Up untill a week ago Nofrills carried these “three packs” of salmon for $10. Now the same pack contains two for the same $10. I thought it felt light when I bought it yesterday.

This comes to about $0.02 increase per gram, and a $1.10 price increase overall. Or a 11% increase in price overall. Meanwhile inflation is at 6-7%?!

    • Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 years ago

      What’s the irony?

      Are we assuming that since this person purchases smoked salmon that they’re immune to, ignorant of, or in favor of lower purchasing power? Are we assuming this is a luxury purchase, so they are not entitled to slumming it up with the rest of us?

      Let this person just enjoy their fish, whatever little amount they’re getting for $10.

      • Mike D.@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        2 years ago

        Exactly.

        A little bit of prepackaged smoked salmon is not exactly a giant splurge.

          • Mike D.@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            2 years ago

            LOL! Sometimes the avocados are on sale and we get more than we need. So, I decided to try this avocado toast thing everyone was talking about.

            It is good stuff!

        • scv@discuss.online
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          2 years ago

          It’s just the cost of a banana!

          For all we know this is their luxury buy of the month.

  • Noxy@yiffit.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 years ago

    The absurd thinness of the “family size” boxes of frosted mini wheats is another one.

  • Stamets@startrek.website
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 years ago

    I’m on disability. Watching the prices climb the past few years has been genuinely distressing. I could never afford a full month of groceries but now I can afford even less. Food doesn’t go nearly as far as it should. I find myself having to stretch stuff over days or do what I’m currently doing and just not eat for the better part of a week to save the little I have left.

    I am not doing well and this shit is making it worse… I’m honestly afraid.

    • Jim@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 years ago

      I recommend you check out TheFreePizzaDude on Imgur. There is a limit to how often you can receive donations (like once every other month), but they will help with getting you a pizza or even some regular groceries if you ask.

      • dan@upvote.au
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        2 years ago

        This is something the government should be doing though, rather than having to rely on charities and kind individuals. In most developed countries, the government has good programs to assist people in need, ensuring they can get basic groceries. The US is an outlier.

        • aidan@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          2 years ago

          I mean the government is doing it, that’s what disability is. It’s just not kept up with inflation in a lot of areas.

          • dan@upvote.au
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            edit-2
            2 years ago

            What I meant is that the government should provide it and ensure you can actually live off of it.

            • aidan@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              0
              ·
              2 years ago

              Oh then I would not agree the US is an outlier in that, or at least not near the only exception.

    • citrusface@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 years ago

      Don’t be to humble to go to a food pantry. It’s food for people who need it. I’ve used them. I’m not ashamed.

  • kite@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 years ago

    I have lots of stomach issues and can’t eat a lot of foods, which means I mostly eat the same few things over and over. One of the few things I can have reading out is a particular local restaurant’s chicken strips, and I’d get them for lunch a couple times a month. They’ve raised their prices twice in the last 6 months, and what used to be 6-8 strips for$6 is now 5 chicken strips - just the chicken, no fries or other sides - for $10. If I’m feeling masochistic, I’ll get myself and my father each one of their chef salads. Two of those are now $27. They are a very, very popular place and usually crazy busy, but since that last hike I’ve noticed the parking lot at lunchtime is often half empty. This is not a wealthy area, people can’t afford these prices. They are going to greed themselves right out of business.

    They’ve also lost every single long-time employee they had. And when I say long, I mean 15, 20 years working there. I watched most of them grow up, get married and have families. Every. Single. One. is gone, and I’ve seen most of them at other restaurants now. Their staff is now different every time I go in there, and service sucks and orders are frequently wrong. My work stopped ordering food from there for meetings because of it. Greed, greed, greed, with a healthy dose of apparent staff mistreatment. Story of the world at large nowadays.

    • maniacal_gaff@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 years ago

      If you are paying a restaurant to make your chef salads and chicken strips you have no reason to complain about price when you can easily make those for 1/4 the cost yourself with ingredients from a grocery store.

      • evranch@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        2 years ago

        Sometimes a guy just wants to not have to cook and to just go eat some god damn chicken strips

        Apparently even the simplest pleasures in life are luxuries now.

      • RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        edit-2
        2 years ago

        “If you like eating at restaursnts once in a while, you deserve not to be able to afford to eat!”

        Fuck off, prick.

      • time_lord@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        2 years ago

        I’ve never been able to make a single salad for less than the price of a salad at a normal-priced resturaunt, ever. Sure I can make 10 salads for the price of one, but it’s really hard to buy 1/4 a tomato, or 1/2 a head of lettuce from a grocery store.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 years ago

      It’s consistently amazing to me that people have no idea how the money system works; it’s only the economics of the country, no big deal.

