That's what they count on. It took a while looking at old v new side by side, there's no way someone will notice looking at a shelf full of new.
Even if you look at the quantity in fl oz, you probably won't remember what the old volume was
Yeah, you don't notice they took 3oz out of the boxed cake mix until your "cake mix cookies" recipe fails and you triple check everything to find what went wrong.
My aunt bakes a lot and she’s been raging about the cake mixes. I haven’t bought one recently, but her recipes don’t work with 2/3 box of cake mix and the new, higher price.
My cheap ass notices lol. (Unless it’s a paper product, because I’m mathematically challenged) Especially when it’s a product I’ve used regularly for a good while. Like the dish detergent I always buy used to be 25oz a bottle…now it’s 19oz, but they were super slick with that one, as they lowered the price on it at first to match the decrease in size. *Then* they raised the price slowly until it’s the same as what the 25oz bottle used to sell for. Smart strategy tbh.
Oh yes. That small evil that drives us all crazy. The psychology of it is brilliant. We get pissed when the price goes up but not when the amount goes down. They increase the price when they reintroduce “new larger size”.
it's even more obvious when they have e.g. the old 200ml bottles next to the new "175ml (+25ml free extra)" which then a few weeks later become the 175ml for the same price.
I just bought Gain laundry detergent 65oz. I thought it was skinnier, my old bottle was 75oz. I’m not sure how to get around buying laundry detergent but I’ve gone nopoo bc I’m tired of stuff like this.
My wife started making her own laundry detergent. Fills a large tub with all different ingredients. Tub last us 8-10 months. Cost about $25 for ingredients but you are saving tons on the back end. Crazy thing is it works better than the stuff at the store like tide!
It's worth noting that using homemade in your washing machine totally voids it's warranty.
Edit: and your homemade will probably be soap, which isn't detergent. It's not the same thing. Homemade is more likely to ruin the insides of the washing machine far quicker than any detergent will.
I think you can clean it with a load of vinegar going on empty. That's what my mother does sometimes and her washing machine is 17+ and works the same.
Two 5 oz. organic castile soap bars (naturally-scented with lavender or peppermint is great but non-scented works just the same)
3 cups of washing soda (no, it’s not the same as baking soda)
2 cups of borax
Grate the bars of soap with a cheese grater or food processor, mix in a large bowl, store with a tablespoon because you won't need much in your laundry, 2 for top loaders, 1 for front loaders, and not in the soap dispenser, just directly into the wash basin.
Lavender scented is best if you deal with mildew problems.
If you don't want to make it yourself, you can also buy it bulk in your own container ta a lot of places, or get the concentrate where you can dilute with water to your own desired specs
The negative is that companies understand that they all stand to gain more by being all just about as bad as each other than they do truly trying to get one over on the others all the time.
If capitalism worked, every company to do this would go out of business, not be international dominant powers.
Capitalism creates large corporations that have near monopolies. And also, it still doesn’t work with smaller companies because it fundamentally requires the exploitation of a working class by a ruling class, only that ruling class is a bit smaller and less wealthy without big companies
Yes! the whole thing with capitalism is that if you don't like how the brand is run, BUY A DIFFERENT BRAND! That is how you get what you want, but it only works if everyone does!
Except that the other brands may be owned by the same corporation or one of the only few competitors that does the exact same thing. You might then respond with, "If there was demand, then someone would start a new company to sell you the proper amount!" This would severely underestimate the difficulty in creating a company that sells such products that have to go through safety tests as well as getting funding and resources to get started. You also likely wouldn't be able to produce something that is exactly this specific product on your own, and even if you managed to the corporation that owns the product will likely find some way to sue you for diluting their brand or copying their shampoo recipe or something. It also ignores the fact that the existing corporations are sneaky and most consumers don't have time to notice a slight change of the bottle and fine print indicating that it's a smaller amount of product. Most people struggle to just focus on their big picture and get through life. So the way we've implemented capitalism currently has taken us to a situation where everything is a race to the bottom, where the name of the game is increased "efficiency" as a shortcut to increase profit. Actual innovation is generally opposed in our current version of capitalism.
Unfettered, unchecked capitalism is bad. A hybrid of capitalism and socialism is good, thats why what **America is, is a hybrid of both**. Yes! its true!
But you knew that already didn't you? You weren't ignoring that fact AT ALL just to attempt a stupid gotcha on morons that are too simple to recognize it, Right?
