Goodbye………..Pepperidge Farms (shrinkflation thread)

[icepac]

Got some Nantucket and Milano cookies (two for one) and don’t recognize the look, size, and flavor. 

Wiped my mouth with Charmin.    One tiny swipe nets it falling apart so I grabbed a Bounty paper towel and it wasn’t the Charmin I remember.   

I guess some execs. are interested in showing one quarter of short term extra profit by spending less on ingredients and serving size before the backlash of pushing out inferior product hits the news.

[RichardDarkwood]

Cookies are bad for you mmmmmkay

[Eagler]

Cookies are bad for you mmmmmkay

Yes they are providing less for more for our own good...

Those CEO's have our health in their hearts as they raise prices while lower portion size..

Eagler

[Animl-AW]

Chocolate, wood and other things like beef are tariffed va what country they come from. The subject is more political than manufacturing. Companies can no longer wait for a change that refuses to come. All these product complaints can’t not be about politics because thats where it starts now.

Even in gaming, I buy a $120 but in the end paid $180 for shipping and tariffs. That is 30% increase for no true reason.

Nothing else can be said without it turning political, that’s the biggest shame.

[DmonSlyr]

Chocolate, wood and other things like beef are tariffed va what country they come from. The subject is more political than manufacturing. Companies can no longer wait for a change that refuses to come. All these product complaints can’t not be about politics because thats where it starts now.

Even in gaming, I buy a $120 but in the end paid $180 for shipping and tariffs. That is 30% increase for no true reason.

Nothing else can be said without it turning political, that’s the biggest shame.

Next do every other tax...

[icepac]

Some people should check the history of tariffs against the USA.

[Animl-AW]

Some people should check the history of tariffs against the USA.

Oh no doubt they are negative from all sides. But this is tariffs on steroids way above any norm. I don’t want to sound political, its just a fact why some things are spiraling south. Its simply reality.

If you compare 30 yrs ago until last yr, compare A and B is vastly different. They were used so little many didn’t even know what they were until the last yr.

<shrug> sad reality

[RUSH1]

Oh no doubt they are negative from all sides. But this is tariffs on steroids way above any norm. I don’t want to sound political, its just a fact why some things are spiraling south. Its simply reality.

If you compare 30 yrs ago until last yr, compare A and B is vastly different. They were used so little many didn’t even know what they were until the last yr.

<shrug> sad reality

   

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

The current claim is that the tariffs supposedly cost the average family $1,000 per year. The question is, what do they claim the average family is, and what do they supposedly buy?

I am a proponent of truly free trade. However, U.S. goods are often heavily tariffed all over the world, and in many places, banned, for no other reason than to "protect" the domestic producers of other nations.

While I agree with guys like Sowell, and Friedman, almost without exception, on the subject of tariffs, I am not at all convinced it is in the best interest of the U.S. to completely avoid tariffs, at least not in a reciprocal nature, or as a negotiation tool.

[DmonSlyr]

Tariff the world, espcially China, and remove my income taxes and property taxes. Then they can talk to us about steep taxation costs on Americans. His city and LA, NY are some of the highest in the country and hence why they are the most expensive places to live in the US.

[Eagler]

I think the tariffs on US junk over there was compensation for them continuously purchasing our live on credit fat American debt...

Now that we are throwing up tariffs on their junk, they are dumping the $$$..

I don't think we can have it both ways..

Eagler

[Animl-AW]

Well, it’s truly a waste of time with people who refuse basic math to hold on to ideology.
Tariffs used to be 3-15%. They are now 15-60%, a few at 100%.

I would say don’t believe it, because se refuse the fact they are paying much more, denile is heavy. So why bother.

If you remove all the reasons for them, the simple basic fact of life is, you/we are paying for and suffering them. The people are eating 50% plus of their impact. Companies are not passing on 100% to the consumer, so they cut the cost they hold back by making things smaller and less quality, you pay the rest at the cashier with inflation on top of that.

Things like beef is hard to toy with in quality.
A beef roast I used to buy at $23-$27 just 1 yr ago is now $35-$55.
1lb of ground beef went from $3.50 is now $8.

Even when I cut bloated items, my monthly food cost have gone from $200 to $350. You need memory chips for your gaming pc, tell us they are not more expensive.

Seriously, if you deny your wallet is lighter, no words will penetrate. It makes no difference why they exist, they do and we suffer them.

Fact is tariffs are affecting products you were used to.

Every word above is wasted time. It will just recycle. I will never get that time back.

Why they exist does not change that they do exist and the impact. Anything else is a deflection from reality.

[Getback]

The absolute most important group of people to a corporation are the investors; it's not the customers.

[Eagler]

https://youtube.com/shorts/Vb8XzZLGwSI?si=N2sAJLGo1d759oPP

Eagler

[Lazerr]

The current claim is that the tariffs supposedly cost the average family $1,000 per year. The question is, what do they claim the average family is, and what do they supposedly buy?

I am a proponent of truly free trade. However, U.S. goods are often heavily tariffed all over the world, and in many places, banned, for no other reason than to "protect" the domestic producers of other nations.

While I agree with guys like Sowell, and Friedman, almost without exception, on the subject of tariffs, I am not at all convinced it is in the best interest of the U.S. to completely avoid tariffs, at least not in a reciprocal nature, or as a negotiation tool.

A lot of these tariffs are temporary and intended to negotiate to terms a little closer to even.  Rather than bend over and take it like we previously have.