Based.
I know everyone uses this word now, but I’ll never think of anything except Nazis circa 2016.
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I’m sorry for triggering that association. A lot of internet culture has been co-opted by those jerks. I didn’t mean it that way.
They took the pepe frogs for a while too, but I’ve been seeing them come back. Nature is healing.
Fuckkkk thatttt, pepe is still alive and well on twitch, and racists are not tolerated (at least in any of the channels I frequent). They can pry that frog from my cold, dead hands.
I’m glad people are reclaiming him finally. He was never a racist symbol.
Yeah. I’m old and have been on the internet since well before the creation of both Pepe and based. That’s why I still use this term. I think we should try to reclaim these things - if we let them change our behavior, we lose.
No one can take the pepe frogs from us
Nah, I’m glad to know you didn’t know. I’m also glad I’m not alone.
…2016 will not be soon forgotten
It’s been an internet thing for long before 2016 (at least mid 00s in my memory), so I don’t associate it with them.
It was taken away from the alt-right, this is a good thing.
I’ve slowly realized that many people on the internet use it casually, but like you, I always assumed they were alt-right (new main right) or libertarian at a minimum for a long time.
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Based on what…?
I would LOVE to see more of this. Looking at you GATORADE, with your half-inch-deep plastic rim on the bottom and new hourglass bottle shape. 32oz sized bottles are 28oz now and MORE expensive. Fuck shrinkflation to death.
Yeah for some reason drinks seem the most effected by shrinkflation, I hate going to the drinks aisles these days because everything seems so overpriced, even just regular tap/spring water
I’d love to see this naming and shaming becoming a standard. I want to know if the product I’m buying has changed and while I try to do this myself, it can be tricky to keep track of all the products I buy and it’s not like I’m scanning the exact weight every time and memorizing it, just that it’s generally the same weight. These scumbag companies are always trying to sneak by all these changes over time, it’s great to finally get a spotlight shining on it. If some sort of legislation can be made to force companies to note changes in products made in the last 6 months on the label, that would be great.
I want to know if the product I’m buying has changed and while
Makes me think of a local git diff since your last purchase(s). See at a glance if it has changed, and what has changed.
Exactly my thought for a long time. A law which mandates companies to…I don’t know…put on a label, occupying at least 1/3 of the whole packaging with giant red/white font to say at least for 3-6 months: “The net weight/contenct was reduced by 15%.”
A simple QR code should do the trick. People can even make apps for tracking the changes.
maybe even a barcode, some sort of universal product code that apps could read easily
“What do you mean I should put the same barcode on these 2 clearly diffrent 1.25 litter coke bottle that we stopped selling a year ago and the new 1.15 litter bottle?
That’s absurd!
Also, fuck you.”
If only smart glass is as popular as mobile phones. When Google introduced their smart glass, I dreamt of a day when a price history overlay is displayed when looking at a barcode, like how Keepa is doing for Amazon.
I also like German price display which has effective price, as in Eur per liter for drinks, making it dead simple to compare products. A smart glass will make it available everywhere.
Back to Carrefour, I really like that they are pushing pro consumer actions. However, we all know too well that they won’t do the same when it’s their products which are shrinking. Still better than no action though.
Price per litre / kg etc is in Australia too
Carrefour are fucking thieves and their own low-price brands are also shrinkflationated carcinogenic crap.
They don’t really have anything to teach.
After seeing so, so many french brands and retailers remain in Russia after that country invaded Ukraine (the rest of it, as they occupied Crimea already), I just started assuming all large french companies are complete total shits and have been boycotting them since then.
Were I live there a lot of large french retailers, so this actually has made a significant difference in my purchasing habits.
Can you name a single large company that is not complete total shit ? Because I can’t
Good for them. I made tacos for the first time in ages a couple of days ago, and I could not believe the size of the shells now. I would have called them child-sized, they were so small. It’s disgusting.
Sounds like you just bought normal sized tortillas, like they use in Mexico. “Child-sized”? Lol.
Do they use hard shells in Mexico?
Motherfucker, have you never had a big ass burrito? The real Mexicans make their own tortillas, and if they feel like it, they’ll make one big enough to be used as a bedroll.
Bedrollitos are the best
Reduflation
To be fair, most likely of these ‘foods’ look like complete junk. Over-processed shit. Huge mark-ups on what amounts to packaging and cheap fat/sugar/industrial flavours.
Baby formula was listed. The shrinkflation has affected more than just junk food.
Yeah I understand but the highlight items seem to be mostly crap.
And? What’s your point?
If people stopped eating shit over-processed foods they would probably save money and definitely be healthier
Or they’d spend more money and be less healthy. A food being “over-processed” doesn’t mean jack shit on its own nor does it mean it’s more expensive.
Shrinkflation is largely a myth. Items do not shrink relative to inflation, in fact the majority of claimed products are larger now than they were 50 years ago.
People often cite certain chocolate bar sizes with comparing the size today to that from the 90s. It’s not a fair comparison and not an example of shrinkflation. Mars bars have dropped 20% in size since the 90s but still are 4% larger today then when they originally came out.
Neither are small boxes of cereal. When I worked at Wal-Mart 9 years ago those same thin boxes gave me grief when putting them out on the shelves.
I get it’s to shame the brands. But do the French not have unit prices? That’s how I determine the better prices among different brands regardless of package size.
Why not both? This just makes it easier to notice at a glance. We should celebrate whatever wins we can get as consumers.