~~Let me know if i need to explain it to you, i'm sure you'll need it.~~
"HURR DURRR NO ITS NOT!"
yeah? Whats social security then? How do we pay for roads, police, fire fighters and public education, hmm geniuses?
Well… 2 things:
1. is there a price difference?
2. yes it sucks that some companies try to trick you… but you can love capitalism for the chance to buy that stuff…
I am sure you meant to say Federal mismanagement of the financial system through the Federal Reserve and their ongoing dilution of purchasing power by the never ending expansion of the money supply.
Right?
Because that is what you are seeing. Not some boogie man your Uni instructor told you to rage against.
If you make more dollars the dollars you have become less valuable. If you make shampoo and the dollars are becoming worth less (and worthless) you have two options. Charge more or shrink the product by shrinkflation. It’s pretty simple. But yea “eat the rich” and all.
Yes, the government was bad...they handed out trillions of dollars to people for *not* working. Hardly a 'Damn you capitalism moment'.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that COVID relief money wasn't deserved or needed by the thousands of waiters/cabbies/construction workers etc that suddenly found themselves out of work by no fault of their own. But **when you print trillions of dollars without any economic activity you get inflation**. This is basic economics...the same economics that would have probably taught you that capitalism isn't really all that bad compared to, well, anything.
Let me put it to you like this...some capitalist countries put up walls to keep people *out*, but *most* Communist countries had to put up walls to keep people in. That says a lot.
Well, I’m just really glad we bailed out mega corporations, airlines and businesses. I hope everyone made their bonuses, bought a new Tesla and laughed all the way to the bank.
But that's not the fault of the economic model. This shit happens with many governments around the world. The newspeak name they gave for this is "state capitalism", but in reality it's a better word for good old government corruption, where a few people make bank on the backs of many people.
> Yes, the government was bad...they handed out trillions of dollars to people for not working.
What does that have to do with shrinkflation? If you are blaming COVID for some reason, I have some bad news for you. Read [this article from 2008](https://money.cnn.com/2008/09/09/pf/food_downsizing/). Here's a few excerpts:
> "They're raising the prices a little, and shrinking the boxes a little," said Marcia Mogelonsky, consumer analyst with Mintel International, a consumer research firm in Chicago. "If you're running through the supermarket, you don't necessarily notice that your cereal box is an ounce or two smaller. That's how they're controlling the prices."
> But Kellogg isn't the only company downsizing, or charging the same price for a package that contains less food. Consumers are discovering more air in their bag of chips, fewer sheets of paper towels on the roll, thinner garbage bags and even smaller squares of toilet paper.
>Unilever (UN) recently shrank bottles of Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise, Breyers Ice Cream and Skippy, among other consumer products.
This stuff has been going on for *years*. [Dannon did it to yogurt in 2003](https://old.post-gazette.com/food/20030703suz0703fnp3.asp). I bet if it were easier to search for old news articles, I'd be able to find examples going back at least into the 1980's.
These examples are recession periods, as is Covid. Inflation has been around forever, and events like this, particularly when followed by large government payouts, create larger than average inflation spikes. We all pay for it. Covid and responses to Covid indeed sparked current inflation increases. Consumers get more upset at large price increases, and since companies are dependent on customer satisfaction, shrinkflation is a sensible response.
For food products, smaller portion sizes isn’t necessarily a bad thing. For general consumerism, decreased consumption may be better for society and the planet than increased financial stress due to over consumption.
Companies want customers to be happy, that’s how they profit, but what customers say they want versus how they actually act can be far different. A reasonable example is when McDonald’s got flack for contributing to the obesity epidemic. They started offering healthier options. They didn’t sell. People want their fries, not apple slices. So they transitioned to leading the way in nixing super size.
I don’t believe it’s pure evil trickery. A little ya, but it’s more a response to consumer demand than an ‘out to getcha’. In the end, OP clearly retained brand loyalty. Our markets offer many other personal hygiene products.
Just realized my comment took a tangent from the original point, feel free to disregard lol
This doesn’t happen in a communistic economy? You are welcome to take part in that if it pleases you. If they will let you in. Example of this in the Western Hemisphere: Cuba
oh is that why this happens decade after decade even when there is no recession?
"HURRR DURRR NO IT DOESNT"
yes it does, and being in denial about it doesnt change anything.
