Three-quart "gallons"? What's next?

[Massageman]

Ever since a particular coffee brand gave us the "13-ounce pound" of "concentrated" coffee (knowing that - by habit- we would likely use about the same amount in our coffee scoops anyway), packages have been shrinking and the prices have still been rising. Now we have 96 ounce bottles of milk (3/4 of a gallon), but in artistic plastic "decanter" bottles. Quart (32 ounce) bottles of pure lemon juice at the "dollar store" are now 500 ml (about 17.6 ounces) are now $1.25 at the same store, or about 227% of the original cost on a per-ounce basis. What's next?

Same price (or more) for 25% less milk. MOOOOOOO!

It's as bad as it will get. We've hit the bottom on value. It couldn't get any worse.

It will continue to get worse, but at a slower rate.

This is only the beginning. Things will get a lot worse, a lot more quickly.

[NamerOfStars]

... Been a long time since you wandered down the ice cream aisle, hasn't it? We've got 1.5 quart "gallons" of that, now too- not much of it, but only because most of it isn't ice cream, but "frozen dairy desserts", since they legally CAN'T call it "ice cream" any more, since the new processes put in twice as much air.

This is what shutting down the economy while printing huge quantities of currency does; and crippling transit networks by decreasing oil production and replacing it with nothing doesn't help. Ultimately, all I can say is: in the name of all that's holy REMEMBER THIS IN THE NEXT ELECTION.

[Massageman]

I go there weekly for the grandkids. I work at a Food Pantry weekly, too, so we have to be familiar with "super premium", "premium", regular ice cream, "frozen dairy desserts" and all the rest of the products that are pumped with air ("overrun", in the trade). When offering choices to our guests, I just say "desserts" and avoid the other terms.

[Surely]

Since math is not an important subject to teach anymore. People don’t know when they are being short changed!

[Massageman]

Sad. While I know my ""buy" price of most of my usual shopping list items- every once in awhile I'll have to go back to square one and divide the price by ounces and get a price-per-ounce to compare- sometimes the biggest isn't always the cheapest, either. :- )

[Surely]

To think that when I was much younger. I could go to the ice cream bar and get a “small “ 25 cone of ice cream the size of a softball!
For 35 cents. You would get a double softball size ice cream on a cone! Had to eat it really fast!

[Surely]

Thank you for the MHO!

[Massageman]

The local Tastee-Freeze by my grandparents' house had 5 sizes when I was a kid - 15¢, 25¢, 35¢, 45¢, 55¢. They treated me to the 55¢ one when I was on a weeklong "vacation" there. Barely made it to the bottom before the cone sagged out!

[exitseven]

Biden tried to prop up the economy by using up all our oil reserves just before the mid term election. Now that they are bone dry prices will go even higher

[nawtee_me]

It is all the cows fault. They unionized and now they claim it is better on the cows utters.
Maybe the rest if us should unionize and go on strike against this?