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10 January 2024
(sh.itjust.works)
Oh, they know. They know.
This is a marketing trick, part of the shrinkflation treadmill.
(1) Step one, make a box with three rows of cookies.
(2) Step two, make two products, one with two rows (at a slightly lower price than the three rows), and introduce a Family Size/Share Size/etc. with four rows that costs just under double.
(3) Step three, return two step one, but now with a higher price.
Repeat ad nauseum.
The thing is, as a single consumer who is trying to buy at the best price point at any given time, I'll fall for it repeatedly.
Astroturfing, but I just launched https://lemmy.ca/c/shrinkflation today, if you want to post your Oreos.
I hate opening Oreos, whippets, etc. and just seeing those little plastic pegs in the packaging where three cookies should have gone instead. >:(
I read this in Anya’s voice.
This hits way too close to home.
Alright, I know they've had twenty years and are allowed a few stinkers, but is this the worst cyanide and happiness ever?
You can't open that, it's family size!
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2024
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Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!
About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net) and a an extra or two randoms.
Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness
Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, media, cool stuff about the authors, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Cyanide and Happiness related!
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