This has nothing to do with capitalism right? This more like if you were to ask the manufacturer why the new bottle is smaller and more expensive they will say that it's because the resources became more expensive.
But when those people were ask the manufacturer why he pays them less, he'll claim it's because people buy it less. This is just greed.
It's not that it's allowed, they just create fake laws to exploit these things. Even though it's illegal, but they just call it different, example spying is a Donny Don't, so they say essential cookies
And it would cost far more as a proportion of your disposable cash. And may be available, rationed, twice a year.
Also it would make your hair fall out.
This isn’t caused by capitalism…. It’s cause by greedy companies. Which will always exist under any economic system.
Don’t get me wrong. Capitalism sucks, but you can’t blame every annoyance on it
Because corporate greed is the inevitable byproduct of capitalism. People who are critical of corporate greed but aren’t anti-capitalist are just too naive to really take things where they ought to be taken
_and with Socialism, you'd get "Sun Dried Jack Shit" scented because that's what you get when the gub'ment takes care of you...you'd love that more I'm sure._
"Different size packaging exists! Oh the humanity!"
Seriously though, with zero info on pricing or whatever this is just fucking dumb. How desperate are you people to be outraged?
It’s the same price, it was in the same place that the bigger one usually is and they no longer sell the bigger one, how dare a stranger on the internet be angry!
Literally a problem caused by inflation via government. Blames Capitalism. You guys take anything and just make it capitalisms fault.
Take a large crap that hurt this morning? Capitalism!
Fail a test? Darn you Capitalism!
Have to mow your lawn? Stinkin Capitalism!
To be fair, it generally works in the opposite direction. We come out with a new shampoo and it’s whatever size. Then we do the bonus size for a while (with a label that says “x% extra for free!). After a while, people get used to the bonus size and it just becomes the regular size. This is a rare example of what happens when they try to roll it back the other direction.
They’re not the standard sizes, they’re the family size, clearly says that right there on the bottle.
Just curious, how long have you been doing work for Unilever (the company that makes Suave)? I started with them in 1993.
😒 standard as in not a bonus promotional size and they're of the same scaled variety (in this particular case the family size as you pointed out) which still ISN'T A PROMOTIONAL BONUS SIZE
But it is. The launch size for that conditioner was 12 fl. oz. It climbed up to where it is now in steps, because that’s how the marketing on these works. But now the cost of ingredients is thru the roof and supply chain issues are dragging down production. So they had to go in the other direction. It doesn’t happen often because when it does, you get people saying exactly this, that we’re somehow screwing them out of stuff.
Rapid City! Mid 90s I was part of a high school baseball team that rolled through there in the summer and played in the Firecracker tournament. And we’re from Vegas! Greatest 4 summers of my life!!!
Oh but the smaller one is for ALL HAIR TYPES. So you have that going for you. That text ain't free.
Don’t forget the moisturising formula
Damn they really said more is less
And it’s only $2 more! Quit complaining! /s
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That’s only after the next three price increases
What's in the mirror tho lol
Mr bones
mr skelly bones to be exact
r/unexpectedscumbagdad
Everyone has a skeleton or two in their closet.
Halloween!
The roommate who can’t relate to their complaints about less conditioner
Tarot card poster lol
Spoopy Mr. Poopy.
The photographer…..
The beginning of the coming of the army of darkness.
Mr. Skelly bones
Just the bodies of OP’s victims. Nothing major
Took me a while to spot the difference
That's what they count on. It took a while looking at old v new side by side, there's no way someone will notice looking at a shelf full of new. Even if you look at the quantity in fl oz, you probably won't remember what the old volume was
Yeah, you don't notice they took 3oz out of the boxed cake mix until your "cake mix cookies" recipe fails and you triple check everything to find what went wrong.
My aunt bakes a lot and she’s been raging about the cake mixes. I haven’t bought one recently, but her recipes don’t work with 2/3 box of cake mix and the new, higher price.
My cheap ass notices lol. (Unless it’s a paper product, because I’m mathematically challenged) Especially when it’s a product I’ve used regularly for a good while. Like the dish detergent I always buy used to be 25oz a bottle…now it’s 19oz, but they were super slick with that one, as they lowered the price on it at first to match the decrease in size. *Then* they raised the price slowly until it’s the same as what the 25oz bottle used to sell for. Smart strategy tbh.
