Cost of Living - Shrinkflation is speeding up at an alarming rate

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Reuben klang said:
Sorry but I don’t understand what’s going on here. If you go via Just eat do you not get discounts/special offers Or something?
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Sometimes there are offers. You pay much more for the goods. An example- something that costs £2 will be £2.30 on JE. Cigs my friend told me are £2.80 more for a pack and £3.50 more for a 50g rolly baccy.

You pay more for ordering on JE, Deliveroo, etc than through the takeaway/restaurant. A meal at McDonald’s could be £6.50 and get charged about a tenner for JE.

The number of JE couriers and their rivals I see coming out of McDonald’s, Costa and Greggs is crazy.

Then the number of these going to the large council estate.

Obviously some people have no financial priorities
 
cheesefest said:
Plus there’s a

Sometimes there are offers. You pay much more for the goods. An example- something that costs £2 will be £2.30 on JE. Cigs my friend told me are £2.80 more for a pack and £3.50 more for a 50g rolly baccy.

You pay more for ordering on JE, Deliveroo, etc than through the takeaway/restaurant. A meal at McDonald’s could be £6.50 and get charged about a tenner for JE.

The number of JE couriers and their rivals I see coming out of McDonald’s, Costa and Greggs is crazy.

Then the number of these going to the large council estate.

Obviously some people have no financial priorities
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Maybe this is these people's only bit of happiness in life, once a month/week or whatever they can get a takeaway after working some god awful job with God awful people?
 
TheVoice said:
I balked at the price of a KFC box meal about a month ago at £9.49 but paid it. I pondered a KFC last night as it was too hot to cook and the price is now £10.29! If you want more than three chips a Large is £11.28, will sir be paying by cash or kidney?
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I went in there the other day and simply used the free item I had won previously and got the missus some hot wings and walked out. I was planning to get a meal but anything I wanted was close to £10. **** that. Its cheapo fast food that has gone up by about 30% in the past year or so. Its got to the point where I won't give them my money out of principle.
 
JE fast food = fast death
if you had listened to some of todays media rticles on latest cancer research
Colorectal cancer is now the third leading cause of cancer death in young adults. In fact, about 20 percent of people diagnosed with colorectal cancer are between ages 20 and 54, according to the Colon Cancer Coalition. Compared with people born in 1950, people born after 1990 are twice as likely to develop colon cancer and four times as likely to develop rectal cancer, the coalition reports.

Doctors are still piecing together why this is. Researchers are looking at certain environmental exposures, such as food additives, stress, inflammation, and even overuse of antibiotics during childhood, as potential causes for the significant jump in colorectal cancer risk in the younger population in just one generation.

Some believe it may have something to do with changes in the gut microbiome caused by eating a diet high in processed foods, which are difficult to avoid in today’s food system.
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yes the JE diet is difficult to avoid (not)
 
Just been sent a pic of bachelors pasta (the kettle version, so like pot noodle), it looks at best guess about 25% full with the pasta about 1/2 up to water fill line which itself is only about 2/3 of the tub, there is shrinkflation and taking the mickey, trading standards might need to enforce max packaging size vs contents.
 
cheesefest said:
Plus there’s a

Sometimes there are offers. You pay much more for the goods. An example- something that costs £2 will be £2.30 on JE. Cigs my friend told me are £2.80 more for a pack and £3.50 more for a 50g rolly baccy.

You pay more for ordering on JE, Deliveroo, etc than through the takeaway/restaurant. A meal at McDonald’s could be £6.50 and get charged about a tenner for JE.

The number of JE couriers and their rivals I see coming out of McDonald’s, Costa and Greggs is crazy.

Then the number of these going to the large council estate.

Obviously some people have no financial priorities
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Dude called the rider on tiktok, most of his deliveroo's go to posh apartments, hotels, or business offices.

Bear in mind as well not everyone can conveniently get to these places, its not like they place themselves down the road from where people live, they usually around shopping areas or on main trunk road service stops.
 
A lot of start ups include lunch allowance as it is significantly cheaper/less headache than a proper canteen too - my friend at FB used to get 30 quid a day allowance for Deliveroo.
 
Richie said:
Anyone that has to be told to use old stock (in date) before new stock really must struggle in life....
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It doesn't surprise me. I am stereotyping but these types of people cannot be bothered with life and come to work just for the pay check. I used to work in the Food Manufacturing sector. The amount of raw materials that we used to throw away because numpties couldn't be bothered to check the dates of the material they were using was crazy. We are talking several thousands of pounds a year. Disciplinary's and changing the procedures of the paperwork helped a lot but we still had waste.

We even had a couple of instances where out of date product was used and packed as fresh mix (essentially giving it another days life) and being sent out to customer. It is only when a traceability check has been carried out the next day on the paperwork that it has been picked up and a emergency product recall has been issued to the customer! That in itself is a tens of thousands fine.
 
cheesefest said:
Uncle Ben’s microwave rice has shrunk from 250g to 220g.

Sign in warehouse at work saying don’t put any 220g ones out until the 250g have sold.

Also have a different barcode
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most the weight is probably water too since rice weighs almost nothing dry
usual ratio is 1part rice and 2 parts water.

220g of microwave rice then is probably around 73g rice and the rest water with a few grams of flavouring
Must be literal penny pinching per packet cutting from 250g to 220g, I bet most the money is saved in the packaging if it gets smaller...
 
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adam cool dude said:
It doesn't surprise me. I am stereotyping but these types of people cannot be bothered with life and come to work just for the pay check. I used to work in the Food Manufacturing sector. The amount of raw materials that we used to throw away because numpties couldn't be bothered to check the dates of the material they were using was crazy. We are talking several thousands of pounds a year. Disciplinary's and changing the procedures of the paperwork helped a lot but we still had waste.

We even had a couple of instances where out of date product was used and packed as fresh mix (essentially giving it another days life) and being sent out to customer. It is only when a traceability check has been carried out the next day on the paperwork that it has been picked up and a emergency product recall has been issued to the customer! That in itself is a tens of thousands fine.
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Only started code checking - checking dates on products and reduce if on the date, the following day or for things like cheese, butters, yogurts, cooked meats - 4 days before.

Had to rotate so many products as the older dates were at the back. We are told to put delivery at the back of the shelf. Some colleagues are too lazy. Found a load of brioche rolls at the back dated with the following day's date at the back with ones with 2+ weeks at the front.

Put some single crisps (for the sandwich meal deal) out the other day and found a load of one flavour out of date in Jan, Feb.
 
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