Based.
I know everyone uses this word now, but I’ll never think of anything except Nazis circa 2016.
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I’m sorry for triggering that association. A lot of internet culture has been co-opted by those jerks. I didn’t mean it that way.
They took the pepe frogs for a while too, but I’ve been seeing them come back. Nature is healing.
I’ve tried to get my thinking to update, but I too just think Nazi when I see it.
I’ve slowly realized that many people on the internet use it casually, but like you, I always assumed they were alt-right (new main right) or libertarian at a minimum for a long time.
Dude, this is off-topic, but how the fuck did you get a blue name? Is it just emojis, or can you actually use color codes for that?
I would LOVE to see more of this. Looking at you GATORADE, with your half-inch-deep plastic rim on the bottom and new hourglass bottle shape. 32oz sized bottles are 28oz now and MORE expensive. Fuck shrinkflation to death.
Yeah for some reason drinks seem the most effected by shrinkflation, I hate going to the drinks aisles these days because everything seems so overpriced, even just regular tap/spring water
Potato chips have the same, you can’t know how much is in them because they blow them up with gasses in order to “preserve” them.
Ehh, it still says how many grams is in there, I’ve never really understood this gas-argument
If only smart glass is as popular as mobile phones. When Google introduced their smart glass, I dreamt of a day when a price history overlay is displayed when looking at a barcode, like how Keepa is doing for Amazon.
I also like German price display which has effective price, as in Eur per liter for drinks, making it dead simple to compare products. A smart glass will make it available everywhere.
Back to Carrefour, I really like that they are pushing pro consumer actions. However, we all know too well that they won’t do the same when it’s their products which are shrinking. Still better than no action though.
Afaik the base price display is requiered by EU law, atleast Czechia got them too on my last vacation.
it’s so good too, you can cut through all the bullshit and simply check if per kg/liter It’s cheaper or not.
even though for a lot of stuff it’s simple math. 100g you just 10x, 250 you 4 x the price, 200g you 5x.
but there are lots of stuff that’s packaged in weird amounts. 230g yogurt, 180g tofu.
you don’t want to break out the calculator for shopping.
Your comment made me realized that displaying the price per kg is not a standard everywhere.
This is the only price I’m looking at when doing groceries.
Works for basic ingredients, but for even basic “preprocessed” items (mixed nuts, pizza, sauces…) they can just change the recipe, put more of the cheap and less of the good stuff. The cheapest product per weight often has a worse quality. Sunflower oil instead of more healthy alternatives etc…
It is but it does nothing to curb shrinkflation in my experience.
I’m trying to think of a way to mandate this kind of notification but I can’t think of a way to do it that could be both clear and mandated. Perhaps if the price per changes there needs to be a history listed on the label.
One big problem with it is that in the short-term it discourages sales, so groceries aren’t incentivised to do it except as a stunt like this, so they won’t want the notices to be prominent. Ultimately they still want you to buy the stuff because then they make money.
I think a price most recently changed date next to price per unit would be great.
I don’t really know what google has said, I wasn’t really referring to them, but AR is plenty used in industry already.
There’s just some way to go left for consumer use, but we are getting there. 5G networks are also supposed to help our with the possibility, due to their increased capabilities.
Consumer grade AR is being worked on, and it is expected to become a big thing eventually.
I’d love to see this naming and shaming becoming a standard. I want to know if the product I’m buying has changed and while I try to do this myself, it can be tricky to keep track of all the products I buy and it’s not like I’m scanning the exact weight every time and memorizing it, just that it’s generally the same weight. These scumbag companies are always trying to sneak by all these changes over time, it’s great to finally get a spotlight shining on it. If some sort of legislation can be made to force companies to note changes in products made in the last 6 months on the label, that would be great.
A simple QR code should do the trick. People can even make apps for tracking the changes.
maybe even a barcode, some sort of universal product code that apps could read easily
Man, the French really don’t fuck around, do they?
Though the article says that Carrefour themselves do it for their house brands, so does that mean they’ll also apply it to themselves? XD
Uhhh, no. They are gonna shame others, but not themselves. Capitalism my dude.
