Downvoted by six bootlicking nerds who like being hungry.
The ultimate point of capitalism is to receive money for nothing. Shrinkflation is just the natural next step until a final subscription service for a wait-list spot to receive when the next batch of product is released.
Yeah, innovation to rip you off in new and interesting ways
“We’re weaning you off of your addiction to our products”
I’ve seen the argument made in complete seriousness that it’s better for portion control so that people don’t overeat, particularly when it comes to fast food portions.
I’d believe it if they lowered the price as well.
Like corporations give a fuck about that. Overeating is more profitable for them, so that’s what they’d prefer people do.
Then why is the price going up as well?
And they don’t even make sense in terms of measurements
Someone with a 200gb Excel file plays with the variables until they can show short term profit and that just outputs into weird quantities.
Pretty much. Imagine trying to make some bread, reading a recipe and being like “you need 500g of flour”.
So with shrinkflation, what’s the long term goal here? I mean, at some point you can’t make the product any smaller right? Surely we won’t be paying $75 for one microscopic piece of flour… right…?
They introduce a bigger size later until they phase out the pitifully small one
At some point they reintroduce bigger sizes again while keeping the previous price. They can then go back to decreasing the size of the new big pack that is more expensive than the old big pack.
I refuse to buy from brewers using slim cans. Come at me beer nerds.
Pay German prices for food with American quality control, on Turkish wages while working your ass off for the profits of your boss because low wages and high exploitation rates are said to be necessary to keep up in the great capitalist race to constantly grow and grow faster than in other countries.
It’s probably true.
Don’t worry, the market will allocate resources well. Such as to the 500th logistics company serving Western european countries where locals mostly don’t touch prole jobs, to building a new American style suburb in places where the only infrastructure is a roadside shrine, to start selling you shitty goods that make you addicted and Ill and to develop Poland to the point where it can start exploiting Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians, global southerners, etc. instead of locals… just like western countries did 50+ years before!
I fucking hate capital
This is an accurate description of processes in Poland. I fucking hate it too.
Kurwa, strzał w dziesiątkę.
Capitalism breeds innovation to con you out of all your cash in more effective ways.
