Have groceries gone up? Backed up with 4 years worth of data

[konfesslena]

@thenotsogoodchristian It's the only thing our market can sustain -- cheap food doesn't bode well here in Canada.

 

[evangelicabsolutionist66]

@theblessed_one It used to be great when the value was there. With friends sharing you could try so many different things at the final cost equivalent to buying a main each. Now the price of each appetizer is the same as a main.

 

[trushmoon]

@evangelicabsolutionist66 Exactly. When it was like $10-12 for most of the dishes we would go every chance we got. Now you’re paying $18 just for a cheese plate nevermind anything substantial

 

[resjudicata]

@trushmoon Tapas is just fancy dim sum fight me

 

[oscarmezie]

@southernlady1967 Yep. I remember what an order of cheese sticks at red Robin used to look like in the 1990s and what they look like now lol.

You used to get six wide rectangles. Then five, then they cut the width in half.

 

[leslee]

@raaven Soon they just gonna be selling empty bags.

 

[cdelapp208]

@leslee It all started with chip bags

 

[resjudicata]

@cdelapp208 They're actually filled with nitrogen to keep the chips fresh and crispy until they're exposed to oxygen when you open the bag and the nitrogen is in there at slightly higher than atmospheric pressure with extra space to help prevent the chips from getting crushed and broken in transit.

 

[cdelapp208]

@resjudicata I knew they were filled to prevent crushing, didn’t know they used nitrogen because of science. Thanks for the new wrinkle

 

[resjudicata]

@cdelapp208 Yaman everything oxidizes, even you.

 

[resjudicata]

something that could be as easily accomplished with a stiff tube and a dessicant packet

 

[bloodtype]

@raaven My most notable one is coke, where it’s now 500ml as opposed to Pepsi which (for the moment) is still 591ml

 

[falkenstein]

@raaven Or noticed it over the years ourselves. Not hard to notice products half the size as they were 20-30 years ago.

 

[resjudicata]

@raaven Big tobacco does this as well. If a cigarette could be filled with 2 grams of tobacco (I have no idea what it would weigh) then they'll develop a process where it can be filled with only 1.5g. That process is where the traces of ammonia stem from (think puffed wheat)

 

[resjudicata]

@tirynn Shrinkflation

 

[emilykristina]

@resjudicata Shrinkgate

 

[hopeisjoyful]

@emilykristina Shrinkage

 

[kissinger99]

@hopeisjoyful I WAS IN THE POOL

 

[phoebeamory]

@kissinger99 It shrinks?

 

[gm0nkx]

@phoebeamory Honey, I shrunk the .... groceries?