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I love how capita, er, enshittification is taking hold in every fucking god damn last corner of our puny lives. I know I'm stretching enshittification a bit here, but it's the same basic premise at it's heart. Exploit your captive, often naive/ignorant audience. It's so, so exhausting.

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Shrinkflation has been a thing for a long time. It goes in cycles. They shrink everything to preserve their profits in lean times, then in a few years they will compete with each other by adding the product back. You’ll see boxes with labels like, “now with 20% more ______!” All they’re doing is giving back the product they took during the shrinkflation era and acting like they’re doing you a favor.

Not always. Canned tuna is my favorite. They shrunk the 6oz can to 5 over a decade or so. At one point I laughed at a 5 3/16 oz can.

Huh?

Don't feed the idiological troll.

Suuuuure, grocery store consolidation, and the consolidation of farming, and processed food has NOTHING to do with their ability to arbitrarily implement shrinkflation, with consumers having few or no other options. Also, kindly fuck off with the name-calling.

You're drawing the wrong conclusions.

Also, your writing is overflowing with emotion which is interpreted as idiological and not serious.

Reasonable people are not going to waste their time trying to have a civilized discussion with someone who drops f-bombs and isn't serious.

Edit: I wrote the above before looking at the rest of your comments. After looking at the rest of your comments, I rest my case.

And you wrote 4 condescending sentences and still haven't engaged with my point, at all. Next time just write "umadbro" like the troll you are, instead of pretending like you're anything else.

> your writing is overflowing with emotion which is interpreted as idiological and not serious.

no you!!!11. Man, just the absolute cringiest, most embarrassing way of engaging online. You spelled ideological wrong, too.

> I wrote the above before looking at the rest of your comments. After looking at the rest of your comments, I rest my case.

well hot fucking dog, I'm sure embarrassed now! What a joke. Guys, he rested his case!! I'm so owned and devastated!

You continue to prove my point...

...

I rest my case.

(Also, I'm sorry about the mispeling earlier.)

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