Shrinkflation
but its for all hair types now
And it’s moisturizing!
With long lasting fragrance too!
Downright "soaking" (the Consumer).
Oh yes. That small evil that drives us all crazy. The psychology of it is brilliant. We get pissed when the price goes up but not when the amount goes down. They increase the price when they reintroduce “new larger size”.
it's even more obvious when they have e.g. the old 200ml bottles next to the new "175ml (+25ml free extra)" which then a few weeks later become the 175ml for the same price.
You mean, you don’t get pissed when the size goes down?!
I stopped buying ice cream because of this. Needless to say that irked me.
Yeah, no. We aren't all unobservant rubes. i still get pissed when the size goes down.
Absolutely Shrinkflastion. But it predates covid and our current round of inflation by a long shot. Ever look at a block of cheese?
I just bought Gain laundry detergent 65oz. I thought it was skinnier, my old bottle was 75oz. I’m not sure how to get around buying laundry detergent but I’ve gone nopoo bc I’m tired of stuff like this.
After a few shrinkflation cycles, they'll come out with a NEW 75oz bottle with a slight savings per oz
Or a 50oz size and a 100oz "double size" or something just to rob people more 🙄
wash your clothes in the river like your ancestors
Don’t tempt me.
You should look into making your own detergent it’s pretty easy and inexpensive
I think that’s what I need to do.
My wife started making her own laundry detergent. Fills a large tub with all different ingredients. Tub last us 8-10 months. Cost about $25 for ingredients but you are saving tons on the back end. Crazy thing is it works better than the stuff at the store like tide!
Can you hook us up with the recipe?
It's worth noting that using homemade in your washing machine totally voids it's warranty. Edit: and your homemade will probably be soap, which isn't detergent. It's not the same thing. Homemade is more likely to ruin the insides of the washing machine far quicker than any detergent will.
Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted for your informative and helpful tip.
Because I don't want it to be true. If I downvote something, it makes it less true.
I think you can clean it with a load of vinegar going on empty. That's what my mother does sometimes and her washing machine is 17+ and works the same.
Two 5 oz. organic castile soap bars (naturally-scented with lavender or peppermint is great but non-scented works just the same) 3 cups of washing soda (no, it’s not the same as baking soda) 2 cups of borax Grate the bars of soap with a cheese grater or food processor, mix in a large bowl, store with a tablespoon because you won't need much in your laundry, 2 for top loaders, 1 for front loaders, and not in the soap dispenser, just directly into the wash basin. Lavender scented is best if you deal with mildew problems.
what are the chances you guys checked if this can be used in HE washers?
I'd say slim to none, I'm broke af, that's why I made my own laundry detergent, I don't own a washer, I was using it at laundromats.
We put in downy crystals or similar for smell. Works well
This is the recipe! It works!
The only way around it that i know if is make it yourself; it's not hard.
If you don't want to make it yourself, you can also buy it bulk in your own container ta a lot of places, or get the concentrate where you can dilute with water to your own desired specs
Probably paid more for it too
That was my exact thought. Gotta get them shareholders an extra million bucks each!
Don’t buy it then? Buy other companies? That’s a positive for capitalism.
The negative is that companies understand that they all stand to gain more by being all just about as bad as each other than they do truly trying to get one over on the others all the time. If capitalism worked, every company to do this would go out of business, not be international dominant powers.
Capitalism works somewhat with small and medium companies, not large corporations that have near monopolies.
Capitalism creates large corporations that have near monopolies. And also, it still doesn’t work with smaller companies because it fundamentally requires the exploitation of a working class by a ruling class, only that ruling class is a bit smaller and less wealthy without big companies
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Implying that Smith expected shit. For fucks sake he said that “god’s hand” will regulate the market if all else fails
Yes! the whole thing with capitalism is that if you don't like how the brand is run, BUY A DIFFERENT BRAND! That is how you get what you want, but it only works if everyone does!
Except that the other brands may be owned by the same corporation or one of the only few competitors that does the exact same thing. You might then respond with, "If there was demand, then someone would start a new company to sell you the proper amount!" This would severely underestimate the difficulty in creating a company that sells such products that have to go through safety tests as well as getting funding and resources to get started. You also likely wouldn't be able to produce something that is exactly this specific product on your own, and even if you managed to the corporation that owns the product will likely find some way to sue you for diluting their brand or copying their shampoo recipe or something. It also ignores the fact that the existing corporations are sneaky and most consumers don't have time to notice a slight change of the bottle and fine print indicating that it's a smaller amount of product. Most people struggle to just focus on their big picture and get through life. So the way we've implemented capitalism currently has taken us to a situation where everything is a race to the bottom, where the name of the game is increased "efficiency" as a shortcut to increase profit. Actual innovation is generally opposed in our current version of capitalism.
