Shrinkflation

Dances are already cut short. They're playing shorter songs every where. And businesses are robbing us with smaller portions

I just got my property tax assessment. Due to rising property values my assessment went up 40% over last year. Not anything I can do about it.

That is why both parties in our government love to see high inflation. They get a percentage of a higher number that increases their revenue, plus we pay for all their perks anyway. I say vote them all out to start over. Push for reduced government staffs, all government staff goes on any program they push on citizens (Obamacare, electric vehicles, teleconferences rather than using planes, no contributions over $1000 per year, live in their districts and pay that matches the lower 60% of those they represent.

I’ve been going to a certain bakery my entire life. Over the last few years I’ve noticed the bagel prices slowly increase and the bagel size’s slowly shrink.

I’m not imagining that they have to be 25% smaller than they were when I was growing up and I can’t be the only one noticing it.

Making your own pizzas, starting with flour and grating the cheese, is fun. You knead it and it will fit your pan just right. And a little bit of stuff to spice up spaghetti sauce.

But I probably wouldn't want to do that just for myself. I'd do something more simple.

SJG

The USA capitalist/imperialist system is, and has been since it’s birth, producing excessive inequality all over the world.

“To him that hath, more shall be given; and from him that hath not, the little that he hath shall be taken away. The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the State is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism."

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
~ Born 4 August 1792 Field Place, Warnham, West Sussex, England
~ Died 8 July 1822 (aged 29) Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)

This has been happening for a few years. Boxes contain less product. They obviously are making conscious decisions because it is not immediate to have new boxes. Check out cereal or snacks - all with less product for what was the same price two years ago and now are higher prices.

We didn't have inflation problems until the early nineteen seventies. This was when the U.S. left the Bretton Woods agreement and severed the last link to gold. This allowed the U.S. to print money to cover the increased spending from the Vietnam War and recently enacted Great Society welfare programs. Another bad effect of this decoupling of money from gold, aside from inflation, was that it was this exact moment when we switched to running regular trade deficits. The inflation raised American wages and made American workers increasingly uncompetitive with lower wage foreign workers. The problem here isn't capitalism because we didn't have high inflation and large trade deficits during the previous couple hundred years. The problem was government created.

Clubs that I’ve visited lately haven’t raised the dance price, but now songs are under 3 minutes at the busy ones. Drink prices are up $2, and limited mileage out in the floor area suggests you do VIP for better mileage. Sometimes that vip mileage is the same as the floor area used to be prior pandemic.

The problem is corporate welfare not the few scraps thrown to people and not unlivable minimum wages. Blaming the poor is an extremist standpoint.

Yeah, desertscrub, frozen pizza is pretty bad. I’m not on social security quite yet, I’m still working and making $350k per year. But I’m lazy. Sometimes on a Saturday morning I’m working from home or doing laundry I want a quick and easy lunch. I can afford better but don’t want to take the time

Don’t we all bottom feed at times? I have high standard for dancers but sometimes you just gotta say “what the fuck” and settle for a 5 or 6

^^ with Scrub he has to settle for strippers who are in their 50’s dancing for 30 years.

Bacon!!

Sounds like scrub is just in his usual drunken stupor.

I got shrinkflation because more people need to cum to da lawyers!!!

Frozen pizzas are expensive for what they are. They start at like $7

The shrinking packages have been going on for decades. Other than those brands that tout their half gallons are still half gallons, ice cream half gallons have been more like a quart and a half for a long time.I recently bought a "gallon" of milk that was only 120 ounces.

I was at a taco stand the other day, and they were selling those little 7oz Coronitas for the same price they used to sell the regular ones from. Was sad & funny.

^ When I was working in Mexico in the early 1990s, the cantinas all served those seven ounce beers rarely did I get a full size beer, I started preferring them because they were cold from start to finish and back then if you paid in dollars rather than peso’s you’d get three beers for $2.50.

It is not correct to say that the problems are government created. Government IS the problem. I could go on and on about term limits, deconstruction of the elitist class, severing territories and redistricting DC, failed populism, government of/by/for the people, etc.

Everyone and every company needs to be brought around to America First. Before you can export your oil and gas, America's oil and gas needs must be met. Before you export your grain or meat, America's meat and grain needs must be met. Before you can export your mined minerals or manufactured plastics, America's base material needs must be met.

China wants to buy 10,000 acres of farmland in OK? Fine, but you will continue to grow the same crop and sell to America (really, it ought not be allowed as they cannot be trusted).

Jobs and social programs should meet a balanced budget to serve American citizens first. No more birthright citizenship. If there is money left over, then you can think about providing beds and shelter for illegals who are claiming asylum.

The economy with the fed printing money to meet the deficit is fucking criminal. Obama really accelerated it and Trump didn't fix it. As much as I hate to say it, Clinton was the last president to do anything to address the economy, but he did it by raising taxes on the working class. Bush increased spending and cut taxes. Obama said he would cut both, but only raised spending. Trump said he would cut both, and cut taxes and raised spending again. Unlike any of the last four presidents, at least Trump spent his firs three years trying to cut spending. It's not really his fault that the liberal congress passed spending bill after spending bill in 2020 in a blatant act at using the coronavirus pandemic to socialize America.

