enterprise

This is where that paragraph came from (https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Earth) Cool place if you're into Star Trek

[-] instamat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

For a second there I thought you were vehemently anti Vulcan!

If I’m into Star Trek… lol

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The Oroville had a really good take on this. It took me starting it 3 different times before it hooked me, but damn the third season (all the seasons really, but this season were 90 minutes episodes) kicked.

[-] EmergingDystopia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah we've been dealing with the same. My only option has been to switch dog chow over to a Purina blend at Sam's. It's literally 29 USD as opposed to PetsMart at over 80.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

At what point is it going to become cheaper to feed them chicken leg quarters?

[-] br0da@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

What’s even more fucked is the alternative of making your own dog food isn’t an option because human food is expensive af too! Want to try to eat healthy? Fuck you

[-] daddyxbutter@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Don't feed your pets Purina, it will give them stomach cancer.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Doing absolutely nothing meaningful about inflation is why our next president is going to be an overt and unapologetic fascist. (Granted, they'll come up with a better name for it.) The foreclosure crisis and Obama's failure to address it properly is what got Trump elected the first go-around.

[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

The recession happened in 07/08 under Bush. Obama didn't take office until January 2009. Trump won because these two private parties control everything about our election process and one of them put up a candidate that almost nobody liked to the point that a failed businessman and reality TV star was somehow more appealing.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It doesn't matter when the recession started. When you don't do something about a preexisting problem, it becomes your policy.

Millions of people lost their homes when Obama was president, and Democrats were somehow shocked that people who lost their homes wouldn't vote for someone campaigning on continuing Obama's policies. (Policies that included criminalizing the poor and demonizing Occupy.)

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Dunno why you're all downvoting.

Every single one of you is paying 30% to 50% more to live, and you know it. And the aid you need to cope with inflation? Biden used it to fund another country's war instead.

[-] Givesomefucks@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Because "funding other people's wars" is better than waiting a couple years till it's our war too...

Did you forget about WW2?

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, that's what people say every time.

They said that when our country got a whole generation of young men killed in Vietnam and wasted over a trillion dollars. They said it when we treated Saddam Hussein the same way what's-his-name is Ukraine is being treated now back in 1983, funding his war against Iran and giving him an arsenal, before we went to war against him. Twice. People still pretend that our attempt at maintaining a permanent war in Afghanistan was magically a good thing, even though we wasted several trillion dollars and ultimately learned it was completely unsustainable.

Canada has universal health care and you know how much they spend on war?

23 billion a year.

Stop repeating slogans that make absolutely no sense given our military history since WW2, and please also stop pretending that neglecting our people to blow up other countries is virtuous.

[-] Givesomefucks@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why are you talking about Vietnam?

Vietnam is the reason we support with money and not bodies...

And why did you tell me to "stop repeating slogans" when you're the only one that's used a slogan?

[-] theflyingvomit@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

In my country we have 120% anual inflation or even more by some estimates. It's awful living like that, I tell you that

[-] tetelestia@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I hope you don't mind me asking, but two main questions come to mind when I hear about triple digit inflation.

First, is it normal to keep savings in another currency? I know in Turkey at least, it's common to save money in gold, but I don't know if either that or saving in, for example USD, is common.

Second, how do raises work in times like that? As things inflate at rates like that, your salary would so quickly become quite outdated. Are raises or job hopping common at that point?

And I guess a third question. How do you even life bro? I'm fortunate to live in a country with relatively high incomes and stable currency, and our 10% inflation hurt.

[-] Monologue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

not OP but i can answer,

yes people do try to keep their money in foreign currency or gold. it has gotten so bad lately and banks practically stopped giving loans because they don't make profit from giving them at low interest rates and with the loan, people just convert it to dollars so it devalues the currency even more.

salaries get crushed, middle class disintegrates and rich get even richer. raises are never adequate. there are no alternatives where would people job hop to?

life is painful, people are just trying to survive daily, they are always in debt and try to shuffle the debt between credit cards. but if your source of income scales with the foreign currency congrats, you are practically in heaven.

[-] Billy_Gnosis@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, and my food (Nutro) not only keeps increasing their price, but lowering the amount. Went from 32lb bag to 28lb

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