Snickers fights back

[Pommer]

By the way, this is what Biden was talking about:

Does Snickers still satisfy? Popular chocolate bar gets 12 per cent smaller for same price

Snickers bar now smaller as rising costs hit manufacturing.

www.nzherald.co.nz

So, he was wrong. The shrinkflation price hike was actually higher than 10 percent. I wouldn't call that a smear, but perhaps Breitbart is admiring Mars inc. for its customer fleecing practices and wants them honored in full.

Funny, I remember when Wrigley’s went from 5¢/pack to a dime (but they gave you 7 sticks instead of the old five sticks).

 

[RestoreTheJoy]

We seriously have the dumbest political discourse on planet earth.

I'm still wondering what Biden meant when he said "you get10% fewer snickers in it". What are snickers? Did he mean peanuts?

As always, he's right on top of the important things. (sarcasm)

 

[durangodawood]

I'm still wondering what Biden meant when he said "you get10% fewer snickers in it". What are snickers? Did he mean peanuts?

As always, he's right on top of the important things. (sarcasm)

Its always dismaying when you open the Snickers wrapper and there's only one snicker in there.

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

I'm still wondering what Biden meant when he said "you get10% fewer snickers in it". What are snickers? Did he mean peanuts?

As always, he's right on top of the important things. (sarcasm)

LOL! He meant they cut the size .

 

[Neogaia777]

I always get a snicker or two at the state of this whole world anymore sometimes, cause if I didn't do that sometimes, or occasionally, I would go completely insane!

(And because I'm already most of the way there already, etc)

God Bless.

 

[FireDragon76]

Another volley in Biden's war on snack food companies, and the Americans who make them.

No word yet whether the administration will retaliate with nukes and F-15's

I bought a bag of fun size Snickers today, in their honor.

Redirect Notice

www.google.com

Uh, ok...

Eating junk food to spite the President is like splitting your nose to spite your face.

 

[weekEd]

10-20 years ago, it was not like this, or not to this level. Back when folks from both sides of the aisle shook hands, guys stayed guys, gals stayed gals, hydro dams were being built, candy bar manufacturers stayed candy bar manufacturers and both parties got along.

It only took one generation to ban coca-cola

 

[RoBo1988]

Uh, ok...

Eating junk food to spite the President is like splitting your nose to spite your face.

Uh, okay.

I criticized then - president Trump for tweeting about SNL, LeBron James, and Rosie O'Donnell; now we have a president, who attacks American companies, during the sotu address.

It's (D)ifferent this time!

 

[AlexB23]

It only took one generation to ban coca-cola

Coca-cola is still being made, though not with the original ingredients.

 

[wing2000]

By the way, this is what Biden was talking about:

Does Snickers still satisfy? Popular chocolate bar gets 12 per cent smaller for same price

Snickers bar now smaller as rising costs hit manufacturing.

www.nzherald.co.nz

So, he was wrong. The shrinkflation price hike was actually higher than 10 percent. I wouldn't call that a smear, but perhaps Breitbart is admiring Mars inc. for its customer fleecing practices and wants them honored in full.

IMO, Biden was using the shrinking Snickers bar to illustrate a larger point: Large corporations are fleecing the consumer.

[excerpt from SOU]

In fact, the snack companies think you won’t notice if they change the size of the bag and put a hell of a lot fewer — same size bag — put fewer chips in it. No I’m not joking. It’s called shrinkflation.

"Pass Bobby Casey’s bill and stop this. I really mean it.

You probably all saw that commercial on Snickers bars. You get charged the same amount and you got about, I don’t know, 10 percent fewer Snickers in it.
Look, I’m also getting rid of junk fees, those hidden fees at the end of your bill that are there without your knowledge. My administration announced we’re cutting credit card late fees from $32 to $8."


What is in Sen Bob Casey's Bill?

The Price Gouging Prevention Act specifically would:

• Prohibit price gouging at the federal level – anytime and anywhere. The proposed bill would clarify that price gouging is an unfair and deceptive practice under the FTC Act. It would allow the FTC and state attorneys general to stop sellers from charging a grossly excessive price, regardless of where the price gouging occurs in a supply chain or distribution network.
• Create an affirmative defense for small businesses acting in good faith. Small and local businesses sometimes must raise prices in response to crisis-driven increases in their costs because they have little negotiating power with their price-gouging suppliers. This affirmative defense protects small businesses earning less than $100 million from unjustified litigation if they show legitimate cost increases.
• Target dominant companies that have exploited the pandemic to boost profits. The bill would create a rebuttable presumption of price gouging against firms that exercise unfair leverage and companies that brag about increasing prices during periods of inflation.
• Require public companies to clearly disclose costs and pricing strategies. During periods of exceptional market shock, the bill requires public companies to transparently disclose and explain changes in their cost of goods sold, gross margins, and pricing strategies in their quarterly SEC filings.
• Provide additional funding to the FTC. The bill appropriates $1 billion in funding to the FTC to carry out its work.

Casey, Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Crack Down on Price Gouging by Big Corporations | U.S. Senator for Pennsylvania

Bill cracks down on excessive price increases Since Fall 2023, Senator Casey has produced four...

www.casey.senate.gov

 

[FireDragon76]

Uh, okay.

I criticized then - president Trump for tweeting about SNL, LeBron James, and Rosie O'Donnell; now we have a president, who attacks American companies, during the sotu address.

It's (D)ifferent this time!

Biden isn't criticizing companies arbitrarily. Companies have been looking to rip off the public ever since the pandemic started lifting and people started receiving better pay checks. It's called "greedflation" and "shrinkflation". It's all about corporate profit.

 

[RoBo1988]

Biden isn't criticizing companies arbitrarily. Companies have been looking to rip off the public ever since the pandemic started lifting and people started receiving better pay checks. It's called "greedflation" and "shrinkflation". It's all about corporate profit.

Do you think these corporations are run solely by Scrooge McDuck types, in their offices counting piles of cash?

Most are beholden to stock holders who bring returns to lowly 401k holders like me.

The president, like many before him, has never went to work on Monday, or made payroll on Friday.

 

[weekEd]

Coca-cola is still being made, though not with the original ingredients.

still a superior product..

 

[AlexB23]

still a superior product..

Cocaine was originally used, so the 1890s version is not as good as the 21st century version.

 

[RoBo1988]

still a superior product..

The original coca cola was invented by a Confederate general.

 

[weekEd]

The original coca cola was invented by a Confederate general.

ooh genetically speaking....

 

[Nithavela]

Do you think these corporations are run solely by Scrooge McDuck types, in their offices counting piles of cash?

Most are beholden to stock holders who bring returns to lowly 401k holders like me.

Be sure to thank the people on high for the crumbs that trickle down to you, or they might someday turn their wrath upon you.

 

[weekEd]

quintiles...

 

[FireDragon76]

Do you think these corporations are run solely by Scrooge McDuck types, in their offices counting piles of cash?

In general, the CEO's tend to be more like that than some kind of virtuous philanthropist out for the common good.

Most are beholden to stock holders who bring returns to lowly 401k holders like me.

And CEO's themselves are often the same stockholders.

 

[RoBo1988]

Be sure to thank the people on high for the crumbs that trickle down to you, or they might someday turn their wrath upon you.

Sure. Now, how's my social security "investments" doing?