I understand that companies have difficult choice of cutting costs by shrinking portion sizes or raising prices. There are too many disgusting fatbodies in America. I support reduced portions.

Government is the problem and the free market should regulate itself. But you want gov regulations to set America first.

If you get rid of birthright citizenship. How will American citizenship be granted if not to people born here? You realize it applies to the children of citizens too right.

Reduced portions should have lower prices. Also who are you to infringe on people's liberty when it comes to portion size?

You're all over the place.

Name a wealthy libertarian country

'Frozen pizzas are expensive for what they are. They start at like $7'



^ oh iceydougster that's precious.

The boi that early in his postings here claimed he was giving his hoe 15k a month.
The boi that claimed he offeed 5k to his EX gf, who ran off to a real man, if she would tell him she didn't love him.
The boi that doesn't think twice about spending $30-$50 club cover charges is whining about spending $7.
Lulz Lulz Lulz Lulz!!!!

'The shrinking packages have been going on for decades. Other than those brands that tout their half gallons are still half gallons, ice cream half gallons have been more like a quart and a half for a long time.'



Yeah I was going to say that too but I'll expand on it. I don't know if it's been decades but first 64oz half gallons went to 56oz then after a period of time they went down to 48oz.

Yes frozen pizzas and frozen food in general is grossly over priced for what it is. Same with pizza restaurants. A 14 inch pizza is not worth $20. The worst wing deal I've seen is 4 for $12. Usually it's like 8 for $16 which is price gouging.

Latest Quinnapauc poll

“Nearly every demographic group agreed that inflation is the most important issue. Men (39%), women (28%), white people (36%), black people (21%), Hispanic people (36%), youngsters (29%), millennials (41%), baby boomers (39%), seniors (26%), white college graduates (34%), and white non-college graduates (37%) all agreed that inflation is the most important issue facing the country right now. The one group that didn’t agree? Democrats. For them, abortion (18%) is the most important issue facing the country right now. Inflation is in second place at just 14%, just barely ahead of election laws (13%) and climate change (10%).”

Mark tell us how Trump won the election lulz


Anyways


Weed prices are out of hand too. Places going as high as $115 for an 8th when you can get an oz for $140 from illegal sources. An 8th used to be like $45.

^ I hear that prison cells are smaller with additional prisoners too
Ain’t that right Iceefag?

In the last month, home prices in expensive neighborhoods in California and Colorado with lots of tech jobs have dropped 15%-20%. In ONE month.

Higher mortgage rates. Tech layoffs. End of the “ it can only go up” mindset.

What happens next ?

The tech industry needs a hit. I'm not losing sleep over them. Those companies ruined California. And home prices are arbitrary and speculative. Real estate is an expense not an investment given care costs unless you're making more from it than putting in. Basically unless you're a greed ass parasite landlord

And the price of fast food.... quality is way down. Portions are smaller but prices are so high. Only place I stick to is in n out. And Wendy's for their chicken sandwiches. I can get a buy one get one free carne asada nachos or enchilada combos at my favorite Mexican place for less than a combo meal at a fast food place. Makes a cheap date with stripper hoes lulz

Only a loser eats fast food. Learn to cook boy.

We’re from the government. We’re here to help.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is contemplating whether to tinker with lending standards during a time of elevated financial insecurity and housing market volatility, At a time when we are at risk of a housing crash, the FHFA is about to change the rules for getting mortgage, throwing housing into further uncertainty.

It’s not just government spending and energy restriction that’s causing inflation. It’s also complicated government regulation that increases the cost of business.

According to the NY Post, Biden’s team pushed through more major regulations in his first year than any president in modern US history — 69 such regulations compared with 22 under Donald Trump and 52 under Barack Obama.

Regulations aren't the problem. Capitalist greed is. And you agree. Basically you're saying the rich would be richer without regulations. Again going against peoples interests.

It took 50 years to move all our manufacturing to Asia. I wonder how long it will take to get it back. Probably not in my lifetime. But, we’ve got to start.

ICEE, what you don’t understand about economics could fill a library. When regulations make building houses or drilling oil wells more difficult, supply goes down, prices go up, and profits drop.

Here’s a typical scenario. A developer buys 1,000 acres in California for $10M with plans to build 5,000 affordable homes. Environmental regulations delay the project 10 years while expensive studies are required. The developer loses millions of dollars from land and studies. And, 5,000 families are without decent housing.

Thats a bs scenario.

I bow to your advanced intellect and reasoning.

Mark is 100% correct. The disparity between rich progressives in California and the poor they use, abuse, and destroy is amazing and huge. California is a fucking train wreck, surviving only because of the natural wonders of the state, not the garbage that lives there.