So I had to buy two of them to get as much as I used to get with one. Each one of these now cost $12. The total ounces of salmon you see here used to cost $7.
Shrinkflation by greedy companies combined with our de-facto oligopoly of grocery stores trying to convince us that prices must go up because they’re barely scraping by.
I want to see how the new tax credit for groceries pans out. But it feels like a bit of a (maybe necessary?) Band-aid.
I would absolutely LOVE to see the government finally tackle the oligopoly issue with grocery chains and telecoms.
A bit of a tangent. I had a Bell rep knock at my door today, nice guy. But I told him that their deals are predatory, the way they lock in discounts but not the rate. Then they up the price while you’re locked in, effectively nullifying your discount. He told me, at least in my area that they are supposedly offering real rate lock ins. But it doesn’t fix the root of the problem spurred by blocking competition and blatantly predatory and misleading “deals”. I despise telecom companies in Canada.
Edit: I wanna add, it doesn’t have to be like this! I lived abroad for a while and any time essential groceries went up in price, people got mad and the government curbed it realllll quickly. And telecoms offered true unlimited for reasonable rates. It can be done. We have good infrastructure in much of the country (sorry to those in mega rural areas), now let’s get some legislation to manage and/or break up these oligopolies. I’m no politician so I don’t know what exactly is the best solution, I only know that it needs to happen.
Atlantic salmon is farmed in unsustainable and environmentally insensitive ways. Skip it completely and buy wild caught fish from your local fishermen.
I feel like a guest at Bilbo’s Eleventieth trying to parse that title.
So I had to buy two of them to get as much as I used to get with one. Each one of these now cost $12. The total ounces of salmon you see here used to cost $7.
And so you rewarded them for their new pricing model.
Go to Target. Walk the store, and eventually you'll see "New lower price".
It's not a new lower price. It's the old price before they raised the price, but nobody bought that item. So they lowered it back.
When companies raise the price, and cut the content, and people still buy it.....what reason do they have to charge the old lower price?
Why is social media full of these posts?
“This used to cost $3 but today I paid $13.”
Why did you pay? Are an imbecile with zero control over your actions? Don’t give them money. It’s that simple.
Man's gotta eat
It's high time to quit buying any product that ends up this way.
Also, if you can get them, hemp hearts have better levels of omega-3's in them than fish.
But you don't understand, they were craving this specfic brand and food sustenance and would have literally starved to death and died had they not purchased it.
This is an example of being poor because of avocado toast.
If this were a sane world this would be a parody but they are clearly very serious.
Good luck getting anything from the store then, I haven't seen much that isn't hit by both inflation and shrinkflation. And the shrinkflation is directly caused by the inflation as the manufacturer knows people have a spending limit on the product they are selling, so they have to cut into the product to keep below that limit.
Smoked?
Fucking hell. How much plastic?
That's Atlantic salmon? God, it's barely even pink. Salmon used to be as red as my investment portfolio is now.
The color of the flesh doesn't say anything about its flavor necessarily, but it's been common for a long time for producers to add food coloring to Atlantic salmon.
To be fair, I'm used to the Alaskan stuff and I don't think they're dyeing it.
Tell us more about your investment portfolio. Is red a good thing or a bad thing?
I think the green crayons are pretty, but the red ones taste better.
Given the stock market is about the only thing doing well in this economy I'm worried about your investment choices.
And probably with 28% more microplastics too! What a time to be alive.
That totally sucks. I'm glad you got a fun treat, and I hope the price doesn't prevent you from enjoying it.
It's never a bad time to start checking lot vegetarian recipes. A few years ago I got a vegetarian cookbook and a vegetarian Indian cookbook. I started a meal or two a week to mix things up. It turns out there's some veg recipes that I really love, and over time I've found so many that I now almost never cook meat at home.
As I've eaten less meat, I've grown to crave it less, and oddly my lifts have gotten better and I've put on some serious leg and shoulder muscle. Most meals are some combo of beans, lentils, tofu, and just lots of veggies. I've become a better cook, and almost every dinner is significantly better than what I can get at any restaurant.
It costs way less to get into even the most basic beans and rice dishes. Veg recipes can still have great macros. I found that meat dishes are usually so savory that folks rarely spice them very much, or if they do you can't taste the meat anyway. So my veg chili, stews, sauces, curries, and stir fries taste pretty much the same because it's mostly the seasoning you taste. Some texture is a bit different, but I have found I really prefer the texture of mushrooms, seitan, and tofu. I still occasionally crave my 24hr smoked brisket or my all day braised short rib, but I don't mind saving them for a rare treat rather than expecting it every meal.
I do hope though you enjoy your fish, pay respects to the animal that died to bring it to you, and make an amazing meal out of it. I hope it's the best you've ever made, and it nurishes your body. If the inflated prices are getting to be to much, have hope that there's a world of interesting affordable meals out there.
Where on earth are you from that hot smoked is called "smoke roasted"?
Interesting that they're each 4 ounces. I wonder if the moisture content or something else has changed.
Uhhhhh........these are both the same purchase.
Four ounces is the most common size offered for smoked salmon.
how do you know when someone is cruel and violent don't worry they never stop telling you
loving the irony of people downvoting you
A community about companies who sneakily adjust their product instead of the price in the hopes that consumers won't notice.
We notice. We feel ripped off. Let's call out those products so we can shop better.
Shrinkflation is a term often coined to refer to a product reducing in size or quality while the price remains the same or increases.
Companies will often claim that this is necessary due to inflation, although this is rarely the case. Over the course of the pandemic, they have learned that they can mark up inelastic goods, which are goods with an intangible demand, such as food, as much as they want, and consumers will have no choice but to purchase it anyway because they are necessities.
From Wikipedia:
In economics, shrinkflation, also known as the grocery shrink ray, deflation, or package downsizing, is the process of items shrinking in size or quantity, or even sometimes reformulating or reducing quality, while their prices remain the same or increase. The word is a portmanteau of the words shrink and inflation.
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Consumer advocates are critical of shrinkflation because it has the effect of reducing product value by "stealth". The reduction in pack size is sufficiently small as not to be immediately obvious to regular consumers. An unchanged price means that consumers are not alerted to the higher unit price. The practice adversely affects consumers' ability to make informed buying choices. Consumers have been found to be deterred more by rises in prices than by reductions in pack sizes. Suppliers and retailers have been called upon to be upfront with customers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkflation
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