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Yeah it's really... like... all I've got that brings me any little scrap of joy in my miserable life where I'm constantly reminded of all the apocalyptic shit going on is that I can get icecream sometimes, and the icecream I can get is terrible compared to what it was when i was a kid because they've taken so many cost cutting measures.
I pretty much only get ben and jerries. It's expensive but it's still a pint and it's still icecream.
I pretty much only get ben and jerries.
Which tastes like cardboard and has a very unpleasant mouth feel. Why don't you go to a local ice cream parlor?
This is why you've gotta become a :bean:-based lifeform. Who needs a sale when your whole meal costs $.50 anyways? That's right, only PMC DSA Karens.
The ice cream virgin :cheems:
The red bean/taro mochi enjoyer :swole-doge:
I'm not downloading a fucking app to buy groceries. Again, I mean. The 3 apps I already downloaded all load slow as shit and never work anyway
I know this works for Kroger (as of a few years ago) and may work for other places with membership cards: Ask for a membership card. It has instructions to register your account, but you can just ignore it. You just scan it like normal at checkout. It even accumulates gas points. The only thing is you can’t give your phone number if you forget the card.
Kroger still has their old card system, but now lots of deals require the app, but the location detection is broken so i cant apply the damn coupons when im in the store
This is good advice, but my franchise has switched to app only. I really had to do all this shit to save three bucks, otherwise the deal simply was not available.
Another tip is that one card will basically work anywhere. My Safeway card has worked at every grocery store I've ever been to. Cashiers give me funny looks but I just tell them to scan the card. The system just wants any fucking number and I just want the "sale" price that should be the normal price.
the ice cream isn’t as good as you thought it’d be.
It's also smaller...
2002: In June, Nestlé acquired Dreyer's for $3.2 billion, thus becoming the biggest ice cream maker, with a 17.5% market share. Dreyer's has also acquired its own ice cream brands, including the Snelgrove's Ice Cream brand in Utah.
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Cost-cutting changes
In 2002, Nestlé insisted on a smaller container to increase profits and so the standard US half gallon (2 quart) container (1.89 L) was downsized to 1.75 quarts (1.65 L). In May 2008, the 1.75 quart container was further downsized to 1.5 quarts (1.42 L). Most other ice cream manufacturers, with the notable exception of Blue Bell, followed the downsizing move.
And they'll raise the price while reducing the size, they can't just do one or the other.
Does the US not have price per unit mass/volume displayed on products?
I'm American....
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The rules seem very fungible. There are packaging laws and some companies are ethical but many are deceptive. If you're curious for example - you can good search grocery store items at Amazon.com. Sometimes things are clear and sometimes the info is deceptive if not highly deceptive. Amazon seems to be under no regulation at all to force them to list items by unit cost and/or mass/volume cost. Candy and snacks are a good examples.
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Because we usually don't use the metric system the mass/volume stuff is annoying. Plus sometimes the metric system is used on one item but seemingly identical item is in ounces.
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Americans are lazy.
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Americans are stupid.
The first two items could be fixed with intelligent legislation but that will never happen. Also - I wonder if we will ever switch to metric.
In all honesty I'm not immune to being lazy (and even stupid) and I've made mistakes getting groceries delivered and buying groceries online.
Because we usually don’t use the metric system the mass/volume stuff is annoying.
I completely forgot about that. I wouldn't call yourself lazy or stupid though. If I had to calculate and convert imperial units every time I shop I'd give up. The onus should be on grocery stores not customers
A simple regulatory trick would be to always show at least one simple mass/volume cost per unit in metric units because they are sane and easy enough for a child to figure out. An added bonus would be if companies fucked with sizes - the price per unit would go up and be easy to see. But this is pointless commentary. Regulation in the US is a joke.
Here's another example. Emphasis mine...
Can the FDA force a drug recall?
The agency can only recommend a drug recall.
A simple regulatory trick would be to always show at least one simple mass/volume cost per unit in metric units because they are sane and easy enough for a child to figure out
Yeah that's what we have in Australia. Eg our ice cream has price/litre or 100ml, so a company changing the size of their tubs will be immediately noticed
They actually use packaging that deliberately hides how much smaller the products have gotten. Like the outside of the package is the same size, but the bottom has been altered so it's concave and takes up a lot of space. Or with snickers candy bars they started dividing the big bar in to to shorter bars of about the same lenght, but the total weight is smaller. It's... It's... it's really exhausting.
Another trick companies here do mess with the serving size. It can be small (or absurdly small) so a pack of potato chips shows the "200" in 200 calories in a extra big font but the serving size of 10 is in a much smaller font.
Anyway, the food stuff is - cough - small potatoes compared to everything else - tech stuff, Wall Street, etc. One thing that really grinds my gears is that it's legal for members of congress to do insider trading.
Every time a lib starts in about "How important Pelosi's house leadership has been for the democrats..." - I don't even bother making an argument. I just say "Yeah! Her pro-insider trading stance has been so important in helping to fix income inequality and it has benefited our democracy as a whole."
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I have never experienced this. Is this like a whole foods thing?
I usually just type in 420-420-4204 and it works lol. As long as the person running the register is not a reactionary it should be fine.
