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We Are Being Taken For A Ride!
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What is going on with basic grocery stuff lately? I go to the supermarket to buy orange squash and find something called "double concentrate" which is supposed to be twice as strong as standard squash so I only use half of it. It's twice the price of normal squash. Where has this stuff come from? Why was it not available years ago on the shelf? It can hardly be something that's just been invented.
Kitchen towels are similarly anachronistic. Why are they 2-ply and 3-ply at a premium price whereas years ago it was single ply or nothing. The same seems to apply to toilet paper.
Vinegar is continually being reduced in acidity.
Bakery bread in some in-store bakeries (notablly Asda)is positively pale in colour compared to what it was a few years ago.
Jacob's Cream Crackers look positively anaemic nowadays. I realise that baking is costly but these manufacturers are getting away with murder!
Kitchen towels are similarly anachronistic. Why are they 2-ply and 3-ply at a premium price whereas years ago it was single ply or nothing. The same seems to apply to toilet paper.
Vinegar is continually being reduced in acidity.
Bakery bread in some in-store bakeries (notablly Asda)is positively pale in colour compared to what it was a few years ago.
Jacob's Cream Crackers look positively anaemic nowadays. I realise that baking is costly but these manufacturers are getting away with murder!
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because things do improve, Baza. (Fancy one of those breeze-block mobile phones from the 90s?) Even food can be improved.
You're right about smaller portions; Marianne Faithfull would hardly be able to see a Mars Bar these days. That's partly a move to keep prices down; and actually, smaller portions of fattening foods isn't a bad idea.
You're right about smaller portions; Marianne Faithfull would hardly be able to see a Mars Bar these days. That's partly a move to keep prices down; and actually, smaller portions of fattening foods isn't a bad idea.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that the shrinking Mars Bar is not that objectionable. If Mars can't afford to continue to provide the product to shops at a given price, then they have no choice but to reduce the size. There is no other alternative.
It's up to the consumer to judge whether or not it still represent good value for money.
It's not quite the same thing as the other points I have raised in this thread.
It's up to the consumer to judge whether or not it still represent good value for money.
It's not quite the same thing as the other points I have raised in this thread.