We should have been watching the Freddo in the coal mine
In terms of communication – all good except for the y axis not starting at 0.
freddo bar will become sentient and will eventually buy you thanks to inflation
I predict that within 100 years Freddos will be twice as powerful,
10,000 times larger and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.
“Freddo, you’re nothing to me now. You’re not a brother, you’re not a friend. I don’t want to know you or what you do” Michael Corleone.
Man, i love freddos, they are just the best chocolate to the cent vs quality around, but they have definitely gotten smaller and more wrapping in the last few years.
Yorkies though, thats a national scandal, going from 6 to 5 blocks and still going up in price.
People forget to keep track of the Freddo index at their peril. If we’d been watching we could have predicted the crises in 2008 but we didn’t. We missed all the Freddo signals and here we are making the same mistake again
There are 2 options here:
– increase the price of the Freddo bar
– keep the price the same, but reduce the size.
‘cos profits…
I’m just old enough to remember (in the north) crisps being about 15p, a Mars bar being about 20-30p, and a can of coke being about the same.
Greed innit.
The housing costs are just a distraction for the real disaster, people!
Yeah but that’s in the UK.
It’s higher here cause of the exchange rates
2030:
1 Freddo = 1 bitcoin
What about conversion rate from p to c
Someone needs to do the same with barbers. It’s seemed to jump from 12€ to 26€ overnight. Literally doubled in price
Future civilisation will be judged by annual Freddie production/consumption
A few months ago, Aldi’s frozen double pepperoni pizza (their cheapest pizza) cost 69 cent.
Then it increased to 89 cent.
It now costs 99 cent.
And sure, that’s only 30 cent in total, but that’s actually a price increase of 43.5%, well above inflation.
Interestingly, I haven’t noticed a similar price increase on their premium pizzas, which means it’s those on lower incomes who are most likely bearing the brunt of these increases.
I’m a bit confused about the “with/without inflation” distinction here. The 29p 2020 price is the one that encompasses the actual inflation. The 17p-equivalent different “price” is just smoke and mirrors to pretend inflation isn’t as bad as it really is, IMO.
Luckily you can easily get a 4 pack of them for €1 every now and then
Every day we stray further from our beloved freddo god.
One Snickers or 7 Freddos? Freddos everytime.
Greed crises. Inflation is a gateway to gouging.
I bought 4 small fillets of Atlantic salmon donegal catch and it was 12 euro when I scanned it….
A+ for the colour scheme! Love this.
I wonder when manufacturers will decide to keep the size and weight the same and simply raise the price. I see everything getting smaller while the price goes up, and all these secret indentations and concavities in packaging to make sure I get less of what I want. It’s not clever, it’s dishonest.
I knew it was you Freddo, you broke my heart
A few weeks ago, Mcdonalds, in an environment of 8% inflation halved the size of a mcflurry without changing the price. An effective price rise of 100%.
A couple of weeks later, they increased the price of a regular mcflurry by 20 cent, to €2.90.
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We should have been watching the Freddo in the coal mine
In terms of communication – all good except for the y axis not starting at 0.
freddo bar will become sentient and will eventually buy you thanks to inflation
I predict that within 100 years Freddos will be twice as powerful,
10,000 times larger and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.
“Freddo, you’re nothing to me now. You’re not a brother, you’re not a friend. I don’t want to know you or what you do” Michael Corleone.
Man, i love freddos, they are just the best chocolate to the cent vs quality around, but they have definitely gotten smaller and more wrapping in the last few years.
Yorkies though, thats a national scandal, going from 6 to 5 blocks and still going up in price.
People forget to keep track of the Freddo index at their peril. If we’d been watching we could have predicted the crises in 2008 but we didn’t. We missed all the Freddo signals and here we are making the same mistake again
There are 2 options here:
– increase the price of the Freddo bar
– keep the price the same, but reduce the size.
‘cos profits…
I’m just old enough to remember (in the north) crisps being about 15p, a Mars bar being about 20-30p, and a can of coke being about the same.
Greed innit.
The housing costs are just a distraction for the real disaster, people!
Yeah but that’s in the UK.
It’s higher here cause of the exchange rates
2030:
1 Freddo = 1 bitcoin
What about conversion rate from p to c
Someone needs to do the same with barbers. It’s seemed to jump from 12€ to 26€ overnight. Literally doubled in price
Future civilisation will be judged by annual Freddie production/consumption
A few months ago, Aldi’s frozen double pepperoni pizza (their cheapest pizza) cost 69 cent.
Then it increased to 89 cent.
It now costs 99 cent.
And sure, that’s only 30 cent in total, but that’s actually a price increase of 43.5%, well above inflation.
Interestingly, I haven’t noticed a similar price increase on their premium pizzas, which means it’s those on lower incomes who are most likely bearing the brunt of these increases.
I’m a bit confused about the “with/without inflation” distinction here. The 29p 2020 price is the one that encompasses the actual inflation. The 17p-equivalent different “price” is just smoke and mirrors to pretend inflation isn’t as bad as it really is, IMO.
Luckily you can easily get a 4 pack of them for €1 every now and then
Every day we stray further from our beloved freddo god.
One Snickers or 7 Freddos? Freddos everytime.
Greed crises. Inflation is a gateway to gouging.
I bought 4 small fillets of Atlantic salmon donegal catch and it was 12 euro when I scanned it….
A+ for the colour scheme! Love this.
I wonder when manufacturers will decide to keep the size and weight the same and simply raise the price. I see everything getting smaller while the price goes up, and all these secret indentations and concavities in packaging to make sure I get less of what I want. It’s not clever, it’s dishonest.
I knew it was you Freddo, you broke my heart
A few weeks ago, Mcdonalds, in an environment of 8% inflation halved the size of a mcflurry without changing the price. An effective price rise of 100%.
A couple of weeks later, they increased the price of a regular mcflurry by 20 cent, to €2.90.
This is price gouging
Lacking shrinkflation data