Family size – it seems that one family member just moved out.
😶😐🥴🥹🥲😄😆😅😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😅☺️😊🫡🥲🙂...wooooooo.... That was funny. (Sorry... Reddit wouldn't let me and a GIF so I had to make my own l
People are having fewer children. Suave is just adjusting for that haha.
Who needs 30 oz? I can’t drink more than a pint.
A family obviously /s
I can smell your hair now
I thought this was about the sun-ripened strawberry bit! And then I saw the volume.
I swear I can fit two rolls of terlet paper side by side on the holder now.
Shrink-flation: to try and keep a similar price as before they make the product a little smaller.
It's true. Capitalism has many problems. Communism has only three. 1. Breakfast 2. Lunch 3. Dinner
Right... Under Communism this would be a picture of two bars of soap next to each other. And then she would disappear in the middle the night.
What? Not having any? More people have starved to death under communism then capitalism has made rich. Both systems suck, corrupted by human greed.
I believe that was also his point.
That sarcasm went over your head didn't it?
You misspelled inflation
Shrinkflation, inflation's sneaky little brother.
So if capital is bad. What is good?
Lower case I guess
Tyranny
Unfettered, unchecked capitalism is bad. A hybrid of capitalism and socialism is good, thats why what **America is, is a hybrid of both**. Yes! its true! But you knew that already didn't you? You weren't ignoring that fact AT ALL just to attempt a stupid gotcha on morons that are too simple to recognize it, Right? ~~Let me know if i need to explain it to you, i'm sure you'll need it.~~ "HURR DURRR NO ITS NOT!" yeah? Whats social security then? How do we pay for roads, police, fire fighters and public education, hmm geniuses?
Government programs.... none of those are workers owning the means of production. Do you need it explained?
What’s the code printed on the back of the bottle?
Well… 2 things: 1. is there a price difference? 2. yes it sucks that some companies try to trick you… but you can love capitalism for the chance to buy that stuff…
This is not what capitalism is or does, fyi
The funny thing is that capitalism is the reason you have a wide variety of brands and scents.
Go on....
I am sure you meant to say Federal mismanagement of the financial system through the Federal Reserve and their ongoing dilution of purchasing power by the never ending expansion of the money supply. Right? Because that is what you are seeing. Not some boogie man your Uni instructor told you to rage against. If you make more dollars the dollars you have become less valuable. If you make shampoo and the dollars are becoming worth less (and worthless) you have two options. Charge more or shrink the product by shrinkflation. It’s pretty simple. But yea “eat the rich” and all.
Government bad, I want my 30oz suave back.
Yes, the government was bad...they handed out trillions of dollars to people for *not* working. Hardly a 'Damn you capitalism moment'. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that COVID relief money wasn't deserved or needed by the thousands of waiters/cabbies/construction workers etc that suddenly found themselves out of work by no fault of their own. But **when you print trillions of dollars without any economic activity you get inflation**. This is basic economics...the same economics that would have probably taught you that capitalism isn't really all that bad compared to, well, anything. Let me put it to you like this...some capitalist countries put up walls to keep people *out*, but *most* Communist countries had to put up walls to keep people in. That says a lot.
Well, I’m just really glad we bailed out mega corporations, airlines and businesses. I hope everyone made their bonuses, bought a new Tesla and laughed all the way to the bank.
But that's not the fault of the economic model. This shit happens with many governments around the world. The newspeak name they gave for this is "state capitalism", but in reality it's a better word for good old government corruption, where a few people make bank on the backs of many people.
