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[–] 9 points 6 months ago

Groceries are going up in price, fuel is rapidly going up, electricity/water is going up, health insurance goes up every year. You know what doesn't go up? Wages. I'm glad my company is making record profits and treats us to a pizza party a few times throughout the year. When are we going to do something about it? Never?

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  • Collapse the evil machine.

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  • 45 comments in c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world view that post
    [–] 78 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    "How can we make the mac and cheese any cheaper?"

    "Fake cheese?"

    "Shrinkflation?"

    "Make the pasta out of saw dust."

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  • [–] 35 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    "Edible box?"

    "...yeah, just like John's wife.."

    "Dang it, Steve. We're trying to save money & now we have to call Human Resources back in"

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Who do you report HR AI to after the HR AI spent 50 million tokens on turning the meeting notes into a fanfic "to boost morale"?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago*

    "We don't make it cheaper, we just deploy a big expensive PR campaign that tells people it's cheaper, and publicly disparage and defame anyone who calls us on it, and spend millions to lobby Congress to make it illegal to contradict corporate PR."

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  • [–] 52 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Christ, even Kraft realize how fucked we are.

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  • [–] 40 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Kraft realizes they can capitalize on how fucked we are

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    True. Corpos will always charge the maximum the market can bare. They probably realize they'll make more profit selling boxes of mac and cheese at $5 instead of $10, because they'll sell 3-5x at the lower price point.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Really, no they can’t. There is no way Kraft can shift from selling low-mid grade food to the masses, to selling premium food to billionaires, and make anywhere near as much money.

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago

    This is only the start, the real damage due to the closure of the strait hasn’t started yet.

    The general population will see their income vs purchases shrink really slowly soon.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Isn't that exactly how Kraft macaroni and cheese came about? The goal was to create a product that could feed a family of four for an incredibly cheap price during the depression. It cost 19¢ when they started selling it in 1937, which would be $4.36 in today's money, so it's actually gotten cheaper over the years.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    One box doesn't feed 4 by a long shot, though.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago

    The company recently changed Classico pasta sauce so water is the first ingredient and the jars are now smaller. They're not on the consumers side.

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago (12 children)

    When a box of Kraft is $1.24 and a box of the store brand stuff is $0.58, I don't care if I was a billionaire, I'm buying the store brand. It's the same product for less than half the price.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    while i am with you on the sentiment, less than half sounds too good to be true. if i see KD at 1.30 then the store brand wiill be 1.15.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    $0.58 x 2 = $1.16

    $1.16 < $1.24

    The store brand is less than half the price.

    I pulled the prices from the Walmart website, so they are accurate for that store, which most of America has access to. The fact that you call it KD makes me think you're from Canada, so maybe it's not true in Canada.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    That's really cheap, I wonder if the ingredient quality is the same.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    No one in my family could tell the difference in a blind taste test.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Bro's over here breaking out hand-collected data.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    And honestly I prefer the taste of the thicken creamy Walmart store brand to to the generic Kraft mac and cheese flavor. It's a no-brainer at like a third of the price

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    We were always a Kraft family. Grew up on it. When I suggested to my wife that we switch to the Great Value version, she was opposed to the idea. So we decided to do a blind taste test. Out of 13 people in our house, 0 could tell any difference. We buy the GV brand now. Kraft is good, but GV is just as good, and I can get 2 boxes for less money than I would spend on one box of Kraft. I'm convinced that the GV is made at the same factory as Kraft, using the same ingredients.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    This is generally true for most highly commodified products. There's only a handful of places that make the product and they tend to make all the brands. What tends to be the difference is the brand name will get the highest tolerance product, then generic brands get filled with what's left. Sometimes it's exactly the same, sometimes it's smaller or more broken pasta, or cheese powder with under or over amounts of seasoning and fillers.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    To be fair if I was a billionaire im probably not even eating it. If im making money where I eat it I will always buy the cheaper brand. Especially since at the high end of that Im likely buying cheese to add to it to increase the quality anyway.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Motherfucker just needs to convince his billionaire buddies to proportionally buy and eat their products. Not like this asshole is paying their workers well either and has a hand in putting farmers out of business.

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  • Man, it sucks being in the general population this way.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago
    [–] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    This guy gets it. You can't sell your product if you price yourself out of the game.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Nothing will change until there's a real, actual stock market crash. They simply do not need the poor or middle class. At all. They've all constructed their own infrastructure, private security, and bunkers, and the continuing surge of the stock market means their income is completely unaffected.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago*

    The "consumer staples" index fund needs renaming. Rice and beans 🚀🌕💎🦍

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  • 3 comments in c/usa@midwest.social view that post
    [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Awwww – they do care about us!

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not running out of money... I just refuse to buy things. I'm sick of your products being cheap, filled with garbage, packed with sugar, the packaging lies, the company lies, the garbage, the fighting of unions, killing/murdering employees, refusing to pay living wages... fuck massive corporations, fuck your investors.. you deserve nothing and I'm glad people are waking up and just saying fuck you

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    [–] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    "Consumers"... fuck does this word trigger me everyday!

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    I once witnessed a friend call her sister a consumer (“you’re such a consumer!”) for being such a burden on the family (not working, asking for handouts, etc). The situation wasn’t great but it definitely cracked me up — genius-level insult.

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  • 1 comment in c/usa@lemmy.ml view that post
    [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Soylent Green

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