Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Stuff That's Getting More Expensive and Somehow Worse


Every industry has its sketchy secrets, and once tons of companies realized they could use their popular brand to leverage their loyal customer base into paying more for less, you can find yourself looking at a creme egg going "whhaaaaa???". It's also easy to fall into the nostalgia trap of "remember the better olden days" when that product wasn't much better to start with, but shrinkflation has definitely attacked a variety of products and things from all sides.

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Text - BrokenCankle 2.1k points · 16 hours ago Disney Theme Parks. (Speaking pre Covid world) They were better when you could do an entire park in a day, cost much less, like $40 vs whatever the insane price is now, and they limited who could get in. Universal is the same way, specifically Halloween Horror nights. It was $15 the first time I went, they capped how many tickets they sold and you had time to do every house plus a couple of rides. It was my favorite and we would go every year. Now?

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Text - aznuke 45.4k points · 18 hours ago & 2 More New homes. Cookie cutter houses, built with cheap contractors who cut corners left and right, situated in neighborhoods with ever higher HOA fees: and the HOAS are getting more expensive too.

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Text - lunari_moonari 30.2k points · 18 hours ago Cable television. More commercials, channels upon channels of crap, ridiculous billI.

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Text - Aero222 28.5k points · 20 hours ago I remember the donuts at dunkin donuts to be bigger and cheaper

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Text - quilp666 23.4k points 20 hours ago All Cadburys products Doyle26 5.7k points · 17 hours ago In particular Cadbury's creme egg

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Text - Back2Bach 21.6k points · 20 hours ago · edited 20 hours ago Ice cream containers that were originally one-half gallon have been "shrinking." They went from 64 oz. to 56 oz and now 48 oz. - but the price hasn't "shrunk" (it's been increasing steadily) and the quality often isn't as good as it used to be when containers were a true half- gallon.

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Text - Buttproblemzthrow 17.1k points · 17 hours ago · edited 11 hours ago Clothes. Even a sweater from the Gap is like $70 now even though the quality is about 10% better than Old Navy. Goddamn it clothes retailers, settle down or I will go naked. Edit: To the people suggesting thrift stores, I agree! It's thrilling to find something special and cheap. You wash it, you're good to go. Plus retail clothing is so f--ing expensive nowadays that I would rather someone else take the hit of driving it

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Text - wildwestington 4.8k points · 14 hours ago · edited 9 hours ago Restaurant's follow this pattern: Mid-high tier national franchise Restaurants trends (Panera, 5 guys, chipotle, buffalo wild wings) its the place to be the foods good an priced reasonable Years pass. Food still good but slightly more expensive Years passed. Food had degraded noticably in quality but because of the established brand they charge the same if not raise prices slightly, people still go but begin mumbling Years pas

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Text - ThatFinnishGu 9.7k points · 18 hours ago Ice cream with fudge in it. Used to get massive slabs of fudge now they just have tiny nuggets.

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Text - thatstupidthing 7.6k points · 16 hours ago i swear that reese's peanut butter cups have gotten shittier over the years. the peanut butter seems chalkier and the chocolate tastes blander. plus i can't ever seem to pry them out of that little cup wrapper without leaving the bottom chocolate "skin" stuck to it... i think the push to put them in the freezer and eat them chilled is a ploy to cover the declining quality

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Text - ssshield 4.7k points · 20 hours ago Face razors. They had it perfected with double edge blades in a metal razor. Cheap and incredible shaves. Modern plastic disposable razors are worse on your skin, give a worse shave, and grotesquely expensive. They are nothing more than monopolies controlling the availability and accessibility. When you go to the razor section at the store you can only choose from their garbage. I give double edged metal razors to men and women loves ones as gifts and u

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Text - uhdontaskme 4.1k points · 18 hours ago · edited 13 hours ago S not arizona tea, that's for dang sure

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