Kroger Paper Bags Suffer from Shrinkflation
Another Great Idea from the Brain Trust at Corporate Headquarters
Squeezing Every Last Buck from the Customer
Paper bags at our local Kroger-owned QFC store are a couple inches shorter now. The logic being, I guess, that although you can fit fewer items in the new bags the shopper is being charged ten cents per bag so just sell them an extra bag if needed. And a shorter bag takes up less paper and is presumably cheaper. Every fraction of a cent in profit matters to the gruesome vampires who control our food system.
Ink in My Veins
My Summer of good fortune continues. Less than three weeks after losing my job at the homeless shelter kitchen I’m back working in the newspaper business. I think my new employers were impressed with the work I did — long ago — as publisher, editor, art director, photographer, illustrator, writer and circulation manager for the Belltown Messenger.
My days of laboring in commercial kitchens are over. I’ll still be making meals for the family and also for the occasional Nirvana WOK donation run.
—Alex
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Laughable Häagen-Dazs Shrinkflation
Remember when Häagen-Dazs reduced the size of their “pints” of ice cream to 14 ounces? Then check out Häagen-Dazs vanilla bean yogurt! A typical small container of yogurt from, say, Chobani, is 5.3 ounces. Häagen-Dazs yogurt is 4 ounces! Chobani greek yogurt, coconut flavor, contains 14 grams of sugar. Häagen-Dazs vanilla bean yogurt contains 17 grams. …