    • drphungky@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      Ah yes, the US Fed causing inflation in all of Europe and Canada too. It’s crazy how the Fed made inflation lower here at home though. I don’t know how they do that without there being some kind of series of global supply shocks.

      I guess we’ll never know.

      • Album@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        2 years ago

        Lol yeah the person who replied didn’t know what nofrills was but the bank of Canada also increased total money supply similar to how the us federal reserve did.

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    I paid like $8 for 115g of marinated salmon last week because I wanted to try it, but it is getting ridiculous.

  • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 years ago

    The bread rolls at the supermarket have gotten so comically small that you can’t even use them to make a proper sandwich anymore.

  • Fades@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 years ago

    Who is gonna stop them? Nobody, so of course they’re pricing them above inflation. They’re there to make a profit, fuck you and yours and all that

  • rubikcuber@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 years ago

    The ever reducing diameter of wraps is the thing that gets me the most. Do they think we won’t notice?! It’s maddening. I want a big wrap.

    • jcit878@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 years ago

      its literally impossible to make a burrito in Australia. every wrap is made for ants

    • Ertebolle@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 years ago

      You’d think with a wrap it’d be easier to just stuff it with cheap starch and keep it looking big and satisfying in the display case.

      • hypelightfly@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        edit-2
        2 years ago

        For that they just put all the filling in the middle, cut them in half and only display the cut side for stuffed looking cross section. Meanwhile half or more of the wrap is empty.

  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    I love them sockeye… Watching them fight to get to spawning ground is something special to watch. One year I watched a group splinter off the Hoh river in Washington and make their way up a feeder stream. Ever day after school I’d run out to see where they were. So many started and only a few made it.

    They literally saved my life. I was looking for somewhere to end myself when I found them. Their presence intrigued me and I decided to see it out. The day the last one spawned and died broke something in me, that hate I had. It’s hard to explain but I was so overwhelmed by the experience I decided that if they can do that journey, i can do mine.

    Thinking about it again always makes me so emotional.

    Anyways that salmon is cheap and it should be cherished for what it is.

    Sockeye Salmon are the best flavor of salmon.

    • dan@upvote.au
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 years ago

      You comment made me feel emotional too. I’m glad you’re doing better now.

  • BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 years ago

    Interesting that while there is only 2 instead of 3 in a pack, the total weight has gone down only 22% (from 255g to 200g, instead of 170g if the weight dropped by a third/33%). So the actual salmon pieces may be bigger?

    This is still shrinkflation but there has probably also been previous hidden shrinkflation in the individual salmon pieces too and that bit has been slightly undone.

    • armchair_progamer@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 years ago

      Usually when I buy bigger packs of salmon, the amount varies and the only thing roughly consistent is the weight. So if they decreased the weight, you might either get 2 bigger fillets or 3 smaller fillets depending on the package

      • schmidtster@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        2 years ago

        Packages says right on them 2 packs and 3 packs. So amount isn’t changing on these particular ones.

  • Aimhere
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 years ago

    If it’s not Shrinkflation, it’s Diluteflation.

    I occasionally see posts and news articles about how AriZona Tea Company has “held the line” and kept their giant cans of iced tea priced at 99 cents for so long.

    Well, after drinking a few cans of the stuff recently, I’m almost certain they’re watering down their product. The tea is nowhere near as concentrated as it was a few years ago. There’s practically no flavor to it anymore.

    • HeckingShepherd@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 years ago

      I kinda doubt they would bother to water it down. Realistically the flavouring in it costs a fraction of a cent for them. If they changed it for any reason would probably just be to be healthier

      • squiblet@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        2 years ago

        Companies operating on that scale sell millions and millions of beverages. Even half a cent per can can add up to huge amounts of money. Also, their job is literally to sell containers of diluted high fructose corn syrup, so I don’t think customer health is their priority.

    • thedrivingcrooner@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 years ago

      Here in southern Ontario near the border we’ve been getting REALLY great deals on Arizona lately because our local market buys in bulk from across the border. I’ve never been able to get Arizona for 50 cents my entire life before. It must be overstock or something, but I’m having one or two like every day.

    • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 years ago

      Hmm I’ve been drinking it for years and don’t notice that either. Maybe check the sell by dates on yours. They do kind of deflate over time.

  • solstice@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 years ago

    It’s like that episode of Next Generation “Remember Me” when the universe is shrinking and everyone’s disappearing and the Enterprise computer keeps gaslighting Dr Crusher trying to convince her it’s fine, everything’s fine, this is totally normal. But it’s not fine, it really isn’t.