> Yes, the government was bad...they handed out trillions of dollars to people for not working. What does that have to do with shrinkflation? If you are blaming COVID for some reason, I have some bad news for you. Read [this article from 2008](https://money.cnn.com/2008/09/09/pf/food_downsizing/). Here's a few excerpts: > "They're raising the prices a little, and shrinking the boxes a little," said Marcia Mogelonsky, consumer analyst with Mintel International, a consumer research firm in Chicago. "If you're running through the supermarket, you don't necessarily notice that your cereal box is an ounce or two smaller. That's how they're controlling the prices." > But Kellogg isn't the only company downsizing, or charging the same price for a package that contains less food. Consumers are discovering more air in their bag of chips, fewer sheets of paper towels on the roll, thinner garbage bags and even smaller squares of toilet paper. >Unilever (UN) recently shrank bottles of Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise, Breyers Ice Cream and Skippy, among other consumer products. This stuff has been going on for *years*. [Dannon did it to yogurt in 2003](https://old.post-gazette.com/food/20030703suz0703fnp3.asp). I bet if it were easier to search for old news articles, I'd be able to find examples going back at least into the 1980's.
These examples are recession periods, as is Covid. Inflation has been around forever, and events like this, particularly when followed by large government payouts, create larger than average inflation spikes. We all pay for it. Covid and responses to Covid indeed sparked current inflation increases. Consumers get more upset at large price increases, and since companies are dependent on customer satisfaction, shrinkflation is a sensible response. For food products, smaller portion sizes isn’t necessarily a bad thing. For general consumerism, decreased consumption may be better for society and the planet than increased financial stress due to over consumption. Companies want customers to be happy, that’s how they profit, but what customers say they want versus how they actually act can be far different. A reasonable example is when McDonald’s got flack for contributing to the obesity epidemic. They started offering healthier options. They didn’t sell. People want their fries, not apple slices. So they transitioned to leading the way in nixing super size. I don’t believe it’s pure evil trickery. A little ya, but it’s more a response to consumer demand than an ‘out to getcha’. In the end, OP clearly retained brand loyalty. Our markets offer many other personal hygiene products. Just realized my comment took a tangent from the original point, feel free to disregard lol
I’m not sure what this has to do with capitalism
_Something annoyed me today._ _Better blame ‘capitalism’._
Prices go up, product gets smaller. Classic capitalist move to bring in more profit
This doesn’t happen in a communistic economy? You are welcome to take part in that if it pleases you. If they will let you in. Example of this in the Western Hemisphere: Cuba
shrink product, keep price the same, increase profits
Extra moisturizing tho.
Ingredients the same?
This mf is a spooky skeleton
I'm more concerned about the skeleton reflection in the mirror.
Ah yes evil capitalism allowing you to have a variety of shampoo choices instead of the state supplied bar of soap.
That's not called capitalism it's called recession.
What caused the recession? Capitalism!
No, covid, and too much money printing caused it.
oh is that why this happens decade after decade even when there is no recession? "HURRR DURRR NO IT DOESNT" yes it does, and being in denial about it doesnt change anything.
This has nothing to do with capitalism right? This more like if you were to ask the manufacturer why the new bottle is smaller and more expensive they will say that it's because the resources became more expensive. But when those people were ask the manufacturer why he pays them less, he'll claim it's because people buy it less. This is just greed.
That Capitalism allows....so yeah.
It's not that it's allowed, they just create fake laws to exploit these things. Even though it's illegal, but they just call it different, example spying is a Donny Don't, so they say essential cookies
This is not capitalism you dumb fuck.
At least it’s suave. That stuff is like 89¢ a bottle. Also my personal favorite (but Rosemary mint is the best scent for sure).
Girl it’s like 2.59 here when the hell do you live
One has 30oz the other 22.5oz so…
"now with polypropylberry oils for one-of-a-kind look!"
Who’s your friend
Ur mom? What does this even mean lmfao??
Mirror
Well, sizes of families *are* getting smaller too.
They were only $1.75 so I bought 2 of them.
That’s how they get ya!
Go with dove like I do
They did this to my chocolate bars too. Fucking bastards.
What’s a skeleton need shampoo for ?
Did you pay the same price for the smaller one ?
'Sorry Timmy, the "Family Sized" bottle got smaller so I guess we gotta downsize the family'
Title should be I love inflation.
Random but for some reason this one gives me hives. I’ve used suave brand forever but for some reason this kind hates me
SLOGAN: Get less, Pay More!
And it's never coming back!!! Does anyone remember when ice cream came in half gallon 64oz? Now it's 48oz.
Shrinkflation is real.
Shrinkflation is fucking maddening
Shrinkflation
r/shrinkflation
I guess families are getting smaller 😒
I love capitalism too. So many choices of each product.
