The packet I bought last time vs the packet I bought yesterday. Even as shrinkflation goes, a 33% reduction is taking the absolute piss.
The packet I bought last time vs the packet I bought yesterday. Even as shrinkflation goes, a 33% reduction is taking the absolute piss.
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What were the prices though?
What is the cost per bag for both?
Click and seal, la di da. I just by the cheapo ones that come with a little wire to tie around.
Buy a lunchbox and quit moaning.
Their mince beef has gone from 700g to 530g and is still 4.50. Only in the last 2/3 weeks I’d say..
And if prices just went up, we get the same posts moaning that prices went up without quantity increasing. Can’t have it both ways. Either you get less for the same price, or they increase prices.
Don’t buy them.
If everyone else did that; they’d soon reduce the price to match the quantity reduction.
But as the cliche goes: something is only worth as much as what people are willing to pay. So if people will still pay the same for the fewer amount then there can be no complaints.
Even the shopping bags are smaller
Stick yer spare money into Bitcoin lads. This government coin malarkey is doomed.
Government are allowing profiteering ,price gouging and shrinkflation .Time they did their citizens, that don’t have their bills all paid for them by us ,some due diligence. Where’s government? They are allowing their big corp “mates” to rob us blind legally without any questions asked. Time to be french .
Is it actually Dunnes taking the piss or their supplier charging more for the product. Dunnes only option is to charge more or adjust the product.
Tbh in this day of high costs and low wages is 5% profit not saying a great deal to you’re customers? As in 5% is how many millions profit ? The ordinary person is scraping by. Big companies have made so much profit out of their customers for decades maybe it’s time to give a bit back .
Continuous growth and record profits have to happen somehow. Cut back where you can and charge more where there’s a demand. It’s not a new tactic by any stretch, it’s just more prevalent and evident because everyone is feeling the pinch and thus more people notice.
These are two different products.
Source: Worked in dunnes.
U can reuse those, many, many times over
I much rather an increase in price over a decrease in quantity.
Get some reusable ones! Better for the environment and you don’t have to keep handing over money to price gougers. You do have to wash them yourself but I think it’s worth it tbh
Surely reusable bags or a container would be more cost effective and environmentally friendly.
Opened a box of Pasta recently. Exactly half full. Mental!!
Dunnes. I never buy anything from them. Bunch of bastards.
You’re lucky they didn’t go from Double Seal to 1.67 Seal.
don’t shop at dunnes its always a scam. lidl is the cheapest
People commenting as “jUsT bUy rEusAblE onEs!!1!”, “eEw pLaStiC”, “ooH bUt tHe enViroNmeNt” – ever heard the term “you’re missing the point”?
The product doesn’t matter. It could be this, a hairbrush, food, an appliance, the discussion here is that we’re paying more for less.
Simply put, the dude here is paying the same price for 2/3 of the product he paid the same for not long ago.
33%.
Did your income increase by 33% lately to fight this and similar increases in prices/reduction of quantity for the same price?
I don’t think so.
That is what should alert you, the fact that we’re getting _considerably_ less of everything for the same/higher prices, not that this guy is buying this or another product.
Open your F-eyes and focus on the real issue.
A reusable container would be more cost effective in the long run and easier to store.
Stop buying things like these that are not essential. The only way to stop this is to let them know by taking sales down. Been working in retail for 3 years now, everything is being reduced in quantity or the price is being shot up. In most cases it’s even both.
Or you could just use a lunchbox and stop wasting money and stop using unnecessary single use plastic 🤷♀️
The real question is why you would buy them at all
Certain supermarkets suck the life out of you in very nefarious ways
33% is actually closer to real inflation numbers than the given Consumer Price Index (which is rigged to include other things such as rent which doesnt go up significantly like 20-30% in a year). So according to the government inflation has only been 5-7%, which we know isn’t true.
Producers Price Index (PPI – which includes the energy costs, manufacturing costs, raw materials cost of making a product) has been calculated at around 25-30% which is what inflation has actually been in practical terms in the past few years because of COVID and general economic decline.
I hate that the government gives out the CPI values and its technically correct but what brings the real time costs up for everyone is the PPI which is almost never used by the government to report on inflation, possibly because it would cause turmoil if you told everyone a third of their savings was basically gone (in terms of purchasing power).
You haven’t much to be bothering you if this gets you going.
Dunnes/Heffernans people are ruthless c#nts..never deal with them!
Just get them in discount store and stop moaning💀
Sometimes they try to mislead people by changing the packaging and by saying something like “Brand new look,Same great taste” only for the product to have reduced in size.