Serious question.... Has anyone else noticed that the card centres on toilet rolls are 10% larger? Guess this is another profiteering manoeuvre like making chocolate bars smaller. Just more subtle as most people don't notice... Businesses screwing the public with impunity. Not like there's an ombudsman to do anything about it!
Capitalism has always relied upon the majority being utterly stupid. Most people aren’t discerning; they don’t care, they just want what they want. And when it comes to selling cars, fashion, music, toys and most other consumer goods, you’re made if you can convince people that this is what they want and then maximise it when the sheep mentality kicks in and people want what others have got. As The Jam said so adroitly, “the public want what the public get”.
There are two forms of "shrinkflation" : 1. proportional decrease 2. functional degradation Using toilet paper as the example, #1 is putting in less sheets, and #2 is making each sheet thinner. < chairman deedub > Govt can deal with this in the "court of public opinion" by simply requesting salient data on each product b provided by a vendor., whenever they release a version update. So for toilet paper that would be the number of rolls in the pack, the weight of each roll without the card tube, and the X/Y dimensions of each sheet. Simple public domain software tools could tell you at any time what level and what type of shrinkflation is occurring. If yo see a vendor is taking the p*iss,vote with your wallet and boycott them for a competitor. If an analysis across a set of vendors across non-store brands show the same changes over time, then there is possible cabal behaviour which can be investigated further (market prices of component materials at the same time periods etc) .
I get all that (in a more basic form). I was just asking on here if anyone has noticed that particular example in recent months.
No There are numerous other examples (as I'd already referred to). This was a new one - at least for me.
I'm guessing Alex will not be on BubbleSuckers Xmas card list! Methinks she chose the wrong commentator to challenge.
She is utterly unhinged What really stands out is she keeps popping up in the replies of various commentators who are talking about her, even though she has not been tagged at any point of the post - which means she's either the sort of saddo who searches for their name, or she just stalks people on Twitter in the expectation that she'll be yelling at them shortly Somehow the board of governors at her ****ty academy don't think this is a bad thing, which is not in any way related to Braverman being on said board of governors...
My mate Dirty Barry ( he of the porn emporium) used to have a Male "actor" who all the ladies of a certain age knew as Waggon Wheel due to the old advertising slogan " you have to grin to get it in " that slogan no longer applies to the confectionery and sadly the demise of said actor
