Products whose prices have soared thanks to inflation / supply chain strains / or pure bullshit reasons

[CurlyHoward]

also, it might just be due to issues with the USPS, but I'm getting far fewer coupons mailed to me for pizza places, auto service centers, etc.

[Turkeytop]

also, it might just be due to issues with the USPS, but I'm getting far fewer coupons mailed to me for pizza places, auto service centers, etc.

No. They're all putting them online now. They want us to go looking for them and print them off on our own printers.

[Calvert DeForest]

We have inflation. I don't like it but have to accept it.

What really bothers me how some Companies try to keep the price the same by shrinking the package size.

I like V8 juice. I buy it by bthe case at COSTCO 30 X 355 ml cans.. I went in this week to get some and the cans are now 155 ml..

Just sell the same size can and charge whatever you have to. I'll either buy it or I wont. For sure I will not be buying the new size.

We noticed that early on. The "family size" boxes of cereal shrunk in size but remained the same price. Same with chips and snacks. "Jumbo" sizes became less jumbo, but for the same cost. They're either trying to move less product to conserve supply or trying to fake out the consumer hoping we won't notice the inflation effect. I figure they can only shrink sizes so much before they just have to hike the numbers.

Soda is another considerable hike. A 2-liter bottle of Coke or Pepsi runs upward of 3 bucks in grocery stores (higher than that at convenience stores and gas stations). Thankfully I can get a 2-liter bottle of Kroger pop for a buck, although often times the store brand is out of stock, especially Diet pop. Might be time to crank up the Sodastream machine and start making my own again.

[MotorCityRadioFreak]

We have inflation. I don't like it but have to accept it.

What really bothers me how some Companies try to keep the price the same by shrinking the package size.

I like V8 juice. I buy it by bthe case at COSTCO 30 X 355 ml cans.. I went in this week to get some and the cans are now 155 ml..

Just sell the same size can and charge whatever you have to. I'll either buy it or I wont. For sure I will not be buying the new size.

Most consumers don't notice. That's what makes shrinkflation so lucrative. People are uneducated.

[Turkeytop]

Most consumers don't notice. That's what makes shrinkflation so lucrative. People are uneducated.

It's impossible not to notice when the can of juice used to be the same size as a beer can is now about the size of a pill botle.

Our box of tissues we buy used to have 120 tissues and now has 100. The box is still exactly to same size.

[MotorCityRadioFreak]

Most consumers don't notice. That's what makes shrinkflation so lucrative. People are uneducated.

It's impossible not to notice when the can of juice used to be the same size as a beer can is now about the size of a pill botle.

Our box of tissues we buy used to have 120 tissues and now has 100. The box is still exactly to same size.

You are probably much more observant than most Canadians. Happy Canada Day btw.

[CurlyHoward]

also, it might just be due to issues with the USPS, but I'm getting far fewer coupons mailed to me for pizza places, auto service centers, etc.

No. They're all putting them online now. They want us to go looking for them and print them off on our own printers.

It better be a damn good deal if they expect me to print it myself. Ink was expensive even before all of this.

[kager]

Does anyone even remember the last time time they bought a half-gallon container of ice-cream, or orange juice? The first shrink went from 64 oz (for MCRF's 'uneducated' masses, that's a half-gallon) to 59 oz; the most recent - which was still a while ago - took it down to 52 oz.

The first time I took notice of the shrinkage method of hiding price increases was back in the 80's, when Labatt cheated us out of can #24 in a case by dropping the can size from 12 to 11.5 oz...

I've heard some responses like "Oh! -oh! -oh! - We're going metric!" to explain the reason for the product size differences over the years. The US has been 'going metric' for over a half-century.

More comedy from our northern neighbour. Most digital coupons are redeemed by putting your phone number in at the checkout. Yes, they track you vs. a generic flyer, but there are some stores that will give you the discount anyway... But printing a coupon out?

Be sure to use your dot-matrix rig, TT.

[Turkeytop]

You mean I'm supposed to tell them my phone number at the checkout? Why don't they ask me for it, then? How was I to know?

So after I tell them my number, do they hand me a fist full of coupons?

[MotorCityRadioFreak]

I don't pretend to know how Canadian stores work. I got my Kroger and Meijer coupons via the mail until this year. Now, they do everything digitally.

[Matt]

I don't pretend to know how Canadian stores work. I got my Kroger and Meijer coupons via the mail until this year. Now, they do everything digitally.

Meijer still comes in the mail for me. Also, TT would stop shopping at a place that required an app. He probably has the last rotary phone.

[Turkeytop]

I don't pretend to know how Canadian stores work. I got my Kroger and Meijer coupons via the mail until this year. Now, they do everything digitally.

My phone is on the kithen wall and doesn't have a screen or connect to a printer.

[MotorCityRadioFreak]

I don't pretend to know how Canadian stores work. I got my Kroger and Meijer coupons via the mail until this year. Now, they do everything digitally.

Meijer still comes in the mail for me. Also, TT would stop shopping at a place that required an app. He probably has the last rotary phone.

I am probably on his shit list because I order all my food online and do a Kroger or Meijer pickup. The coupons are better for pickup customers anyways. Being that I have nerve and back issues, I usually cannot do a shop in a big store any more. If I need to run to the local supermarket, I will do that but normally that's just a handful of items. That's only when I need something quick because they are around the corner.

[Turkeytop]

COSTCO used to sell a brand of 4 year old Canadian cheddar. They still sell the brand, but now it's only 2 years old.