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
And the margins are so large on drinks already that they're just trying to scrape even more money from you
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
Is the gas to prevent them from being crushed in transit?
Yes.
And it works, so the quotes around “preserve” are absolute bullshit.
And before you accuse me of being a shill for big chip, try putting both a sealed bag of your chips and an unsealed but folded closed bag of chips in your backpack with your laptop and books for a day walking around, and see which one has larger, more complete chips at the end of the experiment.
It does its intended job of protecting chips very well.
It also allows producers to visually conceal how much product is actually in the bag. Weirdly enough they're still using the same size bags instead of a smaller, more efficient ones that would save manufacturing and transportation costs.
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
And the margins are so large on drinks already that they're just trying to scrape even more money from you
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
Except the grams aren't always accurate: https://globalnews.ca/news/9958974/customer-takes-to-tiktok-after-buying-half-full-no-name-bag-of-chips/.
Is the gas to prevent them from being crushed in transit?
Yes.
And it works, so the quotes around “preserve” are absolute bullshit.
And before you accuse me of being a shill for big chip, try putting both a sealed bag of your chips and an unsealed but folded closed bag of chips in your backpack with your laptop and books for a day walking around, and see which one has larger, more complete chips at the end of the experiment.
It does its intended job of protecting chips very well.
It also allows producers to visually conceal how much product is actually in the bag. Weirdly enough they're still using the same size bags instead of a smaller, more efficient ones that would save manufacturing and transportation costs.