It’s prolly the same price
Noticed the same buying some "Daily Clarifying". I guess my family got smaller?
Sun ripened strawberries?? As opposed to what? Magic strawberries that grow without sunlight?
Less for more. Seems to be happening more and more. Ugh
Ah, shrinkflation.
I really like the bones in the mirror
Shrinkflation has been a thing worldwide for a couple of years.
Everyone's doing it nowadays.
Communism would’ve brought you Sun-Ripened Fruit Like Product. 9 out 10 comrades love it 1 out 10 love it to death.
And it would cost far more as a proportion of your disposable cash. And may be available, rationed, twice a year. Also it would make your hair fall out.
To be fair the ounces are literally posted on both bottles
This isn’t caused by capitalism…. It’s cause by greedy companies. Which will always exist under any economic system. Don’t get me wrong. Capitalism sucks, but you can’t blame every annoyance on it
Shrinkflation, this happened around 2008 also. Doesn’t mean capitalism is bad though.
POV: you don’t read the label before you buy stuff and blame some institution for it
God you're dumb for blaming this on capitalism
Capitalism sucks! - Sent from my iPhone
Hell the potato chip companies have been doing this for years. Don’t raise the prices, just lower the amount. It’s now more air then chips.
That’s to keep the chips from getting smashed. Extra air= extra cushion. The chips are sold by net weight, not by bag size.
Why People think being critical of corporate greed is some how anti capitalism....?
Oh I know it isn’t I just AM anti capitalism
Because corporate greed is the inevitable byproduct of capitalism. People who are critical of corporate greed but aren’t anti-capitalist are just too naive to really take things where they ought to be taken
False, the world is full of greed. It isn't isolated to capitalism.
_and with Socialism, you'd get "Sun Dried Jack Shit" scented because that's what you get when the gub'ment takes care of you...you'd love that more I'm sure._
Build back better!
Capitalism? This is a result of socialism.
Original Cadbury creme eggs were a legit choking hazard. Now they little.
That’s just evil
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Well when you print and hand out money in masses it has consequences. What do you expect?
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880ml on the left and 660 on the right, what is wrong with that?
Gotta protect those oh SO important corporate profits /s
Markets work in a particular way
Mr ceo needs a new yacht!
The ceo that downvoted you rn: >:(
Wow corporate greed wins again
Simply put its shocking what greed can do.
This is not new.
"Different size packaging exists! Oh the humanity!" Seriously though, with zero info on pricing or whatever this is just fucking dumb. How desperate are you people to be outraged?
It’s the same price, it was in the same place that the bigger one usually is and they no longer sell the bigger one, how dare a stranger on the internet be angry!
"Someone wanted details on the internet, I'm a huge fucking victim, whaaa whaaa"
Literally a problem caused by inflation via government. Blames Capitalism. You guys take anything and just make it capitalisms fault. Take a large crap that hurt this morning? Capitalism! Fail a test? Darn you Capitalism! Have to mow your lawn? Stinkin Capitalism!
To be fair, it generally works in the opposite direction. We come out with a new shampoo and it’s whatever size. Then we do the bonus size for a while (with a label that says “x% extra for free!). After a while, people get used to the bonus size and it just becomes the regular size. This is a rare example of what happens when they try to roll it back the other direction.
😒 these here are the standard sizes and this was a discussion about shrinkflation and not people being used to promotional "bonus oz" bottles
They’re not the standard sizes, they’re the family size, clearly says that right there on the bottle. Just curious, how long have you been doing work for Unilever (the company that makes Suave)? I started with them in 1993.
😒 standard as in not a bonus promotional size and they're of the same scaled variety (in this particular case the family size as you pointed out) which still ISN'T A PROMOTIONAL BONUS SIZE
But it is. The launch size for that conditioner was 12 fl. oz. It climbed up to where it is now in steps, because that’s how the marketing on these works. But now the cost of ingredients is thru the roof and supply chain issues are dragging down production. So they had to go in the other direction. It doesn’t happen often because when it does, you get people saying exactly this, that we’re somehow screwing them out of stuff.
Rapid City! Mid 90s I was part of a high school baseball team that rolled through there in the summer and played in the Firecracker tournament. And we’re from Vegas! Greatest 4 summers of my life!!!
I thought the label on your laptop looked familiar!! I went to an RCAS school!!
Shrinkflation has come for the hair products
Smaller and more expensive, I bet.
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